It's criminal we never got sequels with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, but you guys should seriously watch the Swedish movies.

The swedish trilogy is amazing...it is a shame that these films were never completed 💔💔

honestly you guys should do the whole swedish trilogy of this, is so good and gives way more badass Lisbeth moments.

The original trilogy is where I saw Noomi Rapace for the first time, absolutely amazing performance. Also, the swedish version is MUCH more gruesome in many details, and the sequels kind of go bonkers, in a good way.

It ends abruptly because it's a trilogy.
The original Swedish version covers all 3.
But Hollywood stopped after this one....

This one is good but I have a special place for the Swedish trilogy.

I wish all the time that Fincher had finished this trilogy with Craig and Mara

I do enjoy Mara, but Noomi Rapace will always be my one and only Lisbeth

I hope you guys watch the original Swedish trilogy. It’s so good, and you get to fallow the story as this is based on a trilogy of book. Also in the category of fun movie name translations, the sweedish movie this was based on is called “Men who hate women”. Love how that became “girl with the dragon tattoo” 😂

Stieg Larsson was inspired to write the novel for this trilogy by his own experience of seeing sexual violence in person towards a female friend, in which he stood aside and lived with the guilt for years. The original title of this series is "Men who hate woman" and they sanitized that name for global consumption which sucks because the entire trilogy is about the easy pipe line of men continuing the cycles of vicious cruelty and exploitation towards the women and girls around them. Larsson was a huge activist against far right and was a feminist which shows with the way he builds up the story and making Lisbeth the heroine in the series. The ending also shows that Larsson doesn't shy away that Mikael is apart of a portion of men in the world that in his own way holds indirect hate for women and doesn't fully respect them even if he believes he does. Larsson wrote a amazing character in Lisbeth and you should give with Swedish movies a watch if you can because she is the real protagonist of this story.

The turning point for Lisbeth was when he told her "I need your help to find a killer of women".

Fun fact about that song in the intro.  That was Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on vocals with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross from Nine Inch Nails playing the instruments.  Fincher previously directed a music video for “Only” by Nine Inch Nails that has a similar vibe.

That ending always hurts😞

I'm Swedish and here's my take:

It's Fincher so it's gonna be fuckin great either way. But you should really watch the original movie(s). It's based on Swedish novels and the Swedish movie(s) really nail the Nordic noir vibe. Fincher makes a great movie but slightly misses the Nordic noir mark.

In my opinion the UK version of Wallander comes the closest if we are talking foreign film/tv trying their hand at Nordic noir. The US version of The Killing is also up there.

Honestly, the "I like working with you" — "I like working with you too" moment is easily in my top ten moments in cinema.
And btw, Rooney is also in Social Network, she's the one at the beginning on a beer date with Zuckerberg and then tells him off.

Another swedish movie I would recommend checking out is Let the Right One In.

You figured it out later but when lisbeth is in the archives she actually figures out gotfried (martins father) is responsible for the murders before Martin took over. This is why she is typing gotfried in her excel sheet until the very end she types ?? Then she figures it out just as mikael does

The creepy use of Orinoco Flow was Daniel Craig's idea.  Fincher said "We should have a song for this scene," and Craig, who'd been listening to Enya that day, immediately said "Orinoco Flow."  Fincher didn't know the song by title, but of course recognized it when Craig played it for him, and agreed that it was a perfect choice.

If you love Fincher you need to watch Mindhunter

Having seen the Swedish one first this one felt so tame and softened in comparison.