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I don't know anything about the books, but this is a remake of a 2 year old film?
Fincher = I'm interested.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

It's an English version of a Swedish 2 year old film. I don't know anything about the books, but I hear they're good.

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The 2009 version is streaming on Netflix. It's also more than 2 hours long , I'll try to check it out sometime this week.

Edited to add: I now see that the whole trilogy is available to stream on Netflix. That's a good 6 hours of Swedish.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

fincher's working with reznor again, reznor's co-written the soundtrack. the screenplay's by steve zaillian who's got a very nice resume including "awakenings", "schindler's list", and "gangs of new york".

Saw this yesterday. Very good. Some pretty brutal scenes. Had a little bit of "Silence of the Lambs" to it. Three hours long, though.

First book is exceptional. 2nd one, girl who played with fire, not so much. 3rd book, girl who kicked the hornet's nest, dude must've still been working on when he bit it.

All 3 Swedish film adaptations are well worth tracking down. Dialogue is fairly minimal, so the subtitles thing isn't much of an issue.

After reading the books and seeing the Swedish film versions, don't see the point in the Amorican adapts (same for the US versions of Brit-coms like The Office or Shameless, just watch the originals, they are far better than the milquetoast U.S. versions). having fully satiated any desire for more Lisbeth Salander is probably true for a lot of fans of the books, hence the lukewarm box office reception.

The wife read it and she loved the movie. Very graphic scenes in it from what she told me(I don't watch these movies). She is also looking forward to the Hunger Games movie that is coming out soon.

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The movie was pretty good. I can understand why chicks like it. You've seen the movie before many times, but the hero is always a solitary man played by someone like Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwod. The fact that the solitary hero in this is female is what makes it different.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Read the first 2 books. Fast and entertaining. Saw the Swedish movies. Not terribly impressed. Lots of shots of Lisbeth brooding and smoking cigarettes. I'll pass on the theater for the US version and rent it. But I do like me some Rooney Mara. And Wellington as well. Such a proud gruff bastage of a man.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

Not as good as the book but still a good movie. Pretty good casting. Christopher Plummer is the man.

Went into the movie having no concept of the subject matter. Really good stuff. I was expecting more of a fantasy type angle because of the "dragon tattoo". Not so. Just a decent mystery movie. Opened with a remake of Led Zeppelin Immigrant Song that set an interesting tone (for me). As mentioned, good casting, good storyline that was fairly well adapted to the book according to my better half.

Definitely worth a rent.

I saw this yesterday (for free). I put it in the category of "glad I saw it,but I don't want to watch it twice". Really,if a mystery is staring at multiple old photos for 40 minutes of the movie,than I guess it was a good mystery. How all the dots were connected was both cumbersome and confusing. Still overall,it was an OK movie.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

NOTE: There are some graphic scenes that are for adult audiences only. Snuck up on this viewer. Careful if watching with kids around.

Is the scene with Advokat Bjurman as bad as in the book?

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I have not read the book. I was under the impression that the scenes were very graphic and lasted for some time. Both scenes were quite graphic, and well done if there could be such a thing, but didn't go into the detail as in the book. For a movie of this ilk it was plenty graphic. The points were made if you will.

The scenes were pretty brutal.

I just finished this book on Sunday. I can't wait to read the next two. Now, usually I prefer not to watch movies of books I love until they end up on TNT some weekend, but one single word can change everything!

"Fincher"



I'm going to try to catch this one before it's 2-3 years old.

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Trent Reznor did the music.. Haven't seen the US movie but interesting to hear they do a take on Immigrant Song. John Carpenter ripped off/sampled Immigrant Song for the theme for the original Assault on Precinct 13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbBayiWglg