Enola Holmes [Netflix]

pixelburp · 25-08-2020 3:21pm #1

Carrying on the long tradition of Sherlock Holmes adaptations sidestepping the titular character himself, here's a trailer for Netflix's latest stab in the blockbuster dark.

The 4th Wall breakages already look phenomenally irritating but that could just be me; plus I'm not sure what's more distracting, Bobby-Brown's fake English accent, or Henry Cavill playing Sherlock Holmes. That has to be the first-time the detective is played by a brick shíthouse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0Zf9sXlHk

Mr Crispy · 25-08-2020 4:08pm

Peter Cushing could handle himself!

And I thought MBB was actually English?

pixelburp · 25-08-2020 4:19pm

Well holy shít. So she is. Still sounds fake though :cool:

Peter Cushing vs. The Witcher. Sounds like a lost Hammer Film to me!

DMcL1971 · 25-08-2020 7:22pm

Looks like great fun to me. I'm looking forward to it.

CastorTroy · 25-08-2020 7:57pm

Well he's been portrayed recently by Iron Man, Doctor Strange and a hacker so why not Superman?
One of my favourite Holmes films is Young Sherlock Holmes.

I'll watch this. Seems like it could be entertaining
And seeing her with the letter tiles just makes be think of Setec Astronomy

mikhail · 26-08-2020 10:46am

pixelburp wrote: »

Well holy shít. So she is. Still sounds fake though :cool:

I doubt that's her natural accent.

It looks like it could be fun. The character looks like a bit of an anachronism to me, so I'm curious to see whether it stays wacky enough to let me just roll with it. I'll definitely be more sympathetic to it if it doesn't reduce Holmes and Mycroft to figures of fun: it'll be more interesting as a story if they remain formidable.

p to the e · 26-08-2020 12:13pm

pixelburp wrote: »

Well holy shít. So she is. Still sounds fake though :cool:

See RP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation

Dades · 26-08-2020 12:33pm

Might be watchable. Big fan of Henry but I suspect he's not in it as much as the trailer suggests.

pixelburp · 27-08-2020 9:35am

The trailer has surfaced a lawsuit from the Conan Estate against this picture: claiming that in showing Cavill's Holmes as having "emotions" the Estate can claim copyright on this character, as they only retained copyright on later works. IP law is truly an ass; public domain should automatically kick in X years after the death of the author and that's that.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/conan-doyle-estate-sues-netflix-coming-movie-sherlock-holmes-sister-1300108

In the latest lawsuit, the Doyle Estate alleges that the difference between the public domain stories and the copyrighted ones is emotions.

"After the stories that are now in the public domain, and before the Copyrighted Stories, the Great War happened," states the complaint. "In World War I Conan Doyle lost his eldest son, Arthur Alleyne Kingsley. Four months later he lost his brother, Brigadier-general Innes Doyle. When Conan Doyle came back to Holmes in the Copyrighted Stories between 1923 and 1927, it was no longer enough that the Holmes character was the most brilliant rational and analytical mind. Holmes needed to be human. The character needed to develop human connection and empathy."

And so Sherlock "became warmer," continues the complaint, setting up the question of whether the development of feelings is something that can be protected by copyright and whether the alleged depiction of Sherlock in Enola Holmes is somehow derivative.

This isn't the first time that the Doyle Estate has attempted to leverage the last remaining stories. In 2015, the plaintiff sued Miramax over Mr. Holmes, a suit that was later settled.

Fysh · 27-08-2020 10:08am

pixelburp wrote: »

The trailer has surfaced a lawsuit from the Conan Estate against this picture: claiming that in showing Cavill's Holmes as having "emotions" the Estate can claim copyright on this character, as they only retained copyright on later works. IP law is truly an ass; public domain should automatically kick in X years after the death of the author and that's that.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/conan-doyle-estate-sues-netflix-coming-movie-sherlock-holmes-sister-1300108

Hilariously, the series of YA books the film is based on started in 2006, so the ACD estate (who can get in the sea, as far as I'm concerned) are reaching a bit with this - either the books were a problem in which case ignoring them for 15 years is a bold legal strategy, or the books weren't a problem in which case neither is the film.

