Monday, April 1, 2013

NOKW - Sherlock Holmes 2

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Basic Plot:  The sequel in the Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes franchise.  This time Sherlock goes up against his biggest nemesis from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, Professor Moriarty.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that they killed Rachel McAdams character for no good reason.  The fact that Sherlock's master plan revolved around being caught and tortured by Moriarty just so that he could steal his journal that contained back account numbers and that this plan also involved having Watson save him which he did by dropping a lighthouse on top of the building Sherlock was being tortured in and that Sherlock really didn't have a back-up plan in case Watson failed to pull off this ridiculous feat.  The fact that I haven't seen this movie recently and only saw the end of it a couple of days ago and don't really remember much about it other than the last scene which really needed to be discussed, so we will just go straight there...

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Doctor Watson nor his wife notice Sherlock sitting in his office at the end of the movie.  To catch you up to speed, Sherlock matches wits with the evil Professor Moriarty and in order win said contest, he grabs the professor and drags the both of them over a balcony and into a long drop to their deaths.  Spoiler Alert, Sherlock is not dead, he used his brother's small oxygen mask to survive the fall into the water below and then mails the mask to Doctor Watson at the end of the movie.  The good doctor opens the package with his wife in the room and instantly knows that Sherlock is alive and takes off after the mailman, thinking he was Sherlock in disguise.  Turns out that Sherlock was sitting in the office the whole time in a camouflage suit and nobody noticed him despite the fact that his camouflage suit only works if you look at exactly the correct spot.  But no, neither Watson (who had been sitting in the office for quite some time writing a book) nor his wife (who definitely would not have been standing at the correct angle for the camouflage suit to work) notice Sherlock sitting in the chair.  I can excuse Mrs. Watson, she was only briefly in the room, but Doctor Watson should have definitely seen something.  Hell, Sherlock should have given himself away at some point, nobody can sit in one spot for that long without making noise.  I am not okay with that.

"Hmmm....something seems off here."

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