andymclennan
I'm not averse to a remake if it's done well, but there has to be a reason for it.
For example:*If the original wasn't much good (definitely not the case).*The original is really old and needed updating (a remake after just two years is ridiculous quite frankly).*The remake offers a new take on a story (nope, it's pretty much a scene for scene copy).I really can't see the necessity for this film, the original is superior in every way - there;s even an English (dubbed) version on the Blu ray for those people that are allergic to subtitles.Craig and Mara are fine actors, but they pale in comparison to the original cast in this story. Noomi Rapace in particular portrays Lisbeth Salander as gritty, troubled and above all interesting and (in my opinion) is a lot closer to the character in the book.Not an awful remake, but just so unnecessary.
cinemajesty
The constant moving, breathing picture with precise-placed sound design, Director David Fincher's remake of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" with Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist, who are in good hands in an accelerating Thriller presentation, captured mainly with one camera on set by cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, close collaborator of the director since "Fight Club" (1999), out of a consequently pacing, tracking, character beats covering, cross and jump-cut daring editorial by film cutter duo Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall, emotionally enhanced by an haunting, minimalistic original score design by composers Trent Rezor & Atticus Ross. Producer Scott Rudin accompanied by initial producers Soren Staermose & Ole Sondberg of the 2009 original adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Novel, made sure with raised production budget to 90 Million U.S. Dollars, shooting on-location in Sweden as original movie, which starred Noomi Rapace and late Michael Nyqvist (1960-2017), not lesser intense in the suspense-building and thrilling plot twists, yet not as atmospheric and stylized adapted by Director Niels Arden Oplev, who denied the picture from 2009, an interweaving editorial as Director David Fincher masterfully utilized to build an even closer throat-gripping mystery of the two main characters' origins, which leads them to an spiritual life bonding experience. David Fincher opens "The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo" with a timid extreme wide right pan over a frozen lake, which already establishing image system of the upcoming emotional state of the character of Henrik Vanger, performed by Christopher Plummer, who engages Journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate on a life-time mystery of a 40-years-earlier disappearing granddaughter Harriet Vanger, which unfortunately has been twisted from sister Anita Vanger living London exile, portrayed by Joely Richardson, in the screenwriter Steven Zaillian's version through an "Deus Ex Machina" plot twist into the same person to meet her slowly dying grandfather by the end; where the original adaptation kept the sisters Anita and Harriet Vanger strictly separated. Despite this previously mentioned U.S. screenplay major change-up to Swedish version, "The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo" (2011) runs smoothly its 150 minutes plus screen time, keeping relentless sidetracking on the main characters' development within a story line that follows actors Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig building in two separated sub-plots, constantly inter-cutting without losing any suspense throughout the picture; a momentum to the point, when the character of Lisbeth & Mikael finally meet for breakfast at her apartment to establish an unlikely relationship to catch a killer of women, which gets additionally triggered by Lisbeth's lesbian activity with gone-by one night stand half way through the film. The character of Lisbeth, performed by highly focused, yet under dwelling tension-spreading actress Rooney Mara, responsibly supported by Director David Fincher in major emotional visualization as at running time marker 1h23mins30sec with Lisbeth watching the bridge to her newly found endeavor of vigilant behavior, of not to say an arc-angle avenging effort against ultra-violent, women-murdering men, while a speed train passing by in full acceleration behind her back. The final meeting with the personified female-abusing character of Nils Bjurman, who awakens Lisbeth's trauma of burning her father alive at the age of 10, who then eventually resurfaces in unrealized U.S. sequel "The Girl Who Played With Fire" under the name of Alexander Zalachenko, only when delicate love story of Lisbeth & Mikael comes full circle, when this time Mikael needs to rescue Lisbeth from the fangs of a demonized father-figure in axed-swinging fist-fight showdown at an remotely-located farm house at night. David Fincher and his leading actress Rooney Mara, as well-read collaborators, researched the complete "Millennium" novel-trilogy as one given content, which translated into "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (2011), yet never come to a full circle conclusion with Rooney Mara's interpretation of the character of Lisbeth Salander, finally turned to an undercover-avenging vigilante in the opening sequence of "The Girl Who Played With Fire" by watching the married couple Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Richard Forbes, portrayed by Charlize Theron and Pierce Brosnan, in an Key West Hotel Resort, Miami, Florida, with the ultimate exchanging look between women of the enslaved character of Geraldine Forbes in a marriage with Dr. Forbes, who drags his wife the other day out into a thunderstorm on the beach in order to drown her in Atlantic salt water, before the character of Lisbeth rescues the character of Geraldine Forbes from the domestic-violent husband with another face-smashing strike from a beach-stated stone in Lisbeth's right hand, where in part 1 the gun clicked to safety, while the storm-raging sea swallows the stone-struck body of Dr. Forbes; and Lisbeth drags his from her temple-bleeding wife into safety of the hotel's lobby, when another fulminate designed title sequence by "Deathpool" (2016) director Tim Miller strikes the cinema's canvas in shades of dark blue and finishing green fire catharsis. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", even after close to six years after its initially release on December 21st 2011, has nothing lost of its immense, yet walk-on-by, potential from a side-by-side lying Daniel Craig, who fought his James Bond image successfully, and Rooney Mara, who cut her teeth as an 25-year-old actress to maturity, in an elegantly, yet simplistic, almost by the way, directed scene by David Fincher of confessions of one of the most exciting character in recent movie history.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
