Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes. I appreciate the character's been done a few times, but the edginess looks a bit like gratuitous novelty even if is convincingly acted in itself. Shame, because it's brilliantly produced and I find it unwatchable.

Still, excuse for some edgy violin music.

Oh, stop it. Brett is the best Holmes since Rathbone. Ever. I'm not the quintessential geek on Sherlock Holmes culture, but Brett was never less than watchable in the role, and although I can concede that his theatricality may get some backs up, he presents the kind of edgy, detailed, compelling performance that suggests a man who sucks up information and clues like a human vacuum cleaner and has several hundred thoughts a minute running through his head. I'm brought back to the judgement of Matt 'Max Headroom' Frewer, who portrayed the role for American audiences, and disliked Brett's version, saying it was 'too reptilian'. Frewer's turn, for the record, is a pile of fucking shit, a gurning, dull, third-rate version that Brett, were he still with us, wouldn't bother wiping the soles of his shoes with.

A tip of the hat, though, to Robert Stephens, for his Holmes in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

Stop it yerself. It's a costume drama, not King Lear, and should be played as such. I've looked at too many Munch paintings to have much time for tortured geniuses. Mycroft is brighter than Sherlock, isn't he? If he can keep himself together, what's Sherlock's excuse?

cocaine

Drugs are not an excuse.

hookers and cocaine?

On a similar note, Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Just wrong.

Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, except for the thing about it being critically acclaimed.

Stop it yerself. It's a costume drama, not King Lear, and should be played as such.

I thought they were. People faffing about in Victorian clobber? What else could it be?

I've looked at too many Munch paintings to have much time for tortured geniuses. Mycroft is brighter than Sherlock, isn't he? If he can keep himself together, what's Sherlock's excuse?

If it was called 'The Adventures of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes' I'd agree, but it's Sherlock's show and don't you ferget it. (Holds up fists in old-style, gentlemen's honour type-way and ponces about on his toes)

Meryl Streep as whatshername in Out of Africa. Unwatchable.

Jeepers, I've seen some pointless revisionism on here down the years, but Jeremey Brett, no good as Sherlock Holmes? Do me a fucking favour. Tubby, you're as near to being objectively wrong as a subjective opinion can be.

I thought Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf was a bit overrated. Too much twinkly eyed Santy Claus for my taste. Maybe it was just too much of a good thing. Mostly hated those movies, too, which will guarantee the actual books are lost on generations of kids.

Result!

Olivier's Othello. He's not acting, he's ACTING. Not to mention the whole blackface thing.

To be fair to Tubbs it says 'dislike' ie he didn't say he thought Brett is bad as such rather that he dislikes him.

It's still crazy, but.

I hated The Life And Death of Peter Sellers a great deal, if that counts.

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Word.

Helen Mirren as the Queen. In fact the whole film (apart from Blair man) was badly acted, written and directed, as bad as some clomping American TV movie.

The same lot's The Deal was a better film, but their and David Morrissey's portrayal of Gordon Brown as the wronged sophisticated genius of new Labour looks a wee bit misjudged now.
Can't wait for their Cloughie rendition.