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Howard Brazee

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Dec 30, 2009, 6:16:44 PM12/30/09
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I wonder when they will have the technology to show a movie with
Sherlock Holmes with the proper smog of the time (in daylight as well
as night).

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gord...@comcast.net

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Dec 31, 2009, 12:32:04 AM12/31/09
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I saw the promotional trailer[s]; and as a long-time Holmes fan, I'll
be waiting for the CD to come out. The little I saw
had every cliche of modern film-making that gives me the special
effects fantods:

-people popping up like bread slices from an ancient Toastmaster as
the result of explosions;
-people outrunning fireballs;
-heavy equipment taking to the air like so many mayflies ......

I agree. More fog would have covered up a multitude of sins.

Louann Miller

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Dec 31, 2009, 9:48:50 AM12/31/09
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Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net> wrote in
news:fonnj51pknrkv9aq3...@4ax.com:

> I wonder when they will have the technology to show a movie with
> Sherlock Holmes with the proper smog of the time (in daylight as well
> as night).

They probably will never want to, any more than they'll want to show a
Victorian London street scene with realistic amounts of horse poo and the
occasional horse corpse that dropped dead on the job.

Alls Quiet

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:21:48 AM12/31/09
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On Dec 31, 12:32 am, gordo...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> I saw the promotional trailer[s]; and as a long-time Holmes fan, I'll
> be waiting for the CD to come out. The little I saw
> had every cliche of modern film-making that gives me the special
> effects fantods:
>
> -people popping up like bread slices from an ancient Toastmaster as
> the result of explosions;
> -people outrunning fireballs;
> -heavy equipment taking to the air like so many mayflies ......

This movie was so bad, there aren't enough words in the English
language to describe how bad it was...specifically because of CGI
overkill. Bad, suckingly bad, movie.

OWKtree

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Dec 31, 2009, 10:35:01 AM12/31/09
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Well, a previous re-interpretation had Holmes attempt to box against
the Shropshire Slasher and come off second best...

- Kurt

David Oberman

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Dec 31, 2009, 11:58:52 AM12/31/09
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:21:48 -0800 (PST), Alls Quiet
<mut...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>This movie was so bad, there aren't enough words in the English
>language to describe how bad it was...specifically because of CGI
>overkill. Bad, suckingly bad, movie.

"Come, Watson, the CGI game is afoot!"

mikeos

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Dec 31, 2009, 1:09:08 PM12/31/09
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Yes, these are deep waters indeed!

nick

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Dec 31, 2009, 3:06:14 PM12/31/09
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I'll damn Sherlock Holmes with faint praise and say I liked it more
than Avatar and if there's going to be CGI overkill, better 1880s
London overkill than some blue planet environmentalist psuedo-Native
American mystical overkill.

Rich

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Dec 31, 2009, 8:30:34 PM12/31/09
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I thought the CGI was very good in Holmes. In some cases, it looked
real, much like some of the CGI in "2012."
Unlike the clearly video-game inspired CGI seen in Avatar. In-fact,
Avatar's effects are likely five years out of date.

Jack Bohn

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Jan 2, 2010, 4:38:01 AM1/2/10
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Howard Brazee wrote:

>I wonder when they will have the technology to show a movie with
>Sherlock Holmes with the proper smog of the time (in daylight as well
>as night).

They've had the technology since the 1880s. Legal hurdles have
been put in place since the 1960s. :)

Such technology would be useful for a period War of the Worlds
movie providing a contrast for the end after "a few days rain and
London empty" has washed away "her sombre robes of smoke".

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-Jack

David DeLaney

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Jan 1, 2010, 5:29:59 PM1/1/10
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Saw it today. Enjoyable. Do not feel it was a waste of my time or money.

Dave "further details include rating the nekkid top halves of various people,
so are too large for this margin" DeLaney
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nick

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Jan 2, 2010, 8:28:25 AM1/2/10
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> Avatar's effects are likely five years out of date.- Hide quoted text -
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One of the problems with Avatar was that I don't care how advanced the
3D is or if it represents the future of movies or not. The design was
ugly and tacky. It reminded me of those airbrush artists who do those
fanasty paintings for tourists. Sherlock Holmes got a better audience
reception tha Avatar did in the showings I went to, mainly I think
because even with all the CGI and spectacle in Holmes, it still had
time to relax and have a sense of humor about itself, because of
Robert Downey and Jude Law. Avatar was constantly *on* and it didn't
have any interesting characters. All these filmmakers want to make
the next Star Wars but they never remember to populate their movies
with memorable characters,

Russell Watson

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Jan 2, 2010, 3:55:54 PM1/2/10
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:48:50 -0600, Louann Miller <loua...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

This looks like a job for the knacker!

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