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Rating:  -
This version has the feel of what I thought it should have. Whenever I read holmes stories I think of fog/excitement and oddly enough the darker side of humanity.
I've read almost all the sherlock holmes stories and when people complain about sherlock's drug use in this verion it bothers me because it was mentioned in the various stories that he used morphine and cocaine. Even if it wasn't in "the hound of the baskervilles", it was in doyle's portrayal and therefore accurate to the character.
It's even been mentioned in another film adaption, so it's not like this is the first one to play with the "OMG HOLMES IS A DRUGGIE" thing.
If this scene bothers you pretend it's insulin or something but don't say it's horrible to mention his habit. (and it wasn't really a habit so much as a stress/needing excitement evening out) thing.
So don't give people who haven't read the books the wrong impression.
Obviously there were some liberties, but the drug use WASN'T one of them.
Rating:  -
This movie changed way too many things in the book that it didn't need to to conserve the length of the movie and it wasn't scary enough. Also, it isn't very well filmed because as my siser and my mom and I were watching it, in the corner of the screen we saw a guy wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt who was obviously part of the crew. One more thing: I kind of expected Holmes to be older.
Rating: -
I saw this version when it aired on Masterpiece Theatre, and it had a piece for the filmmakers at the end. The filmmakers said that they were trying to enhance the feeling of horror in the story. In that, they have succeeded. The Grimpen Mire is genuinely creepy, and the pacing and scenery do enhance the feelings of claustrophobia and fear of the unknown. Hart's Watson is not stupid (my first criterion for a good Holmes movie) and is the equal of Hardwicke and Burke. Hart's Stapleton is also truly creepy, and it is very clear (and logical) in how he is able to control his wife. No, that is not part of the stroy, but I don't find it to be an impossible addition/clarification.
That said, while I did not mind moving the timing of the story, one of the final scenes is so far from what is in the story, it ruined all of the good feelings I had held earlier. Perhaps rewatching this move with the knowledge of how the book was changed will enable me to enjoy the film for what it is worth, but I don't know. That change may have enhanced the horror of the stroy, but it also changed the characters in a way that I do not think is true to the spirit of the book.
Rating:  -
I am quite distressed that viewers found the chemistry between Roxburgh and Hart lacking. I thought that this convincingly portrayed their relationship. I thought both were the perfect age ( I am sick of seeing older, pudgier Watson and Holmes: the latter Jeremy Brett's are artrocious ) and both blended and worked well off of each other.
Though I whole heartedly agree that Brett is the most convincing of the Holmes, I was pleased with the somewhat different and thoroughly unique portrayal that Roxburgh gave us. He made the character his own without trying to copy any previous actors.
For those who feel this is the worst adaptation may I implore you to view the Matt Frewer CTV adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. These "Canadian" Holmes' are the worst in television history. They are excruciatingly embarrassing to watch. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, as well as that "Ripper"-esque one starring Christopher Plummer are also fairly rotten.
And for those concerned with the accuracy of this interpretation, may I direct you to the many Sherlockians who enjoy the Rathbone movies: though Watson is portrayed as a knuckle-headed oaf and very few take place in their actual time period. Believe it or not, Holmes did not help with Nazi Terrorism.
Further still, Hart's Watson is intriguing, light-hearted and clever in his own way. Thank the Good Lord they didn't have some portly cheese-head with his foot stuck in a proverbial bucket.
Rating:  -
This is a wonderful story and production...originally. However, the BBC Video (company) version I purchased which is 100 minutes in length had been edited so much that there were entire scenes missing right from the begining! I know because I taped the original when it aired on Masterpiece Theatre.
Buyer beware: This is not the full length version of the otherwise excellent program.
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