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Quite Ugly One Morning (2004)
All wrong, please don't do another..
Did I miss something here? This "adaptation" has everything that Brookmyres first novel had. Everything apart from the story, the laughs, the black humour, the political intrigue, the characterisations, the plot, and some semblance of sense.
Spoilers;
Godamnawful, from beginning to end. They made a mockery of the plot, they had a romance between Parablane and a cop, and what was that all about, Dr Slaughter was portrayed as a bystander, and who the hell was Annette Crosby supposed to be?
It looked like they had made a three hour adaptation, then chopped it down to 90 minutes. (Even though the 90 minutes seemed to last forever.) Please, please, do not do this to any other of Brookmyres books, (especially "Country of the blind.)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
Good, untrue but good
Watched this last night on ABC Australia.
As a keen Sherlockian I was, and you may find this hard to believe, glad of the changes made to the story. Another attempt to retell the original tale would be unnecessary, and pointless. The hound itself was a big let down, a real dog should have been used, with a little additional retouching by special effects to give it more a "horrorific" appearance.
The settings were where? Does anyone know? I cannot believe it was filmed on Dartmoor, as I know the moors well.
The cast was good, but I would have preferred Richard E Grant to have played Holmes, surely a role he is long overdue to play? Watson was brilliant, and rather more true to the books than others who have played him.
The handling of the Selden part of the story was superb.
The drug use of Holmes was falsely and unnecessarily used, every one knows Holmes never used coke when involved in a case! I'll get this on DVD without doubt.