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"I did not think Sherlock Holmes was a fighter..." In the novels, Holmes is proficient in 'Bartitsu' - a hand to hand and stick fighting form developed around 1900 to combine some eastern techniques into a more western (boxing style) form that also employs a gentleman's cane.

Not only was Sherlock Holmes a series of books first (like 1887 first), but it was also one of the very first series that had FAN FICTION written for it! It was one of the earliest examples of a 'fandom' and, to this day, there are Sherlock Holmes clubs.

I love how Robert Downey Jr. portrayed Sherlock Holmes in this movie as sarcastic & snarky but highly intelligent. Basically a Victorian London version of Tony Stark with an English accent and no cutting edge technology. It's incredible to see that power of deduction (Sherlock talking through what he'll do before he actually does it) at work.

for being an original story, they clearly did their homework writing this. the books mentioned Holmes being proficient in hand to hand fighting, trying various narcotics, being completely insufferable when he didn't have a case, Watson having a gambling problem to the extent that Holmes had to hold onto his money, Watson having been a military doctor in Afghanistan, Irene Adler being american (i seem to recall she was written as being from New Jersey)

This is a much "edgier" version of Holmes compared to the original stories. It's definitely a fun film and it gets credit for not portraying Watson as a bumbling fool which many past adaptations do. I find the most faithful adaptation of Sherlock is Jeremy Brett's from the 80s TV series. Many of those episodes are available on KZfaq and worth seeing for comparing and contrasting.

Love this one. The sequel is even better; definitely worth watching if you’re enjoyed this.

My cat, named Watson, died yesterday afternoon in my arms looking into my eyes from liver failure caused by diabetes. So this made me cry.

I loved both the Guy Ritchie Sherlocks! I wish it was a trilogy. Downey Jr. and Jude Law are such a good Holmes and Watson. And the Hans Zimmer scores. It's all so good.

His fight narration is super cool. I just wish it happened more than once. Also, the entire cast was super cool. Mark Strong was scary but still charming. And I feel like this is one of my all time favorite Rachel McAdams roles.

RDJ really took Sherlock Holmes in a new direction with these two movies. Normally, Holmes is very tall, and clean. In most versions, he is usually not an addict. He is always cocky to some degree. He usually has better social skills than you see here. Watsons have varied wildly over the years. I think Jude Law may just be my favorite.

I loved this watchalong with your giddyness as per usual, so thanks for that. Looking forward to you checking out the second instalment. Downey jr actually signed off on the third script and was happy with it, and they even had a window to film it, between Infinity Wars and Endgame. But additional shoots ran over time and the alas the window closed. I'm still hoping they get to it with Guy Ritchie at the helm. Oh and btw... cough cough Guy Ritchie's Man From UNCLE cough cough pleeease 😂😂😂

The game is indeed afoot ! 🤔 my deductive powers tell me you will most definitley love this film and give a proper enthused reaction to this Jen ! 😊 Sherlock Holmes is among the most often portrayed characters in fiction , and he's definitely one of my favourites . Yes yes back to detecting now my dear .😉 Cheers .

Great reaction as always Jen, I like this movie a lot!! The ending how Sherlock breaks everything down is great. Always baffels my mind that the actress who plays Watson's fiancee/wife also plays Beth in Yellowstone

I have these on blu-ray. I love the "Sherlock Holmes movies. I'm super excited to watch this with you "Jen 🤩

I'm 51 and I first started liking the Sherlock Holmes character as a teen when I first started reading the books. Basil Rathbone was the first I started to watch on film, but I've liked almost all of them for different reasons. RDJ was actually better than I thought he would be, and he's such an amazing actor, I think I'm more in to his abilities, than the Sherlock he's playing. Benedict Cumberbatch on the BBC's Sherlock is amazing, and while that show went off the rails by the end, the first few seasons may have been the best ever. Jonny Lee Miller also does an amazing job on Elementary with Lucy Lui as his Holmes, and these might be my favorites of the bunch, as they went the longest(had the most stories), but they had way to many missed opportunities throughout the shows run, but what they did do was amazing at the time. I would say give them all a go if you find the time, as each actor is his own Sherlock, and that means the good and the bad of this diverse character.