Of course they're actually just looking for "go away money" on bollox grounds because there's chat about the movie, but it's nice to daydream about a world where this backfires and the judge in the case tells them to get lost...

Dades · 27-08-2020 10:09am

pixelburp wrote: »

The trailer has surfaced a lawsuit from the Conan Estate against this picture: claiming that in showing Cavill's Holmes as having "emotions" the Estate can claim copyright on this character, as they only retained copyright on later works.

The producers must now be ruing the decision not to cast Mark Wahlberg in the role of Holmes.

sydthebeat · 27-08-2020 10:13am

Looks like a fun bit of fluff

p to the e · 27-08-2020 3:11pm

pixelburp wrote: »

The trailer has surfaced a lawsuit from the Conan Estate against this picture: claiming that in showing Cavill's Holmes as having "emotions" the Estate can claim copyright on this character, as they only retained copyright on later works. IP law is truly an ass; public domain should automatically kick in X years after the death of the author and that's that.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/conan-doyle-estate-sues-netflix-coming-movie-sherlock-holmes-sister-1300108

Wow. So they're claiming different variations of the same character based purely on emotions? Here's an interesting article from a few years back:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/sherlock-holmes-copyright-ruling-public-domain

JP Liz V1 · 27-08-2020 11:05pm

Is Helena Bonham Carter playing Mama Holmes?

Agent Coulson · 23-09-2020 9:20pm

I watched it this evening and enjoyed it.

However it felt more like a pilot episode to a series than a feature film.

flazio · 23-09-2020 10:33pm

I seem to recall the last time someone gave Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes a sister, it didn't work very well. Hopefully this might be an improvement.

~Rebel~ · 23-09-2020 10:41pm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I watched it this evening and enjoyed it.

However it felt more like a pilot episode to a series than a feature film.

Wonder if that's almost how they see it? The first in a franchise of the 6 (?) books. Almost in the BBC Sherlock or Wallander mould of feature length episodes.

ERG89 · 24-09-2020 4:12pm

Kinda trails off in the second hour with more of a focus on the Viscount plot than searching for her mother but I enjoyed the first hour of it. Couldn't help but feel there is a great Sherlock Holmes movie happening off screen when Cavill is not on camera.

Thelonious Monk · 24-09-2020 4:20pm

I wish it didn't annoy me but it does annoy me when they shoehorn black people into these things, it's so obvious they're doing it just to keep certain people happy. I'm pretty sure it wasn't normal to have black people walking around London in top hats in Victorian times.

Hurrache · 24-09-2020 9:32pm

Ignoring the black people for the sake of black people mad argument (like what the hell is that about, did I miss the fact that England bringing in slaves was a myth and London was as white as snow? ) it's a great fun movie. Millie Bobby Brown is brilliant in it.

CastorTroy · 24-09-2020 11:59pm

Yeah I liked it.

Though did the housekeeper say Mycroft didn't have the smarts of Sherlock? The Arthur Conan Doyle has him smarter than Sherlock, if I remember correctly.

Varik · 25-09-2020 12:24am

CastorTroy wrote: »

Yeah I liked it.

Though did the housekeeper say Mycroft didn't have the smarts of Sherlock? The Arthur Conan Doyle has him smarter than Sherlock, if I remember correctly.

That annoyed me, Sherlock even thinks he's smarter other than when he was being obstinate about it.

Hurrache wrote: »

Ignoring the black people for the sake of black people mad argument (like what the hell is that about, did I miss the fact that England bringing in slaves was a myth and London was as white as snow? ) it's a great fun movie. Millie Bobby Brown is brilliant in it.

Slaves being the word not random members of the gentry.

Hurrache · 25-09-2020 9:50am

Varik wrote: »

Slaves being the word not random members of the gentry.

I might have misunderstood the movie somewhat, but I watched it as a bit of fiction, with a 16 year old girl going around kicking ass, hooking up with a young lad in the process, and solving mysterious riddles. I didn't realise it was a factual historical re-enactment.

