I genuinely believe they haven't made a third movie because there's no way to write a more perfect story than this one. Every time I watch it, I love it even more
I think that really was the reason, there have been attempts, but the script was always rejected, just no way to recreate something so smart but accessible well enough
@@applejayz1987 Also i think it was right around Marvel was really taking off and i think Downey was too busy with that at the time. But i think i read some article they re still pitching the last 3rd installment
@@patrikmrtvy7907 Yea, they've definitely run into the same problem as BBC's Sherlock, with Benadryl Cornsworth becoming a way more expensive actor to hire after Doctor Strange
“Come now. You really think you’re the only one who can play this game?” - No matter how many times I have seen this scene, Jared Harris’ delivery of that line always gives me full body chills.
Sherlock and Watson escaping the ammo compound with the high-frame-rate camera work and fight sequences is one of my favorite action sequences in any movie I can think of. Such a unique style and you can instantly tell it was Guy Ritchie from that scene alone. Only he could come up with an action sequence so visually striking~
56:56 fun fact, the text that Watson is narrating/typing out on his typewriter, is lifted directly (albeit a bit jumbled up) from the closing paragraph of 'The Final Problem', the short story in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Professor Moriarty, and had Holmes seemingly 'die' in mortal combat with the Professor at Reichenbach Falls (which are in fact a real place in Switzerland and can be visited).
38:27 - a little Holmes deep lore: Moran, Moriarty's pet sniper, is indeed from the books too; he appears in The Empty House, the story that reintroduced Sherlock after his duel with Moriarty and "death" in The Final Problem. Much like Moriarty being a dark reflection of Holmes, Moran is one for Watson. Kim Newman wrote a series of stories collected as The Hound of the D'Urbervilles written as if from Moran's perspective as he acted as a henchman for Moriarty, including crossing over with a bunch of other historical figures and stuff from the period such as War of the Worlds - I recommend them to anyone interested in expanding their Sherlock nerddom.
@@emanymton713Why I asked the question that way is in some pastiche novels they mix in other novels. So the Hound of the Durbuvilles isn’t outside the realms of possibility!
4:26 - apparently learning Wing-Chun was part of how RDJ got/stayed sober and did indeed play a part in a lot of his workout regimen for both Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man; there's a brief bit in his garage/lab at the start of Iron Man 3 where he is practicing some moves on a wing-chun practice dummy just before he tests the Mark 42 armour for the first time.
56:00 - the little subversion of expectation during the fight with the Cossack comes back around. How do you defeat an opponent who can anticipate your every move? By doing the last thing they'd expect you to do.
The waterfall bit is a nod to the “death” of Sherlock in the books, and is one of the 1st examples of so much fan outrage that Doyle brought him back. It’s also in a very similar situation but I believe moriarty actually died. I could be wrong, I haven’t read them.
Sherlock Holmes 3 is in pre-production. Guy Ritchie is only producing and not directing. However his friend Dexter Fletcher is the director for the new instalment.
Fun fact: that scene when Robert Downey Jr was climbing on the train with a joker like makeup, it was moment of honour to Hug Lethger, to whom Robert lost his Oscar award
There was no guarantee that the target of the bomb would be within lethal distance of the explosion. You will also remember that Sherlock nearly stopped one of Moriarty’s assassinations via bombing at the beginning of the film and there was no guarantee that Sherlock would fall for Moriarty’s false clue trail. Having him assassinated via sniper was his guarantee that the job would be done even if the bomb was somehow not enough or assuming that Sherlock would see through his ruse.
“This one is so much more bombastic”…….welcome to the rule of sequels. Bigger faster louder. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Luckily this is one of those times where it works wonderfully. This is one of the rare sequels where they build upon everything great from the first film, amp that stuff up, trim the fat, cast the villain perfectly, and everything is truly firing on all cylinders. Such a great sequel. I only wish we got one more film to make it a trilogy, I’m still holding out hope
Not all sequels. Some genuinely improve the story elements and formula, like I think this one did. I like the firsy movie but it was barely a detective story, you don't get any of the clues until the end. You have to assume the audience doesn't have the super specialized knowledge to know of an ancient Egyptian honey stone adhesive recipe or a paralytic with an exothermic reaction activated by both copper and water, so you tell them. I know they were doing the "the audience and characters believe this could be supernatural" thing, but you can do it better than that, still leaving clues that are noted but you don't know what it means, yet when put together immediately dispels the supernatural. This movie, you know Holmes and Watson's reasoning the entire time, even when they're wrong, and the narrative was structured more like a chess match than a ghost story. A lot more than bigger action was at play.
In the stories, Moriarty was introduced in the same story he died in, as a way for Holmes to go out, taking his equal with him. Readers were so mad, Conan Doyle “resurrected” Sherlock (which was a lot easier since Watson only stumbles upon the aftermath of the fight and deduces from footprints that they both go over) in a story that features the gunman from this movie (Colonel Sebastian Moran) trying to get revenge for Moriarty.
Hi, i knew about him doing scenes in Sherlock Holmes. But can you give examples of scenes from Hot Fuzz? I don't remember any big slowmo scenes, just a bunch of short ones, are those it, or i missing something? Thanks for the info!
56:12 This scene is similar to BBC Sherlock because that’s how Moriarty and Sherlock take each other out at the Reichenbach Waterfalls in the Arthur Conan Doyle books.
32:54 Still a light chance he might have pulled through. Hitler was on the other side of a table leg where a bomb was placed to kill him and he only got a few burns. Besides, Moriarty didn't want anyone to consider it might have been a deliberate assassination. Political tensions are one thing, singular assassinations are another.
33:00 It was redundancy. Same way they had the man posted outside the auction house at the beginning in spite of the bomb. The guy could've left the blast radius before the bomb went off, so you shoot him when he's guaranteed to be in the room of course the others will notice, but the bomb blast takes care of the witnesses, and the inspectors won't look for a bullet hole. He was also generally sowing the seeds of war by killing several important people of foreign nations at once, while maintaining the motif of the series of bombings which were already being blamed on different political groups.
For years the 3rd film was not even seriously being planed, but now a 3rd film is currently in pre-production so we sould get a new one within the next few years.
A of those camera and cinematography elements you mentioned have been staples of Guy Ritchie since the mid 90’s. you’ll find the super slow mo and the manic camera movements in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as Snatch. Let’s start a movement to stop thinking of super slow mo as “Zack Snyder” and take it back. Ineffectual, shallow and superficial super slow mo is definitely Zack Snyder. A couple of shots in a movie like this one is GOOD use of it, which Zack Snyder seems incapable of. He has something like facial blindness when it comes to recognizing potential overuse of slow mo and whether or not he’s already put in 30 slow mo sequences. I don’t believe Moriarty uses the stolen radio mechanism as part of this plot. I think he’s just taken it and folded the tech into his industrialized war machine arsenal with radio controlled chemical and/or explosive weapons that he can sell to warring nations. If he used radio controlled bombs in any of the bombings he used to ramp up the tensions leading to war, he might be discovered after he started selling bombs with the very same revolutionary detonation mechanism, so he couldn’t risk actually using the device in his machinations to start the war.
Semi shown in the first movie with both how he wielded the billy clubs in the OP, as well as using the scabbard part of the cane to duel blackwood. Though if a third movie happens, I hope he gets a proper fight
That forest sequence I always felt like Harry Potter ripped it off in the 7th movie, and their fall from the balcony, when Harry falls with Voldemort in the 8th. The color editing is also basically the same
Awesome that you know about the casting of Jared Harris and the whole redub for the first film. I watched it with the original voice for a long time and was shocked when the redub came into the reruns in tv
Not sure if was my comment specifically you saw about who played Moriarty, but if it was im glad i could share the info 😊. About halway through the video right now, but as always, great analysis!
i love Sherlock Holmes, and all of the interpretations of him, I would highly recommend the Elementary Series, it is a one of my favorite interpretation
I really enjoyed how in this movie, it was about taking Holmes' "methods" and turning them on their head and watching him adapt on the fly, to various degrees of success. It was a great way to show Moriarty's own genius, both in reading Holmes, but also taking advantage of the political climate.
Sherlock Holmes presumably dies at Reichenbach Falls in the book "The Final Problem" fighting the Professor as well. Watson's final words in the book are identical to the words Watson types at the end of his book here.
