Friday, December 25, 2009

Sherlock Holmes



There was a lot of hype surrounding the new Sherlock Holmes film and not all of it was actually deserved. For while the film is very well done and the visuals and the sets are amazing, it is not exactly the huge blockbuster some critics would have you believe. Quite a lot of scenes and the lines of dialogue previously heard in early trailers have also been edited out, mostly referring to Holmes and Watson behaving as if they were an old married couple. My understanding is that the current owners of the Sherlock Holmes estate disliked the homoerotic subtext and threatened to revoke all future film rights if they didn't remove any scenes alluding to anything other than a purely platonic relationship between Holmes and Watson. The film is still worth seeing though and I assume the deleted scenes will be available on the DVD once it comes out.

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