Enola Holmes - Fanciful, Forgettable Fluff

So I finally got around to watching Enola Holmes, starring Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill, and well... it wasn't quite what I was hoping for. So I thought I'd review it before I completely forget what I even saw.

[@TheCriticalDrinker]

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[@ne3856]

This movie was bland and forgettable

[@TCZ17090]

Can we get a review of Pirates of the Caribbean movies

[@shyakacaleb38]

Drinker you suave and conspicuously handsome drunk, would you mind giving a bit of your time to reviewing the avatar the last airbender animated series sir?

[@the_w4nd3r3r5]

Hey drinker, have you ever seen Ash vs Evil Dead?

[@bemotivated8443]

You might like primal

[@alexman378]

You gotta love the irony. All those female characters seemingly have the same pattern of "I'm better in every way than my male counter part, but men just swoop in to take the credit they didn't earn", while at the same time, those characters were created specifically due to the male counter part's popularity, so that they can... swoop in to take the credit they didn't earn...

[@toh6261]

Kinda like when ppl say whites are inferior while simultaneously being the world's oppressor.

[@halodragonmaster]

Ironic The both of these.

[@AGPostarStudios]

@@toh6261 literally no one says whites are inferior, y’all just be making shit up now

[@brainiac.computer]

@@AGPostarStudios and that infamous, truly backasswards video on “what are white people superior at”. The participants literally say shit like “having fun, which upholds white supremacy!” It is the ultimate cringe fest, friend.

[@ShadeDraws]

@@AGPostarStudios When someone says "Y'all" unironically, I know they struggle in life.

[@DixonAsses]

“You’ve got mud on your shoe, Watson.” “No. Shit, Sherlock.”

[@spudeleven5124]

Yeah, and you stepped in it when you watched this excrescence of a film.

[@j.a.m9323]

nice one

[@alcodie1558]

First laugh of the day : )

[@The_Modeling_Underdog]

@@spudeleven5124 perfect retort for a turd of a movie.

[@chitlun]

“You got shit shoes on, you shitty shoed bastard” - Paul Calf, 1993.

[@boodtwo4342]

This treatment of Mycroft is sad. I personally find a highly intelligent yet lazy character to be rather relatable. Why does he have to be a jerk?

[@InfernosReaper]

because they needed *some* kind of "evil man keeping her down" crap to pad things out and pretty much all they had for Mycroft was a name and that was it.

[@buffaloblack3993]

Mycroft was my favorite. Probably the most balanced of the brothers. Sherlock had to solve everything, yet Mycroft knew you didn't have to solve everything.

[@teykengwei]

My thought exactly...

[@tjroelsma]

Modern day "writers" can only create strong wahmen by dumbing down all male characters. A character like Ellen Ripley or Sarah Conner is so far out of their limited grasp that this is the best they can do. They also totally lack originality and deep down inside they know they lack talent, so they insert their characters into already established storylines. Nobody would care about a female detective in the late 1800's, but a "forgotten" sister of the famous Sherlock Holmes might draw attention. At least that is what they hope. So enter Enola Holmes. They probably didn't dare to dumb down Sherlock too much, so they sacrificed Mycroft to be the "evil" brother. I guess for these writers it's elementary.

[@azmiraclegirl441]

Lol he isn't lazy at all, he just has a sit down job. Don't project your inadequacies onto him.

[@nachoote260]

One of the most endearing aspects of the books, is the fact that whenever Sherlock has trouble with a case, he goes to his brother for advice. And Mycroft is portrayed as an unbelievable talent that’s been ruined by Opium addiction. Butchering the original character to fit the feminist narrative is just unforgivable.

[@bighillraft]

I don't think he had an opium addiction in the book, but other than that I agree

[@kyuminnie137]

@@bighillraft Yeah he's just 'the British Government.' And was undoubtly busy

[@diersteinjulien6773]

If anyone is crippled by an opium addiction, it's Sherlock, not Mycroft. I don't consider any of the two more intelligent than the other, I think the difference lies in their life philosophy: Sherlock uses his intellect only when a worthwhile challenge arise, Mycroft uses it constantly for personal gain (or well, for governmental gain, but it's his career, so I consider it personal)

[@BlueKatanaWarrior]

@@diersteinjulien6773 That and Mycroft mentions that Sherlock "has all the energy" between the two of them.

[@johngideon4650]

@@diersteinjulien6773 It was cocaine he was addicted to until Watson got him off it.

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Rotten Tomato Critics: 91% The Audience: 51% I’ll trust the people over the puppets & not watch this

[@bemotivated8443]

Yeah but at least it’s better than the usual rotten tomatoes giving it 90% in the audience giving it 10%

[@JohnSmith-is4uu]

How you guys feel about the world turning to shit?

[@6581punk]

It's well known by now that professional critics get a lot of incentives for positive reviews.

[@phoivos]

@@6581punk And why wouldn't they? When you say positive things about something, the people who agree are delighted, and the people who disagree will just be like "meh". When you say negative things about someone's favorite show though, oh now you've pissed him off. That's why some critics are total snakes, because they understand this

[@jeffk464]

Mainstream critics have become a woke joke.

[@onomison5140]

Let's not kid ourselves, this is just Sherlock Holmes fanfiction with a really high budget.

[@jonbaxter2254]

netflix will inject money into you if you commit to their guidelines

[@forestfilms472]

Everything is Sherlock Holmes fan fiction though...its in public domain

[@twister1154]

A good chunk of detective series are tbqhwyfamilam.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I'm actually surprised by how much restraint they actually showed sure this character is pointless and unnecessary and tries to undo things that didn't need undoing but at least they didn't try to kick dirt and ruin characters just for the sake of it. I mean yeah mycroft (I probably misspelled that but I'm not looking it up) comes off like a pompous prick but who cares at least Sherlock himself was given the proper respect. too bad the rest of this gibberish is just a bunch of revisionist nonsense. But if they want to play fast and loose with history I don't care. I still remember someone somewhere I was at some point asking if the dragons in that Matt Damon Chinese movie were real yeah that's where we are these days.

[@nanonymous9139]

Get ready for Harryetta Potter!

[@frantisekfojt8688]

"While Sherlock lurks in the background looking cool as fuck", haha, so on point. Also why does the Witcher work

[@aryantandon4011]

Seriously lol when does Henry Cavill not look cool

[@matusfekete6503]

@@aryantandon4011 With(out) cgi-ed mustache.

[@aryantandon4011]

@@matusfekete6503 You got a point

[@ThanksHermione]

There already was a woman who outsmarted Sherlock in the original stories: Irene Adler. He even praised her for it. More recent adaptations have sexualized her and indicated that the two were in love. Can't a man be impressed with a woman without being attracted to her or related to her?

[@youshouldntadidthat7691]

Because movie

[@bottomlefto]

can't really be helped since she uses her feminine wiles to complement her innate cunning for deceiving people, that is, her sexuality. it is true, however, that sherlock's respect for her is professional in nature.

[@jasbirkaurvillaschi8019]

but surely he was shown to be haunted by her because of her intellect ... not her bod

[@kanikagaral7637]

Exactly. And there is Eurus the sister and middle child.

