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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Aug 11, 2011 9:51:59 GMT -5
dragontattoo.com/They put up the character list with the actors. True to Hollywood, there are no fat people in the list. I imagined Bjurman and Armansky as a little more obese than that. Anyway anyone watched the original Swedish version? Should I get around to watching that soon or maybe jump ahead and just watch this one?
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Post by Bezron on Aug 11, 2011 11:50:20 GMT -5
Watch the original Swedish. I probably won't even bother with this version, to be honest
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Post by John E on Aug 11, 2011 12:05:13 GMT -5
The actress playing Lizbeth looks all wrong to me. Can't quite put my finger on it. I think it's that she doesn't look tortured or grim, rather she looks like she's trying to look tortured and grim.
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Post by VirtualStranger on Aug 11, 2011 14:25:11 GMT -5
So... A shot-for-shot remake of a movie that came out less than three years ago? Please tell me what the fucking point of that is.
What? The original adaptation wasn't already amazing enough?
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Post by John E on Aug 11, 2011 15:33:41 GMT -5
American audiences are apparently too dumb and/or lazy to read subtitles.
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Post by Bezron on Aug 11, 2011 16:29:31 GMT -5
American audiences are apparently too dumb and/or lazy to read subtitles. I got it in a dubbed version (shut up), so it isn't even that.
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Post by chad sexington on Aug 11, 2011 21:00:38 GMT -5
So... what's the point of this? A remake of a Swedish movie, with a mostly-European cast? They might as well re-release the original.
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Post by Bezron on Aug 11, 2011 21:49:30 GMT -5
You don't get it, this one is tailored for American audiences!
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Post by Shane for Wax on Aug 11, 2011 23:59:59 GMT -5
The actress playing Lizbeth looks all wrong to me. Can't quite put my finger on it. I think it's that she doesn't look tortured or grim, rather she looks like she's trying to look tortured and grim. Actually, is it just me or does the actress for Lisbeth look too scared in all of the promotional pictures? I've got all 3 of the Swedish movies on Netflix. I'd rather watch that but I'll probably watch the 'American version' once just to see what all they did. Looking at the previews it looks like they're putting more emphasis on what happened in the past.
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Post by chad sexington on Aug 12, 2011 9:38:30 GMT -5
You don't get it, this one is tailored for American audiences! But they did that with the remake of Let the Right One In - remade it with American actors and a US setting. This time it just seems like they're copying the films entirely.
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Post by Passerby on Aug 16, 2011 6:34:08 GMT -5
I'm guessing a severe lack of creativity and an irrational need to make everything in the world more American drives this remake. Hopefully they don't screw it up like they did Insomnia and just keep the script the way it is. Raiding Japan and Bollywood for flicks has proven fruitful so far, and sometimes it actually translates pretty well like the first Ring... (YMMV) but the rest of the time they fuck it up horribly and it mostly has to do with delivering a half-assed aesop or dumbing down complex moral and societal issues into easy to identify stock archetypes.
Who here saw both versions of Insomnia? Man, they took every once of moral ambiguity out of that film. They couldn't possibly have been more heavy handed in making sure you know one of them's the bad guy. It's of course the writer, whose been re-envisioned as a dirt-poor social leper with a penchant for manipulation and ramped up violent tendancies. They even tweaked the cop to make him more of a guilt-wracked vigilante whose indiscretions were actually supported by some background characters.
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