I am bad with names... but THAT is Anderson Dawes ! Please tell me you have seen the Expanse... or wait... hopefully NOT, that would be an awesome reaction ;P
Just stumbled upon this, if you haven't heard, there is a third movie being made. It had a lot of trouble and got put on hiatus for a bit but supposedly its back on track.
9:54- Dude even Arkham Asylum couldn't handle Sherlock Holmes as he would just release all the inmates, - except for the ones that deserve to be locked up in the nuthouse -, and lock up the doctors. 10:54- Who's the one that hates you Omn1Media? 11:54- I just love how you're very protective of Gladstone Omn1Media 52:20- If there's one thing I hate about Moriarty is that in a way he was right how in a manner of speaking, World War I would still happen anyway. 54:21- Sherlock wasn't a fish, he was a shark disguised as a fish The forest sequence is probably the best part of the movie as the camera sequence was unlike anything seen before and it hasn't happened since.
When I watched this the first time when I was a teen, I didn't pick up how Moriaty's plan to start a world War was a close range assassination. Although in the movie it was stopped by Holmes, as we know, that's how WWI actually had its kick off years later..
*Jared Harris is amazing in everything he appears in, even when it’s Morbin’ Time! 😝 But he shine particularly brightly in THIS movie and makes an absolutely terrifying version of Moriarty! (The only one to surpass Daniel Davis’ Moriarty in Star Trek: The Next Generation!)* *Equally, Stephen Fry makes an equally fascinating Mycroft! He truly impersonates the spirit of the character from the books, of which Arthur Conan Doyle said was EVEN MORE intelligent than Sherlock, but LOATHED doing the work to prove that to people or to dirty himself in the process of proving anything (Unlike Sherlock!); which has been often been interpreted as him being la y, but that is an exaggerated simplification of who he is.* *I think Guy Ritchie took his formula from the first movie and refined it, like someone refined a good wine, when he made the sequel. There has been talks and rumors of a third film being made, but so far: We are still waiting! … And I am not even sure I want a third one: As much as I thirst for another 20 such Sherlock Holmes movie, like a James Bond franchise type of thing, the two currently available movies are so good that I am not sure they could capture lightning in a bottle a third time; especially after such a long hiatus.*
Yeah I initially wrote my comment on Harris’ voice, but then deleted it once I got to the end of your vid after you said you didn’t want to know in advance. It was originally a fairly deep , gruff voice for Moriarty
So, in the original Artur Conan Doile series, Holmes is proficient with boxing, and a Japanese martial art called Baritsu. Baritsu is thought to be based on Bartistsu, which is a real self-defense martial art system taught in England during Conan Doil's time by Edward William Barton-Wright, and is a mix between English boxing, French stick fighting, and Japanese jujitsu (the Bart in the Bartitsu comes from Barton, and the titsu from jujitsu). So, RDJ took his proficiency with wing-chun (which he got into during rehab), and mixed it with Judo, which Guy Ritchie was proficient in, to create their own version of "Baritsu".
41:20 It's got to be some form of blasphemy to attribute a Guy Ritchie sequence with Zack Snyder's abilities. Oh no he did it twice. You REALLY have to watch more Ritchie movies, Style is his middle name.
Preferred the first but this one upscaled things well. Prof. Moriarty is by far the most well-known Holmes literary antagonist, so a 3rd movie will need to go to some lengths to create a new one as good as him.
Love this one too, almost just as good as the first. A rare thing for movies. For the third one to be close is gonna be really difficult and unlikely. Just hope they actually makes it. 1:45 She didn't steal it. She took the wrong part, was just a distraction. I hate that she was killed in this movie, I was waiting for a reveal that it didn't actually happen. 41:10 Damn, that joke doesn't work man! It's Guy Ritchie! If you saw a movie with a cool scene like that it's his name you should use as the joke if anything! Moriarty's reveal of him doing the same planning in his mind was so good.
Interesting choice of going for something completely different in the subtitles when they roll out the howitzer at 41:33 ... the German says "Zu viele Füchse für euch paar Hühner", which translates to "too many foxes for you few chickens".... nothing about introducing anybody or anything.
7:21 Rented the room for a private event under a false name (or got someone else to do it), then hired a whole acting group to pose as customers with instructions to leave when they heard the three chimes?
