Sherlock Holmes[post-viewing analysis]

This movie, by far, is the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, ever! The Master Of Deduction is one badass Brit! Who would have thought that Sherlock is a slugger who fights in front of a crowd?! Well i guess he was just looking for his chick. But the point is that this ain't in the book.

But I understand fully well that a lot of things that are not in the book are portrayed differently on film. Like Dr Watson for example. It doesn't really mention in the book that he's a fat-assed doctor. But all the cartoon adaptations and the other movies made about Sherlock Holmes shows his buddy Watson as a fat-assed doctor, gray-haired doctor with matching gray moustache.

Another element is the detective's deerstalker hat. As far as I know, the book doesn't mention this[I could be wrong, it's been a decade or so since I read my last Sherlock Holmes story]. The pipe is true. But it wasn't described in the book that Sherlock smokes a kind of pipe which looks like the modern "Sherlock Holmes Pipe". You know, those pipes that curl downward. For all we know, Sherlock's pipe is like Huck Finn's!

But everything else seemed to be in its right place. Robert Downey Jr did a good job portraying the role of the master sleuth. but the thing that I liked better than that I guess was Jude Law's rendition of Dr. Watson. Watson didn't look like Jude Law at all! He looked like Watson. And a thin Watson too at that! I guess it's the moustache that hid his identity.

If you want maximum value for your money on the weekend, watch this first! It's grossed $300 at the box office as we speak!!