Sherlock Holmes or Sherlock Bond?

I saw Sherlock Holmes a couple of days ago. The movie starts a "ripped" Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes (although in these days of digital jiggery-pokery, it's difficult to say whether he does have such a good body or if the moviemakers did a little CGI improvement. He did show off the same body in Iron Man, admittedly).

Jude Law plays Dr. Watson, who after several years as a roommate of Holmes, is getting married to a woman named Mary Morstan (not the Mary Morstan of "The Speckled Band", however, as this Mary doesn't meet Holmes until Watson introduces them at a restaurant). Holmes is not happy about this, and tries to persuade Watson to stay. (Some people say this is evidence of a homosexual bond between Holmes and Watson, and that's probably the way Ritchie meant it, but if you go by the source material - i.e. Doyle's works, it simply means that Holmes has found Watson an ideal partner, a "tool" who aids him in his cases, and doesn't want to lose that. As well as being a friend.) So people who want to think Holmes and Watson are bisexual can do so, and those who believe he is a-sexual with a prediliction for women (which is the Holmes of the stories) can do so as well.

Because Watson is moving out of Baker Street to get married and form his own establishment with his wife.

Of course that's just a minor sub plot. The main plot is that a Lord Blackwood, who is apparently a Satanist, has been catpured and is to be hung, but he promises to come back from the grave.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I like this movie or not. Holmes and Watson are certainly "action heroes" - everything is solved by violence rather than ratiocination - although Holmes does do a lot of that as well...

But they do have to diminish Holmes a bit (and I'm not talking about the gay subtext). The trailers shown on TV show Holmes tied to a bed, naked, with only a strategically placed pillow between himself and complete embarrassment. In the movie, itself, there is absolutely no reason for this. A certain person knocks him unconscious and makes her escape...and yet deliberately strips him named and ties him to a bed before she does so? Why? It seems the scene was put in there simply so that it could be shown in the trailers to give people a good laugh...putting Holmes on the same level as other individuals who go to a woman for sex, and are tricked out of their money and then left in an embarrasing position. Well... Holmes had not gone to this certain individual's room for sex... (oh, why be coy, I'm talking about the woman, Irene Adler!) but to help her, and, again, for her to strip him naked and leave for a chambermaid to find just seems unneccesarily cruel and out of character for her.

But it gets a good laugh.

I have therefore decided to like the movie, by thinking in my mind that it's just an "alternate universe" Holmes and Watson... just as that Star Trek movie was an "alternate universe" Star Trek...