Movie #190 ........................."The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo"

Movie #190 "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" was a wow film for me. WITH A DISCLAIMER: it's only for people who actually like shows like Criminal Minds..because it's bloody and violent. If you don't mind looking away for those scenes (anyone who knows the book, knows what I'm talking about), then you would find this most thrilling. It's very tense and very true to the book. And the changes it made were GOOD changes. Whoever directed this film (I'm not acquainted with Swedish films) shows a great respect for this author ---- as if the attitude is, Hey this Larsson novelist is our closest thing to Shakespeare, so don't screw this sacred book up! It's 152 minutes but I really didn't notice it. When it was over, I was sitting by myself in a theatre with about 6 other people, and we all stood around and talked about the movie and the book. It was great fun. One woman said she had put the book down because it was so confusing at first (I agreed with all the names that you get introduced to at the beginning), and another one and I discussed the missing scenes and the added ones and we really agreed that the movie was AS GOOD as the book. If you've read the book, when you see the film, I'd appreciate a comment from you to see if that is true. Because I rarely say a movie is as good as a book. But there it is. I really like this one. One of my favorites out of 190 so far!


I gave it 5 stars
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Män Som Hatar Kvinnor; Millennium: Part 1: Men Who Hate Women
(2009) NR


Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and rebellious computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's (Sven-Bertil Taube) teen niece (Ewa Fröling), only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family. Niels Arden Oplev directs this Swedish thriller based on the first novel from Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy.