Americans must be stupid

Rating: 5/10 (21 June 2013)

I have watched all the Swedish parts of the movies. Haven't read the books though. So I am not going to compare books with movies.
For me, the Swedish adaptation of the girl with the dragon tattoo was more suspenseful, less macho and made Blomqvist look like a real investigator. The way Craig finds out things in this movie is really ridiculous. Like the scene were his daughter says "be careful with catholics, because there are bible text at your desk" its just too stupid for me to handle.
The love story doesn't make any sense, the characters have little emotion towards each other. It's way too obvious Martin did it (you hear women screaming the first time Craig is at martin house, for crying out loud). The part were he visited "anita" and the fact it takes ages for him to figure out she is Harriet is annoying. And what happened to Anita? oh yeah she died?. In the Swedish version it has been told right at the beginning, how come Craig's Blomqvist forgot about that?. It's just all too stupid this remake.
The fact it takes place in Sweden and people talk English is maybe the worst part about this stinking piece of film. The accents are horrible and tend to fade away during the movie (its always hard to keep up accents, so don't do it if you are a shitty actor). All the extra budget is spent on useless flashbacks of people searching for Harriet and showing car crashes at a bridge and stuff that doesn't improve storyline or suspense. Just for making some cool images.
But i guess it works, this movie gets a better rating than the original despite the fact all the characters have been made a lot more stupid investigators than the originals. Blomqvist is a wining journalist, that hesitates in taking on the job and doesn't want to spoil his Christmans dinner (while you know he is going to take the job anyway). The girl is a lot weaker and more ugly than the original actress, and here dragon tattoo is weak too.
I definitely hope there are not going to be more remakes of the Swedish movies. But there probably will because there hasn't been an original idea around in Hollywood since the 90's and the only way they make money nowadays is by making weak adaptations of movies made with way less money somewhere else in the world.
If you really think this adaptation is better than the original, your either a blind US patriot, or a flawed movie fan who is easily distracted from a good storyline and character building by some pretty pictures.