Any "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" fans here?

[Lee]

Probably deserving of another thread (and likely at a different site) but it's interesting that movie ratings mirror other attitudes/laws in most parts of the US.  Sensual massage resulting in "release" is a crime, while S&M is legal. 

[roo_ster]

http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power/print#axzz1iBYp4ziS

Steve Sailer pulls no punches in his review.

I was at the local art-house cinema in 2010 when the third thriller debuted, and it looked like Twilight for the elderly. The lobby was jammed with shuffling octogenarians. The restroom lines were moving so slowly that I fear many Larsson fans may have missed their favorite sexual-torture and sadistic-revenge scenes.

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Despite Fincher’s expertise, his Girl with the Dragon Tattoo winds up being The Da Vinci Code of the 2010s, only with more anal rape.

[Jamisjockey]

http://takimag.com/article/fight_the_imaginary_power/print#axzz1iBYp4ziS

Steve Sailer pulls no punches in his review.

Wow. Reading the review makes me lose all interest.

[Viking]

Yeah, I refuse to contribute to his estate by watching his paranoid, rape-obessessed leftist drivel. The only way I'd read the books would be if I stole them.

[Lee]

Just walked out of the theater. Man that movie was awesome. I really wasn't sure what to expect but this movie just blew me away. It surprisingly had some humor. Before seeing the movie I too was wondering how they could be struggling with the rating, after seeing it I can see how.

I'll trust this one more.
I've seen all three of the Swedish movies, and they were awesome.
I knew the political aspect would creep into this eventually. 
I's suggest this as an alternative. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMVaRpYOds

[Chuck Dye]

I read and thoroughly enjoyed the three books, haven't seen any of the films but intend to.  As I understand it, the Swedish versions are not theatrical releases, but made for television.  Given my one Swedish girlfriend's proclivities , I will not be surprised if Swedish TV productions are more faithful to the books, and raunchier, than Hollywood's efforts.

[seeker_two]

Saw the Americanized movie....pretty good mystery....but the rape-&-torture scenes were pretty intense. Plus, the romantic interest b/t Craig & Mara didn't seem to flow with the rest of the story....

I did like Rooney Mara as Lisabeth....she looked more the part than Noomi Rapace....who, BTW is in the new Sherlock Holmes movie.....

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636426/


....oh, as a social-work type myself, I was ready to slit the rapist-caseworker open myself....I hate when people give my career a bad name.... 

[freakazoid]

Think Trinity in The Matrix, but with even more attitude. Lisbeth has genius computer-hacking skills, a black wardrobe and a black motorcycle, hand-to-hand combat techniques that let her deal out cruel vengeance upon men twice her 100 pounds, piercings, a mohawk, and lesbianism (until she’s exposed to the journalist hero’s recessive charm).

Funny, I don't remember any hand-to-hand combat. That whole review was just   Only reinforces my hatred of movie critics.

[Perd Hapley]

Are there any worthwhile novels written since, say, 1970?

[BryanP]

Having now seen the first movie, read the first book and now part way into the second, I'm enjoying them.  Yes, the author's political leanings come through, but then so do Tom Clancy's and I enjoyed the a lot of his books before he went off the deep end.  There are a few authors I've stopped reading because they let their political views get in the way of telling a good story, but as long as they keep telling a good story I'll give them a lot of leeway on the views even if I don't share them.  I'll finish reading the trilogy and probably watch the next two movies as well.

[Perd Hapley]

FWIW, Rush Limbaugh came out as a Lisbeth Salander fan some months back.

[roo_ster]

Amazon Prime has all three of the Swedish flicks.

Saw two of them the other weekend while doing laundry that had piled up.  Ran out of laundry before I got to number three.

I think the Steve Sailer review I linked was overly generous, unless the English version is much better than the Swedish version.  I'd sum it up as a middle-aged lefty writer's pathetic personal fantasy. 

Also, somebody mail the female lead a razor.


Only two interesting things about both movies occurred in the second movie:
1. Size & strength matters.  The kick-boxing champ girlfriend gets beat down by the big farm boy who lacked talent, but was big as a side of beef, with brawn to match.  Like I have seen (male vs male, though) many times.  There is a reason competitive contact martial arts have weight classes with small ranges.(1)
2. Running away from an enemy at close range who has a firearm gets you shot.  Repeatedly.


(1) For instance, boxing:

Code: [Select]

Weight limit Continuous WBA
(lb / kg) since
unlimited 1885 Heavyweight
200 / 90.7 1980[t 1] Cruiserweight
175 / 79.4 1913 Light heavyweight
168 / 76.2 1984 Super middleweight
160 / 72.6 1884 Middleweight
154 / 69.9 1962 Super welterweight
147 / 66.7 1914 Welterweight
140 / 63.5 1959 Super lightweight
135 / 61.2 1886 Lightweight
130 / 59.0 1959 Super featherweight
126 / 57.2 1889 Featherweight
122 / 55.3 1976 Super bantamweight
118 / 53.5 1894 Bantamweight
115 / 52.2 1980 Super flyweight
112 / 50.8 1911 Flyweight
108 / 49.0 1975 Light flyweight
105 / 47.6 1987 Minimumweight


[MillCreek]

So we just watched the American version courtesy of Redbox.  We both liked the Swedish version better, and felt it was more true to the book.

[Perd Hapley]

Twilight makes Dragon Tattoo look like fail. Team Jacob!!!!!!!

[Lee]

I mean ....like really?

[Tallpine]

There is a lot of sex intermingled with violence -but that's generally the point of the stories.

As opposed to violence intermingled with sex ...   

[seeker_two]

As opposed to violence intermingled with sex ...   

That would be a James Bond movie....or life with my third girlfriend....