I went to the movies today to see the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I loved the books and have been looking forward to the movie. I always envisaged Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomqvist even before I knew he was in the movie. He was perfectly cast. Rooney Mara was also a very convincing Lisbeth Salander.
Of course adapting such an intense novel would be difficult but I though the movie was fantastic. I don’t go to the movies very often and at $18.50 a ticket (that’s about $19.50 US Dollars for my USA friends) I am much too cheap to go unless I really really want to see the movie. This one was worth it.
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I’ve not finished the book yet, so most likely won’t go to see the movie. That is an awful price to pay for a ticket! Here we can buy tickets on-line before the show, and if we go to a matinee, can generally get a ticket for about $7.50. It has been a very long time since I’ve been to the cinema.
Have you seen the original movie? How did it compare?
Hi Lisa,
Yes, I have seen both. The Swedish movie was good. I believe that is was made for TV originally and there were more liberties taken with the plot and I felt that they didn’t go in depth with the character of Lisbeth. If you are not a fan of foreign films (I like them) then you may be more disappointed with it.
I don’t think the US version was too ‘dumbed down’. It was good visually. The accents were believable and it was well cast. I was glad that the violence was not overly graphic, if you know what I mean. It was a long film but to capture all the detail it could have been 6 hours long. I don’t think my $$$ were wasted. It has just been so long since I have been to the movies that I got sticker shock!