It's too easy to get distracted
I may have started out on facebook but then I saw the ad in the sidebar for the new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie shenanigans and I was all "yay! I love that movie!". So I clicked on it, and I saw the poster for the new adaptation. Then I was irrationally up in arms for a little while.
I was originally planning to read the book first. I felt that since it was good enough to be published posthumously it deserved at least some of my attention. To tell the truth I wasn't even expected that much of the movie because it's been such a long time since I've seen a thriller that actually caught my attention for more than a day or two. But then my parents went and watched the movie without me so I found the stream on netflix and watched it late at night sometime during my two weeks off. I wouldn't have wanted to watch it with them anyway. It would've been a bit awkward.
Anyway I watched it and I heartily loved it. It's really refreshing to watch a non-Hollywood movie. While the plot wasn't appreciably different from too many thriller/mysteries out there, the casting, the acting, the feel of everything was so much more deep and genuine. I fangasm about it just a little bit every once in awhile. Anyway, it was such a critical success in Sweden that they decided to remake it in the US (because they couldn't think of anything better to do).
Now I have to make a side-note because the new director is David Fincher, who I have to have enormous respect for, maybe even kind of love for picking the kinds of movies that he does. These movies include: Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network. (I loved pretty much all of them except Zodiac, which I didn't get to watch cause my parents returned the DVD without my consent again). So props to David Fincher, you do great things.
Anyway. Posters:
SVEDEN!!! On the left is the English/American poster for the Swedish movie. On the right is only existing poster I have seen for the US adaptation
I don't know. How is each of these posters trying to attract an audience? What do they promise about the movies? Which would you watch? Lastly, here is the Swedish poster for the Swedish adaptation, for extra comparison:
I think I like that one the best. I want to watch this movie again.
I was originally planning to read the book first. I felt that since it was good enough to be published posthumously it deserved at least some of my attention. To tell the truth I wasn't even expected that much of the movie because it's been such a long time since I've seen a thriller that actually caught my attention for more than a day or two. But then my parents went and watched the movie without me so I found the stream on netflix and watched it late at night sometime during my two weeks off. I wouldn't have wanted to watch it with them anyway. It would've been a bit awkward.
Anyway I watched it and I heartily loved it. It's really refreshing to watch a non-Hollywood movie. While the plot wasn't appreciably different from too many thriller/mysteries out there, the casting, the acting, the feel of everything was so much more deep and genuine. I fangasm about it just a little bit every once in awhile. Anyway, it was such a critical success in Sweden that they decided to remake it in the US (because they couldn't think of anything better to do).
Now I have to make a side-note because the new director is David Fincher, who I have to have enormous respect for, maybe even kind of love for picking the kinds of movies that he does. These movies include: Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network. (I loved pretty much all of them except Zodiac, which I didn't get to watch cause my parents returned the DVD without my consent again). So props to David Fincher, you do great things.
Anyway. Posters:
SVEDEN!!! On the left is the English/American poster for the Swedish movie. On the right is only existing poster I have seen for the US adaptation
I don't know. How is each of these posters trying to attract an audience? What do they promise about the movies? Which would you watch? Lastly, here is the Swedish poster for the Swedish adaptation, for extra comparison:
I think I like that one the best. I want to watch this movie again.