Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Thoughts, anyone?)

BTM · February 05, 2011, 12:06:56 PM

Has anyone seen this? I've had it on my list for awhile, but I keep pushing it back for some reason. (I'm talking the European not the US one (come to think of it, has that even come out yet?)

Thinking maybe I should read the book before I watch the film, but I'm backlogged on my list of things to read.

Anyway, just thought I'd see what you guys think.

The Burgomaster · February 07, 2011, 03:30:02 PM

I enjoyed the movie very much. Haven't read the book yet, so I can't provide a comparison. I think I posted some comments about the movie in here a few months ago after I bought the DVD.

Flick James · February 07, 2011, 05:13:22 PM

I watched it recently with my wife. She read the book. I did not. Her take was that it followed the spirit of the book very well, but left some things out and a couple of things were altered slightly because they were just too extreme to translate to the screen without getting an NC-17 rating.

peter johnson · February 08, 2011, 12:50:15 AM

Brilliant stuff - a new twist on the old "Police Procedural" convention. As it's a Swedish film, made for a European audience, I don't think NC-17 worries were present, as Sweden does not use our rating system, but be warned that this is a sexually brutal film, and this sexual brutality is central as a plot-driving device on this one and the next 2 films in the series - and it is meant to be seen as a series/none of the films really "stand alone" that well.

peter johnson/denny did he really just do that crane

Flick James · February 08, 2011, 12:41:19 PM

Quote from: peter johnson on February 08, 2011, 12:50:15 AM
Brilliant stuff - a new twist on the old "Police Procedural" convention. As it's a Swedish film, made for a European audience, I don't think NC-17 worries were present, as Sweden does not use our rating system, but be warned that this is a sexually brutal film, and this sexual brutality is central as a plot-driving device on this one and the next 2 films in the series - and it is meant to be seen as a series/none of the films really "stand alone" that well.

peter johnson/denny did he really just do that crane

A good point. It is still starkly brutal in just the ways you say. I was just offering a posit. My wife was saying that one scene in particular, and I think you know the one I mean, involved more of the use of objects and was more brutal than what was portrayed in the film, which lead me to that as a possibility. Your point is definatley true, however.

ghouck · February 13, 2011, 05:23:46 AM

Loved it, and the Sequil. The third movie is next on my netflix list.

peter johnson · February 13, 2011, 11:47:19 PM

We just watched the 3rd - It really does tie it all together - God please preserve us from un-necessary remakes -

peter johnson/peter johnson/ peter johnsoncranedenny/peter crane/denny crane

Flick James · February 15, 2011, 01:09:42 PM

Quote from: peter johnson on February 13, 2011, 11:47:19 PM
We just watched the 3rd - It really does tie it all together - God please preserve us from un-necessary remakes -

peter johnson/peter johnson/ peter johnsoncranedenny/peter crane/denny crane

Unavoidable, I'm afraid:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/