[@bottomlefto]

@@kanikagaral7637 she's made up by the bbc show. there is no eurus in conan doyle's stories

[@uwillnevahno6837]

Naturally the father is dead, we can't have a father figure polluting the narrative with things like a strong, compassionate, caring, loving, nurturing and present male role model.

[@northbuster290]

He died during the great men-vid epidemic.

[@stijnvdv2]

Even casting that aside, the narrative is stupid. It's like Enola has mommy issues and can't be 2 sec. without mommy coz she don't know how to keep herself busy. Mommy playing hide and seek Young Adult novel version and Enola throws a temper tantrum when Sherlock suggests to look in the kitchen. That's basically the entire story.

[@uwillnevahno6837]

@@reginaphalange9417 having the literal father by biology and marriage present does in fact seem to be kryptonite to today's narrative for both girls and boys.

[@uwillnevahno6837]

@@waldorfsalad2307 having a father present in a child's life or having a child w/these capabilities? I'd say either makes it fantasy LOL

[@northbuster290]

@@reginaphalange9417 yes, in only 2/3 years things went nut.

[@leftymcnally6913]

I love it when the shop keeper says "Politics doesn't interest you because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well." to the guy that dedicates his life to fighting crime, and making the world a safer place

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

And he says it to the guy that is more knowledgeable in political, social and economic topics than almost anyone else alive.

[@thelaughingrouge]

Well that sums up the modern age perfectly doesn't it, too busy lecturing people while being full of themselves while most of the time the people they're talking to know far more about the actual topic then them.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

In the books, Mycroft, the smarter brother, works almost exclusively with the government to foil international plots and avert wars while Sherlock is catching pickpockets. And unlike Sherlock he does so behind the scenes as an almost complete unknown, seeking no fame of any kind.

[@gamemediafan1714]

After that line, I became convinced that Henry Cavill just wanted a paycheck for this role. Cavill is actually a really cool guy who doesn't give a shit about politics and just wants to focus on his hobbies: gaming and acting. So this project does not fit him at all. My guess is that this movie was kinda made when the Covid shutdowns were starting, and Cavill just wanted a paycheck before production on films completely halted. There's no way he would've done it otherwise. And no offense I can't blame him. His role as superman was basically put in an indefinite hiatus, and because his role as DCEU superman wasn't well developed, the other studios don't see the talent he has and don't give him as many opportunities as other actors. I think I would've done the same thing.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

If the world suits me so well why would I want to change it though? Why are We, W pll, the only people expected to act against our interests?

[@B0mber44]

The description on Netflix describes both Holmes brothers as “useless” . First and only indicator that I don’t need or want to see it

[@finnish_hunter]

What a joke, Netflix is a joke.

[@Maria_Miciano_5]

Ha of course because men can't do anything right when it comes to women. What a joke. 🙄

[@SeraphsWitness]

I thought the same thing. That's exactly why I didn't watch this.

[@woodliffshow]

For God's sake; he is Sherlock F###ing Holmes and they describe him as useless???!?!

[@SeraphsWitness]

@@woodliffshow that's because it's Sherlock Holmes fanfiction basically.

[@seven-sevensevens877]

All this movie showed me is that I'd like to see Henry Cavill in his own Sherlock Holmes films

[@benaroundinternet7636]

Agree with you on that mate

[@madamebkrt]

Right? Wasted potential to the max.

[@heatherphillips5983]

Right, dude is good in everything I've seen him in, even Immortals, he'd be a better Holmes than Benedict Cumberbatch, or Robert Downey Jr, or fucking Will Ferrell. That was a fucked up abomination, that the writers estate should've never let happen.

[@Interestingenough4]

It also showed that Millie Bobbie Brown is a very talented actress. Her performance alone made that movie far better than it had any right to be, she actually made a blatant feminist fanfiction character likable. In the end, it's gonna be a minor footnote of her career.

[@David-iv6je]

Nah. He acted it well but his beefcake physique undercuts his authenticity. Of recent adaptations, Downey was better and Cumberbatch was MUCH better.

[@TheGreatIndoors1979]

Surely, making Enola gay probably would've made a bigger impact.

[@aulvinduergard9952]

Talk about nuking the patriarchy with that bombshell.

[@TheBelrick]

and why was she white and straight?

[@WayneShlegl]

Enola Gay surely delivered a hell of an impact, at least on japan.

[@flyingrancidm00nfish7]

Enola gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday Aha words can't describe the feelin and the way you lied

[@SimpleCivil]

I see what you did there

[@brycenlanager1216]

I’m glad you pointed out how Holmes’ brother is canonically smarter.

[@jenafilyaw894]

I hated what the did with him. It was completely unnecessary.

[@tsukinoasuna3574]

@@jenafilyaw894 indeed! I loved Mycroft lol

[@jirenthegray2904]

Yeah, both the Sherlock series with Cumberbatch, and the movies with Downy Jr remained loyal to the source there.

[@muglymae7408]

Wasn’t Sherlock more of a douche and mycroft was the quiet one?

[@sup9542]

The books are great, fun reading. Sherlock admits that Mycroft is more intellectually gifted. But Myrcoft is lazy (he's actually obese) and has no interest in doing any hard legwork, whereas Sherlock is always out and about, like a hunting animal. Sherlock could be such a fun character to play and Cavill did a bland job, as usual. If he wasn't so good looking and didn't have a nice British accent, more people would see that he barely scratches the surface of his characters.

[@PhonesHQ]

Props to that guy who plays all the creepy weirdos. You’re right that he gets type casted a lot, but he always brings his A game to the job. He’s a pretty good actor. Really sells the whole “creepy weirdo” thing. I like to think he’s just a super nice dude in real life.

[@seanhuds229]

The problem I have with films like this is that the people who make them dont know how to portray how people really were back then, not a single character in this film accurately portrays what the British were like, also this bullshit about life being easier if you are a man? Almost every man and women in the entire country were desperately poor and overworked with no regulations or laws in place to really protect any rights you had. Back then you could be executed for stealing some bread.

[@stevenrickett4333]

Actually no. The death penalty for theft was abolished in 1832 and for decades before that a death sentence for minor crimes was usually commuted.

[@evacope1718]

You won't killed but you were sent off to Australia like my 3rd great grandmother was lol. But yeah I'm sick of movies giving characters modern sensibilities and attitudes when in reality people were rather conservative and even the feminists of victorias time would seem like right wingers in today's society

[@xaxos9273]

Enola Holmes is basically a non-canon character. She does not exist.

[@EvilDoresh]

A literal Mary Sue, if you will.

[@NowaboMusic]

None of the characters exist.

[@kirikakirikakirika]

@@EvilDoresh She's not a Mary-Sue at all, actually.

[@albundy774]

Non canon until some revisionist historian slips in some anecdotal evidence that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did write a younger sister for Sherlock Holmes

[@EvilDoresh]

@@kirikakirikakirika I meant the _original_ Mary Sue. She's a Star Trek fanfic character that was basically Spock with breasts.

