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I was thinking if somebody could do a custom cover art. As this will be the 3rd version of this score in my iTunes library a different cover would be appreciated. I’ll use the Intrada black cover with the film logo for the LP version, which is similar to the promo cover, but would like a new one for this to differentiate it from the multitracks mix.
My pleasure ...
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Pleasantly surprised to see the film has recently hit Amazon Prime.
Haven't seen it in decades, looking forward to revisiting.
I did watch this on Prime before my copy of the new score release arrived. And after all these years, it still had my eyes rolling half the time. It's like they had a checklist:
How Holmes met (and began insulting) Watson
Why Watson is fat (even though the only fat Watson is Nigel Bruce, who was fat, er, because he was fat)
How Holmes got his Deerstalker
How Holmes got his Pipe
How Holmes learned to hate Lestrade
How Moriarty became Holmes' nemesis
How Holmes turned into such a cold b**t**d (actually that worked for me, if painfully heavy handed)
The entire Sherlockian mythos rolled into a week or two when he was 16? Wow.
And of course because it is a mid-eighties Spielberg extravaganza we have to have a non-Western religious cult all into human sacrifice*, and, um, a bicycle that flies?!!!
Not to mention where JK Rowling got some of her "ideas" for Harry Potter - note the Draco Malfoy prototype, for example.
Look, I saw it probably opening weekend, have watched it five or six times all the way through since then. I adore the score, enjoy the pacing and look of the film, and I love a lot of the actors (including Holmes, Watson, Elizabeth, Freddie Jones, and especially Anthony Higgins). But it is just a terrible example of revisioning a fictional hero by gluing all the most obvious bits together. There was much more potential than this movie even tried to realize.
*To be fair, the idea of an "alien" religion being behind the crimes goes all the way back to the first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, where the mystery is all tied up with (gasp!) Mormons.
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Young Sherlock Holmes will finally be released on Blu-ray with a Steelbook pagacking in the UK on January 30 and in the US on January 31. Unfortunately there are no special features.
Can't wait to get this.
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