JEREMY BRETT AS SHERLOCK HOLMES
Posted on 12/29/2018 11:08:01 AM PST by EdnaMode
Being a good comedian doesnt mean you are a good actor.
Being a good actor doesnt mean you are a good comedian.
Sometimes you just cant make the other one work out.
I am just not interested at all, in what hollywood squirts/squats out as “comedy”, currently. It’s seriously not funny.
They are both $$$ Multi-millionaires and don’t give a damn what the public thinks. They will still make money off of this turkey.
Was the first one Slum Dog Millionaire?
If it’s that bad, it’ll probably become a cult favorite. It could give The Rocky Horror Picture Show crowd an excuse to buy new costumes and memorize a little new dialogue.
the studios are insulated against financial disaster from bombs like these.
The 1980s saw a home video boom as the price to own a player/recorder dropped and price-points were lowered (from $90 to $25) on some titles to encourage ownership. Chains like Blockbuster established (partly by buying out mom & pop rental stores and their old inventories).
Cable tv too proliferated with numerous movie channels that weren’t just showing the “recent” (5 year or less) theatrical releases.
There was consolidation of studios (one would fail and a bigger fish would eat it up). The older studios that went away (or were consumed) didn’t last long enough to see a revival of demand for their old product. But the new owners reap the returns.
Today these monopolies have 100 years of still copyright protected product to draw billions or even trillions of revenue on. A $100million loss is a drop in the bucket. The ripples from a pebble.
A start up studio would have to be successful every single time and be able to schedule product so it doesn’t get trounced opening weekend (or week 2, etc) by a megahit like Black Panther or some film.
They’d always be one film away from financial ruin.
and save a few $$$.
Good comic timing can be ruined by the studio in the editing room. It isn’t a live stage performance. It is a sequence of edits from different camera angles from different line reading takes.
>>They will still make money off of this turkey.
I’m sure it will run around the clock on pay-tv where subscribers will fund it whether they watch or not.
I liked Reilly in Chicago. which is why I'm surprised about why he's throwing his career away by aligning with Farrell.
-PJ
To me, when someone like Farrell makes a movie like Elf, it's like a form of grooming. He gets children to like him because of his one *normal* movie, and then when the children grow up a little more and want to see his other movies, they get exposed to his crudeness.
-PJ
Jeremy Brett was the definitive Holmes. Nne ever better, none will ever be.
JEREMY BRETT AS SHERLOCK HOLMES
After going through the posts... it looks like I am the only one commenting who actually saw the film. My wife and I watched it on Christmas day. It was about as non-political as a Hollywood film can be these days. The worst foul language was a little kid that said “No shit Sherlock.” There was no graphic violence are gratuitous sex scenes. The theater was nearly full, lots of people were laughing, and I didn’t see anyone walk out. There were plenty of parts that made my wife and I laugh, it was sort of an innocuous waste of time which is about as much as you can hope for these days.
The previews for the other movies were the only real negative. They were some of the most awful and disgusting trailers that we have ever seen and some of them were for movies that the Hollywood insiders seem to love.
Will Ferrell. Right there would turn me off.
Disney is particularly insulated from financial bombs. The massive financial success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe made it possible for Disney to attempt riskier projects.
Disney almost went under struggling from the 70s into the 1980s.
Sell-through home video success (Lady And The Tramp was the top home video seller the year the VHS was released) and later The Little Mermaid (and subsequent films) turned the studio around.
Also branching off into R-rated films (like Down & Out In Beverly Hills) gave them more cash.
Whew! I am glad that I am not alone in being puzzled at Will Ferrell’s career success (overall). I just don’t find his schtick funny.
I guess a cameo appearance from Hans and Franz wouldn’t of saved this epic disaster. Will Ferrell must be laughing himself all the way to the bank with the amount of money he makes doing crap movies like this!
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