[@louiemeister9646]

“Her brother Sherlock is useless” This was in The actual description of the film Damn last time I got this many likes, Amy Schumer was funny

[@fjparasite1172]

Aneurism intensifies...

[@armorx9638]

That doesn't scream feminism or man-hate whatsoever. Jesus entertainment truly is dying.

[@trinaq]

Fair enough. I know that this is a movie about Sherlock's sister, but I wish that he didn't seem like almost an afterthought, for a famous literacy character.

[@Jhayzer021]

It reminds me of that TV series the Alienist were Daniel Bruhl and Luke Evans are useless while the female side character is the useful and stronger one esp. on season two which the female side character became the center of the story instead of Daniel Bruhl which is the main character of the show.

[@thebrownbaldy]

Pretty much

[@hidesan7794]

Yup, so Sherlock's brother is still the smartest in this movie, he tried to get rid of that kid ASAP. Unlike Sherlock himself who was still trying to figure out if that girl was worth saving.

[@mariasicree7533]

I was a big Sherlock Holmes fan when I was a kid, read the whole canon and a fair amount of spin off novels by other authors. Young Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street Irregulars, House of Silk, Moriarty, etc. I read the first Enola book and never read another one. It was really tedious and focused more on how unfair life was as a woman at the time than the mystery. And the mystery wasn't that gripping in the first place. So...sounds like the movie was a pretty faithful adaption XD Btw if you're interested I highly recommend "The House of Silk" by Anthony Horowitz. It's a really good Sherlock Holmes story that reads like it was written by Doyle. It's also one of the few non-canon stories endorsed by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate.

[@tylerrolandmorris]

I turned off the movie when Enola told a fellow teenage boy, "You're a man when I SAY you're a man."

[@BlindBison]

OOF that line hurts lol - the cringe there is too much, eh

[@SpruceCampbell]

I don't know if I've gone from laughing to nausea so fast in my life. fellow boy - lolz! **1 second later** when I SAY - 🤮🤮🤮

[@mish375]

@Char Aznable It's hypocrisy on their part to say that men shouldn't define women and then go on and say women can define men. There's no equality in that.

[@superadventure6297]

UGH.. how much longer lord, how much longer can this go on?

[@soso-mx8nb]

That was such a weird line I was watching it with my three year old and she's enjoying it hyped at the fight scenes being cute, and all of the sudden you hear this bullshit line and are reminded people brain wash children constantly lol

[@ericrakestraw664]

If "Enola Holmes" feels like bad fanfiction, that's because it was written by Jack Thorne, one of the writers of the Harry Potter fanfiction-esque "Cursed Child" play.

[@CMDParodies]

Guess he's gone downhill big time then because he was the writer for the This Is England TV shows which were fantastic

[@hankrearden20]

Oh, God. No wonder this sounded horrible.

[@Vihara2]

@@CMDParodies i imagine there's alot of plagiarism and people in positions of power taking credit for others work in the writing industry, or at least attaching themselves temporarily to more talented co-workers to grift off their success. Thats my explanation for hacks who got their start in GOOD shows.

[@brezzendorf]

Wow, i thought it was written by woman

[@meliamien3462]

@@brezzendorf the film is based on the books by Nancy Springer so in a sense it was written by a woman

[@Zown-ej3fl]

Enola Holmes: *doesn’t make money and receives poor reviews* Netflix: we should make season two Also Netflix: why are we losing money?

[@johnsmith-px3xj]

One of the strengths of a streaming service, is it should make shows for everyone because the algorithms should be able to tailor a playlists that you are going to like. Yet despite having this massive competitive advantage, Netflix craps all over it by making sure every show is 100% woke and ignoring viewers who don't want that.

[@JustapErson]

This always happens, hell even Velma got a 2nd season. They make this crap that nobody likes but because it's trendy and woke and twitter likes it they think it'll be really popular.

[@Shineinpoverty]

Season 3 😞

[@me5o164]

The single scene that pissed me the most was the final scene when Sherlock figured everything out but then the officer told him how he was beaten by Enola She was told by the villain after she was suspecting the wrong guy and he figured everything out around the same time without even talking to any of the suspects which is way more impressive

[@datname1939]

yes i agree that it's more impressive but how would he know that? all he knows is that elona carried in the bad guy first. what i took from that scene is that elona figured out as far as the unlce but missed a key detail that sherlock noticed showing us the viewers that she still has much further to go. but he was indeed correct in saying that elona beat him to it because she did. honestly the real question is why would that even bother you? it's not like elona was going around boasting that she was better than sherlock and that she uncovered that it was the grandmother, she figured out 95% of it and the other 5% revealed itself when she took action. let go of your bias and anger.

[@t1mburt0nsdandruff]

@@datname1939 Enola sucks and she’s just a female version of Sherlock, except less smart. Irene was smarter than Sherlock himself, yet Enola is the “girlboss”?

[@datname1939]

@@t1mburt0nsdandruff you essentially just wrote you're biased. I don't care or said anything about her being a girl boss. Honestly I don't even really remember how this show goes.

[@t1mburt0nsdandruff]

@@datname1939 there was nothing I wrote that said I’m biased. I’m not even a Sherlock fan, but this show is just dumb and proves that modern writers can’t come up with anything new or good so they just make a female version of a male character.

[@shubham221992]

Why do they keep making Mycroft an asshole in these modern adaptations? He's such a chill guy in the original stories.

[@boodtwo4342]

I really like canon Mycroft. I relate to a man who could actually be useful with his intellect, but he can’t be bothered to get out of his chair.

[@boop5725]

Mycroft is smarter than Sherlock in the books.

[@hebanker3372]

He's pretty cool in the Robert Downey Jr movies.

[@zetaforever4953]

How? Mycroft was a perfectly sympathetic character in the BBC version. I loved him there!!

[@sycorez]

@@zetaforever4953 They stop didn't get him right. And again we get a sister there (and parents as well).

[@MaxPower-js1sk]

Ju Jitsu black belt here. The Japanese didn’t teach Westerners in the 19th Century, and Ju Jitsu teaching had been banned fir hundreds of years for people who weren’t Samurai class. That a black woman, or white man, would be teaching JJ in that time is farcical.

[@drdeadbeat1604]

Black Belts Matter

[@princesssmileyface91]

Exactly, even the Chinese triad gave Bruce Lee a hard time, because he was teaching westerners.

[@CheemsofRegret]

In that place, no less.

[@DomSte128]

Now explain to me, that scene was Jiu Jitsu or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, because if was the second option, it's even worse. BJJ was development in the 20s and only got popular around the world in the 90s

[@magic8340]

@@drdeadbeat1604😂 excellent

[@chriswilkinson7636]

I'd recommend the ITV Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett. They are mostly very faithful to the original stories and Jeremy Brett is exactly how you imagine the character from the books.

[@farahwyn8733]

As someone who was first introduced to Sherlock Holmes stories through Jeremy Brett's adaptation/version, I really appreciate your comment.😁

[@anonony9081]

Being lectured to about social justice, that's what Im always looking for in a movie

[@JustapErson]

Being lectured to about privilege and oppression by a bunch of rich people is awesome.