There was 2 black people in it, 1 played a porter, the other was a member of a woman's group. Neither were gentrified.

The other, of Asian or middle eastern descent, who I figure some people have issues with because he was a bit darker than the rest of the cast, was a member of Scotland Yard, Not gentrified.

Either way, the colour is irrelevant in such a movie.

Midnight_EG · 25-09-2020 11:40pm

The notion of coloured folk interested myself and my partner too as we watched this evening. Google tells us that by mid 19th century slavery was abolished and black people started to make successful advances in society, so I don't think the movie got it wrong in that sense?

Now... I enjoyed Enola, but I felt the ending was very lacklustre... I agree that it felt like an episode rather than a movie.

FunLover18 · 27-09-2020 3:19am

Hurrache wrote: »

Ignoring the black people for the sake of black people mad argument (like what the hell is that about, did I miss the fact that England bringing in slaves was a myth and London was as white as snow? ) it's a great fun movie. Millie Bobby Brown is brilliant in it.

This film is set in 1884, fifty years after the slave trade was abolished in Britain. Where does this impression that London was "as white as snow" come from?

FunLover18 · 27-09-2020 3:21am

I thought the movie was fine, the plotting wasn't great and the use of flashback to fill the audience in on clues was frustrating.

I was also irritated by the line about Mycroft not getting the brains but given that ACD never even wrote a sister I'm willing to look over it.

Everlong1 · 27-09-2020 7:45am

Midnight_EG wrote: »

The notion of coloured folk interested myself and my partner too as we watched this evening. Google tells us that by mid 19th century slavery was abolished and black people started to make successful advances in society, so I don't think the movie got it wrong in that sense?

Now... I enjoyed Enola, but I felt the ending was very lacklustre... I agree that it felt like an episode rather than a movie.

I'm an old fart who grew up in the '70's when it was perfectly acceptable for British sitcoms to reference wogs and fuzzie wuzzies.

I'm having trouble keeping up with our rapidly evolving culture wars. I thought BAME was now the hip acronym to use to describe anyone who's not a WASP? Is "coloured" now an acceptable term again? In my youth, "coloured" was the polite way to describe a black person, then it became an offensive term. Has the wheel turned full circle?

Mr Crispy · 27-09-2020 10:55am

Everlong1 wrote: »

I'm an old fart who grew up in the '70's when it was perfectly acceptable for British sitcoms to reference wogs and fuzzie wuzzies.

I'm having trouble keeping up with our rapidly evolving culture wars. I thought BAME was now the hip acronym to use to describe anyone who's not a WASP? Is "coloured" now an acceptable term again? In my youth, "coloured" was the polite way to describe a black person, then it became an offensive term. Has the wheel turned full circle?

Don't do that.

Tordelback · 27-09-2020 11:26am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I wish it didn't annoy me but it does annoy me when they shoehorn black people into these things, it's so obvious they're doing it just to keep certain people happy. I'm pretty sure it wasn't normal to have black people walking around London in top hats in Victorian times.

Of course there were black people in London in the 1880s, what nonsense. But seeing as this an historical fantasy movie about a teenage detective who *definitely* didn't exist, with a Third Reform Bill that hangs on a single vote and an hereditary peer who takes his seat at 16 (age limit was 21) and a sort of Benz Patent Motor Car several years before such a thing existed, I'm not sure it matters. Have you previously bring viewing Sherlock Holmes and its spin-off as documentaries?

johnny_ultimate · 27-09-2020 1:05pm

Mod note: Can we please let people discuss the film without the thread getting bogged down by culture war tedium? Thanks.

Homelander · 27-09-2020 1:57pm

I enjoyed it. Felt like one of those Sunday afternoon classics you'd watch with the family that everyone could get some degree of enjoyment from.

Not brilliant and definitely not memorable, but incredibly easy to watch and it has charm.

homerun_homer · 28-09-2020 3:10pm

I wasn't going to bother with this until I heard some good words on here and from friends on Twitter so I gave it a go. I knew her breaking the fourth wall would annoy me unless they used it sparingly. I was fine with it at first, fine when you use it to let the film find it's feet but it got to a point where it's like an episode of kid's tv, where the presenters keep looking at the camera as if they can see you're reaction.

