Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, Etan Cohen’s Holmes and Watson.
In turn-of-the-century London, the fiend James Moriarty prepares to face trial. His conviction rests upon the testimony of heroic detective Sherlock Holmes. However, Holmes makes a startling deduction about the identity of the man in the dock, which sets in motion a whirlwind comedic misadventure.
At time of recording, it was ranked 100th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the worst movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 26th May 2019.
- Holmes and Watson at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Sam Adams at IndieWire on the problem with the Razzies, January 2015.
- Benjamin Lee at The Guardian on the pointlessness of the Razzies, January 2018.
- Condé Nast at GQ argues for ignoring the Razzies, January 2018.
- Missy Schwartz at Entertainment Weekly on Sandra Bullock’s acceptance of her Golden Raspberry Award, March 2010.
- Keith Staskiewicz at Entertainment Weekly on Sandra Bullock’s claiming of the original Razzie statue for her work on All About Steve, April 2010.
- David Edelstein at Vulture argues that John C. Reilly did not deserve his Golden Raspberry, Febuary 2019.
- Manuela Lazic at The Ringer profiles John C. Reilly, December 2018.
- Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg discuss their work with The New York Post, January 2014.
- Hunter Stephenson at /Film reports on plans for Sacha Baron Cohen to headline Holmes and Watson, July 2008.
- Adam McKay talks to Vox about evolving from a director of comedies to an Oscar favourite, January 2016.
- Adam McKay talks to RogerEbert.com about his interest in stories like The Other Guys and Vice, December 2015.
- B. Alan Orange at MovieWeb reports on the end of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s creative partnership, Gary Sanchez Productions, April 2019.
- Bill Murray confesses to Business Insider that he only signed on to Garfield because he saw the name “Joel Cohen” attached to the script, January 2014.
- Padraig Cotter at Screenrant on the difference between Etan Cohen and Ethan Coen, June 2019.
- Dave McNary at Variety reports on the decision to push Sherlock Holmes 3 back to 2021, March 2019.
- Anthony D’Alessandro reports at Deadline on Sony’s failed efforts to sell Holmes and Watson to Netflix, January 2019.
- David Hiltbrand at The Seattle Times on “the American tradition” of going to the cinema on Christmas Day, December 2008.
- Katie Park and Herman Wong at The Washington Post on the most popular days to go to the cinema around the world, February 2012.
- Sarah Aswell at Forbes on the complicated question of whether Adam Sandler is funny, November 2018.
- Katherine Schaffstall at The Hollywood Reporter on the critical response to Holmes and Watson, December 2018.
- Tim Robey at The Telegraph reports on the curious case of Holmes and Watson, December 2018.
- Sopan Deb at The New York Times wonders whether Holmes and Watson is “so bad it’s good”, December 2018.
- Jesse Hassenger at The Verge argues that the failure of Holmes and Watson represents a changing of the cinematic comedic guard, December 2018.
- Ian Buckwalter at The Atlantic on the insanity of Casa de mi Padre, March 2012.
- Bradford Evans at Vulture on the Los Angeles comedy scene, March 2012.
- “Make a Wish”, Key and Peele, October 2014.
- Ed Power at The Telegraph on the decline of Robert DeNiro, October 2015.
- Robert DeNiro sells bagels for Warburtons, May 2019.
- Nick Schager at Esquire on the “overgrown manchild” comedy subgenre, November 2014.
- Manohla Dargis at The New York Times on Step Brothers as the epitome of the “overgrown manchild” comedy subgenre, July 2008.
- Steve Rousseau at Digg asks if adulthood is dead, September 2014.
- Alan Siegel at The Ringer offers an oral history of Step Brothers, July 2018.
- College Humour offers its glimpse of an “Apatow World”, May 2009.
- Jacob Weindling at Paste Magazine on the laziness and failure of Saturday Night Live in the Trump era, April 2019.
- Marlow Stern at The Daily Beast on the need for Saturday Night Live to push past cheap jokes about Donald Trump, May 2019.
- Ed Pilkington at The Guardian on the success of Tyler Perry, April 2009.
- Steve Coogan talks to the Empire podcast about (among other things) Holmes and Watson, January 2019.
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Filed under: The Bottom 100, This Just In | Tagged: adam mckay, comedy, etan cohen, films, golden raspberries, guy ritchie, holmes and watson, john c. reilly, Movies, podcast, sherlock holmes, will ferrell |
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