The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (the movie)

[MetroStyles]

How does this book compare to Dan Brown?

 

[foodguy]

seriously? completely different. much more character driven but still really plotty. brown's characters have about as much depth as cardboard.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by foodguy

seriously? completely different. much more character driven but still really plotty. brown's characters have about as much depth as cardboard.

I read like 5 pages of Dan Brown and put it down. This seems mega popular (at the level of Brown, Potter, Twilight), so you can't blame me for being wary.

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

I read like 5 pages of Dan Brown and put it down. This seems mega popular (at the level of Brown, Potter, Twilight), so you can't blame me for being wary.
Its good. Hell, all three books are good. Definitely worth a read. Might help with the ladies as they're bound to have heard/read about it.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

I read like 5 pages of Dan Brown and put it down. This seems mega popular (at the level of Brown, Potter, Twilight), so you can't blame me for being wary.

i hear you. that's why i reacted that way. i'd compare it more to maybe scott turow or somebody like that. very popular, not literature, but not bad.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by foodguy

i hear you. that's why i reacted that way. i'd compare it more to maybe scott turow or somebody like that. very popular, not literature, but not bad.

I was pretty impressed at the way Larson blended dry corporate history and social policy with a rather compelling mystery. It never felt like reading an annual report.

 

[Benzito]

Originally Posted by Waffle

i've read all the books, but didn't like the films. the swedish version didn't follow the books that well, and had waaay too much focus on the sex scenes instead of the plot. too bad, because i enjoyed reading the books

I agree. I don't really know how the rest of you can say the movie "closely followed" the book. There were huge subjects omitted and others that were just given passing mention in the movie. The movie was okay, don't get me wrong, but the book was significantly better (probably not a surprise).

 

[Rambo]

Originally Posted by Benzito

I agree. I don't really know how the rest of you can say the movie "closely followed" the book. There were huge subjects omitted and others that were just given passing mention in the movie. The movie was okay, don't get me wrong, but the book was significantly better (probably not a surprise).
I thought the first movie was very faithful. The 2nd and 3rd had much larger departures.

 

[FidelCashflow]

I got a free pass to the movie. I had never heard of the books before and had only seen an online trailer.... I walked out with an overhwhelming sense of

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Rambo

Its good. Hell, all three books are good. Definitely worth a read. Might help with the ladies as they're bound to have heard/read about it.

I feel ya, but literature is pretty sacred to me. Reading for an ulterior motive is just...wrong. Even more so than music - because I can enjoy ****** pop here and there.

 

[Benzito]

Originally Posted by Rambo

I thought the first movie was very faithful. The 2nd and 3rd had much larger departures.

Maybe we are talking about two different things

* SPOILER ALERT *

The movie made no mention of the "public" reason for the author being hired (to document the family history), the love affair with the aunt and the other family members' interactions were much more significant in the book, and the side story about the magazine and its exploration of the conglomerate - I'll admit probably too detailed to follow in a movie . . . was it even minimally explained in the movie?

Again, the movie was entertaining, but like most movie adaptations, the book was a lot better. And I am not a bookworm.

 

[GQgeek]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

I feel ya, but literature is pretty sacred to me. Reading for an ulterior motive is just...wrong. Even more so than music - because I can enjoy ****** pop here and there.

+1

With all the great literature that's out there to read, knowing that I will never have time to read all of it, I just wouldn't want to spend time on anything that wasn't great.

 

[Benzito]

Originally Posted by GQgeek

+1

With all the great literature that's out there to read, knowing that I will never have time to read all of it, I just wouldn't want to spend time on anything that wasn't great.

My wife thinks I'm dumb, but if I don't like a book within the first 40 or 50 pages, I just stop reading and move on. I have stacks of stuff on my "to read" list and don't have time to spend on the uninteresting ones, either.

 

[foodguy]

Originally Posted by Benzito

Maybe we are talking about two different things

* SPOILER ALERT *

The movie made no mention of the "public" reason for the author being hired (to document the family history), the love affair with the aunt and the other family members' interactions were much more significant in the book, and the side story about the magazine and its exploration of the conglomerate - I'll admit probably too detailed to follow in a movie . . . was it even minimally explained in the movie?

Again, the movie was entertaining, but like most movie adaptations, the book was a lot better. And I am not a bookworm.

you're right, but i disagree to an extent. i think the streamlining that was necessary to make the movie move at an appropriate pace probably would have improved the book as well. although i'd read the book, i didn't miss those side plots at all in the movie. i felt the same way about the adaptation of walter moseley's devil in a blue dress, a book i really enjoyed, but might have enjoyed more if it had been edited the way the movie was.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Originally Posted by willpower

Teh awesome. Absolutely worth seeing. Not a first date film. Well acted and beautiful cinematography. And man, was the girl with the dragon tattoo a badass.

Edit: Release on DVD Tuesday, July 6, 2010


Yush definitely a very good thriller indeed. Lisbeth was cool as hell. I'm loving Swedish films at the moment, between this and Let The right One In