The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
My wife, Rosie, reads mystery books like most folks eat boxes of "Good 'N' Plentys" at action flicks; she'll plow through about five to eight a week, so when she read Larsen's "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", then insisted we see the movie, I knew it must be something exceptional. I wasn't disappointed in the least.
I realize that there is an upcoming Americanization of the film, but the version we watched was a dubbed Scandinavian version (as opposed to the subtitled), and it captured the contrasting modern, urban Stockholm with the isolation and backwoods feel of the northern islands where the main story takes place. The story is sewn together with the interaction of the two main characters, one a disgraced journalist hired to solve the forty year old murder of an industrialist's daughter, the other an intriguing young girl in her twenties with a closet full of skeletons of her own, who we learn early on is not one to meep around with. Through the wonder (but somehow still plausibly) of internet technology, the two end up first working separately, then together to find not just the one, but a series of horrific mutilation & ritualistic type murders of young girls spanning decades. Filled with twists, wonderful cinematography, and well paced, it was one of the best foreign films I've seen in years. See it.
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On 2010-07-28 at 16:07:05, BeachGoat asked to smell your meep
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I thought this movie was god-awful dogmeep. The characters were thin worn-out cliches, the plot was predictable, and, worst of all, at no time was I actually interested in any of it.
Da Vinci Code was at least interesting at points, and had the feeling of having been researched, whatever its other demerits.
I had seen the book cover somewhere and immediately interpreted it to mean "this movie is all about this crazy chick who is so punker-scary you are gonna meep your meeping american pants", but I heard some intelligent-seeming people talking positively about it in the bookstore, and assumed the cover was an unfortunate side-effect of having been a movie that got popular enough to be Americanized. The movie turned out to be every bit as bad as I easily could have concluded from the meepty book cover.
I got up halfway through to do the dishes, apologizing to the LBP for having picked this movie, but she seemed to like it, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Jul28 '10
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Just bought the wife the 3 books by the deceased author.
Downloaded the movie a bit ago too, haven't watched it yet...
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I read the book, and was impressed by how closely the movie followed. Also, being part Danish & Norwegian, I'm a sucker for ancient frozen faced demi-nazis hiding in austere backwoods secrecy, inbred and always in some sort of Lutheran denial.
Maybe that made it better for me.
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Apropos of nearly nothing, dude is the first author with over 1M Kindle ebook sales.