The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

[Reel]

Less eyebrow

[AntiDumbFrogQuestion]

yeah...glad they developed that look further.

[Pubrick]

so the dragon tattoo dvd looks like this:

which caused amazon to post this on the film's page:

[©brad]

Hah that DVD art is perfect. I really want to see this again.

[picolas]

the blu ray has the most intimate special features EVER. i feel like i was a part of the shoot. there are featurettes and conversations that don't even really have anything to do with filmmaking. just fun shit that happened. i don't even understand how some things got on, like finch casually complaining to mara that the studio wanted the poster font changed because "it looked too 'asian'". it's actually one step beyond That Moment and the Episode I doc because it's so bloody specific down to every facet of production, divided into juicy pieces.

[Pubrick]

I'm getting it.

[Pozer]

somebitch sold me on it too.

[AntiDumbFrogQuestion]

watched it for the 2nd time last nite since theatrical release w/ Fincher commentary. The way the story is told and shot and acted still has impact for me, and an especially epic final shot that is perfect for the film.
It's a movie that could stand alone and not have sequels, if not for the fact that a few of us want to see the following chapters in the Millenium story given a much better treatment than the Swedish follow-ups.
Gonna have to buy a blu-ray player just for the special features.

[Jeremy Blackman]

The opening credits sequence was great (of course).

Rooney Mara was pretty amazing. Certainly deserved the role. Even with all her screen time, she managed to remain sufficiently enigmatic. I do find it funny that the poster shows her in a vulnerable position being protected by Daniel Craig, when in the movie it's exactly the opposite.

Having no familiarity with the book, I was often confused and never sure how much I was supposed to be figuring out. But that was always eventually resolved. So I think it worked.

I liked the movie overall, but the editing was very strange. Much of the film felt rushed and perfunctory, like they obviously took a hatchet to it in the editing room. Especially that last "investment" sequence.

SPOILERS

The rape scene seemed rushed, too. Didn't they also cut away from it to Daniel Craig's character's story? The suddenness and quickness of it was frightening, but it might have had more impact as a longer continuous scene. Oh well... It was still powerful.

After the guy is smacked in the face with the golf club, why doesn't he just hit that gas switch again? Even if that's somehow impossible, trying to escape from his own house which is filled with confusing hallways and lots of his own guns seems like a very poor decision. Not only is he injured, but he loses every advantage he had and leaves behind the witnesses, with the serial killer dungeon completely open. That's just creating more problems. What the heck?

I'm not the type that tries to figure out mysteries during movies, but for some reason I always believed that Harriet was still alive and even correctly identified who she was. I rarely do that. (I prefer to be surprised.) Did they hint too heavily?

I think we all learned something from that final scene, as if it weren't already self-evident: Robin Wright ruins everything.