[@MarkARhodie]

lol

[@quietcontender6969]

Why would mycroft be envious. The books say mycroft skills in deduction actually surpass Sherlock but is lazy to do the fieldwork that Sherlock does

[@samdoyle2417]

Because he’s a man and they need to be shown as assholes so Enola can rebel against patriarchy

[@chocoman45]

And was basically running the Empire.

[@JamesTobiasStewart]

The dumb thing is, is that the books this is based on didn't do that. Mycroft was exactly the genius he was in the original stories. His main issue with Enola was that even compared to Sherlock, he barely knew her (what with being decades older than her) and regarded her more as an obligation he'd rather sort out so he can get on with his job. Sherlock meanwhile cared about her & wanted her to be safe, but didn't really understand her, because he has likewise only met her a handful of times prior to this. Another thing they cut was Dr Watson, whose stories were how Enola knew about Sherlock and who's humanising friendship is implied to be one of the reasons Sherlock cares more than Mycroft. Which if you think about is just odd. It is specifically mentioned that before Watson, Sherlock wasn't exactly famous, so how is Enola reading about him in the paper, when is no Watson to put his story out there?

[@Craxin01]

Don't forget he was also quite corpulent.

[@barriolimbas]

Mycroft's characterization here would be a VERY big issue for Sherlockians.

[@RoseBaggins]

"Let's give Holmes a long lost sister who's as smart as he is!!" *fans of the books*: what about the woman who was already Holmes's equal and he admired her, some adaptations hinting that he fell in love with her? "Long lost sister it is!!"

[@ekathe85]

Anything beginning with "let's bring in a long lost..." is doomed from the start. It's a sunday morning hangover bad idea spit out by the lowest wagered writer of "Happy Days"

[@ekathe85]

@@VaderPopsVicodin10 Yep. You know, I could forgive them for being in a job where they can get away with big paychecks without doing much (I can't say I wouldn't do that if I was in that position), as long as they're not working for the state because then they'd be stealing from everyone else. What I can't forgive is them giving proud speeches about how original they are, or how important their writing is for diversity or whatever, and then giving each other awards to social consciousness (let's face it, that's what the Emmys and Oscars are nowadays).

[@notyetawomen5257]

Right! I like a movie to be made about the intelligent and cunning Irene Adler

[@randomperson8571]

The worst thing is that Irene Adler is never depicted that way. They zero in on Holmes potentially being in love with her (would've never worked out even if he was) and make her sexy, in the Guy Ritchie movies she was a sexy criminal and in the Sherlock TV show she was a dominatrix. So... yeah. Feminism, amirite?

[@Fridaey13txhOktober]

SJWs: Bit we SJWs loves incest!

[@j0nnyism]

I love how they’re demanded votes for women at a time when most men couldn’t vote either

[@tobithiele2673]

underrated comment

[@barnaby4232]

Prior to 1832 women could actually vote on the same terms as men (only extremely wealthy landowners of both sexes).

[@David-iv6je]

Gotta have your wild-ass fiction historically accurate, eh? Let me guess. Elves aren't black either?

[@tobithiele2673]

@@David-iv6je Wouldnt think of enola holmes as wild-ass fiction, if the setting is the "real world". So if it wants to portray victiorian england it should be held accountable to at least a bit of historical accuracy. No matter how far fiction is apart from the real world, the thing that makes it approachable is its inherent logic and structure and fans just dont like if this inherent logic and structure is violated. Without this there would be no coherent narrative, and thats just messy and uninteresting

[@JustapErson]

It seems like they did literally 0 historical research for this film.

[@ethanlong4670]

Imagine hiring Henry Cavill to just stand there.

[@Jm-ki4su]

i'll say this again: people like good characters, not living checkboxes

[@Mr.Ekshin]

People like good movies and TV shows... not being scolded in condescending lectures given by virtue signaling narcissists.

[@kaiseryuuki4098]

"If a girl is truly strong, she just is and is admired for it. If a girl claims she is strong and men are oppressing her, she is both weak and not oppressed." - Mongolian Proverb

[@DS-mi9ru]

"Any woman who must say 'I am strong and independent' is no true strong and independent woman." - Tywin Lannister.

[@waltercomunello121]

"From the One the Two, and from the Two the Ten Thousand Things." -- Lao Tzu

[@theextracrispycolonel9504]

"Peepee poopoo farty fart" - The Extra Crispy Colonel

[@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch]

"If I'm the best man, why's she marrying him?" - Jerry Seinfeld

[@nobrains6107]

​@@theextracrispycolonel9504 After the Great Apocalypse, a book of your sayings will form the basis of the New Order. All Hail The Extra Crispy Colonel.

[@laurie1183]

Mycroft is my favourite character in the books since he's by far the more capable and intelligent of the two Holmes brothers. Why they did this to him I will never know. Well I do know, but why you'd want to ruin Mycroft to push a dumb and innacurate political line is beyond me.

[@charlesselby3559]

That jui jitsu scene is absolutely hilarious 😂

[@infiniteflame2374]

Raised by a single mother, man they just can't give Dads a break can they lol

[@sauro8299]

"dad man bad"

[@tsukinoasuna3574]

It's so irritating

[@realamztvs]

If they dont have one or two dead parent, how are we suppose to know who the MC is...

[@salsabonjour2626]

@@tsukinoasuna3574 the dad dies in the sherlock books and the mom doesnt. granted the movie doesnt follow the books word to word.

[@slygreenbloom8226]

He was probably dead....what was the average life span for a man in 1880 like 42?

[@Radhaugo108]

Can’t wait for a part Black - part Asian - born in Mexico - raised by Native Americans - Trans Polynesian - Sherlock Holmes

[@basedmindset1012]

James Bond first dude

[@chrisbaker8533]

that wouldn't be sherlock, that would be "buck" holmes. The long lost, sister's, cousin's, brother's, former roomate, who just took the holmes name after running into holmes and being told to fuck off, then by some miracle was standing by when the local mayor was shot by a ghost and then wandered off into the desert, and when asked his name by a passerby, "buck", "buck" holmes. cause "plot".

[@SegwayBossk]

You need way more likes on your comment

[@markeichler2225]

And don't forget totally woke.

[@snakuvudu]

That would be amazing.

[@quachhengtony7651]

Enola Holmes Alone Holmes Holmes Alone Home Alone reboot confirmed

[@martinwakefield8138]

I'm glad he pointed out that Mycroft was actually smarter that Sherlock. Also, as portrayed by Mark Gatiss, Mycroft had better people skills as well

[@CsykKrit]

When's the movie about Genghis Kahn's unknown but secretly more influential, younger sister. The one that actually united asia and kept GK from embarrassing himself because he's just a silly male.

[@bobdouglass8010]

Genghis Kahn was stabbed to death in his sleep by his third wife. There's a lesson to be learned there.

[@fka322]

His sister, Chaka?

[@syrozzz]

Misogynistic biggot, you have to update your history knowledge. Genghis Khan was actually a stunning black woman.

[@algalkin]

Little you knew that Stalin and Hitler themselves had a little (black) sisters that basically were shadow power instead of their goofy useless brothers. Watch it in the new Netflix series - Hitlerella vs Stalinella.

