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Holmes is Where the Heart is.

7/1/2020

A Ko-Fi blog request by Stuart Denyer. If you’d like me to write about something, one donation gets you a blog of your choosing.

Sherlock Holmes is of course one of the greatest fictional heroes of all time, up there with Dracula in terms of being both one of the most adapted characters of all time and ruined by Steven Moffat.

There have been so many variations over the years, from fighting World War II to fighting Matt Frewer’s accent, he has covered ever period and trend from his original Victorian era England to the 21st century.

Mr Denyer was kind enough to ask me what my five favourite adaptations of Holmes are, which I’ve cheated a bit to stop it being my five favourite Brett adaptations. It’s also basically a very personal list, so there’s going to be at least two things here that will make serious fans roll their eyes, for which I offer no apologies.

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Transformation Titan 29: The Twin Dilemma.

19/7/2019

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This week, we're back to the movies!

First with my look at the classic of cinema that is Revenge of the Fallen!

Then, Denzil and Ethan go up against Starscream in Training Day!

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Who Goes There?

10/3/2019

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The Thing. 1982.

The second in series of requested by Ko-FI blogs comes from Kevin McCluskey, who asked me to write something on my favourite John Carpenter film.

Which is quite a challenge. Though the final choice will be kind of obvious from the title, John Carpenter is second only to Hitchcock as my favourite director of all time. That’s despite a career that has had some sever ups and down.

From a completely objective viewpoint, I think Halloween (no, not that Halloween. Or that one. The original) would probably be his masterpiece. But there’s one that, personally, does a lot more things for me.

As a kid growing up in the 80’s, the John Carpenter film I saw a lot was of course Big Trouble in Little China (I think Starman was on a fair bit as well, but that’s one I can’t remember anything about at this point), which is a tremendously fun film, but, isn’t in quite the top tier of his work. So it was the 90’s and late night screenings of various classics that really got me into his work. Especially around the time of Escape From L.A. and Halloween H20 when there was a bit of a push for video releases and channel 4 screenings. I still particularly remember the next day at school after seeing Halloween (no, not that one. Or that one) for the first time, walking through the surprisingly American style avenue behind the school with my best mate, “DA-DA-DA-DAing” the theme at full volume.

My first exposure to The Thing though didn’t come from the film. But from the first season X-Files episode Ice. Which is a completely and utterly shameless rip-off, and equally brilliant and the moment I became a massive fan of the series.

And of course, Deep Space Nine did it as well for its third season finale. As have a lot of series. Which I think is down to a combination of the film’s status having increased so much over the years to full on influential classic, and it being quite a cheap episode of TV to make (none of them go for the big monster aspect of the film) that lets often easily bored actors go all out at shouting at one another.

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Christopher Lee Tribute.

12/6/2015

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Another death that has hit me hard, I talk about the greatest ever actor to work with Kristian Schmidt. RIP Sir Christopher.

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Addendum 10: Feel the Force.

2/11/2014

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Slightly later than planned, my video looking at:

Action Force the Movie.

What on Earth is the flag Duke is waving in the poster supposed to be?

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So Close You Can Feel Their Fire: The Peter Cushing Movies.

21/6/2014

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Another YouTube video, this time centred on the Doctor who seemed to have been purposefully created to provide a trick "How many Doctor Whos have their been?" trick question for pub quizes (in the days before Richard Hurdnall, John Hurt and two David Tennant's confused things). It's the Cushing Dalek Movies!

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Transformation 97: Hunt the Bot Down.

21/3/2014

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Is this the end of Optimus Prime? Or like some sort of less alien Noel Edmunds does he have something surprising in his box?

It's all in the second deadly dymamic part of my look at:

Prey!

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Transformation Addendum 3: Hart to Hart.

9/2/2014

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A special and amazingly put together video looking at the original film. But which mainly mocks Hart to Hart. I wouldn't want to be Lionel Stander in the morning when he reads this.

All in The Transformers: The Movie.

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Transformation 88: Triple Feature

17/1/2014

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It's a case of three times the pleasure this week as I not only finish off Target: 2006, and not only cover the comic adaptation of the film, but also the ultra rare and hyper obscure movie poster magazine!

This is an event that can only be celebrated with a picture of Masterpiece prowl looking disapprovingly at Masterpiece Grimlock.

Target: 2006 Epilogue.

Winter Special 1986

Transformers The Poster Magazine.

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Fantastic Thor [SPOILERS]

29/10/2011

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Of all the characters Marvel has been carefully plotting to bring to the big screen individually before getting them all together for The Avengers, Thor was always going to be the most difficult sell for the non-comic fan audience. He looks silly, speaks silly, and isn't even as well known as either Iron Man or Captain America were before their films.

The smart move Marvel Pictures made was to appoint Kenneth Branagh as director. Not an obvious big action movie choice, but throughout their work to create their cinematic Universe Marvel have repeatedly shown enough faith in the pull of the characters themselves to get people involved who wouldn't have gotten near a Summer Blockbuster tm at the time. It worked with Robert Downey Jr. and John Faveau on Iron Man in spades, and Branagh was a perfect choice here for what is a very Shakespearean set up in the Asgard portions of the film. He knows how to get large performances from the actors without it feeling too OTT or hammy.

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Holmes is Where the Heart is.

Transformation Titan 29: The Twin Dilemma.

Who Goes There?

Christopher Lee Tribute.

Addendum 10: Feel the Force.

So Close You Can Feel Their Fire: The Peter Cushing Movies.

Transformation 97: Hunt the Bot Down.

Transformation Addendum 3: Hart to Hart.

Transformation 88: Triple Feature

Fantastic Thor [SPOILERS]

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