The Bucket List
The early weeks of the year 2008 were a strange and uneventful period in the career of Sherlock Holmes IV, consulting movie detective. After weeks of going to the theater more in search of popcorn than a particularly intriguing case, the world’s first and foremost specialist in writing movie reviews in a Sherlockian style had finally given in to using the third person, just to begin a review in a more Watsonian fashion. He wasn’t sure if this was because “Michael Clayton” didn’t inspire a review, or that his experiences in “Rambo” had left his nerves shaken and he was given the permission of a paternal webmaster to spend the next week attempting to improve matters.
Having been steered into “The Bucket List” by his friend Stamford the Fourth, Sherlock Holmes IV watched as Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman became room-mates and moved of to have adventures together, in a very Holmes-and-Watson fashion. Morgan Freeman’s long-suffering wife was the very model of a modern Mary Morstan, having to put up with her husband’s sudden absence at the request of his eccentric friend. And in the end, Holmes could not help but succumb to those tender feelings that must come at the end of such a film, even if one is not entirely sure what lesson was being taught.
What Great-grandfather Sherlock might have said:
“Watson, a bucket of water over the straw. That will do! “
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An Introduction to
Mr. Sherlock Holmes IV
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