The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 26/12/11

I have read the books, seen the Swedish films so was a little apprehensive about what Hollywoodising would do to what can be at times a quite disturbing story, but thankfully my fears proved to be unfounded. They had not moved the story to somewhere in middle America, they had not made massive cuts to the story to make it more appealing and thank God they had not cast beautiful shiny people as the main characters. Rooney Mara is fantastic as Lisbeth, and she is not trying to copy what Noomi Rapace did in the original, and Daniel Craig is also good as Mikael Blomkvist. I have read some reviews where it has been said that it all feels a little rushed at the end, I can only assume that the reviewer had not read the book as it was exactly what happened there. I found the book a struggle to get into, it was only as I got to the last 20 pages I realised what a good book it was, as it all came together very fast at the end. Congratulations David Fincher, can't wait to see what you do with the second (my fave out of the three) book.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - 17/12/11

Thank goodness there are some decent films back at the flicks again!! Sherlock Holmes 2, I liked the first film, apart from the geographical inaccuracy of having Tower Bridge right next door to the Palace of Westminster (yes I am that much of a pedant!!) so was looking forward to film number 2. Well its loud with lots of explosions and in parts quite funny. Stephen Fry steals the film in my opinion he is excellent, but overall I have to say I preferred the first outing. From the basis of this film however I am guessing that Sherlock Holmes 3, will have no female characters at all in it, the ones in this one were either dead in the first 10 minutes or else standing around doing not much else. Without any of those pesky women, Holmes and Watson can just get it on as this seems to be where they are heading.