Comments on: The Girl Who Watched Tattooed Girls

By: Brett Battles

Brett Battles — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:39:08 +0000

Thank God someone had a bit of sanity!!

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:33:30 +0000

David, Brett, I read this in the Reporter last week. Looks like they might keep it in Sweden after all!

By: David

David — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:23:06 +0000

Makes sense, I suppose. Canada is something is a little bit like a mix of the two countries in some ways.

By: Brett Battles

Brett Battles — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:44:40 +0000

Neither. Word is it will be set in Canada.

By: David

David — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:43:35 +0000

Anyone know if the remakes will supposedly take place in the US or will it still be in Sweden?

By: Brett Battles

Brett Battles — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:05:49 +0000

Ironically, I was out to dinner last night with two friends from Sweden who just happened to be in town for the evening. Both had read the books, and I got the impression that most of the rest of Sweden had done so, too. So I fully believe the 1 in 3 stat. Dive in, and you won’t regret it. Of the three, DRAGON starts off the slowest (not that it’s slow, just has more of a build up.) THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE takes off like a rocket. And though I’m only in the beginning of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, it gets going pretty good, too.

Oh, and so I only have to write this one reply (yeah, call me lazy) thanks PCN for the link. Noomi can definitely pull off the English. Hope you don’t mind, but I’m borrowing that link for that post I talked about earlier that’ll be up on Thursday.)

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:35:19 +0000

You’re right, PCN…her english is strong enough for the American version! Thanks for the link! (Watched some of the other teasers/trailers for the next two Millenium movies while in youtube. Just from those it seems that she nailed Lisbeth’s character.)

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:06:02 +0000

Break on through, Shell, and I promise you won’t regret it. I remember having to push myself to keep going initially, too. Once it really got rolling, I was so grateful that my husband had the 2nd book that I could jump right into!

One other thing I had to get past when I first starting reading it was the Swedish names of people and places. Other than The Muppets’ Swedish Chef, I have no (proper) concept of pronunciations in the language. So, I’d find myself getting bogged-down in trying to figure it out until I gotta grip and let it go. ;0)

By: Pop Culture Nerd

Pop Culture Nerd — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:26 +0000

Yay! I remember our discussion last year. I’m convinced that you can’t get away from it. I read a statistic somewhere that 1 in 3 Swedes have read at least one of the books in the trilogy. That’s amazing to me. I don’t know if we have anything that approaches that status here in the States.

By: Shell Sherree

Shell Sherree — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:07:29 +0000

This is out here already with advanced screenings ~ there’s a lot to be said for foreign films. 🙂 I’ll hold off, because I’ve been wanting to read the book since you first reviewed it, and failed in my miserable first attempt on a fast-track library loan ~ I struggled with the exposition, so I kind of like that the movie strips away a lot of that. AND a girlfriend has just loaned me the book unprompted, so no more excuses!! Seems to make sense to have Rapace do the US version.