Sir Ian McKellen as "Mr. Holmes"

[joanneta1]

Not in iBooks, where it costs 12.99, drat it!

[Boton]

Saw the movie this weekend.  I absolutely loved it.  It made me desperately sad, but in such a good way, ya know?

 

ETA: In the interest of shameless self-promotion, may I just say that I am currently the only story in the Mr. Holmes fandom on AO3:  http://archiveofourown.org/works/4846943 Someone else, please write something for this wonderful version of Sherlock Holmes?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I haven't watched the movie so I really can't help you there. Maybe eventually.

[Carol the Dabbler]

That's a lovely piece of work, Boton.  I could hear Ian McKellen's voice throughout and it rang true with his Holmes.  It even cranked my John Watson crush up another notch!

 

[Boton]

That's a lovely piece of work, Boton.  I could hear Ian McKellen's voice throughout and it rang true with his Holmes.  It even cranked my John Watson crush up another notch!

 

Aw, thanks Carol!  Anything I can do to further the John-love in any Holmes incarnation, I'm happy to do.  

[Carol the Dabbler]

Amazon (US) has announced that this DVD will be released on November 10th, and is currently available for pre-order.  Ditto the Blu-ray.  Yay!

 

[Inge l-w]

Dear Carol, I placed my pre-orders together, so they should arrive together. No point in paying Amazon.de extra for getting Mr Holmes two months earlier than the Special. Thank you for your diligence, all the same!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yeah, I think we'll wait and order this DVD together with the third Hobbit extended edition.  Together, maybe with one or two other things, they should qualify us for free shipping.  Don't think we're gonna wait till January, though.

 

[Pawse]

The movie is beautiful. I cried at the end. I'd made an order for the DVD as soon as possible and it arrived, and I watched it again. It's just brilliant.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Couple of hours to spare, want to sit still, half dragging myself, reluctantly thinking of just catching Spectre to see how Andrew Scott is doing, and surprise surprise,.. Could't find it anywhere couple of months back and b*tching about cinema here always skip not potential appealing movie, they are showing Mr.Holmes! Finally. I know it's worth to avoid the thread. :cowdance:

 

 

Worried and confirmed, it makes me sad, not crying kind, but how real it is.

It's devastating to see him losing battle and betrayed by two things that identify him the most; solitute and intelect. Dementia is a very very cruel dissease.

What is someone without their memory and their loved ones?

Nothing.

Way too real.

 

 

 

Another thing that I find heartbreaking, I wasn't sure about it until the end that John had died. Because he didn't say so until then. The way he decribes it before that it's more like dissapointed, denial, helplessness about that stupid factor *mortality*, angry, betrayed.

 

 

I guess it takes Sherlock Holmes to have such delicate feelings yet survive it.

 

I actualy thought that is not Mrs.Hudson. Just another housekeeper. Because:

1. She would be too old to still taking care of Sherlock

2. I believe they intend to keep John and Mrs. Hudson faceless.

 

And now, now, spoiler for Season 4, 5, 6, 7

 

Lestrade and Molly will outlive Sherlock XD.

 

 

P.S. Am I the only one who think it's unwise to harvest/eat/drink something from nuclear bomb site?

[Arcadia]

No! :D

 

I need to see this movie again, several people have mentioned things that I don't remember .... mostly I remember that it had

a hopeful ending.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

No! :D

Good :P

 

I need to see this movie again, several people have mentioned things that I don't remember .... mostly I remember that it had

a hopeful ending.

 

You are right. If my post is one of the ones that make you doubt it, yes I guess I focus too much on unhappy things.

 

Anyway, in the book, he retires in Sussex, keeping bees. I haven't read books, but read that from some threads and originally thought that it doesn't make sense. Sherlock Holmes, retired, keeping bees. It's so out of character to me. How many walls he needs to shoot? But seeing this movie, it probably has the best reasoning and I am convinced.

 

Other thing that come to mind now: don't remember seeing violin.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Other thing that come to mind now: don't remember seeing violin.

I don't offhand recall it either.  Maybe it was there, and I just didn't notice.

 

Or perhaps he's no longer able to play as well as he used to, so he's chosen to give it up entirely.

 

[Inge l-w]

Violin case in Dr Watson's huge secretaire, as the boy opens the main part to locate the glove and grab the magnifying glass, but whether Holmes's beloved Stradivarius was in it not made clear.

As for radiation residue in the plants, the light stuff, like radium does not affect them beyond a general thorough washing to get rid of potentially radioactive dust. It's the heavy elements, like Caesium and Plutonium, which seep into the earth and cause havoc. He got the weed in 1948, and Caesium needs about ten years to pollute the soil to carcinogenic levels, so no particular harm there! Anyway, they went on a field trip in a bombed out area, it need not have been within the radioactive radius.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Violin case in Dr Watson's huge secretaire, as the boy opens the main part to locate the glove and grab the magnifying glass, but whether Holmes's beloved Stradivarius was in it not made clear.

 

Thanks!  Then he may still be playing it after all.  I don't recall that the movie showed him eating or sleeping much, either, and surely he was doing those things -- they just weren't relevant to the story being told.

[Arcadia]

Oh, right, I remember seeing the violin case too, I think I took that to mean he didn't play it anymore.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh, right, I remember seeing the violin case too, I think I took that to mean he didn't play it anymore.

 

That's one possible interpretation.  But I think a case could also be made for saying that he still plays it now and then, at least when he's not busy with other things (as he is in most of this movie).  And the reason it's in the cupboard is that when he leaves it out, his housekeeper puts it away.  I choose that interpretation because the thought that he's no longer willing and/or able to play his beloved violin is just too sad to contemplate.

[Northern Holmes]

I watched Mr Holmes when it was at the cinema and again over Christmas.  I really liked it and loved the reverence Sir Ian McKellen put into his performance.  I could watch it over and over again. 

 

 

[Arcadia]

I agree, it was excellent. I was afraid I wouldn't like it because it wasn't "my" Sherlock, but as it turned out I didn't even make the comparison once I started watching it. I'd like to read the book (in my ... ha! ... spare time ... )

[softmachine]

i only saw it at xmas

 

very much impressed with it. McKellan is never short of brilliant and he really brought out another side to Holmes, both in the flashbacks and in the 'present'.

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Don't think I've mentioned that one thing I really like about this movie is that it takes place in 1947, thus believably bringing the original Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into somewhat more recent (and therefore more relatable) history.

 

[softmachine]

Don't think I've mentioned that one thing I really like about this movie is that it takes place in 1947, thus believably bringing the original Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into somewhat more recent (and therefore more relatable) history.

 

yes! It's kind of hard to define but there is that sense of him being so close to us....  I can see why fans in the 50s were so keen to propogate the idea he was 'still alive' at the time..!

 

it's also so magical to see him actually watching a 'non-canon' film about one of his own adventures!!! Even if he was squirming with embarrassment throughout...  The DVD missed a trick in not making this an actual mini-film we could watch, like with the film-within-a-film in the DVD/BD of Tarantino's 'Inglorious basterds'