The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7 PM, 12/20/11 - 25 people.
Trailers - there were eight, at least. I was about to leave.
Contraband, 21 Jump Street, and the rest I forgot.
Movie -
Oh my Godddddddddddddddd. From the opening credits and the Immigrant Song (SO MUCH BETTER ON THE BIG SCREEN AND BLASTING) to just about all 20 rape and sex and revenge scenes, the chase, and the rest of it with Irene Nesser (my favorite part of the movie) and the ending of course, like two minutes long but so perfectly amazing.
Lisbeth's dialogue is so great and full of awesome one-liners. May I kill him? Yes. Touch me and I'll more than alarm you. Hey hey! And she's so different with Palmgren, I love it. Then her scenes with Blomkvist half way through are so well written and they get really close towards the end - and then the end ruins it all.
Blomkvist is less sexy than the book but I guess it doesn't matter, there's enough sex here. In the scene with the Enya (right?) song he rocks.
Everyone else is great, especially Henrik and Erika (even though she's barely in it).
Then there's the score - music really is playing in most scenes, though mostly very low and used as an undertone. It picks up in the most random places and they use tracks you wouldn't expect (for anyone that is aware of the names, While Waiting plays when they find the dead cat, I know, WTF?)
The cinematography is just as great as The Social Network if not better. There's more shaky cam scenes but very few. There's lots of cool shots though, like when the camera glides over 3-4 desks and ends up behind Lisbeth.
Just, woa. I'm seeing this again next week.