The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Discussion
Anyone else seen this yet? Couldn't find another thread.
Pretty good basically. Daniel Craig excellent as usual, Rooney Mara is a VERY brave young actress & Fincher is excellent as normal.
Always nice to be in the cinema with well behaved people as well so if you want an adult (adult with a capital A) evening at the movies, recommended. 8/10.
Spoiler bit if you want to;
If you liked the book you won't be too annoyed with this remake. The casting is spot on. The casting of her guardian was very good especially, a real fat creep. THAT scene is very nasty indeed but then so is her revenge.
All the Venger family are well cast and the tiding up of the big reveal about Harriet was nicely done, better in a way than the book. Shame is that the Worrenstrom bit at the end feels tacked on. The movie should have really ended with the Range Rover crash and then perhaps what happened to him is played out over the credits. I think Fincher has quite a hard man rep and we know Lisbeth is an cold person but the film just kind of ended with whimper, like Fincher didn't know how to deal with her bruised emotions. The basement at the end was intense to say the least. What with this and Casino Royale, Craig must have had his fill of torture scenes. And why he spent the whole movie walking like he'd just got off a horse was unusual.
And although I really love that Led Zep cover version the titles look they were grafted on from another movie. It was almost like Fincher had got Daniel Craig so he thought he'd audition for the James Bond gig. Odd.
And of course whenever anyone says "Worrenstrom!", I expect them to start shaking their fist & start talking about Doomsday devices.
Pretty good basically. Daniel Craig excellent as usual, Rooney Mara is a VERY brave young actress & Fincher is excellent as normal.
Always nice to be in the cinema with well behaved people as well so if you want an adult (adult with a capital A) evening at the movies, recommended. 8/10.
Spoiler bit if you want to;
If you liked the book you won't be too annoyed with this remake. The casting is spot on. The casting of her guardian was very good especially, a real fat creep. THAT scene is very nasty indeed but then so is her revenge.
All the Venger family are well cast and the tiding up of the big reveal about Harriet was nicely done, better in a way than the book. Shame is that the Worrenstrom bit at the end feels tacked on. The movie should have really ended with the Range Rover crash and then perhaps what happened to him is played out over the credits. I think Fincher has quite a hard man rep and we know Lisbeth is an cold person but the film just kind of ended with whimper, like Fincher didn't know how to deal with her bruised emotions. The basement at the end was intense to say the least. What with this and Casino Royale, Craig must have had his fill of torture scenes. And why he spent the whole movie walking like he'd just got off a horse was unusual.
And although I really love that Led Zep cover version the titles look they were grafted on from another movie. It was almost like Fincher had got Daniel Craig so he thought he'd audition for the James Bond gig. Odd.
And of course whenever anyone says "Worrenstrom!", I expect them to start shaking their fist & start talking about Doomsday devices.
Crossflow Kid said:
Forgive my ignorance but I take it this is an English-language remake of the 2009 film?
Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
It's Hollywood's version of the book.Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
Crossflow Kid said:
Forgive my ignorance but I take it this is an English-language remake of the 2009 film?
Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
Yep, it's a remake of the early films, for people who don't 'do' subtitles and with more famous actors. By all accounts the new version is still a very good film but why remake an excellent set of films (other than to make oodles of cash)?Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
'Let The Right One In' was another excellent Swedish film remade into a good Hollywood film ('Let Me In'), and the Norwegian film 'Troll Hunter' is apparently being remade for the US market, so expect to see more of the same in the future.
At least the current wave of remakes are better than previous efforts ('Taxi', I'm looking at you!).
I've seen this and the Swedish language film as well. I enjoyed both but both take certain liberties with the original story (presumably Fincher couldn't afford to fly everyone out to Australia...) . In Fincher's version certain things are (I think) not obvious if you haven't read the novel, for example when Salander finds the old chap after his heart attack it isn't clear he is her guardian.
The final scene is exactly as written in the novel and was changed in the Swedish film version, but then that also marginalised Berger's character and her relationship with Blomkvist completely, so it wouldn't have made sense. It's appropriate the it was kept in as Mara plays Salander with more vunerability than Noomi Rapace did.
I was skeptical going in as Hollywood versions are rarely a good idea, but Fincher has done something new rather than an English language remake of the Swedish film.
The final scene is exactly as written in the novel and was changed in the Swedish film version, but then that also marginalised Berger's character and her relationship with Blomkvist completely, so it wouldn't have made sense. It's appropriate the it was kept in as Mara plays Salander with more vunerability than Noomi Rapace did.
I was skeptical going in as Hollywood versions are rarely a good idea, but Fincher has done something new rather than an English language remake of the Swedish film.
SpeedBash said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Forgive my ignorance but I take it this is an English-language remake of the 2009 film?
Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
It's Hollywood's version of the book.Yeah, yeah, whoosh parrot and all that, I just didn't know if it was a re-release, the next episode, a director's cut or what, and never really paid much attention to the first one.
The Hypno-Toad said:
Anyone else seen this yet? Couldn't find another thread.
You couldn't have looked very hard, i started one yesterday! 
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Guffy said:
The Hypno-Toad said:
Anyone else seen this yet? Couldn't find another thread.
You couldn't have looked very hard, i started one yesterday! http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Sorry.
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