The girl with the dragon tattoo

Me and my mum went to the cinema to day and saw the Hollywood version of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

After watching my conclusion is that the Swedish version is much much better. The story, everything...
The Hollywood version had more money to spend and more action scenes, you could sense the money they spent on it.
Howver in the movie there are many changes between the story and scenes which makes difficult to follow.. you need to think alot and the progress in the movie is VERY slow!! I mean it takes almost or even half movie before Mikael and Lisbeth finally meet!

Also as being a Stockholm citizen there are lots of gaps and wrongs.
1. You cannot buy cigaretts in cafés in Sweden.
2. You do NOT take a so called INTERCITY train from Stockholm to the very north and says it only takes 4 h. (Intercity trains are slow here in Sweden...) irl - where they went it probably took much much longer time!
3. You do NOT knock on the doors, you RING THE BELL!! There is no way someone would hear you if you'd knock. XD
4. You would NEVER say "Hey hey" when entering a house.. a Hello? would be more common

Mara acts well as Lisbeth but I think Noomi, who starrs the Swedish version, is much better. I like her acts much more.

Still I'm happy I saw the movie, but it was not worth 120 sek (aprox 15 USD).
If there will be a 2nd and 3rd movie I'll wait and watch them at home on dvd!

The girl with the dragon tattoo - US version

Next week it will be out in the cinema in Sweden, I both want and do not want to see it. I guess it's because I've seen the Swedish version (all 3 movies in this series). That's why I think it will be a bit weird, I'd probably compare them. Also to know it's a SWEDISH production to start with, names, places etc then hear it in English will make a difference. Also based on earlier experience it does not always turn out good.

I've also heard that if you know Stockholm and Sweden, as I do since I'm Swedish, you will be a bit disappointed with some the set locations in Stockholm, as they jump around places in the city that's far away from each other and not as close as it will be in the movie. As well as there will be a scene where they are selling cigaretts at a café. (Note: WE DO NOT do it in Sweden!! We are actually kinda strict when it comes to tobacco and alcohol!)
Already when watching the trailer I noticed that they filmed the OUTSIDE of the NEWER underground car, but when filming inside the cars they use the OLDER ones!! I guess they want a certain feeling, however being Swedish and knowing that it looks weird. (Like stepping on to a double decker and film the outside as it drives somewhere, then film the inside from a normal bus)

Also they replaced some other things according to the Swedish newspapers, among that some actors - from Swedish to American/British. for parts that doesn't even matter much. Also having newspapers and stuff in SWEDISH...but non-of them know the langauge XD

One of the scenes.. is filmed at my old office building, maybe the BEST office building in Stockholm!!


Anyway.... I'll update more once I have seen it.. (^^;;)

LONG trailer..

Note: the book/movie is called "Men who hate women" in Swedish..