The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be raining on our Christmas-time cheer in a little over a month but that’s no reason to not enjoy the new TV spot that captures a couple of the high points in David Fincher’s adaptation of the Stieg Larsson novel.
Columbia Pictures recently released the new TV spot for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Trailer Addict didn’t waste any time with sharing it on the web. After all, TV commercials are so 20th century, I’m surprised anyone still uses that dead air for marketing purposes.
I’m probably one of the few people on the planet that hasn’t read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so I’m coming at this film as a complete noob, which has both its good points and bad points. A big plus for me is that the movie is all about mystery and suspense and I’m ready to gobble that down like turkey on Thanksgiving Day because I have no idea about who the bad guys are. Okay, I tossed in a Thanksgiving reference for a film that’s coming out right before Christmas. Sue me.
While I turned my nose up when I first saw the book about a disgraced journalist joining up with a goth hacker to catch a killer of women, the film has captured my attention and I’m looking forward to seeing the mystery play out on the big screen. However, I still think the serious tone and drab visuals make December 21st a weird release date. I guess the studio is counting on everyone’s Christmas spirit being close to overload by that time and ready for a change of pace.
Whether it’s standard Christmas viewing or not, seeing the transformation of Rooney Mara into Lisbeth Salander is worth the price of admission all by itself. Toss in Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer, and that’s just adding snow to the Christmas tree.
It looks like Fincher has done a great job with the adaptation, but will a straight murder mystery stand out to an audience that has already been well-fed on a summer of movies filled with tons of CGI and special effects? I hope so, because now I’m interested in seeing the remaining two books in the trilogy make it to the big screen.