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.