The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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4.8 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Pack your parka and fine-tune your hacker skills because we're heading to Sweden to discuss David Fincher's 2011 adaptation of Stieg Larsson's global phenomenon of a novel: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo! Join us as we offer all the praise to Rooney Mara, who really had the deck stacked against her when it came to taking on the role of Lisbeth Salander (she's great in this film) before diving into the complicated mystery at the center of the film and question Daniel Craig's penchant for queer-coded torture scenes. Plus, Joe's hilarious theater-going anecdotes, a James Bond-ish opening credits sequence, Trace's complete and total lack of awareness of NIN (and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and two very candid (and unedited!) conversations about rape revenge. References: > Noah Berlatsky. “Girl in the Spider’s Web uses past trauma as an excuse for further violence” Chicago Reader > Grace Lapointe. “A Disability Rights Perspective on Lisbeth Salander.” BookRiot Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd and/or Facebook, or join the Facebook Group to get in touch with other listeners > Trace: @tracedthurman > Joe: @bstolemyremote Be sure to support the boys on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bring Home Smile 2 on Digital Now. In this terrifying thriller, an unknown force has latched on to global pop star Sky Riley as reality and her nightmares collide. By the film critics are calling the scariest movie of the year by a mile and get over 40 minutes of bone-chilling extras, including deleted scenes and more.
0:24.4	Available at participating retailers, rated R from Paramount Pictures.
0:33.0	Good morning, afternoon or evening, and welcome to the bloody disgusting network.
0:40.4	The following show is just horrifying.
0:45.7	Beware.
0:48.9	Music You're obsessed with her and you're obsessed with her daughter.
1:03.3	Easy here, Roldo.
1:09.5	And welcome back to horror queers. We're talking cold Swedish winter. We're talking
1:18.1	Daniel Craig in little black briefs. And we're talking, don't call her snoozy Mara anymore.
1:25.1	And I'm Joe. And I'm Trace. and we're talking men who hate women and by that i
1:30.9	mean the girl with the dragon tattoo uh nicely done nicely done yes uh um can you hear my trepidation
1:39.0	yeah so folks let's do a couple things right off the top here.
1:44.4	First of all, this movie has a shit ton of sexual assault in it, and it's very graphic.
1:50.5	So content warning for that.
1:52.0	And also, the cat does die.
1:53.6	So content warning for animal abuse.
1:55.9	I forgot about the cat.
1:57.1	And this is bad, but like, I don't know about for you.
1:59.6	And for me, it's never really
2:01.8	seeing the corpse of an animal that bothers me. Like, I can be fine as long as it's already dead.
2:06.6	It's, okay. It's when I see an animal suffering that I, I, like, I have to check out.
2:12.8	I mean, I'm normally okay, but this cat is cut up into fucking pieces, and I was not.
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