A little less of that, and the flashbacks and I'd have liked it more. You'd swear her mom had died given the amount of cuts to HBC given sage words of advice in soft focus. I've to admit I struggled to keep my eyes open in the middle section, but that may have been the pizza lulling me into a food coma.

Enjoyable, not the most exciting, and will be pretty forgettable, but something that I'd like to see them improve upon if they made a sequel. It's miles better than the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock films.

CastorTroy · 28-09-2020 3:15pm

The Fourth Wall bits were grand in parts, even giving the glances but then there were times she seemed to be talking to the audience while talking to the other characters.
Then there was the part where she asked us what to do.

homerun_homer · 28-09-2020 3:35pm

CastorTroy wrote: »

The Fourth Wall bits were grand in parts, even giving the glances but then there were times she seemed to be talking to the audience while talking to the other characters.
Then there was the part where she asked us what to do.

You'd swear it's an episode of Bosco or something when she asks the viewer what she should do.

She was getting in a basket, says no, asks the viewer, then cuts to her being brought through the house in the basket.

It was sort of a pointless 4th wall bit that one in particular.

Bandana boy · 28-09-2020 3:54pm

Solid 6.5 out of ten , enjoyed the movie in particular some of the anachronistic elements , will probably never think of it again , if there is a sequel I will give it a watch some Sunday Afternoon

Doodah7 · 27-03-2021 8:58pm

Watched this last night and thought it an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. I would assume that it is the start of a series with another five books available to mine.

flazio · 27-03-2021 9:15pm

Not heard of any sequel plans.

jones · 30-03-2021 12:37pm

I thought this was rubbish to be honest more of a set up for future stuff from my point of view

beauf · 30-03-2021 12:51pm

Considering its age rating 12s I enjoyed this with the family. I wish they do more family movie's like this. I would say it's solely aimed at family audience with kids. Anyone expecting more than that would be disappointed. But in the context of a family audience I think it was very good.

Agent Coulson · 17-08-2022 6:45pm

Enola Holmes 2 first look droped this afternoon

A bit of a Where's Wally spot the cast.

FunLover18 · 17-08-2022 7:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119486429#Comment_119486429

Jesus is that an official promo shot, the photoshopping is **** horrendous, it hurts my eyes.

Tom Mann Centuria · 17-08-2022 7:35pm

David Thewlis the baddie?

JP Liz V1 · 17-08-2022 11:34pm

Is that Sam Rockwell or Tom Cruise in the large black hat?

The charisma vacuum Cavill is back as Sherlock

Rikand · 17-08-2022 11:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119486574#Comment_119486574

Thats how photoshopping was done in the 1880's

Mr Crispy · 18-08-2022 12:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119487448#Comment_119487448

Looks more like Mike Wozniak!

Zak Flaps · 18-08-2022 3:45am

Better.

pixelburp · 18-08-2022 8:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119486574#Comment_119486574

The art of the film poster is truly dead, has been for a while but I always despair when we get a poster that egregiously slapdash. So many talented digital artists out there - none of them work for film studios.

Well. Mind you, I've worked the design department of marketing companies and it's hell: no time, context or room to make something nice; just "get it done or you're fired. You gotta sleep under your desk if needs be. Now, I'm off home".

CastorTroy · 18-08-2022 8:01pm

https://tvline.com/lists/enola-holmes-2-release-date-millie-bobby-brown-netflix-movie/henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes/

Some photos and November 4th release date

Agent Coulson · 24-09-2022 6:32pm

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXNmYoPkx0&ab_channel=Netflix

Agent Coulson · 04-11-2022 12:19am

Enola Holmes 2 drops tomorrow

cml387 · 07-11-2022 1:42pm

More Henry Cavill this time.

I liked it, more of the same really. An interesting take on Moriarty to be sure and a big hint hint that they want a third.

In these times it's nice to have a bit of pleasant escapism.

Enola Holmes [Netflix]

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