Highly recommend to seek out a fellow TH-camr: Lord Ravenscraft who made an incredible analysis of that concluding chess match between Holmes & Moriarty including its relationship to an actual infamous chess match between two historical chess savants IRL. The scene is amazing on it’s own but that analysis video enriched the scene all the more on rewatch & actually rekindled my interest in chess since middle school chess club which I sadly put in the backseat of my hobbies once I got into high school.
AHAHAAH OH MY GOD at first i was like "What the fuc... CANNIBAL romcom?!" but then i realize you were talking about Hannibal... i know that show has been called a lot of things but "Cannibal romcom" is a new one lol....
(Sherlock reveals himself while still in disguise as a woman, prompting a "what the hell" look out of Watson): I agree, it's not my best disguise. Me: Yeah, no kidding. There are men who can pass themselves off perfectly as women, you're not one of them. 😂🤣
Fun fact, the German in this movie around the 41 min mark is pretty appalling, and the subtitles for it are even more so. For YEARS I was convinced this wasn't actually German, until JUST NOW when I looked down at my phone during the "Time to introduce Little Hansel" scene and suddenly heard "too many foxes for you few chickens" (literal translation) and got my mind blown. My ears and brain have never been able to piece this together before, because I always saw the subtitle and thought he was talking gibberish because whatever he was saying, the subtitle was Not It. I am amazed.
I genuinely believe they haven't made a third movie because there's no way to write a more perfect story than this one. Every time I watch it, I love it even more
I think that really was the reason, there have been attempts, but the script was always rejected, just no way to recreate something so smart but accessible well enough
@@applejayz1987 Also i think it was right around Marvel was really taking off and i think Downey was too busy with that at the time. But i think i read some article they re still pitching the last 3rd installment
@@patrikmrtvy7907 Yea, they've definitely run into the same problem as BBC's Sherlock, with Benadryl Cornsworth becoming a way more expensive actor to hire after Doctor Strange
That didn't stop The Godfather Trilogy & honestly I still enjoyed all of them. They should really do a third.
@@Deencat_ Same, I'd love to see another entry. But I also understand why it hasn't happened yet
“Come now. You really think you’re the only one who can play this game?” - No matter how many times I have seen this scene, Jared Harris’ delivery of that line always gives me full body chills.
23:11 - "That was no accident. It was by design." Truly unhinged.
Sherlock and Watson escaping the ammo compound with the high-frame-rate camera work and fight sequences is one of my favorite action sequences in any movie I can think of. Such a unique style and you can instantly tell it was Guy Ritchie from that scene alone. Only he could come up with an action sequence so visually striking~
RDJ struggled a lot when he was younger. Between this and his Ironman portrayal, I'm so happy to see him make such an amazing comeback.
You say this as if his comeback wasn't 17 years ago already.
"Lie down with me Watson...👀"
Kills me every time.
56:56 fun fact, the text that Watson is narrating/typing out on his typewriter, is lifted directly (albeit a bit jumbled up) from the closing paragraph of 'The Final Problem', the short story in which Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Professor Moriarty, and had Holmes seemingly 'die' in mortal combat with the Professor at Reichenbach Falls (which are in fact a real place in Switzerland and can be visited).
I can just imagine, crazy "uncle" Sherlock. I think the kids would actually love him...
38:27 - a little Holmes deep lore: Moran, Moriarty's pet sniper, is indeed from the books too; he appears in The Empty House, the story that reintroduced Sherlock after his duel with Moriarty and "death" in The Final Problem. Much like Moriarty being a dark reflection of Holmes, Moran is one for Watson. Kim Newman wrote a series of stories collected as The Hound of the D'Urbervilles written as if from Moran's perspective as he acted as a henchman for Moriarty, including crossing over with a bunch of other historical figures and stuff from the period such as War of the Worlds - I recommend them to anyone interested in expanding their Sherlock nerddom.
Wasn’t it Tess who was with the D’Urbervilles?
@@bertalach yes, yes it was. The post clearly meant “ The Hound of the Baskervilles”.
@@emanymton713Why I asked the question that way is in some pastiche novels they mix in other novels. So the Hound of the Durbuvilles isn’t outside the realms of possibility!
@@bertalach - that's correct, it is indeed.
Donald Thomas is really great as well. Writes Sherlock and Watson into 1890s-1914s crimes. The writing is great.
