Happy anniversary

So for our anniversary, I took my wife to see two films at the cinema. Sherlock Holmes 2 and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Which effectively breaks down as scenes of homoeroticism and scenes of anal rape.

How romantic.

I touched on SH2 yesterday, so won't cover that again. With regards, to TGWTDT, I'm a big fan of the books and have seen the original Swedish version. How did this compare? Well, for one Fincher is a masterful director. The film is clearly set up to be part of a trilogy, hence he makes more of Berger than the Swedish version did, and she's much more important in later books. It's a long film, but I never once checked my watch, which suggests that I was gripped throughout.

I'm not sure if I would have got as much out of it if I hadn't read the books, but obviously that's difficult for me to judge.

Overall, worth a watch, if you can get past the (frankly harrowing) rape scenes and the weird fetish James Bond-esque credits.  

Bon Anniversaire

No posts over the weekend due to spending a quiet celebratory few days with my wife. We've been together for eight years and have been married for three, and as the two anniversaries are within days of each other we like to stretch out the celebrations as long as possible. 


This weekend we did a cine-double of the super romantic Girl with the Dragon Tattoo followed by Sherlock Holmes 2.


I will review both soon, but first I know I've been keeping people on tenterhooks for my film of 2011 (or at least the two people who care).


You'll have to be patient one more day though...