[@Chiz1992]

Then at her peak she gets constantly pumped around the world, shooting out babies left right and centre

[@MidnightBlueRed]

Enola Holmes sounds like a cheap, Tumblr fanfiction character.

[@alexdio4389]

Bc it is. Someones writed years ago a fanfic and netflix made a woke trash. Don't know if the books are woke thb.

[@Xbalanque84]

That's because it is.

[@billweasley1382]

I watched about 10 minutes of this, and I was under the impression that this was just a movie targeted at 10 year old girls. It makes sense that it was based on a series of "young adult" books.

[@henrykkeszenowicz4664]

That's the very first word I thought of when I started watching the movie - a fanfiction.

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

it sounds like a pornstars name, she'll get to the bottom of.........the case no.....your pants, or a female knock off of John Holmes seeing as everyone has a female version or "sister/extended family that was never mentioned"

[@snowcloudshinobi]

it brings me relief that i had never heard of this movie save for once instance vis word of mouth. i could have gone my whole life without knowing it.

[@benhaney9629]

The Sherlock Holmes stories are amazingly modern and gritty. I mean Sherlock has a pipe for when he’s high on cocaine and a separate pipe for when he’s not. It’s pretty crazy that probably the most true to the literature portrayal of Holmes is, in a lot of ways, the Guy Ritchie movies. Holmes does go into these depressions in the stories when he’s bored and locks himself in his room, shooting cocaine, conducting bat shit experiences, being filthy... It’s pretty great.

[@kingbash6466]

I love that the only black character in the movie was literally used a mouthpiece against Sherlock Holmes of all people, and promptly disappeared for the entire runtime after this scene.

[@EvilDoresh]

Just checking those checkmarks. It's like those little PSAs they used to put at the end of cartoon episodes, except this is a movie and it's right in the middle of it.

[@dlschgo]

Nah. She kept on trading clothes with at least two Black newsboys--both of which were over thirty.

[@jonbaxter2254]

That scene felt so out of place. Soapbox in a movie if you will. That was her entire purpose.

[@jodydavis7229]

Hhmmm hmmm, that's right ... and a "Aww Lawdy" too... Why? Why?

[@Mister_Clean]

Typical Hollywood plot line

[@psychotikgamer2010]

Can't wait to see a movie that depicts a black woman landing on the moon instead of Neil Armstrong

[@spudeleven5124]

You haven't been watching "For All Mankind", then.

[@psychotikgamer2010]

@@spudeleven5124 Shit, allow me to reiterate: Can't wait to see a movie that depicts a woman being the first who went into space instead of Yuri Gagarin

[@dks80721]

Black women don't need to land on the moon....black women are God now. Haven't you heard? And no, I'm not joking.....

[@derpyliciousmiku]

@@dks80721 are you srs?

[@JohnSmith-is4uu]

@@dks80721 cannot wait for the forced diversity in LOTR series. Gonna be woke 🔥 Black elves confirmed.

[@gabrielcastillo2890]

Damn, just realized I'm watching this on march 1st 2022. one year later. How time goes by.... :(

[@rubyslippers1935]

Was told by friends that I’d like this movie. When I told them that I don’t want to watch a female version of Sherlock Holmes, they looked all “shocked.” Unlike them, I’m a real fan of the stories and grew up reading the books.

[@stevesmith9447]

"Like the idea of a jiu-jitsu fighting academy for women in nineteenth century London, run by a sassy black lady, who totally schools Sherlock about racial and sexual inequality." Jesus fuck. I already knew not to watch this one, but god DAMN that sounds agonizing for... everybody.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Oh, it was. It was forced and pointless, and just there to be a soapbox.

[@tsukinoasuna3574]

I couldn't take the movie seriously at first but it only got bad after I saw that part lol

[@alexandrebatista627]

Apart, from the “sassy black woman”, that actually was quite accurate.

[@gmonkman]

Well yea, but from the review it appears pretty inocuous and we arn't the target audience. If it appeals to female teens, no skin off my nose if they enjoy it.

[@colorin81colorado]

To be honest here it was no different to the many scify stories placed in Edwardian and Victorian periods. Think Doctor Who... I guess history is not always potraited in the way it really happened.

[@TheArchangel911]

Now that I have seen Drinker break this movie down, All I need is an Honest Trailer and a Pitch Meeting to complete the Trifecta.

[@elodin857]

love your thumbnails

[@kronozord8346]

I would also add Filmento to the group for a more serious take on this crap.

[@wrthgdrver710]

So you have a movie script for me?

[@g-7786]

That's tight!

[@jakepayne1984]

A pitch meeting would be tight

[@silvershelbygt5006]

One of the few things that sustains me in life is watching your reviews and hear you say, "F@ck off film."

[@jtboss8139]

The ending of ur video was brutal and perfect. "Hollow plastic replicas" perfect.

[@MsGhoulz]

We already have a female detective. She's called Nancy Drew.

[@fran3ro]

Miss Marple would be much much better.

[@colinmclean3029]

Jessica Fletcher from Murder she wrote.

[@RatelHBadger]

Basically anything written by Agatha Christie then would make a better film. But, oh no we can't adapt her works because they are a product of their time and contain cultural baggage.

[@oneangrygeek4575]

Velma Dinkley and Daphne Blake

[@AnnaMarianne]

@@fran3ro No joke Miss Marple is a legitimately enjoyable character, at least in the books. I love how cynical, cool minded, impartial and ruthless she is, how she's mainly driven by her sterling sense of justice and righteousness (the genuine kind, not this social justice nonsense), and how she's still so genuinely humble and likeable. When Mr. Rafiel half-jokingly spoke of her as the modern incarnation of the goddess Nemesis, it seemed fitting. Also I always got to smirk when she pulls off her "I'm just a feeble trembling old gossip hen grandma with early signs of dementia" act to get information.

[@SolidMikeP]

WHY DOES EVERY FEMALE need to be an ultimate fighter? Was Ripley pulling MMA moves on the Aliens? NO!

[@monkeyming5545]

Old Disney, fairytales, mythology, etc were full of stories where the women always solved problems with their intelligence and kindness but fast forward and femininity is seen as weak and makes women doormats so that’s why they all fight and are super aggressive

[@Sillimant_]

@@monkeyming5545 and the aggressiveness makes them horrible to be around, which I, of course, get blamed for

[@diogenesdacynic8656]

Hell, even in that abortion that was aliens versus predator the lead female was written halfway decent. The rest of the movie tho...

[@jonathaneldridge6611]

To be fair, despite her skills she gets her (edit: talking about Enola Holmes, not Ripley) ass kinda handed to her by a guy that is less skilled, but is much bigger and stronger. Just like what happens in the real world.

[@thedungeondelver]

Nope. In Alien she uses her extant knowledge of the ship to plan her escape along with Lambert and Parker, and when that goes awry, again, her engineering skills to set the scuttling charge. Then she improvises a method to kill the Alien onboard the Narcissus. In Aliens, she's taught how to use the pulse rifle, and already knows (again, there's that pesky, already well-developed backstory/skill) how to use the powerloader. She had tools, desperation, and the ability to improvise weapons and tactics.

