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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Let Me In (2010)
"A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian."
No, I haven't seen this. It isn't even released until October 1st. I'm not ever going to watch it either.
When I first heard that there was going to be a remake of "Let the Right One In", I honestly thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it has now become a reality and it disgusts me.
Why would anyone feel the need to remake one of the most perfect Swedish vampire movies ever apart from the slightly dodgy CGI cat scene? And now it seems that Eli really will be a girl rather than a castrato just to completely dumb things down for the masses.
Honestly, if subtitles are that much of an effort to read then do yourselves a huge favour and learn how to read and write in the first place rather than whining about it until some other moron has to remake every foreign movie for the hard of understanding. What next? Remakes of the entire collection of Jean-Luc Godard or Ingmar Bergman classics?
For those of you who loved "Let the Right One In", just watch the trailer and weep over the terrible casting and piss poor hack job that the director of the equally crappy "Cloverfield" has made. I wonder how many hundreds of times the characters will shriek and cry, "Oh My God!" in this travesty?
I suggest you boycott this film at the movie theatres and then let it rot in the bargain DVD bins in 6 months time alongside all those copies of "The Fog" and "Psycho" remakes that nobody in their right mind will ever buy.
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I'm with you on this one. I don't think I could make through a viewing of this one, and I'm thoroughly disgusted that they'd even consider making an American version of this. Not one on my must see list, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteWhat adds even more insult to injury is that "Let the Right One In" has only been available on DVD in America for about 18 months. It's far too soon for a remake and completely unnecessary in the first place.
ReplyDeleteDid you notice that "Hammer" are involved in this too? So much for their glorious comeback if all they are going to do is ripoff existing films again like they did in the 50s with Universal.
I just watched the trailer for "Let the right one in." I haven't seen either of them, but the trailers sure so much alike.
ReplyDeleteOn your advice, I'll try to find the first one...thanks! I've been posting some good photos for the season..
Patrick Tillett, Extremely Overdue
I saw let the right one in (original swedish) and it was so beautiful!
ReplyDeletereally, what's the fucking need to remake everything???
Update: Curiosity got the better of me and I made the terrible mistake of watching it via Netflix. Arrgh, it was crap.
ReplyDeletethis made me smile. It was crappy. I almost walked out and into another film but I wanted to see how they redid the pool scene.
ReplyDeleteHaving read the book and seen the Sweedish version. I actually liked the American version and considered it to be a good cover. There were elements that were explored in each version that were from the book. The detective was focused more in "Let Me In" while the friends who meet at a bar had more of a story in "Let The Right One In" Even the author of the book gave the remake some kudos and so did Stephen King. Although it's not my prefered version I do enjoy showing it to people who have watched the Orginal. In turn I also show "Let The RIght One In" to people who have only seen the remake.
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