![]() What’s that deafening whirling sound? Elementary, my dear reader: it’s author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spinning in his grave, as his character Sherlock Holmes gets the Hollywood treatment. There’s a crude expression - “No s**t, Sherlock” - but that’s precisely what director Guy Ritchie has wrought, complete with anti-Semitism. Let’s have a look at the top 25 Listening to Music memes of 2023 1. Of the 222-ish Holmes productions since 1900-ish, Ritchie’s is possibly the worst. He and his scribbler desecrators - including X-Men and Harry Potter sequel co-writers - perpetrate literary plagiarism, pillaging and pilfering literature’s greatest detective with their big budget bomb Sherlock Holmes. You don’t need the scientific sleuth’s powers of perception to deduce that Ritchie’s Holmes mostly resembles Doyle’s creation in name only. The flick does have fleeting forensic references - Sherlock was the original crime scene investigator, and Warner Bros. desperately wants to lure CSI fans to the scene of this cinematic crime to recoup its squandered $80 million. Ritchie’s high concept Holmes transforms the cerebral scrutinizer into an action hero - long on mindless violence, stunts, special effects and CGI gimmickry, it’s short on atmospherics and imagination. Not content to rip off one creator of an immortal British law enforcer, Ritchie and his word-slinging kleptomaniacs also loot Ian Fleming’s novels. In their schlock Sherlock is more like a 19th-century James Bond than Doyle’s private eye, and they promiscuously shoplift from 007’s oeuvre. ![]() Joyce, James Chamber Music Free iTunes Free Stream. Especially Goldfinger: Holmes‘ brutish Dredger (Robert Maillet) recalls Bond’s fearsome foe Oddjob, and the panic to prevent a WMD from detonating in London’s Parliament suggests the ticking atomic time bomb at Fort Knox.īut Guy Ritchie is no Guy Hamilton ( Goldfinger’s director), just as Robert Downey Jr. Conan Doyle, Arthur The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Free iTunes Free MP3s Conan Doyle. ![]() is to Sherlock what George Lazenby (a forgettable onetime Bond) is to 007, while Jude Law is to Dr. Compared to Doyle’s adventures Ritchie’s Holmes is what his laughable flop, the 2002 remake of Swept Away starring then-wife Madonna, is to Lina Wertmuller’s 1974 classic Swept Away. Indeed, there’s more charm, characterization, ambiance and mystery in any short story Doyle penned than in Ritchie’s overblown dud. Compounding matters, Holmes‘ Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) collaborates with nefarious Professor Moriarty, “the Napoleon of crime.” According to Sherlock Holmes Society of Austin’s Sarah Ann Robertson, “Please.
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