[@stephenrice2063]

I noticed some time ago that people messing with quasi-Holmes stories tend to make Mycroft an obnoxious, incompetent dolt. He was actually cool; I wish he'd shown up as a semi-regular character. (If I did Holmes fanfic, I think I'd write about Sherlock really disappearing and Mycroft investigating. That's a story I'd like to see!)

[@solomonmayes]

Say what you want about this movie, it’s probably all deserved, but Henry Cavil is absolutely drippin as Sherlock, I would love to see him play the character in a stand alone movie or show

[@ebu5390]

I find it hilarious that they also put a statue of Charles Dickens sister next to him. Even though her education was the one the parents spend the most money on and underfunded his.

[@valentinegonsalves7322]

They talk about revision history without reading it well first. Also, Charles Dickens is the last person you can hate "as a guy who had it better because he was a guy and not a girl".

[@zitagirl1]

Oof, I remember on Twitter under the very tweet someone tried to argue about how Charles Dickens ruined his sister's chance to get famous, despite the very fact that not only the sister got all the attention and help, but Charles had to do child labor just to fund her studies. Then again, the person also thought the sister wrote books, when it was stated that she was a pianist, so... Moments like these make you realise these people do not read history, just see a famous man with a sister that didn't get famous and cry about patriarchy...

[@stijnvdv2]

Charles Dickens... he was a socialist. I know his Scrooge is a Christmas classic but the entire idea of the movie is: money is bad. Be free money!! Sounds nice in theory.... but in practice it's like Venezuela. It becomes a free for all coz nobody has eaten anything in like a month and the crisis creates an exodus of people fleeing the poverty and starvation. And you still wonder why the USSR had to put up Berlin's wall?....

[@Ebani]

@@stijnvdv2 You mean like Venezuela with all the US sanctions? You must be one of the ppl the other commenters talked about, someone that doesn't knows what they're talking about but still has the need to shout out. Clearly shows.

[@johnwheatley1550]

@@stijnvdv2 Dickens left school to work in a Victorian factory because his father was in debtor's prison. I'm not surprised he had some misgivings about the financial system of the time - but that doesn't make him a socialist! Not all concerns about inequality are socialist.

[@truefitness2622]

It's a matter of time before they find out Sherlock had a long lost non binary, vegan, blue haired transgender, black feminist sibling

[@rubencolvill736]

I can't wait

[@milton1448]

In a wheelchair naturally....

[@turgonnaish]

Write it and it'll sell, probably

[@blackrazer22]

@@turgonnaish Some company would buy it, but it wouldn't sell.

[@noriii]

i hate the non binarys!!!

[@jobustify]

Henry "I can get away with any hairstyle" Cavill

[@ichigo449]

Henry "I can just stand in the corner of the club and your girlfriend will proposition me" Cavill.

[@nodrog051]

Just watched this with the kids. We enjoyed it.

[@unclehobby6296]

Remember Joan of Arc's younger, better looking, more influential brother who was way cooler and badass? Remember that dude? Let's make a movie about him

[@EvilDoresh]

Only if he's into dudes.

[@ComicGladiator]

Male white French peasants in medieval times had nothing but freedom and privileged, rrreeeeee!

[@hebanker3372]

And considering Joan was more of a spiritual leader than a tactical one and was abandoned by the king the moment she was captured,it's not so much a woman to be inspired by.

[@supercharliegalaxy]

Chad of Arc XD

[@VideaVice25]

Jack of Arc (Jacques d'Arc)

[@MisterMonsterMan]

My wife and daughter tried to watch and dropped it before they finished. Proud moments.

[@1myunderscore]

Good to see you out and about Mr Allen.

[@kaweeshwara6665]

Cap

[@darthmalgus232]

@@kaweeshwara6665 I cap your cap.

[@Sorain1]

Good to hear more sane people exist.

[@eskaflorence5659]

I’d be proud to have a little girl like that.

[@tammytheheadcheerleaderofs2435]

Well, there was actually a jiu jitsu academy in London at the time, it's well documented. A couple of japanese coaches, Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi that Edward William Barton-Wright had brought in continued to work in London, a woman who had trained with one of them had a female training group within the syphragist movement. This female group was something small and marginal but to exist existed. The group disbanded in the early 30s.

[@122blazer]

Man your reviews are flawless 🙏 If Miley Bobby Brown stops acting, the world would be a better place to live. Johnny from The room.

[@duartecid3978]

She's a sassy, independent minded middle class woman, sent off to prep school by her well-to-do family in order to curtail her feminist aspirations - Does she end up writing op-eds for the Guardian?

[@nl3712]

🤣🤣🤣

[@LRTrack]

Lolz!

[@notyetawomen5257]

Noicce

[@Sergeant_Camacho]

WELL. SAID.

[@johnsmith4811]

Not at first. But with her girlfriend's (m)oral support, she overcomes the patriarchy and gets a Pulitzer. She then gets tenure at Harvard teaching 'lesbian dance theory' , thus, changing the world for the better.

[@SirDankington]

"Im gonna write a story and it's gonna be about Sherlock Holmes sister and she's like super smart and stuff, and much cooler and better and awesomer than Sherlock, and better at solving crimes and stuff and it's gonna be so great" Congrats people on Wattpad, you have all the qualifications to write for Hollywood.

[@user-dk9my1hk2i]

She wasnt really smart here, basically a regular kid trying imitate his genius old brother who got no time for him.

[@kr6productions]

Hated the protagonist narration. Reminds me of the Kissing Booth. Typical WattPad stories I guess

[@AB-yu5pw]

It's the classic lazy writing that aims to redeem itself via getting some *cough cough* "feminism browny points." Nothing wrong with feminism, but literally 90% of modern sequals/spinoffs with female leads have no original story, just piggy-backing on an existing series with a gender swap.

[@augustjsb]

@@AB-yu5pw Have you seen the movie?

[@vanshikaarya1308]

sorry, i don't want to be rude to you or anything, I m just saying that there are some actually good writer on wattpad, so please don't demean them unnecessarily.

[@InfernosReaper]

Gotta love half-assed anachronisms in stories like this.

[@wht-rabt-obj]

As bad as the show may be, can we all just appreciate how drop dead gorgeous Henry Cavill is? Holy smokes!!

[@steampunkrose1010]

"Sherlock just stands in the back looking cool as fuck" Well, its Henry Cavill. Lol what is he other than cool as fuck?

[@aryandairshad]

Handsome as fuck

[@serismadreth8471]

Ladies and gentlemen we got em

[@ep3989]

Balding

[@jammygamer8961]

@Boz Vin Man of Steel is my favourite superman movie

[@richardhockey8442]

pulls out a silver sword and starts chopping up criminals 'my name isn't Sherlock, it's Geralt...'

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

Feminists: let's create strong independent and new female characters Also Feminists: let's ret-con characters that ride off the success of their male counterparts

[@CantusTropus]

Yeah, isn't this basically the same kind of "Lady Thor" or "Nostalgia Chick" style stuff they used to dislike because it made female characters that were just riding on the coattails of men?

