Sherlock Holmes

Isn't this picture so cute? Yes, that's Holmes on the left, Watson is the one with blond hair and a frown that means business, and that's his dog Gladstone at his feet. I watched Sherlock Holmes 2 and it's awesome! If you haven't watched it yet, do! Jude Law is hands-down the best Watson so far and even if you didn't like Sherlock Holmes in the books (which I totally understand - he was such an annoying, arrogant guy with a nasty drug habit), you just might fall for the movie.

Unless you hate Robert Downey Jr., in which case I have nothing to say. Moving on.

The line of other Hollywood releases this year I'm waiting for are all sequels - Ghost Rider 2 is out February and The Dark Knight Rises (whee! Can't wait. Dark Knight was one of the most mind-blowing movies I've seen) hopefully sometime later. Breaking Dawn part 2 is releasing as well. No, I don't really want to see it! I'm just sayin'.

The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, is supposed to release in December. That's great, and I'm definitely watching it, but what the hell happened to BBC? They used to release awesome adaptations on TV of all these classic books which I so loved to watch - remember Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Jane Eyre and even Nicholas Nickleby? My mother and I watched them avidly during my tenth standard study holidays (Thank God for those holidays :))

Now, however, I have been forced to download them all and my WiFi is so slow! And though I check BBC everyday in hopes of a new classic adaptation, I remain disappointed. It has gone the way of reality TV and boring shows. The closest I can find to a book adaptation is the new series Sherlock. It's ok, pretty interesting, but come on BBC! I would so much prefer to watch Jane Austen's classics on your screen than my computer's. It was so much fun watching my favourite books on screen and you always got the best actors to play all the amazing characters. You know movies are nothing to a TV series, of course.

BBC had better return to its former glory before my twelfth vacations begin, or I should get a faster broadband soon. And hopefully a more extensive DVD collection.