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Mr. Holmes
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I liked it. I like Ian. He gives all of his roles a special British dignity. And the notion of Holmes facing senility was amusing. I do like Sherlock stories. It was very BBC, pleasant locations, very proper, and paid decent homage to the character. Stacy gave it a 'meh'. It's British, so there was a HP factor of 1 (the headmaster from the all girls school Beaubatons (srp)- the giantess woman).

We both needed to escape into a movie given our recent cat loss.

The theater was filled with senior citizens. Stacy has been keenly pointing out how too many audiences for shows we attend are all grey haired. And the movie was about growing old. Even all the trailers were about movies about growing old. We had to wait patiently to leave after the movie because old people take a long time to exit (not us, the rest of the audience). After the film, we resolved to do more young things. Stacy said we should hang out with Tara and engage teenage stuff, but she's got all her teenage friends to do that with, and she's been missing them all summer.
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This movie poses the interesting question of what if when Sherlock Holmes as he got older suffered from Alzheimer's? The movie then proceeded to offer a very boring answer.

Ian McKellan plays Holmes at the age of 92 as he struggles to remember the solution to his last case which he felt Watson got wrong in the last story. But his memory is full of holes and only the help of a precocious young boy and his questions, can help him come to the conclusion.

First off, if I had known Laura Linney was going to be in the film I would have second thoughts about viewing it. Something about her just rubs me the wrong way. There are a lot of plots and sub-plots in this film and none of their conclusions really satisfies. It goes meta at times as Sherlock goes to the cinema to a Sherlock Holmes film. A few times we get to see Sherlock do his deductive reasoning bit. Even the young boy asks him to do the thing to describe what someone has been up to.

But overall, it all feels a bit twee. There are better incarnations of Holmes out there right now and I plan to watch them. This one adds nothing to the cannon.
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