Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...

[Locut0s]

Just finished watching it. The David Fincher one. Wow such a powerful performance by Rooney Mara! Daniel Craig is good in this too as are the rest of the supporting cast but she really shines here. It's a difficult movie to watch in places, especially that rape scene, and doesn't exactly have a happy ending.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Good morning.

For some reason, I've watched it but have forgotten it.

[Locut0s]

4. Rooney Mara plays (possible spoilers!)....

The film is set in Sweeden. Rooney Mara plays a troubled girl in her 20s who specializes in profiling people for security companies. She's a computer wizard / hacker who can get info on anyone. A security company hires here to do a background check on Daniel Craig's character. The background check is performed at the request of Christopher Plummer's character. His character is the patriarch of a very successful Swedish conglomerate. He suspects dark secrets are buried in the family closet. The grown up family live on an island, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles living in separate houses but rarely speaking to each other. This is a very dysfunctional family to begin with but there are darker secrets buried in their closet revolving around the death of a 16 year old girl, member of the family, during a summer in the 1960s (the family is having a board meeting at the estate). Daniel Craig is hired by Christopher Plummer to investigate the family as Plummer suspects one of his surviving family members is responsible for the murder. In time Craig brings Rooney into the investigation to help.

The film is suspenseful and superbly filmed and directed. There is a very uncomfortable and realistic rape scene that's difficult to watch, though boy does Rooney get pay back for that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/?ref_=sr_1

[In_The_Wind]

9. Ah! Now I remember. Thank you for the link. Excellent movie.

Just a tidbit of information, I also have a dragon tattoo.

[avebury]

2. If you can, watch the original trilogy. They are

available on Netflix in the extended edition as a six part mini-series.

If you haven't yet, you might want to consider reading the books. I loved the books and thought that each one was better then the previous one. It is such a tragedy that the author died do young. He was planning on doing about 10 books to the series if I remember correctly.

[Locut0s]

5. Yes I'm thinking of watching the originals now...

Though I understand that this is a case where the remake is every bit as good as the originals, or at least so many think.

[avebury]

6. The American remake was very good.

The originals are just as good and I loved the extended versions.

I really do recommend reading all 3 books first. My favorite was the last book which becomes a race between the good and bad guys as to who will triumph. There was so much in the book that even an extended edition movie could not pack it all in.

[Locut0s]

8. Yes I'll take a look at the books...

I'm not normally fan of a mystery or thriller books but this is something I already know something about and it's interesting.

[NewJeffCT]

11. I liked the books quite a bit

but, I thought the third book was the worst. spoilers - [font color=white] No drama in the trial - just the bad guy, Teleborian, being torn apart by Blomkvist's sister. I also thought Salander was too much of a Mary Sue overall[/font]

[Chan790]

10. I think the originals are better, primarily because they're truer to the books.

It basically comes down to:

*The originals are very true to the books, which are very Swedish in terms of feel. It's not coincidental that there is a crime noir revival occurring in Scandinavian literature. They're require the viewer to think; they hand nothing in terms of denouement to the audience. In places, having been done inexpensively, the downcast acting, production-values and staging wear thin.

*The remake has incredible production values, great acting and set-staging. It's what a multimillion dollar budget and a major American studio gets you. They're well-directed. The effects work is great. The camera work is great. They made changes to the story to appeal more to an American audience...as if we would not "get" thoughtful European drama and need to be spoon-fed, need more action, need the ending simplified.

I can see how some people could think they're equal or the remake is better. I like the cerebral, slow-pace and dark feel of the original. I like Rapace's Salander better than Mara's and I like that they let Mikael remain the bastard he is in the book...it's alright for the good guy to be a sexist womanizing douchebag (irony in the books comes from the fact that he considers himself a feminist yet repeatedly acts in a sexist manner and justifies it as "I'm a feminist.&quot , audiences will forgive an imperfect protagonist.

[Locut0s]

13. Now I'm quite intersted to see the originals...

That sounds much more interesting!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. The books were better. n/t

[avebury]

7. I agree. The movies were good, the books were great! nt

[AsahinaKimi]

12. I prefered the Swedish version ..have seen both.

Went into more detail. Very powerful films.