4:26 - apparently learning Wing-Chun was part of how RDJ got/stayed sober and did indeed play a part in a lot of his workout regimen for both Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man; there's a brief bit in his garage/lab at the start of Iron Man 3 where he is practicing some moves on a wing-chun practice dummy just before he tests the Mark 42 armour for the first time.
I see twelve different versions of how RDJ supposedly got sober.
56:00 - the little subversion of expectation during the fight with the Cossack comes back around. How do you defeat an opponent who can anticipate your every move? By doing the last thing they'd expect you to do.
The waterfall bit is a nod to the “death” of Sherlock in the books, and is one of the 1st examples of so much fan outrage that Doyle brought him back. It’s also in a very similar situation but I believe moriarty actually died. I could be wrong, I haven’t read them.
What a travesty that you haven't read them. I expect you to rectify that mistake post haste.
Sherlock Holmes 3 is in pre-production. Guy Ritchie is only producing and not directing. However his friend Dexter Fletcher is the director for the new instalment.
Gotta love how we got not just James Moriarty, but Sebastian as well!
Homeboys laugh is something else, like a manic hyena
😂🤣😂🤣
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Fun fact: that scene when Robert Downey Jr was climbing on the train with a joker like makeup, it was moment of honour to Hug Lethger, to whom Robert lost his Oscar award
Heath ledger but yea pretty cool
25:39 I think the idea was that she was poisoned in a way that would mimic the symptoms of tuberculosis.
There was no guarantee that the target of the bomb would be within lethal distance of the explosion. You will also remember that Sherlock nearly stopped one of Moriarty’s assassinations via bombing at the beginning of the film and there was no guarantee that Sherlock would fall for Moriarty’s false clue trail. Having him assassinated via sniper was his guarantee that the job would be done even if the bomb was somehow not enough or assuming that Sherlock would see through his ruse.
I see Code Lyoko. I like
58:27 in the beginning of the movie you can see him in the corner if you a few shots before he’s revealed
“This one is so much more bombastic”…….welcome to the rule of sequels. Bigger faster louder. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Luckily this is one of those times where it works wonderfully. This is one of the rare sequels where they build upon everything great from the first film, amp that stuff up, trim the fat, cast the villain perfectly, and everything is truly firing on all cylinders. Such a great sequel. I only wish we got one more film to make it a trilogy, I’m still holding out hope
Not all sequels. Some genuinely improve the story elements and formula, like I think this one did. I like the firsy movie but it was barely a detective story, you don't get any of the clues until the end. You have to assume the audience doesn't have the super specialized knowledge to know of an ancient Egyptian honey stone adhesive recipe or a paralytic with an exothermic reaction activated by both copper and water, so you tell them.
I know they were doing the "the audience and characters believe this could be supernatural" thing, but you can do it better than that, still leaving clues that are noted but you don't know what it means, yet when put together immediately dispels the supernatural.
This movie, you know Holmes and Watson's reasoning the entire time, even when they're wrong, and the narrative was structured more like a chess match than a ghost story. A lot more than bigger action was at play.
In the stories, Moriarty was introduced in the same story he died in, as a way for Holmes to go out, taking his equal with him. Readers were so mad, Conan Doyle “resurrected” Sherlock (which was a lot easier since Watson only stumbles upon the aftermath of the fight and deduces from footprints that they both go over) in a story that features the gunman from this movie (Colonel Sebastian Moran) trying to get revenge for Moriarty.
Conan Doyle was the original Harrison Ford, like "stop dragging me back to do your nerd shit, I beg of you."
Shout out to Gavin Free (TheSlowMoGuys) who did the Slow Motion section for this and also Hot Fuzz.
Hi, i knew about him doing scenes in Sherlock Holmes. But can you give examples of scenes from Hot Fuzz? I don't remember any big slowmo scenes, just a bunch of short ones, are those it, or i missing something? Thanks for the info!
56:12 This scene is similar to BBC Sherlock because that’s how Moriarty and Sherlock take each other out at the Reichenbach Waterfalls in the Arthur Conan Doyle books.
I love every single iteration of that short story ending, it's always so good handled 💅
I love this movie so much Moriarty was perfectly
I really like this version of Microft, and Stephen Fry was perfect casting
He’s great in the Sandman
“Lie down with me Watson.” gets me every time 😂😂😂the train sequence is so much fun
I remember seeing an old illustration of Microft and thinking, this looks exactly like Stephen Fry.
