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Post by ripper on Sept 19, 2019 10:08:59 GMT
I recently viewed the 2010 film, Sherlock Holmes, on Amazon Prime. Not the multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster, but the rather more modest effort produced by The Asylum. They make their own versions of popular, usually far more expensive, films, for example, Transmorphers, The Da Vinci Treasure, Snakes on a Train and The Terminators. Anyway, Sherlock Holmes is set in 1882, so very early in the career of Holmes and Watson, and features our two heroes investigating sightings of monsters in London. I will not say more about the plot in case anyone wants to see it. Being an Asylum film, it is cheaply made with uninspiring special effects. For me, though, the biggest disappointment was Holmes, or rather the actor portraying him. I believe this was Ben Syder's first role, but he is totally miscast imo. The guy has very little screen presence. I know not all actors who play Holmes can have the dominance of Brett, Rathbone or Cushing, but Ben Syder justs seems to fade into the background. There are also odd things like Holmes having a brother called Thorpe, and Dr Watson using a telephone--surely too early. By no means is it a good film, but neither is it in the 'so bad it's good' category. At least it moves along fairly quickly and doesn't outstay its welcome, but I can imagine people picking this up back in 2010 thinking it was the Hollywood version and being not exactly chuffed.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 13, 2019 3:34:57 GMT
The 1982 five part dramatization of Wilkie Collins' classic novel The Woman in White (no doubt originally serialized in one of the popular magazines of the day) evokes the mid 19th century taste for the Gothic that was a significant forerunner of the lit we all love. A very strong ensemble cast is headed by Daniel Gerroll, Diana Quick, Jenny Seagrove, Alan Badel as the sinister Count Fosco, and Ian Richardson as a decrepit, neurotic antiquarian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RhfYOhwv3AH.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 16, 2019 13:18:51 GMT
Apparently Dublin Murders the new crime drama on BBC1 will feature some supernatural aspect - devil worship or human sacrifice going by the preview for next week. In any event, it's not even filmed in Dublin. Months ago, I saw the actors' trailers etc parked in the Church parking space just down the road from me, about 90 miles from Dublin as the crow flies.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 16, 2019 15:04:22 GMT
Apparently Dublin Murders the new crime drama on BBC1 will feature some supernatural aspect - devil worship or human sacrifice going by the preview for next week. In any event, it's not even filmed in Dublin. Months ago, I saw the actors' trailers etc parked in the Church parking space just down the road from me, about 90 miles from Dublin as the crow flies. Oh well, they never film Hollyoaks in Chester either!
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 16, 2019 19:44:29 GMT
Apparently Dublin Murders the new crime drama on BBC1 will feature some supernatural aspect - devil worship or human sacrifice going by the preview for next week. In any event, it's not even filmed in Dublin. Months ago, I saw the actors' trailers etc parked in the Church parking space just down the road from me, about 90 miles from Dublin as the crow flies. I've been looking forward to it - it's based on the Tana French crime series. Looking forwards to Wisting too.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 18, 2019 13:02:59 GMT
Apparently Dublin Murders the new crime drama on BBC1 will feature some supernatural aspect - devil worship or human sacrifice going by the preview for next week. In any event, it's not even filmed in Dublin. Months ago, I saw the actors' trailers etc parked in the Church parking space just down the road from me, about 90 miles from Dublin as the crow flies. Oh well, they never film Hollyoaks in Chester either! There's a reason for that! As for Dublin Murders, as I could not see the cast or crew, they may have been filming inside the church. Or, if they were secretly filming me for the scary bits, the joke's on them - I don't show up on film.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 18, 2019 15:10:24 GMT
That is odd. I only show up on film. Albeit just vaguely.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 18, 2019 15:14:59 GMT
Since the accident.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 18, 2019 15:27:15 GMT
Oh well, they never film Hollyoaks in Chester either! There's a reason for that! What - that the Cestrians would throw half a brick at them if they did?
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 28, 2019 19:20:38 GMT
Trailer for upcoming BBC production of Dracula -
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 28, 2019 20:51:31 GMT
Trailer for upcoming BBC production of Dracula - This is going to be problematic. After having watched him on THE AFFAIR, even just thinking about Claes Bang has me start laughing.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 29, 2019 13:44:28 GMT
Trailer for upcoming BBC production of Dracula - This is going to be problematic. After having watched him on THE AFFAIR, even just thinking about Claes Bang has me start laughing. Having watched the trailer I see no reason for not watching the series. Not even the vampire-killing nuns. Even today nuns are trained for it. This looks like the count on a bad morning.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 30, 2019 9:10:57 GMT
Keeping in mind that this is tv it doesen't look half bad. Thanks for the link! I am still not convinced that this will be a Sherlock like success, but at least it will be intersting to watch, how they transform Stoker into a tale for the 21st century with all its wearying pitfalls.
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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 30, 2019 9:37:38 GMT
It can't really be expected to be anywhere near as successful as Sherlock, mainly because they can't extend it over multiple series. I think it's just three episodes, so you're either going to be with it from the start, or you're probably not going to bother. I'm just hoping it gets the right sort of publicity afterwards - i.e. shocked and outraged BBC viewers complaining about the sex and gore, meaning that more people will then check it out on the i-player (or whatever the kids do these days). I read a quote from Steven Moffat (I think) saying the biggest change they've made is giving Dracula a more prominent role throughout the whole story - I hadn't really thought about it before but, like he said, there are some very long sections in the book where Dracula is completely off-stage. He said it was a bit like Jaws - you don't get to see the shark until the end. It will be interesting to see whether they can pull that off - especially as most people would agree that not seeing the shark until the end was a good thing.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 31, 2019 13:49:13 GMT
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