Watched a rather long winded first of three, book to movie incarnations in 'THE GIRL ..' series. Was not sure what it might be - the name intrigued me - 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoos'. Honestly I had low expectations going in to watch, what with having seen many a housewife consume the hard cover ed many months ago when those came out. It was flying off the local store shelves. Hmm.. the movie though whatever the book might have been is actually a fun whodunit showing intrepid flamboyance with dogged cunning destroying a mentally distrubed nutjob.
The movie is Bond-esque thrills and techno mumbo jumbo crossed with good old fashion gumshoe journalism. The latter is the alter ego of the author Steig Larsson who was himself involved with research, tracking and exposing of neo-Nazi and fanatic cultures. It also features the current Bond incarnation in the form of Daniel Craig playing the protagonist. The young newbie, (to me anyway) Rooney Mara is "the girl with the dragon tattoos"..fast food chewing, bisexual, distrubed in her own way explorer.
Not sure if it was me but I thought the cast starts out dialog with a heavy Swedish accent to emphasize the ambient (author and story line was based in Sweden) but later seem to switch to more easy to understand speech. Not sure why they had to play with the accents - not like the movie was made for Swedes to watch. They I believe have their own movie version of the book.
The disturbed kid who works as a freelance investigator seems to live off of McDonald's and sugary coffee and proclaims to have a high metabolism along with a photographic memory.
Other than the smattering of some oft seen support cast was erstwhile Captain Von Trapp ... the ancient dude played by Christopher Plummer. I think he may even have gotten his one and only Oscar statuette for this...before he sort of met his maker.
All in all keeps you entertained although it could have moved quicker as many American Studio productions do.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
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