Quote: Aaron @ August 6 2008, 5:21 PM BSTCoupling is acetastic. Fact.
Of course it is.
Sherlock Holmes: Read it all, gets a bit repetitive after a while. I do love the characters, though. I've been having a long-running argument with my Watson for the past few years about who is the Watson and who the Holmes character in our relationship. Watson's Watson, obviously. 
Quote: Griff @ August 6 2008, 5:25 PM BSTOn the subject of Sherlock Holmes, I was never so disappointed as when I first went to London and went to Baker St., only to find that these days it looks utterly banal and unremarkable and there are no detectives or 70s saxophone riffs to be found anywhere.
There's a Beatles and an Elvis shop next door though...?
Quote: Griff @ August 6 2008, 5:25 PM BSTOn the subject of Sherlock Holmes, I was never so disappointed as when I first went to London and went to Baker St., only to find that these days it looks utterly banal and unremarkable and there are no detectives or 70s saxophone riffs to be found anywhere.
huh?!
Sherlock Holmes is there... handling out business cards, when you step out of the Tube station. I know, I met him.
But you're right, the street does look nothing like I pictured it. The museum apartment itself was so incredibly small... but the lady who worked there assured me it looked like something people lived in in those days.
Quote: Finck @ August 6 2008, 5:30 PM BSTSherlock Holmes: Read it all, gets a bit repetitive after a while. I do love the characters, though. I've been having a long-running argument with my Watson for the past few years about who is the Watson and who the Holmes character in our relationship. Watson's Watson, obviously.
This really, really made me laugh!
Quote: WrongTale @ August 6 2008, 5:44 PM BSThuh?!
Sherlock Holmes is there... handling out business cards, when you step out of the Tube station. I know, I met him.
Not always - and it rather depends on through which exit one leaves.
Rathbone & Bruce are head and shoulders above all others.
Used to watch the films as a kid in the school holidays. Bought that delightful looking definitive collection a few weeks ago and am really looking forward to delving into it, though it will probably be the bloody Christmas holidays before I manage that.
Quote: Finck @ August 6 2008, 5:30 PM BSTOf course it is.
Sherlock Holmes: Read it all, gets a bit repetitive after a while. I do love the characters, though. I've been having a long-running argument with my Watson for the past few years about who is the Watson and who the Holmes character in our relationship. Watson's Watson, obviously.
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Quote: Mick Green @ August 6 2008, 7:55 PM BSTRathbone & Bruce are head and shoulders above all others.
Used to watch the films as a kid in the school holidays. Bought that delightful looking definitive collection a few weeks ago and am really looking forward to delving into it, though it will probably be the bloody Christmas holidays before I manage that.
So did I Mick, what absolute classics they were. I've got the Definate collection. They are quite corny, but classics and very exciting. I also love Peter Cushing, but Rathbone is the best.
Just watched Cushing in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' Not the 1959 Hammer film, but the 1968 TV series episode, it was brilliant. Before I go to bed tonight I'm going to watch the 2002'Hound of the Baskervilles' starring Richard Roxburgh.
I tell you another great film TV episode, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking' starring Rupert Everett from 2004. Very exciting. Scarey with it.
I've only ever liked one Sherlock Holmes film and it's this one. And I don't know why.
Please please please, I need some advice from anybody who has read the first Holmes novel A Study in Scarlett. It is a book split into two parts, part one about Holmes and Watson meeting, the case coming up and the murderers identity being revealed and then part two is a big long bit about Mormons in America (in third person,chapters about them) and the final two chapters are about Holmes telling of his conclusion to the murder.
Anyway, anyone who's read it will know all this. Basically, I read the first part and envoked so much passion for it, but then I got to the Mormon chapters and it is boring the arse off me and all the passion has gone. I want to get to the final two chapters as quick as possible. Basically, if I skipped all the Morman stuff, will I miss anything vital? Could anybody who's read the book please tell me?
Has anyone mentioned the new Martin Freeman starring series coming soon-ish? Set in modern day. Devised by Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss. Should be worth a look.
Am quite, quite moist.
Quote: Griff @ August 6 2008, 2:56 PM BSTI absolutely love the Sherlock Holmes books and stories. Love most adaptations too, but Jeremy Brett was definitely the best.
An absolutely definitive reading, and he also had two very good Watsons.
Rathbone was handicapped by being in some awful films and having Nigel Bruce play Watson as an annoying buffoon.
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Quote: Jack Massey @ April 21 2009, 9:16 PM BSTPlease please please, I need some advice from anybody who has read the first Holmes novel A Study in Scarlett. It is a book split into two parts, part one about Holmes and Watson meeting, the case coming up and the murderers identity being revealed and then part two is a big long bit about Mormons in America (in third person,chapters about them) and the final two chapters are about Holmes telling of his conclusion to the murder.
Anyway, anyone who's read it will know all this. Basically, I read the first part and envoked so much passion for it, but then I got to the Mormon chapters and it is boring the arse off me and all the passion has gone. I want to get to the final two chapters as quick as possible. Basically, if I skipped all the Morman stuff, will I miss anything vital? Could anybody who's read the book please tell me?
I've read it. You should not skip the Mormon bit.
I asked elsewhere - in a Hound of the Baskervilles thread that veered into a critique of Peter Cook's acting talent (before some fool yanked it further off-topic by mentioning Worzel Gummidge) - whether any Sherlock Holmes movies or TV series depicted Holmes injecting drugs into his arm, which is what he did in the first Conan Doyle book that I read. Maurice Minor responded that there was a BBC production with "Rupert Everett doing all sorts of naughty druggy things". I wonder if that included shooting up? Did Basil Rathbone as Holmes ever jab a syringe into his arm?
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