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This movie...

posted 20 years ago by lagartija1919
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kicked ass!
I thought it was great. A friend gave it to me as a birthday present, and I haven't finished thanking her! I'd never heard of it and loved it. It's great for watching over, because you get a chance to study the workings more closely. The actors are brilliant, the soundtrack excellent, the story gripping. I like the Sherlock Holmes subtext which is very present in the whole structure of the film, yet not heavy-handed. I like the quirkiness and the dialogue. Arlo's stories of Zero's amazing successes are hilarious. If you truly like detective movies and have a sense of humour, you have to like this one. I won't go on listing everything I liked. I'll finish by saying that this is a great detective movie.

Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.

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[–] andiemevans 20 years ago

As for the other cases mentioned, don't you want to know the details? Like The Case of the Shrinking Gypsy Stripper's Scribblings? It's genius and I'm dying to know.

[–] lagartija1919 20 years ago

Of course..... they're so intriguing aren't they? With titles like that, the stories must be ludicrous.

[–] andiemevans 20 years ago

But since we know he named this case "The Case of the Man Who Got So Stressed Out Over His Lost Keys That He Eventually Had a Heart Attack and It Turned Out They Were in the Sofa All Along," I assume that the shrinking gyspy only made an appearance in that case.