Talk:Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)

References to use

Please add to the list references that can be used for the film article.

• The production notes can be found here (PDF)

Question: what is meant by this? Beenieboos4life03 (talk) 14:21, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Stop saying "generally mixed", "generally positive" or "generally negative"

Nothing can be "generally mixed", k? What is meant is "mostly mixed" to denote the degree of heterogeneity but even that is nonsense when you're talking about a body of movie reviews. The word "generally" comes from the word "general", which is supposed to characterize a group of things whose common trait can be classified ACCORDING TO A RULE. For example, alkaloids GENERALLY are derived from purines. But the people here are MOSTLY nice. A body of rules is not subject to a set of rules therefore there can be nothing "general" about them (at least so far as their contents go). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.100.107.104 (talk) 06:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Question: where did you obtain this knowledge? Beenieboos4life03 (talk) 14:19, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Inaccuracy Flag

I contest the information about the Tower Bridge being the location of the climax of the movie. The Tower Bridge can not have been the correct reference. In the chase scene, the three actors emerge from Parliament to the bridge; if you look at Westminster bridge you'll see there are two bridges near Pariliment: Westminster bridge and Lambeth Bridge.

The Tower bridge is ~3 miles away from Parilment. This point is made here as well.

Now this could suggest the film did intend that it was Tower Bridge but that is physically impossible and I do not know of any line in the film that names the bridge as "Tower Bridge". Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that in fact, there is no basis for describing the fight to have taken place on Tower Bridge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mbierman (talk • contribs) 18:12, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

If we turn to secondary sources (read: reviews) like [3] or even interviews with the creators [4] they affirm their intention was it for to be the Tower Bridge, even if it is historically and geographically inaccurate. So in the article, we have to ID the location to that, but if there are reliable sources that discuss the inaccuracies, that can be noted in the film's reception. --MASEM (t) 18:35, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

British?

Is this film a British film? I assumed it was with Guy Ritchie involved and all, but the production countries listed are only American and Australian. The BFI also lists the film as both American and Australian. I don't think they'd miss out on their own country. source. Should we remove British or am I missing something here? Andrzejbanas (talk) 20:21, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I hadn't even noticed that in the article but I thought this was an American film that just happened to have a crap ton of U.K. film types involved. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me remember where I was reading about it (just after its release, I know that much) that referred to it as an American film. I know the article was discussing what we film editors are already well aware of; narrowing down a film's country is not as easy as it might seem now that everything is international. But knowing my reading habits online, it may very well have been the blog of a non-industry person (and therefore not usable by us). I certainly can't find it google style right now. Ding any bells for anyone else? The search hits I am turning up are referring to it as either American or American with Australian and/or UK. So it looks like the entire internet can't decide where this film is technically from. Millahnna (talk) 21:25, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Well, a film's production country is usually from their production country. In the infobox, we have one american one and one australian one. The infobox says to "Fill in the countries of production, as identified by a reliable source. Reliable databases exist (see BFI, AFI, or Variety) that list the production countries. If there is a conflict of information in various reliable sources, then list only the common published nations. Alternatively in the case of conflict, consider leaving this field blank and discussing the issue in the article.". The AFI says "Australia, Great Britain and United States" source and BFI (as stated in the article) says America and Australia. Variety doesn't give a source, but allmovie says "America and United States" so I guess should put all three in. Andrzejbanas (talk) 21:59, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

That jives with what I've been seeing in other sources (I've been looking at reviews and DVD listings to see how it's listed there). U.K. seems to be the one that's hit or miss; almost everyone has U.S. and Oz but some list British while others don't. So if you go by a strict interpretation of "list only the common published nations" you could leave that one out, I guess. I'm good either way as long as we get U.S. and Oz in since everyone (sources I mean) seems to be able too agree on those two. Millahnna (talk) 02:05, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I'd like a bit more info on the topic if I could from some outside sources. is anyone else watching this page? Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

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A British-American show? Beenieboos4life03 (talk) 14:15, 6 August 2017 (UTC)