Fun fact, Gavin Free of Slow Mo Guys worked on the forest sequence
Their Dangerous at both ends and crafty in the middle lol!! RDJ And Law is freaking great, love these movies ❤
Dude, you're still my favorite reactor. The way you pick apart details is impeccable.
32:54 Still a light chance he might have pulled through. Hitler was on the other side of a table leg where a bomb was placed to kill him and he only got a few burns.
Besides, Moriarty didn't want anyone to consider it might have been a deliberate assassination. Political tensions are one thing, singular assassinations are another.
Yeah, moriarty wanted to make sure the target was dead guaranteed
I'm really glad they never made a 3rd one, this was perfect
33:00 It was redundancy. Same way they had the man posted outside the auction house at the beginning in spite of the bomb. The guy could've left the blast radius before the bomb went off, so you shoot him when he's guaranteed to be in the room of course the others will notice, but the bomb blast takes care of the witnesses, and the inspectors won't look for a bullet hole. He was also generally sowing the seeds of war by killing several important people of foreign nations at once, while maintaining the motif of the series of bombings which were already being blamed on different political groups.
33:00 insurance policy, incase bomb didnt work
For years the 3rd film was not even seriously being planed, but now a 3rd film is currently in pre-production so we sould get a new one within the next few years.
A of those camera and cinematography elements you mentioned have been staples of Guy Ritchie since the mid 90’s. you’ll find the super slow mo and the manic camera movements in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as well as Snatch.
Let’s start a movement to stop thinking of super slow mo as “Zack Snyder” and take it back. Ineffectual, shallow and superficial super slow mo is definitely Zack Snyder. A couple of shots in a movie like this one is GOOD use of it, which Zack Snyder seems incapable of. He has something like facial blindness when it comes to recognizing potential overuse of slow mo and whether or not he’s already put in 30 slow mo sequences.
I don’t believe Moriarty uses the stolen radio mechanism as part of this plot. I think he’s just taken it and folded the tech into his industrialized war machine arsenal with radio controlled chemical and/or explosive weapons that he can sell to warring nations. If he used radio controlled bombs in any of the bombings he used to ramp up the tensions leading to war, he might be discovered after he started selling bombs with the very same revolutionary detonation mechanism, so he couldn’t risk actually using the device in his machinations to start the war.
I've always assumed some of the bombs were remotely detonated via radio.
The mechanism was used for a remote control cake.
Coy from Reel Rejects just interviewed Jared Harris for like an hour and it’s a great conversation
First time watching your channel but glad to be the sherlock holmes movies. Very few people have seen it, under appreciated.
Thanks.
Sherlock has also been shown to be an excellent hand with swords.
Semi shown in the first movie with both how he wielded the billy clubs in the OP, as well as using the scabbard part of the cane to duel blackwood. Though if a third movie happens, I hope he gets a proper fight
41:27 i love the BTS from this forest sequence. Really worth watching. Think Gavin is his name from SlowMo guys on youtube worked on it.
That forest sequence I always felt like Harry Potter ripped it off in the 7th movie, and their fall from the balcony, when Harry falls with Voldemort in the 8th. The color editing is also basically the same
56:02 Yeah, I know that ending too. Falling from a cliff, right? They could definitely continue if they wanted to.
I am curious. Did he meant the 3 seasons show with Mads Mikkelsen?
My favorite fun fact to tell people is the cathedral in the opening is the one in Strasbourg, France. The foundations are over a 1000 years old.
Awesome that you know about the casting of Jared Harris and the whole redub for the first film. I watched it with the original voice for a long time and was shocked when the redub came into the reruns in tv
39:12 “There’s always a bigger fish…”
I wasn't crazy about the first film, but I absolutely love this one.
41:10 actually i think Gav from slow mo guys was working on this scene
He did.
Not sure if was my comment specifically you saw about who played Moriarty, but if it was im glad i could share the info 😊. About halway through the video right now, but as always, great analysis!
i love Sherlock Holmes, and all of the interpretations of him, I would highly recommend the Elementary Series, it is a one of my favorite interpretation
I really enjoyed how in this movie, it was about taking Holmes' "methods" and turning them on their head and watching him adapt on the fly, to various degrees of success. It was a great way to show Moriarty's own genius, both in reading Holmes, but also taking advantage of the political climate.
Wow! I literally just randomly thought about this movie the other day funny enough 🤣
Oh please do the series too. It's my one of my favourites❤
Awesome, this is one of those movies I can rewatch forever. It’s just so well done.
“DID YOU JUST KILL MY NEW WIFE??!?!”
Sherlock Holmes presumably dies at Reichenbach Falls in the book "The Final Problem" fighting the Professor as well. Watson's final words in the book are identical to the words Watson types at the end of his book here.
I am bad with names... but THAT is Anderson Dawes !
Please tell me you have seen the Expanse... or wait... hopefully NOT, that would be an awesome reaction ;P
Just stumbled upon this, if you haven't heard, there is a third movie being made. It had a lot of trouble and got put on hiatus for a bit but supposedly its back on track.
Definitely check out all of Guy Ritchie's movies. One of generational director!
9:54- Dude even Arkham Asylum couldn't handle Sherlock Holmes as he would just release all the inmates, - except for the ones that deserve to be locked up in the nuthouse -, and lock up the doctors.
10:54- Who's the one that hates you Omn1Media?
11:54- I just love how you're very protective of Gladstone Omn1Media
52:20- If there's one thing I hate about Moriarty is that in a way he was right how in a manner of speaking, World War I would still happen anyway.
54:21- Sherlock wasn't a fish, he was a shark disguised as a fish
The forest sequence is probably the best part of the movie as the camera sequence was unlike anything seen before and it hasn't happened since.
When I watched this the first time when I was a teen, I didn't pick up how Moriaty's plan to start a world War was a close range assassination. Although in the movie it was stopped by Holmes, as we know, that's how WWI actually had its kick off years later..
*Jared Harris is amazing in everything he appears in, even when it’s Morbin’ Time! 😝 But he shine particularly brightly in THIS movie and makes an absolutely terrifying version of Moriarty! (The only one to surpass Daniel Davis’ Moriarty in Star Trek: The Next Generation!)*
*Equally, Stephen Fry makes an equally fascinating Mycroft! He truly impersonates the spirit of the character from the books, of which Arthur Conan Doyle said was EVEN MORE intelligent than Sherlock, but LOATHED doing the work to prove that to people or to dirty himself in the process of proving anything (Unlike Sherlock!); which has been often been interpreted as him being la y, but that is an exaggerated simplification of who he is.*
*I think Guy Ritchie took his formula from the first movie and refined it, like someone refined a good wine, when he made the sequel. There has been talks and rumors of a third film being made, but so far: We are still waiting! … And I am not even sure I want a third one: As much as I thirst for another 20 such Sherlock Holmes movie, like a James Bond franchise type of thing, the two currently available movies are so good that I am not sure they could capture lightning in a bottle a third time; especially after such a long hiatus.*
I think the mecanism at the end of the movie was some kind of long distance trigger with radio wave, so maybe for the bomb in the cake ?
One of the best one of the best endings of some movies
Fun fact: Gavin Free from The Slow Mo Guys worked on the forest scene
They tried to make a third one. They hired so many writers, but none of them could come up with something that tops this. Let alone reach its tier.
Yeah I initially wrote my comment on Harris’ voice, but then deleted it once I got to the end of your vid after you said you didn’t want to know in advance.
It was originally a fairly deep , gruff voice for Moriarty
Reichenbach Fall is the name of that episode also where they... fell in this movie
One of the few movies I'd rate 10/10, even years later and after multiple watches.
So, in the original Artur Conan Doile series, Holmes is proficient with boxing, and a Japanese martial art called Baritsu. Baritsu is thought to be based on Bartistsu, which is a real self-defense martial art system taught in England during Conan Doil's time by Edward William Barton-Wright, and is a mix between English boxing, French stick fighting, and Japanese jujitsu (the Bart in the Bartitsu comes from Barton, and the titsu from jujitsu). So, RDJ took his proficiency with wing-chun (which he got into during rehab), and mixed it with Judo, which Guy Ritchie was proficient in, to create their own version of "Baritsu".
You should try Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. It’s a really interesting move stylistically.
Noomi Rapace been in girl with the dragon tattoo (not the american remake), prometheus, etc.
God i love this movie! Thanks for reacting to it!
