Come Anticipate With Severe Misgivings the David Fincher version of the Dragon Tattoo book

Saw this for the first time, went in cold (hadn't read the book or seen the other movies, didn't know the plot). Was pretty ridiculous. Deus ex hacker invoked numerous times. She's great, James Bond might as well be telling her story in flashback. Nazis, serial killers ... it even has a character basically ask another character "you know something is fishy, you suspect you are in danger ... so why did you stick around?" And never answers. Like, what is driving this dude to put his life at risk to solve this old mystery? "The Vanishing" it is not. It's assuredly made, but pretty silly.

been going back through the fincher filmography and this movie basically fucking sucks, way worse than benjamin button imo

you're better off rewatching the trailer 75 times

I wonder if fincher ever considered making this his first run at TV instead, because the structure and characterization as presented make absolutely no goddamn sense as a standalone movie

i'm sure he's run at a TV many times, but his friends usually stop him before disaster happens

lol

for real though the appeal of this story/series is totally mystifying to me, and would have been unthinkable even a few years later I think

whereas Gone Girl, also based on a massive book thought of as belonging to a particular cultural moment, if anything gets a little better to me every time I revisit