Grade:
A

What’s it About?
The most famous detective in English literature solves crimes and uncovers a conspiracy in 1890s London.

What’s It’s Bechdel Test Score?
1/3, which is incredibly good for Guy Ritchie films. Irene Adler is awesome, but neither of these things prevents the movie from failing this test spectacularly.

What About Minorities?
Since this takes place in 1890s London and I have no idea how many non-white people were living at the time, I’m going to give it the benefit of the doubt. There is an Irish “gypsy woman” but it didn’t come across as offensive to me or anything.

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Grade:
B-

What’s It About?:

This is going to be a hard logline to write.

First try: A marine employed as security for a mining company on a distant moon befriends the local native aliens and helps them in their struggle against the company.

Oh my god that is awful.

A marine stationed on a distant moon is used as an Avatar, disguised as a local native alien to gain their trust for a mining company’s nefarious purposes.
I think the “you can figure out the rest” is implied in that?

What’s it’s Bechdel Test Score?:
2/3 I think… there are some pretty cool female characters, but I’m trying to remember if any of them said more than two or three sentences to each other, and wondering if two or three sentences counts.

Minorities:
Oh god.
There is only Michelle Rodriguez (who is pretty cool in this) and a few backgrounders among the humans. It seems all the other minority cast members were playing the natives of the moon Pandora, the Na’vi. Which makes sense, I guess.
That isn’t really the issue though.
So, um, B+ for having minority actors, F for racism in the story?

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