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Dangerous Entertainment News – Monday, July 25
Hello all, and welcome back to the DEN. Today’s DEN is coming at you a little late due to some extra lag time at the office, but to make up for it I am hitting you up with more info in a quick hit fashion. I will apologize in advance for not including my usual token insight and witty banter, but you only love me because I’m good looking anyway. Without more ado, your entertainment news . . .
New Hulk Revealed, Looks Like Other Hulks. Also: Full Avengers Character Poster Line-up (Badass Digest) – I mean, did you really expect me to start out with anything else? So much for a less CGI Hulk though unless Mark Ruffalo has been on the Jose Bautista diet. In case you missed it, that was a steroids joke. We’re back!
Dangerous Entertainment News – Wednesday, July 13
Today in the DEN, more movie news than you can shake a stick at while Edward Norton looks on disapprovingly. Don’t worry, that’s how he looks at everybody. In a Norton-themed edition, today’s news is mostly crap, but there’s a nice little Olivia Wilde cameo at the end. See, I made it through the entire sentence without making a sexist reference using the words Olivia Wilde and end. Read on. I have to go as “Meet the Browns” just came on the TV and I lost the remote. Yikes!
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” Trailer (TDB) – Who the hell is TDB? Oh, that’s right, it’s us. Yes, welcome to our own breaking news, so impressive that it naturally starts off the DEN today. This trailer is apparently only on iTunes for now, though the rumor is that it will be on the front of Harry Potter this weekend. I still remember being disappointed by the first “Sherlock Holmes”, mostly because I had such high expectations for it. It has become rather watchable for me on cable, but purely in the way that “Armageddon” is when I don’t feel like actually using my brain for any higher level function. This sequel looks interesting for two main reasons. The first being Noomi Rapace who was by far the best part of the Swedish “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and the second is the appearance of Dr. Moriarty. Personally, I would have waited until #3 and teased it out a bit longer, but then again I am no Guy Ritchie. I mean, look at his fantastic movie CV and tell me that isn’t a Hall-of-Fame director. Yeah, no, I think he sucks too. The thing that this has going against it most egregiously however is the success of the British TV version. Honestly, this film will not be able to hold a candle to that, but as long as you go in there with extremely low expectations there is only a mild chance you will be disappointed. P.S. I hate Guy Ritchie.
“Sherlock” Series 1 Review
When Guy Ritchie’s pulp version of “Sherlock Holmes” was released two Christmases ago, I was extremely excited; and then I went to see it in the theater. Ritchie’s version of Holmes was a quick hit, quick cut, dicey spectacle that tried to have its phenomenal cast obscure the fact that it was just not well done and certainly not in the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Since it has been released on cable, it has become watchable for me, but only in the sense that some blockbusters become watchable when they are free and you have nothing better to do. When Netflix Instant recommended the BBC’s “Sherlock: Series 1” to me some time ago, I think I was initially turned away because my disappointment in the Ritchie film was still palpable. Could I bare to be disappointed by such an iconic character twice in the span of under two years? I can only imagine that it would be similar to the disappointment I would feel in hooking up with Kate Upton and Keira Knightley (stay with me, there’s a point coming, I promise) over a short period (preferably in the same evening, though I shan’t be picky) only to discover that they both were lesbians. I mean, I’d still go through with it, but I’d be disappointed that I probably couldn’t go back for seconds or thirds.
In any event, I need not have worried because “Sherlock: Series 1” delivered and then some. It is the perfect casting of little known Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman combined with perfect scripts and perfect execution. Stephen Moffat has succeeded in updating Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century as it always should have been and as Guy Ritchie should never have been allowed. It is available on Netflix Instant, only 3 episodes of 1.5 hours apiece, so there should be no reason whatsoever for you to wait to see this gem. Series 2 is reportedly returning in the Fall and after this series cliffhanger, I can hardly wait. If you don’t enjoy Sherlock, then let me know and I will happily refund your money. What, it’s free? Well, then it’s elementary.
Bob’s Series 1 grade – 93%