[@thatgirlinautumn5995]

I'm almost okay with it because Sherlock Holmes has been done about a million times anyways. But yeah, it's hard to ignore the irony

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

@@thatgirlinautumn5995 right, why not create a new character? A brilliant woman and an amazing detective, like Miss Marple, capable of standing up to a world dominated by men?

[@Theomite]

Also Feminists: Because we want decades of fandom and success right now! No more waiting! Industry: But...then you're not doing it yourself, you're just hijacking somebody else's franchise and putting yourselves in it. Feminists: We would've been in it if the patriarchy hadn't shut us out, so we're getting payback with interest motherfucker! Industry: So this is about revenge. Feminists: No, it's about justice! Industry: You just said it was about revenge. Feminists: No we didn't. Industry: Yes you did. Feminists: No we didn't. Industry: Yes you-...you said 'payback', that's revenge. Feminists: No it's-...okay FINE! It's about revenge! Ya happy now?!

[@porassrivastava8242]

It's ironically sexist

[@rotiwokeman]

that final burn hoooly damn

[@gabrielcastillo2890]

i fricking love this guy

[@MercifulAndvary]

They could have gone with, say, Irene Adler and make her the “badass Victorian woman, whose story is interwoven with Holmes”, but hey, modern female empowerment cinema is contractually obligated to take an established male character and shit all over it, so what could they really do?

[@lubossoltes321]

As interesting as you idea might sound, they'd butcher it same as they did with this one ...

[@OmegaPaladin144]

They made Irene Adler pretty impressive in the Guy Ritchie takes on Sherlock Holmes. Same with the Romani gal in the second movie.

[@Katya_Lastochka]

They're obligated to erase the female characters of the past as well by acting lie they're the first.

[@workingstiffdiogenes2195]

My thought exactly. They don't even know the material well enough to realize that they already had a clever, dangerous, self-actualizing, globe-trotting independent woman, in Doyle's original stories. Then they'll pat themselves on the back for fixing that ol' white dude's outdated work.

[@UN-intelligent]

:The name's Bond. James Bond. At least for one more movie.

[@IDKWtsIt2U]

They literally have their own "Sherlock Holmes" I grew up with tons of Nancy drew books, but don't let that stop these people ruining a different, already established IP

[@dianebrooks1859]

I feel like they wrecked all the Nancy Drew movies, though not as bad as Ebola i'll admit

[@morningstar9233]

They were quite good too. Read 'em when i was a kid.

[@debstherottie472]

I'll be honest, I though Nancy Drew was boring. But I grew up in the 1970s. young adult lit sucked. I went to adult books by age 13.

[@silverletter4551]

I doubt Nancy is in the public domain, but it would be interesting to drag her into Victorian times.

[@Sean-ll5cm]

Sherlock Holmes isn't "IP" to anyone. Its copyright has ceased

[@rkgrkg]

love the bit about the statues at the end.

[@sp0rkenste1n46]

The description was enough to tell me everything I needed to know about the movie when it refers to Sherlock and Mycroft as "useless".

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

I'll be honest I forgot this movie was happening.

[@kolbywilliams7234]

Same.

[@trinaq]

It technically happened six months ago, but the drinker is bringing it back to our rapt attention! 😂

[@chucksenhowzen9740]

Same

[@777Nny]

Happening? It came out over half a year ago. lol

[@kchikwete]

@@riggedfromthestart dark is great

[@apostolosnikolis5281]

I remember Henry Cavill saying that enola is annoying and spoiled...

[@jonbaxter2254]

He ain't wrong

[@ConnorwithanO]

Enola or Millie Bobby Brown?

[@brattboo2690]

@@ConnorwithanO To both XD

[@princesssmileyface91]

I love Henry Cavill 😂

[@chrismouton1985]

I made it 15min into the movie. That was enough thanks. Thanks for your sacrifice, Drinker. You have more patience than me.

[@nickelmypickle]

Why am i addicted to watching the drinker?

[@markrobinson9394]

They had Henry Cavill signed to play Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective in fiction besides Batman, and yet the focus of the film was on the titular character of a fanfiction novel series. Amazing.

[@JarmamStuff]

Next they'll cast Karl Urban as Batman and have the movie revolve around a deeply misunderstood and totally benign Poison Ivy.

[@CamMackay96]

To play devils advocate I guarantee they only landed Cavill because Sherlock wasn't the focus of the film. I imagine his pay demands would be ridiculous if he starred as Sherlock as opposed to being a side character

[@ArmyWolves]

Hahahaha. I didn't really process that until now... I mean THE Henry Cavill... they could have ditched this and said let's use this opportunity since we have Cavill but they said "Nah, it'll be fine."

[@markrobinson9394]

@@CamMackay96 Then pay the man. He’s a proven box office draw and has a massively loyal following. They’d make a ton more money with him as the main character.

[@Sam-ey1nn]

@markrobinson Comparing Batman and Sherlock Holmes in the same sentence made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

[@promosolo]

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else

[@fictiontheorizer4253]

Words to live by.

[@holypaladin4657]

Machiavelli disagrees.

[@adrianbundy3249]

Unless it is the second-rate version of batman. Then be batman. If you only get half of that equation, you're all set :)

[@youtubesucks9950]

@@adrianbundy3249 lmao!

[@Jon77Levy]

1:12 "And because we're now in kind of a quiet spell, before the world starts moving again." (March 2021) Oh Drinker! Who knew you were such a whimsical, cloud-gazing optimist?

[@Galaxies3000]

you know, this review was quite better than what I expected.

[@Songguy1985]

Are we forgetting just how many times a phrase like "Useless men" was interjected into that script?

[@spudeleven5124]

Maybe we can come up with a "Woke Bingo" board that has all the PC tropes in a matrix with the SJW buzzwords.

[@toh6261]

No, because most of us never watched or even knew about this shitty movie to begin with.

[@kirikakirikakirika]

I counted zero. I've noticed most people in the comment section didn't even watch the movie, because Enola was actually raised to hate men, but realised after actually meeting and getting to know one that she was wrong.

[@dennikstandard]

@@kirikakirikakirika I watched it - and your point of view is definitely further from truth then people you criticize. The amount of man mocking and strawman argument made that movie frankly unwatchable. Not to mention polluting Doyle's legacy by turning both Sherlock and Mycroft into generic likeable/unlikeable half-wits. If Nancy Springer wanted to write her women supremacy novel, she could've done that by creating an original series in world in her own right, not abusing someone else's work.

