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New The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer Is Safe. For. Work. Damnit

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (24)

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Over the weekend, we posted a bootleg version of the Red Band trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer that had been released in Europe last week. The fact that Sony didn’t immediately yank it (in fact, it took them 48 hours to do so) suggested to some that Sony had intentionally leaked the bootleg. There were a lot of hilarious pissing matches between movie bloggers attempting to discern the intent behind Sony and David Fincher, and some even speculated based on absolutely nothing except movie-blogger delusions of grandeur that Sony had leaked it behind Fincher’s back because Fincher didn’t want to release a cut of the trailer that he had not personally edited and approved.

Right now, I’m doing that thing where I curl my index finger in a circle around my ear.

Anyway, now comes along the Green Band trailer, which means you can watch it at work if you work in a place that doesn’t mind that you watch David Fincher trailers on the company’s dime. But it also means that the trailer is not as cool as the bootleg Red Band trailer. But it is of a far superior quality, so you get a good crisp and clean look at Mara Rooney as Lisbeth. She makes my nether parts both tingle and recoil at the same time. Is that the intended effect?


You know what I think? I think that David Fincher is going to beat us in the face with his vision of the movie. And when he’s done, and we’re spitting out teeth and wiping away the blood, we’re going to say THANK YOU.









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Comments

Did anyone else experience this:

Book 1: Great read, nice plot, solid characters even if a little too pandering to the author's self-image through his alter-ego protagonist

Book 2: Needed judicious editing, needed to lose the idea that the author can get any woman into bed just by existing, plot lost it a bit as it progressed: way too much coincidence

Book 3: I'm totally done with this author.

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 1, 2011 10:16 AM

I hate trailers designed to induce seizures.

Posted by: Keith at June 1, 2011 10:18 AM

Posted by: sars at June 1, 2011 10:21 AM

I'd prefer this (and the overhyped red band trailer) if they dropped the song and featured dialogue. I'm always wary when trailers go arty instead of informative. The original movie was perfectly serviceable and the book was good. I'm just not all that excited about it. It looks exactly like the Swedish movie so I guess I don't see why everyone is going nuts for a story we just saw on screen 2 years ago. Was that movie perfect? No. But they got the main points of the book right and what was cut wasn't all that missed I didn't think. I thought Noomi Rapace was great in the roll, Mara looks like she is just going as extreme as possible with her look and it's going to be distracting as hell. Maybe it will be a surprise but I would really rather Fincher worked on something original instead of this rehashed trilogy.

/Voice of dissent.

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 1, 2011 10:21 AM

@PaddyDog, I'm right there with you on that progression through the series. Were you also totally disinterested by the third book in street names and driving directions and people drinking coffee and making sandwiches?

Posted by: VeryKerry at June 1, 2011 10:21 AM

I have no idea what this means:

Right now, I’m doing that thing where I curl my index finger in a circle around my ear.

I can't even visualize it. But, I know exactly what this means:

so you get a good crisp and clean look at Mara Rooney as Lisbeth. She makes my nether parts both tingle and recoil at the same time. Is that the intended effect?

Pretty sure the answer to that question is YES.

Posted by: RobP at June 1, 2011 10:25 AM

Paddy Dog:
My main issue with Played with Fire is that Lisbeth isn't in the book for over 250 pages. Also the book is entirely too long and needing some severe editing. Nothing happens until the last 100 pages or so and the book is only alive when Lisbeth is in the scene. I disliked Played with Fire so much I was done with the series and didn't even bother with Hornet's Nest. It's like they didn't want to mess with his work on Fire, so they put the whole damn bloated mess in a book and didn't even notice how repetitive and poorly developed it is.

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 1, 2011 10:26 AM

VeryKerry:

I am laughing so hard right now. I have been a fan of Swedish crime authors for years: Henning Mankel and Hakan Nesser in particular. And in every single book, there are multiple passages involving coffee and sandwiches.

Tyler DFC:

I think you're spot on. Once he died and the first book was a huge hit, they must have decided they couldn't mess with the work of a "genius" and didn't bother to edit at all. I was reading Played with Fire on a plane and found myself crossing out passages in an attempt to see what the book might be like if all the repetition was eliminated.

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 1, 2011 10:39 AM

I liked it. I even liked the remake of a Zeppelin song. Hope that's in the movie.