41:20 It's got to be some form of blasphemy to attribute a Guy Ritchie sequence with Zack Snyder's abilities.
Oh no he did it twice. You REALLY have to watch more Ritchie movies, Style is his middle name.
Not sure if you've seen a film called Bunraku. Think you'd like what they did with that too, was a pleasant surprise.
Preferred the first but this one upscaled things well. Prof. Moriarty is by far the most well-known Holmes literary antagonist, so a 3rd movie will need to go to some lengths to create a new one as good as him.
Love this one too, almost just as good as the first. A rare thing for movies. For the third one to be close is gonna be really difficult and unlikely. Just hope they actually makes it.
1:45 She didn't steal it. She took the wrong part, was just a distraction.
I hate that she was killed in this movie, I was waiting for a reveal that it didn't actually happen.
41:10 Damn, that joke doesn't work man! It's Guy Ritchie! If you saw a movie with a cool scene like that it's his name you should use as the joke if anything!
Moriarty's reveal of him doing the same planning in his mind was so good.
There is a Japanese series of Sherlock called Miss Sherlock.
Interesting choice of going for something completely different in the subtitles when they roll out the howitzer at 41:33 ... the German says "Zu viele Füchse für euch paar Hühner", which translates to "too many foxes for you few chickens".... nothing about introducing anybody or anything.
7:21 Rented the room for a private event under a false name (or got someone else to do it), then hired a whole acting group to pose as customers with instructions to leave when they heard the three chimes?
I'm not ashamed to admit that it was actually these Sherlock Holmes films that introduced me to Robert Downey Jr., not the MCU.
Man.... I jsut wish they made more of these...
Ya when RDJ was getting sober and trying to clean up around that time he found wing chun. he said the martial arts helped him
Yes!
Another Guy Richie movie I'd highly recommend is King Arthur - Legend of the Sword.
You might like it~
Yes finally👍 really perfect villain
Fun fact: Brad Pitt had to play professor Moriarty but something happened and they had to choose someone else on this role
Yey! he reacted to it! ❤
Omn1 I think you would really enjoy Guy Ritchie's film Snatch if you want to to give that one a shot soon
I love these movies. I waited eagerly for a third but...
Queria tanto que tivesse um terceiro filme
56:07 can you tell me which show did you mean? I have in mind just the one with Mads Mikkelsen. BBC Sherlock was different.
I think you are thinking of the right one if Mads Mikkelsen came to mind! haha it's a very cannibalistic show
Highly recommend to seek out a fellow TH-camr: Lord Ravenscraft who made an incredible analysis of that concluding chess match between Holmes & Moriarty including its relationship to an actual infamous chess match between two historical chess savants IRL. The scene is amazing on it’s own but that analysis video enriched the scene all the more on rewatch & actually rekindled my interest in chess since middle school chess club which I sadly put in the backseat of my hobbies once I got into high school.
I love this movie
Of course this is still Guy Ritchie.
Great stuff. You should try Mr Holmes, with Ian McKellen, as well. Or Young Sherlock Holmes, while we are at it. Avoid Holmies at all cost, however.
28:32 don’t be fooled by Microft Holmes he’s just as if not even more intelligent then Sherlock. He’s just more pompous.
He use wing chun as iron man when tony stark hand to hand combat
56:00 I wonder if you're talking about a silly little cannibal romcom...
AHAHAAH OH MY GOD at first i was like "What the fuc... CANNIBAL romcom?!" but then i realize you were talking about Hannibal... i know that show has been called a lot of things but "Cannibal romcom" is a new one lol....
(Sherlock reveals himself while still in disguise as a woman, prompting a "what the hell" look out of Watson): I agree, it's not my best disguise.
Me: Yeah, no kidding. There are men who can pass themselves off perfectly as women, you're not one of them. 😂🤣
Fun fact, the German in this movie around the 41 min mark is pretty appalling, and the subtitles for it are even more so. For YEARS I was convinced this wasn't actually German, until JUST NOW when I looked down at my phone during the "Time to introduce Little Hansel" scene and suddenly heard "too many foxes for you few chickens" (literal translation) and got my mind blown. My ears and brain have never been able to piece this together before, because I always saw the subtitle and thought he was talking gibberish because whatever he was saying, the subtitle was Not It. I am amazed.