Fantastic call on the Music as MVP. Music is the emotional palette that an artist like Hans Zimmer colors the film with., Miss Jen always understand the importance of the score to a film. Thank you, Miss Jen. You'll enjoy the next film in this series. I always watch both the long version and the KZfaq Cuts of your reactions. Both are enjoyable and fun to see how your great team works their magic.

13:15 If you look in the foreground at the start of the scene when Sherlock and Watson are talking about the watch, you can see the fortune teller running ahead in the crowd, getting into position to talk to Watson

The 2nd film is just as good as this one. Oh Jen, I'd bet you would really enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the short stories and novels. They're excellent. 🥂

*"HIYAAA!!"* *proceeds to fall and smash into a small smoker for smoking meats* *"WATSON!!"* That scene just... Gets me cry laughing each time. Classic gags like that remain timeless!

Nice to see you reacting to this one, Jen! I remember back in 2009 when this was coming out I was attending my first year of high school, I had only read a translation of Hound of the Baskervilles before then but I managed to get a good deal on a wonderful omnibus of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon published by Geddes & Grosset which I read in its entirety before the movie came out (I actually ended up re-reading Hound in that version since the four books that preceded it -Study in Scarlet, Sign of the Four, Adventures, and Memoirs- I had ended up reading in separate editions just before I got it). I've seen a lot of adaptations since then and while the RDJ movies aren't necessarily ultra-faithful I've found them to be very fun and well executed romps that know how to take liberties without going too far (in contrast, I've found BBC Sherlock to be atrocious in that regard). I think a great move for this one was making the story completely original, though the villains were largely inspired by a Victorian order of mystics called the Golden Dawn, and Lord Blackwood was pretty much a mishmash of Algernon Blackwood (a famous horror writer who was also a member) and Aleister Crowley. Hopefully we'll see you reacting to the sequel A Game of Shadows soon too, which I think managed to pull off being one of the best possible Holmes adaptations for the time in which it came out. If you'd ever be interested in checking out more adaptations, I highly recommend the Granada TV series starring Jeremy Brett or the series of Soviet TV movies starring Vasily Livanov as Holmes, both of which I consider to be tied for the greatest ever adaptations of the canon; the latter in particular are rather underrated but are a masterclass in classic 70s-80s era small-screen pacing and storytelling and I think you'd have a ton of fun with the way the characters are portrayed. To a lesser extent I'd also recommend the series of films from the 30s and 40s starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, to which I think my comments about the RDJ films would also largely apply- I might even consider those to be their spiritual successor to an extent.

Holy shit I love this movie. First and only movie I could have watched right again after the first time. Second one is also 10/10. Not enough youtubers have reacted to this. I can relate to him in multiple ways.

Sherlock Holmes 3 is in Pre-production, with Dexter Fletcher (Soap from Lock, Stock) attached to direct.

A word often used to describe Holmes in the original stories is “bohemian.” This refers not to the people of Bohemia (in modern-day Czechia) but to a subculture with a distinctive lifestyle. It was supposed to be somewhere between how artists stereotypically live, and how gypsies (today Romani) supposedly lived. It was fairly common among showbiz folk, who lived off the limited pay from their jobs, and bought clothing and furnishings piecemeal due to their intermittent income. They did not usually put down roots because their financial situation was so unreliable, and often they would have to vacate their living quarters minutes ahead of a landlord coming to collect back rent. So for instance, Holmes sleeping in his clothes on a chair, or not cleaning the apartment (or himself) for two weeks at a time. Holmes also took cocaine and heroin, but like the artists he imitated, he did it rather for the artistic inspiration and visions it gave him than to dull the pain. Pain-dulling drugs of the era did not include cocaine or heroin, but were more associated with whiskey, opium (smoked), and laudanum (a sedative used as an anesthetic) made from-you guessed it-opium juice mixed with whiskey. Not much imagination is needed when the drugs are actually effective.

