The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

I have recently seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played with Fire, both written and directed by Swedish filmmakers based on a series of novels by Stieg Larsson, the third being The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest I have not had the chance to see. If any of you have Netflix, The Girl with the Dragon is on instant play. There has been a lot of talk around Hollywood recently about a remake, so far David Fincher has been confirmed to direct with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander. The female lead, Lisbeth is a strong female character who is a computer hacker and dresses masculine. Its refreshing to watch a female lead that doesn't need to be rescued when she's hurt or oversexualized as a femme fatal figure. The film also reads really well from the first to the sequel, unlike many films they were shot back to back and seem very cohesive. I highly recommend checking it out, I just hope the U.S. version doesn't try to change too much in order to make it more commercial.