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Young Sherlock Holmes

  
 
that
09:22 / 02.01.02
(Hoping for a reminisce, 'Worst Witch' stylee, here)

This was on ITV a couple of days ago - anyone see it? I saw it for the first time when I was actually within its target age range, and have loved it ever since. Very dark. Quality...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:42 / 02.01.02
I saw about two minutes of it, which is shit, as I wanted to see the whole thing. It's the one with the whole Egyptian-esque theme to it, right? I remember thinking it cool as hell when I saw it when I was younger...
 
 
rizla mission
09:42 / 02.01.02
I saw it!

I was at my friend's house, and he'd obviously also loved it as a youngster so he went all weak at the knees and insisted we all sit down and watch it.

It isn't very good really, is it?

Obviously ripping off The Temple of Doom with all that Eygptian cult business (a cult of evil Egyptian assassins so rubbish they were completely destroyed by two public schoolboys, no less!)

I was also annoyed that, instead of taking the potentially interesting angle of explaining how Holmes learned his investigative powers, they assumed that he knew them all already! Thus making him the most irratating smart-arse kid in cinema history!
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:42 / 02.01.02
Is this the one with the first CGI ever, with the stained glass window knight killing that bloke? And the bad guy signing himself in at the hotel at the end as 'Professor Moriarty'? That was class that was, almost as good as Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine in 'Without a Clue'...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:42 / 02.01.02
Not a film or a television programme, but vaguely relevant...

I remember reading a series of books in which it was revealed that the Holmes mysteries were in fact solved by a schoolboy called Arthur. Or possibly Alfred. One of them involved W. G. Grace. Can anyone confirm?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
09:42 / 02.01.02
Dammit. I know the ones you mean, but can't remember the titles. Bah. Anything here look familiar? Bear in mind that Grace may appear in other stories, too... quote:Grace, W.G. (British Cricketer)
Arthur V. The Rest (Alan Coren); The Private Life Of Dr. Watson (Michael Hardwick) 98-101; W.G.Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 9-288; Lestrade & The Dead Man’s Hand (M.J.Trow) 67, 72-82, 90, 107, 158
Prisoner Of The Devil (Michael Hardwick) 304; "Barrett Holmes & The Red-Headed Mystery" (Paul Minett & Brian Leveson) 43
(from here? There's a list of Sherlockian childrens' fiction here and - 'cos I couldn't let it go past - there's Holmes/Watson slash here. Any more details kicking around?
 
 
that
09:42 / 02.01.02
Yep, it was the CGI one. And I *still* think it is cool as fuck, actually... Carl Orff on the soundtrack, if I remember correctly... hallucinogenic drugs that make Watson see animate cream cakes in a graveyard...flying machines...people being mummified alive in hot wax. Snow. Fencing. Egyptian cults. Pyramids. A depressing ending. What more could you want, I mean, really?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
09:42 / 02.01.02
Ah, Alan Coren. Yes, that would be it. I have a vague memory of the books being shelved under 'C' in the library when I were a lass. Thank you.

I think one of them involved a tall pink meat pudding shaped like a chimneypot.
 
 
rizla mission
15:26 / 02.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Cholister:
hallucinogenic drugs that make Watson see animate cream cakes in a graveyard...

Now I'll admit, that was freaky!

The other characters all got something nasty that rose out of their subconscious .. but what dark memories could Watson have? he's such a nice, bland chap .. well, he's a bit chubby. Hense, LIVING CREAMCAKES THAT FORCE THEIR WAY INTO HIS MOUTH! AARRGGHH!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:15 / 02.01.02
The biggest problem with this film is its complete lack of atmosphere. For an excellent Holmes film that dares to come complete with original storylines, you can't beat The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

It's just a shame that the studio wouldn't let Wilder film all three of the tales he'd written.
 
 
Mazarine
20:47 / 03.01.02
I loved Young Sherlock Holmes when I was younger, a bit less as I got older.

I remember an extremely bizarre cartoon called Sherlock Holmes in the Twenty Second century. That was pretty out there.
 
 
Knight's Move
14:17 / 06.01.02
As a dedicated Sherlock fan I think it's superb, I just get the feeling that, like the Goonies and The Breakfast Club if you don't see it early enough it might be hard to see the point, or take joy in it. It is great though...

quote: Now Mr. Pastry. I have nothing to say to you and I trust you have nothing to say to me.

Or words to that effect.
 
 
Knight's Move
14:19 / 06.01.02
As a dedicated Sherlock fan I think it's superb, I just get the feeling that, like the Goonies and The Breakfast Club if you don't see it early enough it might be hard to see the point, or take joy in it. It is great though, like many of the films of our youth it had a dark plot and was one of those childhood adventures that ruin your life because you never get involved with murder or get kidnapped or find treasure maps in your attic...

quote: Now Mr. Pastry. I have nothing to say to you and I trust you have nothing to say to me.

Or words to that effect.
 
  
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