Guy Ritchie knocked this one and the sequel out of the park. I hope they eventually do a third movie with them. Would be great to revisit these characters. It was great in the MCU to see Robert Downey and Benedict Cumbersquatch together since they both played excellent versions of Sherlock.

Jen's going to love this, my wife and I are stoked. 😊

"You wear a jacket" has been a running thing between me and my hubby since we first saw this in theaters 😊 The second one we have more quotes though 😁

Mark Strong(Lord Henry Black) doesn't always play a villain, but when he does he is convincing. Kelly Reilly(Mary Morstan) is probably best known for playing Kevin Costner's daughter on "Yellowstone." Rachel McAdams(Irene Adler) has been in a lot of projects.

Peter Cushing is an often overlooked Holmes. He was brilliant in Hammer’s version of Hound of the Baskervilles.

I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan (the books) and he is a great detective and a boxer. This film is great because it is one of the few that depicts him about the age he was in the books. He met Watson just after Watson left the Army and he was working on experiments in the college labs, so not some old stuffy guy in a deerstalker cap. I really liked this casting.

Always a perfect end to my working week. Thanks Miss Jen. Keep 'em coming. 😉

Good reaction Jen. Yes the books are worth a read, and the sequel is good. My favorite screen Sherlock is Basil Rathbone. His two best are Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Two comedies to check out are Without a Clue starring Michael Caine, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.

Lock, Stock & Sherlock Holmes! 🤣 I’ve had this film on DVD for years but never got round to watching it. I’ve also all the Sherlock Holmes stories but never got round to reading them. Holmes seems to be evading me 😃

-Although billed as a "modern re-imagining" this version is actually very tonally accurate to the books. Most adaptations focus on his brilliant intellect, which is indeed a major aspect of his character, but forget that he was a rough-and-tumble action hero as well. (He is out of costume though) -Sherlock Holmes adventures spans four decades. Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels 1887-1927 -Canonically, Holmes' martial art style is *bartitsu* one of the earliest mixed martial arts systems, created by Edward William Barton-Wright around 1900 combining boxing, jujitsu, cane fighting and Savate (French kickboxing) -RDJ is a practitioner of Wing Chun Kung Fu -Holmes has uncovered fake supernatural hoaxes like this a number of times in the books. He never went up against a shadowy secret society like we see in the movie but author Arthur Conan Doyle was a *member* of one, inspiring film-makers to feature them in a number of adaptations. *The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn* was devoted to the study and practice of occult Hermeticism and metaphysics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other notable members include Aleister Crowley and WB Yeats. A similar order appears in "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985) also notable for featuring the first CG character FX.

The best Sherlock Holmes TV serie is from UK, Granada television, from 1984 to 1994, Jeremy Brett IS REALLY Sherlock Holmes ! awesome TV serie, the show is true to the books.

Love how consistent you are ❤

Freak yeah! "JEN. I really enjoyed this classic with you. I can't wait to watch the sequel with you. I still remember the trailer for this movie back then. I couldn't wait to watch them. I straight picked up the collection they sold one and two together on blu-ray. Thanks for the awesome movie watch. Much love and respect to you you wonderful fun lady. 🙂👍

Jen, I would definitely recommend the sequel, A Game of Shadows, as well as the BBC series Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, if you haven't already seen it, that is! Two other Holmes adaptations you might be interested in, first is Elementary, with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, which is a modern day take, like with Sherlock, but changes up a few things, including Holmes living in the US and a female Watson. The other is the series House MD, which many people don't realize is a medical adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, with House as Holmes, Wilson as Watson and the hospital administrator Lisa Cuddy, being a compilation of Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson and Irene Adler.

Hi Jen the follow up film Game of shadows is just as good thanks to the direction and chemistry of the actors.For me Jeremy Brett is the greatest Sherlock simply because he appeared in a series of all the novels.👍💓🇬🇧

“You don’t mess around with saws” 😂😂😂

This version of Holmes n Watson is awesome, RDJ n Jude Law made those roles epic, more than what they already were. I like the series version of Sherlock too, with Benedict. Look forward to your reaction of the other Sherlock movies

Sherlock Holmes is the original pulp fiction hero. He became so famous, people thought he must be a real person.

