On Monday I’ll be hitting the road, driving down to Jacksonville to be there on the 21st during the official inaugural week of the movie theater my daughter, Shana, and her husband Tim are opening in Jacksonville. Be sure to swing by if you’re anywhere in the area. They’re running “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”
More info at Sun-Ray Cinema
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Have fun. Tell them my family wishes them lots of luck. Love any venture to try and fix up old theaters like that and then try to show something beyond just the top ten new films of the week.
Which “GwtDT”? Original or remake?
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Remake. It’s on the site he links in the main body of his post.
Awesome. I won’t be within 100 miles of Jacksonville at the time, but please wish her the best from me!
Please let her know I wish her well
They got the theater open? AWESOME. Good luck to them (and I hear that the remake of GwtDT is supposed to be pretty good – as a rule, I don’t watch a movie based on a book until I read the source material… which I haven’t done yet).
I just finished the book (yup, I’m well behind the popularity curve on this one), and it should make for an interesting movie. Be warned, the book is VERY intense — some parts had me quoting SOUTH PARK: “Dude, this is pretty ****ed up righh here” — and I doubt they’ll water it down for a Fincher movie.
Yeah, I just finished reading it last night, so I could be familiar with it before seeing the film. Then I watched the extended trailer for it for the first time–the one that has actual dialogue scenes–and the trailer covered something like 3/4 of the book. Thank God I didn’t see it before reading it.
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(In response to PAD’s comments, not mine) I read the book (and reviewed it: shameless plug: http://thearmchaircritic.blogspot.com/2011/12/girl-with-dragon-tattoo-by-stieg.html ) and I don’t think the trailer revealed too much. I think what it did reveal was more for people who’ve read the book (like the basement) than anything that would spoil the mystery.
One odd structural thing is that it’s well known that Mikael and Lisbeth work together on the mystery (this “spoiler” is everywhere from the movie trailer to the back cover of the paperback), yet that doesn’t start until about halfway through the book. Still, if they didn’t work together, the novel’s title character would become a supporting character with an disproportionate amount of space devoted to her.
Thanks much for the warm wishes everyone! Yeah, it’s been a crazy month but we are up and running, and getting ready for TATTOO which has been getting some awesome buzz. See you soon, Dad!