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I will sneak a chick flick in on occasion and maybe an action movie here and there, but I need more than a pretty woman and explosions to make me want to plunk down my money at the theater.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regularguycolumn.com\/holmes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/>So I naturally worried a little when I heard there was a Sherlock Holmes movie afoot. My wife loves to read mysteries and would surely want to go. If it turned out to be a period piece, I would have just encouraged her to go with a friend. Then I saw the trailer and the explosions and had another moment of pause. Could I really enjoy a mystery action flick based in Victorian London?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Robert Downey, Jr., I know I can.<\/p>\n<p>A quick trip around the web will show that not everyone enjoyed the Holmes movie like we did, but I think the fact that they didn&#8217;t piss off someone like me (never read Holmes) and Maria (has pretty much read it all) shows that the film can&#8217;t be as bad as some want to say.<\/p>\n<p>I know explosions and buff\/smart\/sassy heroes are in vogue, but this transition may have been the only way to make the movie a real success. If you want bookish or upper-crust Holmes, there are probably plenty of other versions out there to watch. So they mixed in a little bit of bare-knuckles boxing, a quick wit and an attention to detail surpassed by none. I think only Downey could have pulled it off.<\/p>\n<p>They made the film even stronger by casting Jude Law as Watson and giving him a pretty interesting character. 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