this is a very good movie based on an awful book. the screenwriters and
director made some wise decisions regarding the characterization,
plotting and tone of the film. one of the most useful was turning the
doughy sexual superman of the book into the rather much less oversexed
and more downtrodden mikael blomkvist of the film. this decision makes
the blomkvist/salander pairing seem more necessary for both characters,
and removing the finality of salander's rejection promises a more
dramatic resolution than the following films actually provide. i did
not think it was necessary to remove the vanger family biography plot
point, but it did not detract much from the plot except for the fact
that the movie's bad guys should have been way more jumpy and dangerous
from the very beginning. the lisbeth salander casting was excellent,
and noomi rapace did a good job embracing the role. the next two films
didn't keep up the thoughtful quality of this one. the second movie was
almost incomprehensible on its own. in fact, the production team
probably should have sought to make only two long films out of the three
books, reworking the plot and characters much as the first film did,
paring huge useless chunks of the pointless back and forth in the second
and third books, and massaging the overall plot of the entire story
into a more coherent and dramatic and plausible--and ultimately more
human--story. they didn't but what the hell. this movie was pretty
good.
digby asks a question without meaning to:
jaun cole vs.
lee papa? that's easy:
the rudepundit in a career-ending knockout over the
tool of the central intelligence agency.
well-known super-genius barack obama is doing more than just pulling the lever for mittens in november; he's doing everything he can to codify romney and all future presidents as badass emperors who can legally fuck up the entire world without bothering with any petty restrictions.
to give credit where it is due, obama has done far more to advance the
cheney-bush agenda than anyone thought possible four years ago. i don't
think that even the most virulent anti-kenyan-muslim-socialist rock-ribbed christian teabagger american lunatic ever dreamed that obama would go so far in his w-fluffing policies.
there's some weird shit going on at the
current tv. with olbermann missing in action and the
twits working themselves up into a
lather, there's a little bit of
pissing match happening just
out of earshot. seriously, why do you go with keith olbermann to build you network and then
fuck with him instead of just letting him do his job? nice going al gore. first
joe lieberman loses you the presidency, now this. i sense a pattern.
if you thought nothing could make ron paul seem like a reasonable choice,
well little pilgrim, go over and read the smarmy circle-jerking from
the interwebs favorite 50th-percintile college teachers over at the lawyers, guns & money
blog in the comments to this particular ron paul post . when these
dimwits bring up the thing they understand least in all the world, ralph nader and his presidential candidacy in 2000, and then the paterno family professor of literature
shows up, two amazing thing happen. first, ron paul starts to seem
sane compared to these fucking self-congratulating idiots, and two, you
fear wasting your money and your time sending yourself or your kids to
any of the non-selective colleges and universities where you might find
these fools wasting space and oxygen .
with over-the-top ass-clown
former senator rick santorum there is always a terrible struggle between the
hilarious, the
unbelievably creepy, and the
just plain evil and stupid.
soon-to-be-former-president obama is continuing his breakneck campaign for soon-to-be-president-elect romney by proving once again that he is a worthless pussy who sucks at the game of being a democratic president. president cheney
would never have been too chicken to use any tactic to further his
agenda, but the guy up there now sure is...unless of course he really is
furthering his personal political agenda just the way he wants. all the talk of obama being cheney's third term sure seemed silly three, four years ago, didn't it?
as far as high-fructose fun-value is concerned, the best outcome in iowa would be for
former senator rick santorum
to loose a rich, frothy wave all over the caucuses tonight and leave us
with an indelible stain of joy. a ron paul victory would not be nearly
as fun, but it would be awesome to watch the murdoch catamites run
around all panicky trying to stop the ron paul juggurnaut...such as it
is. the likelihood of a mittens victory makes for thin gruel as the
winter plays itself out. go senator frothy!
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