the girl with the dragon tattoo: spoiler alerts

if i could walk into that theater again and turn left instead of right, i would do so in heartbeat. playing in the left theater was the horrendous alvin and the chipmunks two, and in the right: the girl with the dragon tattoo.

holy mother of god.

do not see this movie.

or maybe you should, i haven't fully decided. but what i can tell you is if you see this movie, you will die a little on the inside, maybe a lot, if you're me. and as everybody's mother i must tell you to cover your eyes at the dirty parts. or you will feel as i feel now: dead inside. absolutely crushed. or again...maybe you won't. i know i think of movies too pretensiously and have a tendency to take a lot of feeling from the theater with me.

i really wanted to write about my reaction to this movie, but suddenly i'm having trouble putting it into words... i'll start from the beginning, i guess..

- i was borrowed the book this summer, tried to read it, several times, and quit. of course, i originally wanted to read it because i had seen a lot of hype about it in entertainment weekly, not because it was a worldwide bestseller, for like, a couple of years...

i don't who has read it (courtney?) but if you have, i give you props. that's an amazing feat.

- don't get me wrong, the movie was FUCKING AMAZING. like, no words for david fincher (the social network, fight club, benjamin butt), he is the god of all modern day directors in my eyes... and when i say fucking amazing i mean, like a really great, intense, gripping, crazy-well-acted film that deservingly recieved an A from entertainment weekly (and they don't just hand that shit out.)

- there are two very different, very horrifying, very explicit/detailed rape scenes, that i need to worn you about. most people in the world have read the book and know this, but yeah...i was even warned about them by entertainment weekly so many months ago when they were doing updates on it. but i was not prepared for this shit. i repeatedly covered erin's eyes with her hood, but kept hypocritically sneaking glances and i really, really, really wish i hadn't.

- there is something crazy disturbing and mesmerizing (i use this word too much) about lisbeth/rooney mara (the actress). it's transfixing to watch her with daniel craig because their chemistry is really believable..and sexual.. (to paraphrase an e.w. article on the movie, which i've naturally read 10 times at this point.) also, i need to say it, daniel craig is ssssexy as hell in this movie. never thought so before, but dayum.

i originally left the post at "dayum" but i'm going back now to re-emphasize: do not see this movie if you can't handle really, really, really, really explicit shit. and this is coming from me, someone who really likes boasting about how she has "seen it all" and is a really edgy person. im not sure if that's gon translate righttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttohhhhhhhhhhnoooooooooooo