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My favorite actor Mr John Leguizmo (He’s the fucken best!! He’s AMAZING.) has the lead role in The Take crime | drama movie as an armored-truck driver who’s shot during a heist in East L.A wrestles with rehabilitation and tracks down the man who commited the crime. It has a 5.4/10 rating out of 819 votes [at] imdb.com.

Their lives are thrown into chaos after Felix (John Leguizamo) miraculously survives a violent on-the-job hijacking led by Adell Baldwin, a merciless criminal driven by power and greed. Now facing a difficult recovery and struggling with a nasty new temper, Felix becomes obsessed with tracking down his attackers before they frame him for the crimes they committed. | The Take (2007)

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Screen captures from The Take (2007):

John Leguizamo as Felix De La Pena in The Take (2007)

John Leguizamo as Felix De La Pena in The Take (2007)

Tyrese Gibson as Adell Baldwin in The Take (2007)

Bobby Cannavale as Agent Steve Perelli in The Take (2007)

Rosie Perez and John Leguizamo in The Take (2007)

Margarita Lugo, Tyrese Gibson and Aris Mendoza in The Take (2007)

I don’t often get the chance to review movies that I watch. I watch plenty periodically but when I get the chance to update my blog I feel that I have something else that I rather share. Now I’m thinking it’s loong (no I did not misspell this word) over due for a movie post. Yes, I’m tired, it’s past midnight and I’d also love to be asleep but I want to update about this movie I saw: Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).

This is a mystery/thriller move and while I find the Swedish title misleading and non-relating to the story and it’s unlikely I would have watched this movie had it not been for the Swedish title which inspired to curiosity it’s not a fantastic movie however I did become quite intrigued by Noomie, the female lead character of this film. It did however recieve a 7.6/10 rating out of 5,164 votes over at imdb.

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Screen capture from a sceen in the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Män som hatar kvinnor

(Swedish for ”Men who hate women,” renamed in the English translation as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Award-winning novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the first in his ”Millennium Trilogy”.
At his death in November 2004 he left three unpublished novels that made up the trilogy. It became a posthumous best-seller in Europe.

Lisbeth Salander plays Noomi Rapace

Men Who Hate Women opened in France on 13 May, in Italy and Spain on 29 May 2009.

The girl who played with fire will premier simultaneously in Sweden, Norway and Denmark on 18 September 2009. In Finland, the film will open one week later.

The girl who kicked the hornets´nest will subsequently be released 27 November 2009 in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and in Finland during January 2010.

Rumors have been speculating on a Hollywood version of the book. Yellow Bird, executive producer Søren Stærmose confirmed in an interview with Swedish newspaper Expressen that negotiations are taking place. This would not be a US remake of the Swedish films but rather new Hollywood films based on the books.  – source

The Girl with the Dragon Tatto [at] imdb: Link.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [at] Wikipedia: Link.

I watched this documentary a couple of days ago and I found it to be so very interesting. I am very intrigued by the human psychic and a man such as Adolf Hitler is – to say the least – an interesting character to study within the subject.

1943, during the burning war, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS)  attempted to pierce the psychic of the dictator. A group from the Harvard University was assigned the project tasked create a top secret psychological profile of Hitler with intent to predict his future actions. The result was startling. A frightening mixture of abuse, obsession and perversion.

The photograph of Hitler is from Hitler, Herbert Walther, Ed., 1978, Bison Books, London, p. 94. The caption reads ”Hitler in 1925 after his release from Landsberg.” The photograph is credited to the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz.

Warning: spoiler alert!

A couple of weekends ago I went to the cinema and saw Dan Brown‘s best selling novel Angels & Demons recomposed as a movie. I never read the book, in fact I have yet to finish The Da Vinci Code (most likely to never happen), so I can’t make a comparison but I often hear that ”the books are better than the movies”. I didn’t find that the movie had that thing necessary for me to appreciate it. It is a good story (with a bad ending) that failed as a movie. It didn’t do a good job of making me react. There was a couple of scenes that frightened me (which is a good thing) and a couple that made me laugh, other than that it failed to touch me. The ending was horrible! He survived? Come on!