I enjoyed it as well. The acting was great, the film score added a lot of atmosphere.

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It does drag a little at the end just as the book does. To me, the true climax of the story is when Martin crashes his car. I never really cared much about the Wennerstrom stuff...

the girl was really good, but the plot was pretty boring and obvious to me. doesnt work well as a thriller or mystery. and it does have some pacing problems. pretty brutal though. shes fucks dudes up!

It was hard for me to be critical of the plot since I had read the book and pretty much knew what was coming. I'd be interested to hear what someone who hasn't read the book thought as to whether or not it was predictable.

I really like the Immigrant Song version.

its really good
great night-driving song

I really liked it, just brutal in some parts though

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I went and saw it the morning after it came out at 1130 am. Me and about 3 other people. uncomfortable to say the least. I think I was more uncomfortable with the forced bj scene.

I got wrapped up in the story and filmmaking and between the uncommon (for an American) names and the relatively large quantity of information being thrown at the audience, I didn't find it predictable. So I enjoyed it quite a bit from a filmmaking perspective. Powerful stuff, as always, from Fincher.

I give them a big thumbs up for not converting this to an American/English setting.

THIS.

i think you just like Fincher's balls way too much.

never even heard of the book/movie before and just watched the Swedish film last week. it was good. not great...although not many films are...just good.

commence the sucking!

Well, I fully admit that I'm a Fincher fanboy. Absolutely. And why not? The guy just makes killer films. However you want to rank them: Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac, The Social Network and Benjamin Button are all outstanding works. There are plenty of directors out there that wish they could have even one of those films are their resume.

But my comment that you quoted was made having read the book. And that 8 minute trailer is more interesting and more faithful to the book than the Swedish film was. At least, in my opinion. The Swedish film is fine, especially if you haven't read the book. But as an adaptation it leaves a lot to be desired. It missed the point in a lot of major ways.

We'll see if Fincher makes similar mistakes. He's not infallible, after all.

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i think what annoyed me most about this movie is that it went out of its way to tell us how interesting and evil the family was, and how we are going to meet them all and there will be a huge mystery over which one did it, but instead we get Skarsgard, an old guy with two lines of dialogue, and two completely uninteresting women with about as many lines. gee, i wonder which one is the bad guy? maybe the guy who is evil in every movie he is in? oh but she is really alive? what a twist!

i dont know i think Fincher can do better. maybe the directors cut is good, but this felt like a classic case of trying to cram everything in the book into a movie.

Frankly, the book isn't entirely different on that score. But that stuff is hardly the point, either.

i enjoyed the two leads, and her story, as disturbing as it was, was great. one of the best revenge scenes in history! but it felt like it limped along after that. all in all i thought it was ok.

That's a pretty accurate account of the book as well. I guess I'm just hoping Fincher's visuals and pacing elevate the film above the previous adaptation and the novel itself.

I'll see it soon enough. I'll be as neutral and open to the experience as possible. But it'll be hard to suspend my undying love for the director. The move is actually going to have to work to lose me. I'm already on board!

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Roony Mara was a better Lizbeth & Craig was perfect as Blomquist. They made the movie for me. I really hope this does good enough to get "Played with fire" made, because it's the best of the three.

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They didn't give you enough options as to who the killer may be. In the book there were a few more maybes, I thought it was the nosy woman for a bit in the book.

When I heard he was going to change the ending I thought it would be more then just having the London girl actually be Harriet.

They did zero with the magazine & knowing a bit about those people would help in the next one.

people are saying this drags a bit, but I hope they put an additional half hour into the directors cut. This trilogy would have been well served as an HBO series.

Just saw this. Was really good, but I didn't care for the r*pe scene.

I just finished the book. Even though I'm a huge Fincher fan, I don't know if I can bring myself to sit through this junk story again. It's horribly written, has almost zero characterization, and has more deus ex machinas than three King novels and more cliches than 10 Michael Bay movies. It's just so fucking amateur. Why so many people like it is beyond me.