Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie

jhynesrockmtn · 09-12-2010, 07:11 AM

Has this been discussed already? If so I apologize but I searched and didn't find a thread.

My Mom gave me the book to read but we watched the movie first. Very good. Some hard scenes to get through and a bit long but the acting is great and it was refreshing watching something that doesn't have 5 supposedly A list actors in it. Hollywood will screw it up next. Catch the original version first!

mossguy · 09-12-2010, 07:15 AM

Jerry,
My wife and I have read all three of his books re girl with dragon tattoo, and have seen the (first) movie. The second is playing now at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma.

Best,
Tom

herr_oberst · 09-12-2010, 12:13 PM

Funny you should ask, just saw it last night, (1st movie) really, really liked it a lot.

john70t · 02:57 PM

(original)British version of "State of Play" was ruined by Hollywood too.
Lots of expensive actors, lots of expensive producers, plenty of special effects, but a severe dearth of writing these days.

Yawn. I'd rather watch Hitchcock or Cagney.
Almost tossed "Clash of the Titans" into the trash halfway through, until I remembered it wasn't mine.

Watch the second of the "Girl Who Payed With Fire" in a theatre.
It's still Steven King-level storytelling, but worth it IMO.

mossguy · 09-12-2010, 03:20 PM

"........It's still Steven King-level storytelling,......."

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Best,
Tom

john70t · 09-12-2010, 03:31 PM

Mabye it's ADD, but one simplistic and dedicated plot line doesn't do it these days without purpose unless it's done right like "Payback"(remake of "Point Blank").

epbrown · 09-12-2010, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by john70t

Mabye it's ADD, but one simplistic and dedicated plot line doesn't do it these days without purpose unless it's done right like "Payback"(remake of "Point Blank").

I know what you're saying, but come on - "Point Blank" sucked. It was a French art noir existentialist version of a pretty straightforward hardboiled story; the 2nd film was much closer to the book, despite Mel's ego skewing the story.

I've got the books of the "Girl" series on my iPad, and I'm about a quarter through the first, so I'm holding off on the movies. "Dragon Tattoo" is streamable from Netflix right now.

john70t · 09-12-2010, 05:35 PM

Each to their own.

To be honest I only skimmed through parts of the first book, and i didn't think much about the style. Was bored. Paragraph after paragraph. Just another paperback hyped up by media.

"Agent Zigzag" and "Soldier", and "Walking across america", and "The big year", and many of the other books on the shelf(which btw are cross-reference-able through my personal internet banking records in case you were fishing) were all excellent reads and pulled the reader furthur in each subsequent chapter.
Those books were on fire to the point of digital fusion.

Anyway, the first movie had three themes:
1). Swedish. Cold. Removed. Swedish. 'nuff said.
2). Something about brutal rape of women and brutal revenge on their male agressors.
3). Main character is a goth, bi-chick legendary computer hacker(aren't they all?)..who happens to be a ninja with a cold steel katana.

All said, the second film in a theatre was fun.
That's all.

epbrown · 09-13-2010, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by john70t

Anyway, the first movie had three themes:
1). Swedish. Cold. Removed. Swedish. 'nuff said.
2). Something about brutal rape of women and brutal revenge on their male agressors.
3). Main character is a goth, bi-chick legendary computer hacker(aren't they all?)..who happens to be a ninja with a cold steel katana.

The books were published posthumously with the current titles; apparently the author titled the first one "Men Who Hate Women" and the over-arching theme is about how cruelly Swedish women are treated, based on a few isolated examples. Mostly, the books seems to me to be possible because the culture isn't that bad - like seriously, this is all you've got to ***** about?