Reviews of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009
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Ok. So I know I have done it all backwards. I saw Finchers movie first. Now this. Next week I will probably start reading the book. All I can say to the "purists" out there on letterboxd is that I'm sorry. Anyway. These are my reflections on my backwards journey into these fantastic stories.
This is three hours split into two parts. By doing that we get a lot more of the detail that we don't get in Finchers which…
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ONE OR TWO SPOILERS
Although this is technically a rewatch, this is actually a viewing of the extended version of this film that is basically the mini-series version stuck together in feature length.
As someone who found the original 150 or so minute version to be entertaining but extremely and frustratingly flawed, I wanted to see if the extended version ironed out some of the flaws that I experienced when I watched that version back in 2011. I am planning…
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Huh. Noomi Rapace pronounces her name like "sue-me" -- not like "tow-me". I was way off, but she's still awesome as shit.
How I ever could've preferred Rooney Mara to Noomi is beyond me. It may be that Rooney Mara is more conventionally attractive upon first glance, but she's no where near as amazing. And in the long run not nearly as attractive.
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The most compelling and stand-alone of the trilogy. I enjoy the other two but this one shades the others on story terms for me. Sandwiched between Wallander and The Killing, this Swedish film based on the hugely-successful novel really got the Scandinavian screen crime genre moving in Europe. Despite a huge amount of crime/murder mysteries on British television, this still served as a refreshing change. 101% of British shows of the type concentrate on the police procedural side of it,…
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I don't usually like swedish movies at all, and that's why I've waited until now to watch this one. BIG mistake!
I was fucking stunned, the story is great, really immersive, and the acting is more or less perfect. The casting is flawless, the goth/punk style suits Noomi Rapace really well.
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“Everyone has secrets.”
In what has been one of the most gripping and conceptually brilliant films I have seen in a long time, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ did a brilliant job keeping me hooked through the full 152 minutes with fantastic cinematography and some of the best performances I have seen in a long time.
The Girl with the Dragon tattoo follows Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) a journalist who after having his name tarnished from being set up…
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It's a sexy stylish action thriller featuring an adorable Noomi Rapace as a bad ass chick with tattoos anger issues and 1337 hacker skills. Even though she's a pro "hacker" she still uses a Mac and has Firefox as her default web browser. It's OK since she's cute I will forgive her for using a Mac. The film is based off a novel and in my opinion next to Holes and Lord of the Rings it's one of the best…
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Having already seen the Fincher version of this film, as well as only recently finishing reading the book, there were little to no surprises in this film for me. It was more a case of morbid curiosity to see how this version matches up to it's American partner.
I'm not really fond of the idea of calling Fincher's film a 'remake' of this one. It seems to be a lot more like a different interpretation of the same source material,…
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Look, this film is well done. The casting, acting and direction are excellent. But you know what? It doesn't matter. Because this story is awful.
When these novels swept the world, and every man and his dog had their nose in a copy all summer, I tried really, really hard to read them. But I ground to a halt about a hundred pages in. I think the turgid prose (four pages of Apple laptop specs? really?), and the endless scenes…