Bunch of Smokers

I recently rented a couple of movies. An Education and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Who knew that there were rumors of Carey Mulligan from An Education playing the role of Lisbeth Sander in the American version of Dragon Tattoo. If you've seen both, you have to admit that would be fairly interesting to see Mulligan slip into the role of Lisbeth Sander. If Ellen Page were taller I bet she could do it, or maybe Jenna Malone. But then again Malone is Rocket in Sucker Punch which is maybe too close.

An Education starts off being a great coming of age adventure. Like I told my friend, I'm a sucker for smart, cute, and a British accent. But it ends in a way that just made me ask, "that's it?" Someone should have gotten shot at least. I kid, but the movie reminded me of Up In The Air which was fine but was just ok.

Dragon Tattoo started off a little slow for me, but picked up soon enough. Who did it? Who killed this woman? Who is the killer? It keeps you nice and hooked all the way until that almost familiar point in Silence of The Lambs when you suddenly realize who the killer is and what's about to happen. The movie definitely gets intense with it's sexually violent scenes. The killer's final monologue describing what he enjoys most about killing women is very chilling and disturbing. The item that sets this movie apart from others of its kind , is the relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael. That two people can have sincere intimacy without a lot of backstory, being content for what it is.... you don't see this in American movies much.

I just heard the 20th Century Fox march come from the TV in the living room. And then I heard the opening sound of the movie. I immediately knew what movie it was. Predator! hahahaha in one note!

But the one thing these two movies had in common? everyone smokes in them. So much frakkin smoking going on. Not good movies to watch if you're trying to quit. I'm just sayin!