I grew up watching Basil Rathbone playing Sherlock Holmes.

Like many others, I hope you really enjoyed Sherlock Holmes as much we have. Totally worth watching the second movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. I like the overarching steampunk-like theme in both films - it works well with the lively music score, actors' performances, plot twists, and action.

Thanks for sharing your reaction to another fun movie, Jen. I hadn't seen this in a while and didn't remember that Eddie Marsan was in it.

I am long time SH fan. I enjoy the RDJ movies, he brings such a freshness to the character & Jude Law makes a great Watson. They were suppossed to do another SH movie, but it never has materialized to date. Maybe in the future???? Jeremy Brett is my favorite Holmes, and there's a bunch of episodes he did for Granada Television, in England. Like Sean Connery will always be James Bond, Jeremy Brett will always BE Holmes. Check him out. Great show, Jen, as always! Have a stupendous day!❤😊❤😊

I Think 🤔 That They Are Working 💪 On A 3rd Sherlock Holmes Movie 🎭🎬🎥📽️🎟️🎟️🍿🍿🍫🍫🥤🥤 With Robert Downey Jr. And Jude Law I Am Eagerly Anticipating. ( By The Way. Bob Kane Created "Batman" Using Sherlock Holmes As His Inspiration.🖋️"Batman's" Utility Belt Was Inspired By Sherlock Holmes' Door 🚪 Picking Kit! ) You Have A Nice Day, Jenny!

Gotta love the drink "used in eye surgery", a subtle nod to his cocaine use the original books'.

The pugilist Holmes with Asperger symptoms we get from RDJr is by far my fave

The stories were periodicals published in a newspaper.

I needed this in my life right now.

So many personal movie favs this month. I Am Living for it ☺️

Sherlock Holmes was originally short stories and novellas by Arthur Conan Doyle. Immensely popular in it's day. Depicted many times since in movies and tv shows.

The stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1887 to 1927, are worth reading ! there are 4 novels and 56 stories. You understand after why there was such a fascination for him !

If you like Sherlock Holmes, might I suggest an older but expertly played Holmes by Ian Richardson. It's called the sign of the four from the 80s I believe. He is the embodiment of Sherlock Holmes. Love your channel. Can't wait for casino royale!

There are so many renditions and re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes stories. To get a taste of the original, either read the short stories and novels on line (in the public domain) or watch any of the Jeremy Brett BBC ones. The Brett series was so closely matched to the original writings, it is almost like the characters stepped off the pages. Another series of classic British mysteries are the Agatha Christie stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Again many versions. My favorite, by far, are the ones starring David Suchet, who got the blessings of the Christie estate for how he played the lead character. If you wanted to pick one, I'd suggest The ABC Murders. Another classic Christie story was made into a 1957 movie, Witness for the Prosecution. There were a couple of remakes but the '57 one is heads above the others.

Sherlock Holmes is a volumes of stories and novells by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are about 3 novels and about 50 other stories in those volumes. Sherlock Holmes was a great detective, that because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor and he knew a lot about chemistry and all those who can drive you to find the reasons for some dead bodies. I like that Watson says one time to Holmes that the Earth is rotating itself around the sun. Holmes said he didn't know that and now knowing it he has to forget it because it is not an important information for him and doesn't help him with nothing knowing it...

That low note you asked about is either the low note on a double bass with a slow draw of the bow, to get the thing really vibrating. Or it's a synthesizer, probably one that sampled that very sound.

It's funny, the gunshot making Jen sure it was magic convinced me it wasn't when i first saw it. 😅

Love these movies! I have most of the older Sherlock Holmes movies. Plus the ones with Benedict. Enjoyed all

An underrated Disney movie that is a tribute to Sherlock Holmes is the Great Mouse Detective.

You can find a ebook for The Complete Sherlock Holmes. I would recommend reading the cases before you watch any series. The pdf is nearly 1000 but knowing the original works help to appreciate the tv and film versions more.

