Movie: Sherlock Holmes
The last movie I saw in the theater was The Dark Knight. ren change things, don't they?
Sherlock Holmes was the pick for our date yesterday. I was a little nervous about it - aside from seeing the trailers, I didn't know much about it. And then my mother said she wasn't interested in it because she heard it had a "spirit of wickedness" in it. When asked, she didn't go into specifics about what that meant.
It became clear what she meant in the opening minutes of the movie - the "bad guy" was involved in occult practices. I'm not giving much away to state that - I won't say anything more, except to reassure folks that the occult angle was handled more as superstition than as supernatural. It was not glorified at all.
Anyway, we loved the movie. Purists may take issue with Robert Downey's Holmes, but I liked him. Jude Law as Watson was excellent. And the two men together had great timing. The movie was fast-paced, had an interesting stylized feel (kind of comic book-y, but not in a distracting way), and moved the plot well. I predict a sequel and we will be in the theater to see it when it comes out.
4 stars out of 5.
TV Stuff
I haven't posted much about TV. That's because I'm not watching much TV.
Imagine that.
Turns out I only miss it a little bit. That said, my DVR is at 90% capacity, although I'm guessing half of the stuff on there is actually for the Jesse. My plan is to try to watch the shows that I recorded during the summer. They include: The Good Wife, House, and Manhunters.
I only have about 5 episodes of The Good Wife left - that one I have managed to watch here and there as the season has progressed. I really like it and I think Beau does, too. He will watch it with me on occasion, so at the very least he tolerates it.
We watched the first couple episodes of this season of House and then life got in the way and I just let each new episode keep accumulating on the DVR. I think we have 11 and isn't the season finale next week? So that will make it an even dozen to either watch or delete.
We love Manhunters, but it comes on after our usual bedtime so we let the DVR catch it. We have 18 episodes. If you haven't seen this show, you should check it out. It is The Fugitive only it's real.
What I have managed to watch live or nearly live include: LOST, V, American Idol, and Survivor. V is an interesting show that I like a lot. I think it's a very good remake, well cast, very well acted, action packed, mysterious. We had a slight snafu with the DVR in the past month or so, where it only recorded the last 5 minutes of several episodes of V. I came to find that the settings for Caillou, which gets recorded for Jesse (and who knew a show like that aired at 10pm?) superceded V. And since The Good Wife and V are on at the same time that meant 3 shows were booked for the DVR at the same time. I have since fixed the settings and TGW and V supercede Caillou. Anyway, I managed to get caught up on V just this morning by watching online.
I spent this season mostly fast forwarding through AI in order to see only the performances and some of the judges comments. I didn't watch a single results episode. I'm not sorry about that because this season has been terrible. That said, of the contestants who are left, I really like Lee and Crystal.
Because of Movies with Mom on Thursdays - I watch Survivor on Friday mornings before I get ready for work. It's been a fun season. Loathe Russell. Loathe Parvati. Meh about the rest, although I like Sandra more and more - she's funny.
I stopped watching 24 after about 5 hours. I stopped watching CSI after the few couple of weeks - it's not the same without Grissom. I stopped watching The Office because I still need to see last season. And that's about all I can say about TV these days.