Sherlock Holmes Watch, Continued

Keep it together....keep it together. You can do this. It's only two minutes and 22 seconds of Robert Downey, Jr. with a British accent playing one of your favorite literary characters ever. It's only funny and action-packed and dripping with awesome sauce. Wait, what the hell is awesome sauce? I'm getting delirious. Okay, okay, back on track. This is not a big deal. Not a big deal. It's not like it ends on an absurd and hilarious zinger. It's not like Jude Law and Robert Downey, Jr. are perfect together. This movie is probably going to suck after all.

I didn't mean it!!! God strike me down for spewing such blasphemy! Who the hell am I kidding? I'm on the verge of tears/hyperventilation/a complete mental breakdown and I've only seen two minutes of this beautiful gift to humanity. I'm really starting to doubt that I'll have any semblance of sanity by the time this finally hits theaters.

I apologize to anyone reading this who isn't already obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, because you're going to be dealing with this for the rest of the year. Sorry.

BREAKING NEWS: Sherlock Holmes Poster!

Oh. My. God. Here I was just browsing movie posters, minding my own business, when I came across this:

To be honest, my first thought was "When did Sherlock Holmes turn into the Notorious B.I.G.?" but I'm a fan now. Guy Ritchie and the cast have made it pretty clear that this will be a more modern Sherlock Holmes story, so when you think about it this poster is actually brilliant. By combining present-day gangster images with old-timey pipes and ascots, the graphic designer/photographer has captured both the 19th and 21st century sensibilities of this movie...and made Sherlock Holmes a freakin' BAMF. 

I seriously cannot wait for Sherlock Holmes. The level of excitement I'm experiencing here is definitely unhealthy, and it's been stable since, oh, this time last year. Expect more alarming manifestations of my obsession as the release date gets closer, but for now I thought I'd settle for a cheesy MySpace countdown clock. I've never made one of these before, but if anything warrants it, it's Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes:

I'm really upset that it's opening Christmas day now, though. I hadn't checked the release date in a while, but I was totally planning on scaring the hell out of Robert Downey, Jr. at the London premiere while I'm abroad. I guess I'll just have to settle for a midnight showing at the Regal Theater, and plan to ambush RDJ some other time. So it goes.  

P.S. For those of you who haven't been rabidly devouring every single film still, here are the RDJ-tagged photo galleries from Just Jared. (In addition to five Sherlock Holmes galleries, there are Iron Man 2 stills, too!)