16:32 prison joke 😂 can't believe you missed it

Happy Sherlock Holmes Day 2024 Jen ❤️💛 Happy Birthday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 🥳

I love this take on Sherlock Holmes. I remember people not feeling the same. RDJ, Law & Mc Adams killed it. I like the sequel but not as much. If you react to it I’ll say why then.

There is a very underrated movie called Without a Clue with Michael Caine as Sherlock Holmes. Without giving too much away I will say that it is a comedy. Currently it's only available on KZfaq.

Rachel McAdams was offered the role of Pepper Potts but had to drop out because of pregnancy. McAdams was eventually cast as Doctor Strange's love interest Christine Palmer pairing her up with another Sherlock Holmes.

It occurs to me that since you like music in movies so much, "The Red Violin" might be a good movie for you to check out. I think that it's a very well-made movie, and the music is both second to none and an integral part of the plot.

In the books, the narrator is Dr. Watson. The stories are presented as his memoirs of his association with the great detective. Holmes is portrayed as man with no use for social niceties who thrives on problem solving. When there is no work, he takes cocaine and mopes around the flat. He is kind of arrogant, plays it close to the vest, and sometimes uses a client or Watson as bait to catch a criminal. While thinking out a problem, he might play atonal music on the violin for hours. He did shoot the walls in one of the stories. He employed disguises, had friends and informants from the criminal class, frustrated Watson endlessly and ridiculed the police. Well worth reading.

Love Sherlock! Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law make a great duo!

When you're such a Star Trek fan that you're waitng to see a Sherlock Holmes with Brent Spiner lol😉

The stories about Sherlock Holmes were originally serialised in the Strand magazine. Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional framework was that the stories were Watson writing about his friend Holmes.

This and the more modern British tv series version with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman both portray Homes as socially "awkward" but extremely intelligent. The sequel is excellent as well so yes, you should definitely watch it. And yes, the characters of Holmes and Watson were in Boks written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"Sherlock Holmes, a series of books" Indeed, contrary to popular ideas it's more like a series of short tales than full lenght books: four novels and 56 short stories compiled in five books. Of course, the first apparition of the character was in a novel (A Study in Scarlet), but many of his quirks and side stories popped up in the short stories (for example, you can find who the leading lady is in "A Scandal in Bohemia"). "Does the public know his face?" They do, to an extent... he wishes they didn't XD. The original canon describes he is very well known in some social circles (specially if you need something solved with discretion) and the police; but the general public doesn't remember him generally (in one story, a newspaper dare to describe him as "an apprentice" of the great investigators of Scotland Yard, when he was in reality the one who solved the case for them), But he likes it that way: in another story he describes the best evidence of fame and one's skill at work is anonimity (in that particular story, he is facing an assassain who is unknown even to the authorities because he kills in ways that can't be labeled as "murder"). "Something to drink..." Actually... did you know in one of the stories Holmes uses liquid cocaine to fight boredom when he doesn't have cases XD. Today the scene feels outrageous, but back in the day cocaine was more accepted as a recreational drug (to the point it was included, with no evidence of any benefit, in medicine and even soda). "He is kind of a mess!" As time has evolved, the image of the "tortured genius with little to no social skills" has evolved to be more random, and (of course) Holmes has evolved to fit the idea in different depictions. Originally, he was more "well dressed" to our understanding thanks to the etiquette of the day (social life wasn't acceptable in casual clothing, you even went to dinner, as you see, very well dressed). "You shouldn't make assumptions" This trait is also part of the moder depiction of the character: Holmes doesn't "assume" (in the sense of making wild guesses), he knows and that's what makes the dinner scene even more emotionally charged: he has the skills to know where to end his analysis or what was the right answer (that her former couple died) but *he choses to go with the cruelest assumption anyway* (still there is a case where he sinned with overconfidence, though... but by the end of the story he recognizes he needs to be humbled from time to time). In this case, there is a reason (a bad one, but a reason anyway): Mary is a stranger that is taking his (maybe only) friend away... he is not going to let her feel welcome right away. He is not that flawed of character in the books (don't get me wrong, love this depiction and it fits our modern standards of narrative; but it's mostly a modern trait). "Sherlock Holmes doesn't do ghost, does he?" My lady, clearly you need to check "The Hound of the Baskervilles" XD. Holmes has come across several "supernatural" elements (since, well, it was part of daily life in London at the time), but yeah... "supernatural" most of the times appears to be so because we don't get the full picture of the situation. "Constable Clark" The cop warning Holmes, after the explosion, that he should run is Constable Clark. While the name doesn't come from the books, Holmes has had (at different times) allies in the police that respect his skills (even when sometimes he makes them look like fools) and whose character Holmes respects. A testament of how hard it was to be a street policeman back in those days (and a testament that, while the original stories make Holmes the genius that cracks difficult cases, many times it wasn't with the explicit intention of making local authorities look stupid... they looked stupid due to personal ego and the fact street police officers, like Constable Clark, were meant to fight crime by mostly using physical force and common sense, not much detective skills). "Watson brings a lot to the team" Indeed, and that's another moder contribution to the dynamic of their relationship. While Watson has always been the "soul" that brings humanity to the duo, in the books and early adaptations his role is to be, mostly, the audience voice who makes the questions and gets amazed by the methods used by Holmes to answer them. We could say the original Watson admires and even idolizes Holmes to the point it would feel ridiculous for moder adaptations. And yes, most of the stories are written by Watson, with his own observations (but, there is at least one written by Holmes himself XD). "I want to read them" You can read the stories in any order you want, back in the day the idea of "a continued saga" was not always followed, so feel free to start wherever you like :). I should also recommend you see not only Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, but also Mister Holmes, with Sir Ian McKellen. "The music" To this day, the music of the final confrontation is my "must" for what action music should sound like. It's a great work (and they had fun, considering some statements: they said they did "unspeakable things" to a piano to get some of the sounds they used for the film XD). And that would be it, nice reaction, see you in the next one (and hope you can comment, somehow, somewhere, what you think of the books if you go on and read them :)).

