Side Notes: Crazy Heart & The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

I've recently seen a few other movies not necessarily on my list, Crazy Heart and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

I'll stay with Crazy Heart because that one is easiest:  Jeff Bridges is amazing. He's supremely talented, makes his characters come alive and still manages to have a wonderful singing voice! I kind of want the soundtrack to the movie. I will say it was a bit weird with the love story between Jean and Bad Blake. I just don't see it? I can't really say I believed the love necessarily and I can't really see the moment that Jean fell for him, but it does show that Blake can hold emotions and there's something worth living for. But none the less it was a great movie and I really did enjoy the story.

Hmm. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I read the book going into it but as always with this situation I wasn't really keen to have them be the same. I was more interested to see which direction the movie would take. Overall I think the major points were handled nicely. I've heard so many different reactions to this movie. The most pivital was regarding the really graphic scene with Lisbeth and her guardian. I have never been so rocked by a scene like that. It was harrowing. The image before me paired with the music just struck that chord that made me a bit off for the next day or two. I 100% believe that scene was needed. It's driving the passion and the reason for the character. It's eluding to her past and her future and why she is what she is. I won't reveal about the movie because I know a lot of people wanted to see it. I was quite shocked and a bit disappointed how they ended the movie though. I was like "wait a sec.."  and thrown off. Not sure I liked it. (COMPLETELY different than the book. They took a "twist" ending..) The other thing is this movie can never allow me to hear Orinoco Flow by Enya the same ever again.  Also.. ehhh on Daniel Craig as Mikael. I didn't hate him as the character but almost feel like another actor could have been a better choice. I didn't feel like he was too "action hero" or "James Bond" as other felt in their reviews. Just because an actor plays a major character doesn't mean that's all he can do. I just felt that he wasn't the character to me. I didn't picture anyone like him when reading the book. Just more my preference I guess.

Whoops..

Yeah so I've been rather lazy and/or busy so I haven't had a chance to really sit down and watch some of the movies on my list. I've had two discs from netflix sitting on my shelf so I decided it's about time to watch those and continue forward.

# 103 IMDb --Gran Torino

Good thing one of the discs I had was on my list! I finally sat down this afternoon - after the weather altered my other plans - and watched Gran Torino.

Biggest thing to take from this movie is that Clint Eastwood is still the man and of course still pretty bad ass. I love that he didn't sugarcoat his character at all. He was how he was. I do have to agree that I feel in the same boat sometimes: Get off my lawn..    Just seeing how kids nowadays act and don't have any respect just grinds me. It's a little bit of hope here that may there are some good kids still out there that have good souls, respect those around them and want to better themselves.

The movie wasn't anything fancy but a great story.  Plus..  one heck of a car :)