Posted by: Slash at June 1, 2011 10:42 AM

So what you are saying, PaddyDog & Tyler, is if I was exhausted reading the 2nd book I should probably stop waiting to find a paperback version of the 3rd? I suspected as much. Bummer though.

Posted by: JenVegas at June 1, 2011 10:54 AM

JenVegas & PaddyDog: I will probably read Hornet's Nest eventually, but I was also exhausted when Played with Fire was over. It took me a long time to read it. I think I read 3 other books while also reading Fire because it was so frustrating. Half way through I started amusing myself by counting how many times the following occurs:

Blomkvist went to a cafe at blah and blah street. He ordered expresso and sandwiches and read the paper. After a while he got up, paid the check and went home. After a while he fell asleep.

Why in the hell is that even in the book?! Is that really a normal narrative for Swedish thrillers? If so I suspect they use Twitter to write entire sections of these books.

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 1, 2011 11:37 AM

Let me amend that just a litte:

"Blomkvist went to a cafe at blah and blah street. He ordered expresso and sandwiches and read the paper. The young female barista immediately took him in the back room for intercourse. After a while he got up, paid the check and went home. After a while he fell asleep.

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 1, 2011 11:42 AM

PaddyDog: Much better! The hook ups in Dragon Tattoo were skeevy, especially between Lisbeth and Blomkvist. But when it is revealed who he was sleeping with at the beginning of Played with Fire I about threw my book across the room with a cry of "Ewwww!"

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 1, 2011 11:57 AM

Also the piece about the editor (Erika?) who had an affair with her college professor? And then marries a guy who is fine with the fact that she regularly has sex with a co-worker who is in a subordinate position to her. But we're supposed to believe she's just a typical well-adjusted Swede with no sexual hang-ups as opposed to a deeply disturbed woman?

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 1, 2011 12:12 PM

All I know is that I will have this soundtrack. That's all I can think of.

Posted by: Melody at June 1, 2011 12:16 PM

It's Rooney Mara. This is the second post that you've gotten that wrong. Is it that hard to check IMDb?

Posted by: Pschlarm at June 1, 2011 12:41 PM

PaddyDog

Book One: *rubs eyes, falls asleep, drools*. The pacing in Dragon Tattoo was terrible. It took me about two weeks to get through the first one.

Book Two: I started to get interested. Not to mention Ronald Niedermann was the greatest character of the entire series.

Book Three: The pacing has improved. The flip-flopping between Lisbeth and Mikael is done with a better hand, and I really liked the story of Lisbeth as a whole.

In my opinion the books only got better, not worse.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at June 1, 2011 3:10 PM

Deistbrawler:

I believe we have now established that you and I are looking for very different things from a book.

Posted by: PaddyDog at June 1, 2011 5:57 PM

I enjoyed the first book but after two attempts, still haven't been able to get through the second one.

Posted by: TheEmpress at June 1, 2011 6:32 PM

I'm still not clear on why this film even exists,other than the fact Larsson's creepy women hating brother and father needed more money.

That's reason enough for me to stay away,that and the fact a two year old film doesn't need a remake.
It's Gus Van Sant's "Psycho" all over again.

Posted by: CaseCrum at June 1, 2011 8:31 PM

Vid don't work.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at June 1, 2011 8:56 PM

Why did we need a remake of this film...the original was made in 2009! I'm as patriotic as the next person, but is it that Americans just won't read subtitles? Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth kicked serious a$$ - she had a body like a rock, was sexy and scary all at once, and won numerous awards for her role.

As for this, it will be a hollywood dumbed down, silly, watered down version made just for us...we should be insulted. The rape scene (and the revenge scene) in the original is not to be missed - there's no way they'll show that in an American film.

Posted by: jenn at June 2, 2011 9:06 AM

I didn't like the original movie. If was a rather by the numbers thriller that relied on over the top scenes to be memorable. Mother was by far and large better than that. Even I Saw The Devil that was rather uninspired in dialogue and script in general was miles ahead better than that. With that said the trailer for the remake, looks like a non film student from the nineties is trying to create something that looks cool for an MTV audience from said nineties.

Posted by: googergieger at June 9, 2011 7:59 PM

Great stuff- .!

Posted by: Jacob Turks at July 12, 2011 12:41 AM