'Young Sherlock Holmes" from 1985 is also worth a look.

Absolutely love both of these Sherlock Holmes movies, I hope they will make a third movie soon…

Theories say Holmes was a heroine addict. You picking the composer earned you a metric 💩ton of respect points. And an amazingly under appreciated movie about Holmes is Young Sherlock Holmes ‘85.

6:57 the sound you love is the soundtrack essentially to the epic (new dune movies director) Dene Velenuve (sp?) “Sicario” trilogy. I believe it’s a cello isn’t it? I’m not sure sure but you’ll love Sicario . I saw this in 3D when it came out , the final fight was amazing and my fear of heights spiraling around London bridge was wild.

It was a series of magazine articles that became books. Start with A Study In Scarlet, the first ever Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson story. So much better in print than in films or TV.

Thanks Jen, this was awesome. As always I really appreciate your attention to the music. I love the solo violin in this. In the stories he was an accomplished violinist. He also used cocaine and morphine to help deal with his boredome between cases. Both legal at the time, but not recommended 😁

As others have most likely said already, give Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock series a shot. Only around 12-13 episodes, and while true, they are not book accurate per se, they are really nice interpretations of the character's base metal state and it's fun!! :D

I'm honestly shocked that you don't know more about Sherlock Holmes. Let's run through it. Sherlock Holmes was the hero character of a series of stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Victorian Era. He's BY FAR the most famous detective character in history. Even today, his stories are still phenomenal. The character of Sherlock Holmes varies from depiction to depiction a bit, but sort of a consistent fact about him is that he is titanically brilliant on a level that eclipses absolutely everyone around him. Even when he's surrounded by brilliant people, it's essentially him being a genius and everyone around him comparatively being morons. Very rare is anybody ever on or near his level. His powers of observation and deduction are so strong that it makes him borderline clairvoyant. Things that other people think are secret and hidden are painfully hilariously obvious to him. He's basically a tormented genius, Just from the sheer fact of having to deal with normal people. He's truly far too smart for his own good, and to take the edge off and dull his own mind and make the world bearable for himself, Sherlock Holmes very frequently has some sort of drug addiction. I think originally it's opium, but depending on the depiction it can be other things. He always lives at 221B Baker Street. He frequently wears a deerstalker cap. Frequently smokes a pipe. Sometimes he's depicted with a magnifying glass. He's always partners with a version of Dr. John Watson. His iconic love is Irene Adler, despite that in the original stories the character appears like ONE time. And he has an archenemy named Moriarty, who is basically the evil version of Sherlock Holmes. And absolute diabolical super genius using his powers for unparalleled crime. Sherlock Holmes also has an older brother named Mycroft Holmes, who works for the government and is like the uber spymaster, like the equivalent of the head of the CIA, or something to that effect. Mycroft is frequently depict it as being as smart if not smarter than Sherlock, and Mycroft is sort of caught somewhere between being fed up with his brother, trying to protect his brother, trying to get his brother to quit his shenanigans, and trying to hire his brother to solve a case. They have a complicated relationship where they don't like each other very much per say, but they seem to love each other to some degree, and definitely respect each other massively, even if they pretend they don't. Within the continuity, Dr Watson is frequently depicted as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Watson recording their missions and investigations and publishing them. And