My Day: Part 2 - The Movies

Sherlock Holmes was exactly what I hoped for. Just a fun beat-em-up period piece with lots of Holmes deductions. I luuurv Downey Jr., so I can enjoy anything with him in it. Not the definitive Holmes, but durn sexy.

Jude Law's Watson was perfect. They recovered the original ex-military-man character, rather than the clichéd buffoon. He's got lots of sass.

The only part that annoyed me was this whole Holmes-trying-to-sabotage-Watson's-engagement storyline. There's nothing like it in Holmes that I recall, but more to the point it was more House than Holmes. I am soooo tired of House's assholitude, I didn't really want to watch it in Holmes too. (The show House is a modernization of Holmes, so their in-common assholeness isn't an accident. But in Doyle's stories Holmes didn't go out of his way to make other people's lives miserable, he was just very egotistical.)

Hans Zimmer did a great job with the soundtrack. And one of my fave bits was the CGI London. It was really cool to see the Thames with a half-built Tower bridge, and old cruddy looking sailing ships etc. Computer technology is allowing for more and more realism in historical movies and I'm mclovin it.


We enjoyed it so much, we thought It's Complicated might be a bit of a letdown. But not at all. Holy mother that was a funny movie. At first most of the laughing was coming from the other side of the theatah, where I assume the 50-something women were sitting. But about halfway through the movie is just HIlarious.

John Krasinski of the American Office plays Streep's son-in-law and he stole every scene he was in. There's no way his scenes would have been as funny with someone else. He was brilliant. I hope this gets him some great future comedies.

Streep was great--she says in Vanity Fair that Bette Davis would be rolling in her grave to see a 60 year old actress starring in a romantic comedy. Steve Martin was his usual genius self in the one scene where he was able to be a bit unrestrained (given that he's not one of the focus characters.) And I've loved Alec Baldwin ever since State and Main. He's so good at comedy.



I didn't know Nancy Meyers' name, but I gather she's one of the few powerful women in Hollywood, and she wrote/directed/and or produced this movie, plus The Holiday (which I recently enjoyed), Something's Gotta Give (another older-woman comedy), and Baby Boom. I'm pretty in for her romantic comedies, they're always original.