It is the future and everything is average.

[hirez]

Wandered off to the alleged entertainment barn for the homoerotic steampunk Sherlock film, which was only slightly incoherent. It's probably just me, but the motion blur or shit bandwidth digital buggeration drove me up the wall. The sequence where they were steaming across Yurp by means of nag was particularly tiresome. Whenever the set of them pelted across the frame, which they did a lot, you could sort of see a horse-shape that would have made Muybridge swear a lot and check his equipment, and a sort of a crap squiggle that looked and moved like the player character in the Spectrum version of Manic Miner.

If this is alleged progress to some sort of digitally-based ideal, then it's shit and I want no part of it. But then that's the magic of computers all over - there's at least a decade of them being utterly hopeless and it being a wonder that whatever-it-is works at all, before someone comes along and makes them work properly. Hopefully at the same time putting the existing set of shysters and apologists out of business.

Speaking of which, Small Brother lent Ma his Ipad (iPad? ipAd? ipaD? Whichever) and she wouldn't let him have it back, so he went and blagged a free one. I'm glad that's finally sorted and she's found a machine she likes.

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

...but apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

It was quite good.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Maybe your old analogue eyes are too slow for this new digital technology?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

My analogue eyes have got so used to seeing and hearing anti-aliasing everywhere that I can no longer un-see it.

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

Hehehe I take your point. But I really enjoyed the film, mainly for the script and characters. I think it was very cleverly written, with lots of plot and character interplay crammed in - even character development, to an extent. Also well acted IMO. And I enjoyed the silly horse bit!

[arkady.livejournal.com]

The bit with the horses - and RDJ ending up on a little shaggy pony - was Guy Rtchie's way of winding RDJ up and poking fun at the fact that RDJ can't actually ride and is, in fact, a little scared of horses. Jamie Foxx gave him a pair of thoroughbreds as a birthday gift a couple of years back, and RDJ admitted he was petrified of them. Guy Ritchie threatened he'd get RDJ on a horse for SH2.at background, So knowing the background, I found the scene with the horses hysterically funny. :-)

I found the initial opening scenes visually confusing, not helped by being right at the very front of the theatre in front of the screen (reddragdiva had left his glasses at home so requested we get front seats), so it took a little while for my eyes and brain to work out what they were looking at.

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

I saw the film tonight, as it happens. We were passing, it was on, so we went in...

And yes, much of it did look marginally less realistic than your average Biffo The Bear cartoon.

But what annoyed me was that they got the train-breaking-in-two bit wrong. See my own LJ for elaboration!

And at one point Doctor Watson's wife refers to him as *Mister* Watson. They're joshing in that scene, and pretending to be over-formal with each other for a larf, but that would have been even more of a reason for her to use his professional title, surely?