it makes Sherlock and Watson famous. They very frequently work with Scotland Yard to some degree, and especially Detective Inspector Lestrade, who is sort of the Commissioner Gordon to Sherlock's Batman. While a lot of the police force frequently is irritated with or even outright hates Sherlock for making them constantly look like incompetent idiots, Lestrade and Sherlock get along, and Lestrade being in charge of the police make sure that they always have Sherlock on their team if they need him. Sherlock is iconically known as the World's Greatest Detective. A moniker shared with Batman. I think the Batman and Commissioner Gordon relationship is very intentionally meant to replicate the relationship between Sherlock and Inspector Lestrade. It's possible that you're more familiar with Sherlock Holmes than you know. If you've ever watched House M.D., House himself is a version of Sherlock Holmes. House Holmes Get it? Dr Watson Dr Wilson House even lives at 221B. His addiction happens to be Vicodin. Just like Sherlock, House is tortured by his genius and his grumpy and hates dealing with people. And I think that should give you sort of an idea of just how good Sherlock Holmes is. Even when you swap out the murders and robberies and backstabbing and poisoning and spooky monster stuff from the Sherlock Holmes stories and swap them out for people just being sick, the stories are still amazing and super compelling. If you're interested in Sherlock Holmes, I would say that these Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes movies are pretty much the weakest of the modern adaptations. There was a BBC Sherlock series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock, and Martin Freeman as Dr Watson set in the modern day. There was a CBS TV series Elementary (named after Sherlock's iconic catchphrase. When Dr Watson asks him about something, and Sherlock says "Elementary, my dear Watson!", before explaining something that he thinks is very basic and obvious), starring Johnny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, and Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson, and that was also phenomenal, and maybe the best version if I'm honest, because it has so many episodes and so much run time that it really let you get to know the characters of Sherlock and Joan Watson, and it let mysteries build up over longer periods of time. Well, Elementary might be the best version starring a character named "Sherlock Holmes", but the best overall might be House MD. And I'm just speaking of the modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. There are tons of older ones. And even for modern ones, there are more. There was a Netflix series about a network of kids who acted as spies for Sherlock Holmes, collecting information for him, and it featured actual supernatural stuff that the kids would get into. There are also two movies on Netflix starring Millie Bobby Brown playing as Enola Holmes, Mycroft and Sherlock's little sister. They're actually pretty good movies. And they feature Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes. I highly recommend watching all of this stuff aside from the thing with the kids and the supernatural stuff (which wasn't very good). I also HIGHLY recommend reading the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 4 Sherlock Holmes novels, and 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories. There has always been a borderline bottomless amount of Sherlock Holmes content. And so much of it is fantastic that it's pretty easy to figure out why he's one of the most famous characters of all-time.

Hi Jen hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤

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The Sherlock Holmes series by English novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is so old that it's works (and the character) are fully within the public domain. Meaning if you or I wished to make a Sherlock Holmes film, video game, book or other work then we would be perfectly legally entitled to do so. This fact also applies to the characters of Dracula, Peter Pan & Tarzan.

