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Member Reviews of the Movie: Sherlock Holmes
Post 302388567 by SilversleevesX on Wednesday 20th of January 2010 09:12:16 PM
01-20-2010
Re-hash? Hardly. ReVIVAL? Definitely.
I was a bit put off by Downey's muddled dialogue. Then I remembered it was about the same when he played Charlie Chaplin in the biopic of that (second) name back in 1992. Seems he didn't think much of practicing his accent through all those times in rehab. 
I thought Mark Strong was particularly good. The friend with whom I saw "Holmes" briefed me on his CV a bit: a lot of period, Victorian romantic pieces. I found that explained what made the scene with the golden chalice in the Order's "temple" among the most memorable in the film. Good to see a man expand his range, also; no horse-blinders on Mr Strong when it comes to picking great projects (anymore).
Jude Law made an excellent Watson, imo. He buried (one hopes for good) the notion of playing him as a "dundering dull-head," all too common with the Rathbone-era (and subsequent) personifications of that character, and did so almost flawlessly. Good job, Jude!
All in all, a great effort carried off better than I expected. Well worth waiting to see what they do with the sequel(s).
BZT
(Can you tell YT has a mass-media degree, never properly applied?)
I thought Mark Strong was particularly good. The friend with whom I saw "Holmes" briefed me on his CV a bit: a lot of period, Victorian romantic pieces. I found that explained what made the scene with the golden chalice in the Order's "temple" among the most memorable in the film. Good to see a man expand his range, also; no horse-blinders on Mr Strong when it comes to picking great projects (anymore).
Jude Law made an excellent Watson, imo. He buried (one hopes for good) the notion of playing him as a "dundering dull-head," all too common with the Rathbone-era (and subsequent) personifications of that character, and did so almost flawlessly. Good job, Jude!
All in all, a great effort carried off better than I expected. Well worth waiting to see what they do with the sequel(s).
BZT
(Can you tell YT has a mass-media degree, never properly applied?)
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pbmtoascii - convert a portable bitmap into ASCII graphics SYNOPSIS
pbmtoascii [-1x2|-2x4] [pbmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a somewhat crude ASCII graphic as output. Note that there is no asciitopbm tool - this transformation is one-way. OPTIONS
The -1x2 and -2x4 flags give you two alternate ways for the bits to get mapped to characters. With 1x2, the default, each character repre- sents a group of 1 bit across by 2 bits down. With -2x4, each character represents 2 bits across by 4 bits down. With the 1x2 mode you can see the individual bits, so it's useful for previewing small bitmaps on a non-graphics terminal. The 2x4 mode lets you display larger bitmaps on a standard 80-column display, but it obscures bit-level details. 2x4 mode is also good for displaying graymaps - "pnmscale -width 158 | pgmnorm | pgmtopbm -thresh" should give good results. SEE ALSO
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