Allow me to quickly
introduce myself: My name is Kara, and I live over at www.karaschatter.com . I have no
experience in the movie industry, other than watching and appreciating them. I
thought I would offer up my movie reviewing skills, or lack thereof, to The
Basement to give readers a female perspective on movies, new, old, good, and
bad.
After reading the Millennium series
written by Stieg Larsson, I was rather excited to watch the movies. I will
admit that I watched the American version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, so
I was slightly apprehensive to watch the Swedish version of the next film in
the trilogy, The Girl Who Played
with Fire.
I know that Jason and Shawn had reviewed the first two films
a
while back and they had mixed feelings. Jason noted that the two leads didn’t
spend much (if any) screen time together, but I’ll note that if I remember
correctly, they don’t share many “pages” in the novel either. I digress …
I caught myself up with a little Wikipedia and IMDB digging
and Roomi Rapace returns as Lisbeth Salander, the misunderstood yet brilliant
tech-savvy woman, and Michael Nyqvist as Mikael Blomkvist, the investigative
journalist.
I wish I had watched the Swedish version of Dragon Tattoo so
I could have something to compare the series to, but alas, I didn’t. However,
the Swede version of Played with Fire is just as raunchy as the English version
of Dragon Tattoo, if not, a little more. It also appears to pick up exactly where
Dragon Tattoo left off.
It’s been a while since I’ve read the novel, but Played with
Fire follows the storyline fairly well and did not disappoint, even though I
had to read subtitles. (SPOILER ALERT!) Lisbeth returns from
her overseas escapades only to learn that she has been framed for a triple
murder and begins the search to find out who has done so. At the same time,
Mikael is trying to do the same thing.
I could tell you how everything plays out, but I won’t! I
really encourage anyone who hasn’t read the books to do so and find out. They’re
well written and hard to put down once you get into them. I’ll admit that it
took me several tries to get into Dragon Tattoo, but once I did I couldn’t put
it down.
I really hope that the cast and crew from the English Dragon
Tattoo film returns to make an English version of the film (Partly because
Daniel Craig’s Mikael is much nicer on the eyes, partly because I’d like to see
their spin on things). Either way, I did enjoy the Swede version, subtitles and
all. A Good from this girl!
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