Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[Alex]

Saw Girl with the Dragon Tattoo yesterday, literally 2 hours after finishing the book.

It is odd to watch a movie with the source material so completely fresh in my mind. It really highlights the process of adaptation and the logic behind the decisions that must be made.

I'm pretty tepid on the book. It starts out really bad but improves as it goes. The movie is better, the decisions they had to make eliminated a lot of the crawl. I think it is a shame they shifted some of the smarts from one character to another (in the book they're both pretty smart) but overall pretty successful.

If you see it, be warned that the first 30-40 minutes is pretty talky which will emphasize the fact that you're reading the movie (eventually I get into a groove where I don't even notice any more but early on it's a bit more of an issue). Unfortunately, they didn't pay attention to the scene behind the subtitles and there are a few spots where it is difficult to read the all white text over a very light background.