Hmmm.... just saw the trailer for Sherlock Holmes. Certianly quite different. Not entirely sure if I'm sold on Robert Downey Jr. as the immortal, immoral detective - and I would throw myself down the stairs with a lightbulb in my mouth to see Robert Downey Jr. - but... but wait, who the hell cares, it's Robert Downey Jr. Honestly, the first thing I thought was - Oh, I can just imagine the slash fic that will come of this.
_{Okay, after I finished thinking oh my shirtless I thought that.}

I always thought it more Mythbusters than James Bond. Holmes is a basically an uptight, skinny for lack of a better word wiry guy who likes violins and bees and Scullying things. "Nope, sorry chaps, that's wrong. You see, this, this and this make it clearly obvious" and then pull the entire dastardly scheme to bits, after having sat on the correct answer for some time previous. Hell, I used to watch the black & white ones with Basil Rathbone, who was quite, quite cool.

By the looks of things it will arrive equipped with all the suave swagger and debauchery you can point a silver-topped cane at, so I'm soldcurious by default, even if it's not how I remember the stories...

Perhaps I should pull the old tomes out and re-read a few, just to be sure.
And watch that trailer again...