[@kirikakirikakirika]

​@@dennikstandard It's called a pastiche, and Sherlock has been in _many_ of them, including works written by men other than Conan Doyle. It didn't abuse his work, it _respected_ it. Have you read the books? I have. The only character that was significantly changed (when it comes to intellect, anyway) was Mycroft, but they kept his overwhelming laziness, elitist attitude, and short temper. That's genuinely what Mycroft is like. In the books, he and Sherlock don't get along very well specifically _because_ Mycroft is political and Sherlock is not. Watson even describes Sherlock's knowledge of politics as "feeble". Believe it or not, Sherlock doesn't know _everything._ That said, Sherlock isn't at all turned into a "half-wit". This is what makes me think you haven't watched the movie, or at least not the whole thing. He in fact knows exactly where Enola is and where she's going to be, and he _encourages_ her to keep running. Remember, Sherlock is _also_ unconventional, especially for his time period. Yet he's still considered the smartest character in the story (Enola even says this), and he becomes her _mentor._ That's right, a _man_ becomes her mentor. Women supremacy? Care to give an example? Because the main villain was a woman (actually, _several_ women were villains), and Enola's mother's methods for change were blatantly portrayed as _wrong._ Enola was raised to hate men, but after meeting Tewkesbury she learns to abandon her misandry. Yes, she initially believes he's useless, stupid, and pitiful, but after spending some time with him, she realises he's actually resourceful, intelligent, and kind. She ends up working _with_ him, not against him. The movie even emphasis that men and women _need each other._ So I'm not sure what you're taking about. Moreover, Enola is based on a real-life woman named Mary Grace Quackenbos, who was literally nicknamed "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" in the early 1900's.

[@BuffDaddySmoove]

Drinker sacrificed 2 hours of his life for us. Thank you.

[@bemotivated8443]

He is a good man

[@derrickstorm6976]

Actually more since he had to write this video also, and edit the movie for it On the plus side, he had more time to be slightly drunk at work lmao

[@JohnSmith-is4uu]

And gets paid

[@1337Jogi]

I did the same because my gf wanted to watch it. It is not so bad really. If you do not expect much you will not be disappointed and I mean that in a good way. I have seen way worse over the past years.

[@harpy5197]

He the hero we need

[@cowhydrodynamics]

I completely forgot about this movie until this showed up in my recommendations

[@petersanders2815]

I thought this was a rollicking good yarn! Enjoyed it immensely.

[@MrSirdixon]

Agree…love the Drinker but the hate for this was just odd.

[@RantersUnited]

Hilariously, one of those statues (or at the very least a post online connected to the film’s ad campaign) also attacked author Mark Twain, by showcasing his lesser known sister. But then people looked up the history and found out that his sister was essentially given a ton of support and privilege in her education and career over her brother, who had to struggle and raise himself in order to get where he was. So it inadvertently highlighted Mark Twain’s successes even more - as a writer who had to work hard in order to get where he was - over a sister that was given far more and thus had to struggle less.

[@brezzendorf]

At that time, is that possible? I always thought every women before 1900 as passive figures & parents only care about male successor

[@RantersUnited]

@@brezzendorf For context: The sister (Pamela Ann Clemens) was the second child, with an older brother - and Mark being the 5th and second-to-last child of the family. The brother was the main source of income for a time through occupation like newspaper after the father died, while the sister was accomplished in piano. Several of the siblings before Mark (but after the eldest brother and sister) died early in life, and Mark Twain took much smaller jobs than either of his siblings. It wasn't until much later when Mark Twain gained success with his novels did he become the family's support. This was a case where the eldest siblings had more support, and although the first born son was held to a the highest standard for the role he played - the sister still received support that was better than what Mark Twain received. As far as I learned she at least had a proper education, whereas her brother either didn't have much or received it later in life. She also lived a far easier life when compared to either of her brothers, with the eldest having several failed jobs. Also I should add that, as far as I could learn, there was no bad blood between them. The sister cared for her brother and maintained good contact throughout their lives.

[@cttommy73]

@@RantersUnited Charles Dickens was the same. The irony never ends.

[@ct-117]

also it's not like Sherlock has been stealing Enola's spotlight for years. He existed for like a century before she did

[@inferiorinferno8859]

@@brezzendorf I'm Dutch and I happen to know that the Dutch author Multatuli was feminist and made sure his niece got the best education she could receive and was an inspiration to first wave feminists over here.

[@pioushotdo]

"Nothing. Escapes...The Drinker!" I'll bet this had been uttered in a dark basement more than once

[@Stresslvls99]

Sounds like diesel patches.

[@sol6030]

The biggest problem about these kind of movie isn't even the political crap These stories usually has a very easy pattern to recognize, the paw of bad spiteful writers, and you can pretty much guess the whole plot once you're 15 mins in the movie

[@shadowlandstudios86]

I found it entertaining. I would certainly watch a sequel.

[@Mumblix]

I can't watch movies any more. So much eye-rolling that I can no longer see straight.

[@huntersteven2194]

The whole secret Judo school thing seems so unbelievable it hurts

[@user-bs2vb2sr5w]

It was sad and funny at the same time

[@thalesanastacio760]

The funny thing is that, the secret judo school was kinda real. The Suffragettes did, in fact, trained Jiu Jitsu in secret to fight against the police during protests.

[@FranZidane97]

@@thalesanastacio760 Did black women use to teach Judo, though?

[@thalesanastacio760]

@@FranZidane97 that's why i said "Kinda real" not "totally accurate". It has a basis in reality.

[@orkhepaj]

i stopped watching right there:D

[@lizziegilmartin9644]

coming back to this blistering review a year later knowing the target demographic (8-12 year olds and their parents, also target demographic of the original book series this is adapted from) really liked it, and there's now a sequel in the works? sometimes i do believe in God. also imagining you yelling all this to a middle school auditorium of kids who are like...bro we are just enjoyers of age appropriate mysteries :)

[@batarasiagian9635]

Ah, yes, cinematic garbage is OK as long somebody enjoys garbage. How insightful.

[@Pulivari124]

I didn't know that Grand Moff Tarkin played Sherlock Holmes.

[@ComicGladiator]

Pandering soulless Hollywood suit 1: "Hey, what if we took a recognizable character...and made them a female?" Pandering soulless Hollywood suit 2: "You son of a bitch, you've done it again!" (High fives and coke sniffing)

[@silverfoxdelta290]

i think you mean "you person of a strong and empowered woman" youve done it again

[@terragthegreat175]

And once they high five they celebrate by sexually assaulting their secretaries.

[@readsomebooks666]

They’re not real execs unless they’re snorting it off a stripper’s bare arse.

[@kevinwantstoshred]

woke coke or the drug?

[@Brentsisk1]

Made me think of Rick and Morty: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWTOfaWNmd6JitE

[@shaunpatrick8345]

A gender-swapped lead character with added diversity. No thanks.

[@bemotivated8443]

@ECKohns ding Dong your opinion is wrong

[@bemotivated8443]

@ECKohns I haven’t seen that show, but did it make Holmes brother look like an idiot or have a woman take the place of Sherlock?

[@Grendelnz]

@ECKohns Elementary is as woke as they come. the gender swapped watson is the least of the woke tripe of that show.

[@jokerledger5400]

@@bemotivated8443 No and no. It pretty faithful to the books, Mycroft is usually portraited as unassuming and unmotivated but is actually pretty smart and could rival Sherlock. Sherlock is still the main character.

[@drakron]

@ECKohns I would be too busy looking at Lucy Lui to think about it.

[@allforone3427]

I had no idea this movie existed I never heard of or read the books and didn't hear about the weird statue's they made and I'm the kinda guy how knows about obscure stuff like this and I still had no idea