The latter 'title' above, the English translation of the Swedish title, is more accurate, but I imagine the American distributors felt it was too dark.
This is an excellent who-done-it, that while longer than average, held my interest continuously and NEVER dragged. The story, screenplay, actors, direction, and cinematography are all excellent IMHO. A young-woman investigator/computerhacker is played cooly by Noomi Rapace, who has acted in all 3 of the Steig Larssen-based movies. Her character fascinated me, perhaps for being so unlike female actors in American movies.
HIGHLY recommended. Ebert sure loved it.
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Topic - 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' or 'Men Who Hate Women' - jeffreybehr 13:58:39 04/08/10 (14)
- Did you read the book before you saw the film? (tiny spoiler alert) - kSpace 19:38:45 04/12/10 (0)
- Thanks for hyphenating the tag. I'd hate to have to sue you. :-) nt - tinear 14:09:20 04/09/10 (2)
- Which hyphen(s) is/are that/those? Which tag is that? Did you post your... - jeffreybehr 22:40:56 04/09/10 (1)
- "Tin-eared audiofool." nt - tinear 09:33:28 04/11/10 (0)
- RE: the book was a fantastic read - Shlooby 06:18:56 04/09/10 (6)
- Just checked the listings... - mkuller 11:20:45 04/09/10 (4)
- "American casting for Lisbeth" Avril Lavigne in her first film role with Brad Pitt as Blomkvist. - Tony D. 22:09:44 04/10/10 (0)
- How about the most ridiculous castings... nt - dave c 21:00:47 04/10/10 (1)
- Keanu Reeves: Blomqvist, Catherine Zeta Jones: Lisbeth - dave c 21:02:54 04/10/10 (0)
- Ellen Page? She's WAY too nice AND conventional looking IMO. - jeffreybehr 22:42:51 04/09/10 (0)
- Or worse (much worse) - sjb 10:59:23 04/09/10 (0)
- I just finished reading the book this week... - mkuller 20:54:19 04/08/10 (0)
- I'm going this afternoon. nt - dave c 17:27:07 04/08/10 (1)
- Pls let us know how you liked it. (NT) - jeffreybehr 22:48:52 04/08/10 (0)