"Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"/"Secrets of Their Eyes"

[Larry Kart]

In the midst of a four-day power outage, not having enough light to read by after the sun went down, I went out to see "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Secrets of their Eyes" on consecutive hot muggy nights to eat up time. I expected to not much like the former, not having cared for the almost pornographic grimness of much recent Scandinavian crime fiction, but it had some moments, though it was much too long and there were several scenes of (IMO) gratuitous sexual violence. "Secrets," which I thought I would like (David Denby did nip-ups over it in The New Yorker), also was much too long and a near-static pretentious snooze. Also, it came close to boiling down into a 25-year-long meet-cute fantasy -- "Sleepless in Seattle" or "The Shop Around the Corner" set in Fascist Argentina, which was kind of outrageous.

[jlhoots]

These have been discussed in the movie thread.

I liked both of them.

Looking forward to the next 2 in the Salander saga.

I've read all 3 books.

[clifford_thornton]

Really liked "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" a lot, though the rape scenes were horrific.

[clifford_thornton]

Also, I like the original Swedish title better, which translates to "Men who Hate Women." Much more apt considering what the movie is about.

[umum_cypher]

Just out of cross-cultural interest, what does it mean to 'do nip-ups'?

[BillF]

Just out of cross-cultural interest, what does it mean to 'do nip-ups'?

Google to the rescue!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nip-ups

[Larry Kart]

Bouncing off the literal meaning of the term, to do nip-ups over something would be to express one's enthusiasm for it in a highly demonstrative manner -- as I recall David Denby did with "The Secret in Their Eyes."