Who told you to have such terrible opinions?

Also heard it was because it had a different director. Bummer, but at least I don't have to fool myself into hoping that Fincher's movie would ever get sequel any more.

Not really. Her performance was fine, but her idea was to just play Lisbeth stoically that occasionally scowls. More your prototypical tough biker chick.Mara captured the alien-like quality to Lisbeth, as well as the repressed rage, vulnerability and self-loathing that Lisbeth would have in the book. Not to mention…

Love that part of the part of the books. Always vividly sticks out in my memory after all these years of reading it.

I like Ellen, but she really wouldn't work as Salander-too recognizable. That's why Mara worked at the time, she was an unknown factor, which was essential for Lisbeth as a screen presence.

It's why I really wanted the sequel to Fincher's version. The second book focuses on Lisbeth and her backstory in far greater detail and I think both Fincher and Mara nailed the essence of Lisbeth as a character, in a way that the Swedish version did not.

La la land was already technicolour musical for hipster millennials.

I'm really looking forward to the day that never happens, one of my favourite film actress of the decade. You have to have a particular set of blurry vision if "Make a face like you're so mad, you're about to cry. Ok now just do that for the next decade" is what you're actually getting from her performance, but nuance…