Sherlock Holmes appeared in novels and short stories in the early 1900's. Those are of course the best resources to learn about the character. Their are many movie and tv show adaptions, while most are entertaining several vary from the source material in various ways. Sherlock is notable for being the most portrayed character on film, having appeared in over 200 movies portrayed by 75 actors. The best adaptation IMHO is the Granada Television series starring Jeremy Britt. Unfortunately Britt grew ill before they could do all the classic stories but the 41 they did are great and very inline with the books. There are movies from the 1940's starring Basil Rathbone that adapt the novels. The same actor's play Holmes and Watson in all of these movies, However Watson is play more for comic relief in those movies, There are modern adaptions. The BBC did a series call Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman where the told classic stories in a modern setting. CBS also did an adaption set in modern day New York with new stories in a show call Elementary. Starring Lucy Liu as Watson Sherlock is a complicated character. He is the world's first consulting Detective. He has a brilliant deductive mind but is ignorant of some common knowledge things that aren't useful to his job . He often goes into deep funks when he has no case to solve. Most of the cases he take are just for the challenge and he doesn't charge his clients but does charge a few. In the books all but 2 of the stories are told by Watson. One thing I dislike about this movie and several other Sherlock adaptions is that TV and Movies make Irene Adler his girlfriend which she is not in the story "A Scandal In Bohemia" where we met her. Movies and tv try to shoehorn her in as a love interest because she is one of the few prominent women in the stories. Most of the other women are clients of Sherlock. Irene is definitely more of an opponent in the books. The Britt and Cumberbatch series both are more on par with the book. If you want to know how he and Watson met either read "A Study in Scarlet" or watch an adaptation of that story.

In the original canon (written in the 1880’s) Holmes is described as a man who is a master of chemistry and deductive reasoning as well as an expert boxer and a master of a martial art called Baritsu which is a fictionalized version of an English MMA style called Bartitsu which combined Boxing, a French kickboxing style called Savate, Judo, Jiujitsu and Swedish came fighting. He’s also been shown as being strong enough to bend iron fireplace pokers in half.

Yes, the Sherlock Holmes books were by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

I'm totally with you on the marvelous soundtrack! I don't always buy music from films but this one I liked so much, I bought the CD back in the day. I like to listen to instrumental music sometimes while I'm working, and this one's definitely in the shuffle. 😊🎵🎶🎻

I remember i watched this movie in the theater back in 2009. It was pretty good movie

That fight in the shipyard looked like Tony Stark going up against Thanos

Also, Sherlock Holmes (2009) had an impressive soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer!

Disney did their own version of a Sherlock movie called the Great Mouse Detective

Arthur Conan Doyle did write four novels about Holmes, but most of the Sherlock Holmes fiction is short stories: 56 of them in all.

I have fired a .45 caliber ACP inside of a small, enclosed concrete space WITHOUT hearing protection. I can describe the sound as such: First, NOTHING. Your ears don't register the noise as they have been deafened. SECOND, you DO hear the sound of the spent cartridge hitting the floor, but it is muffled. THIRD, your ears feel as if they have been stuffed and everything is very muffled but after a while you will hear SLIGHT, and very slight ringing. My hearing normalized after several hours but I have been left with a life-long hearing deficit in my right ear as I am right-handed. This was over a decade ago now.

Frankly not particularly into this version of Sherlock but to be fair it's my favorite movie version. Jeremy Brett will just allways be the real Sherlock to me and Benedict Cumberbatch a great modern version.

"Holmes. . .what is that?" "Je ne sais pas."

Holmes is usually more prim and proper, he's more laid back in this film.

As others have said, the definitive portrayal of Holmes in his original era is the series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett, though it does sometimes fall into the trap of portraying Watson as a bit of a bumbler. The two recent modern-day adaptations (Sherlock from the BBC and Elementary based in the US) both portray a far more competent Watson, and are worth a look, although Sherlock does rather go off the rails in the later series.

Jen: "I thought Holmes would be prim and proper." *Me knowing that the Holmes in the book had a MASSIVE cocaine problem* : "Holmes prim and proper? Yeah sure that's totally reasonable..." 😂