Let the Right One In: Opinions

[Superior Mind]

Also, is anyone else boycotting the remake?

Every time an American studio makes a shit remake of a good foreign film God kills like, ten puppies.

I think when this hits it's lowest is when they do a remake of an english language film like Death at a Funeral. REally, what was to be gained by having American instead of English actors?

On topic, I saw LTROI at a film festival a few years ago now and I thought it was good despite it not really being my thing. It was an exceptionally well balanced film.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Well, best vampire movie isn't that prestigous. The only non twilight one I can think of is Blade, and they're different genres.

Okay, Nosferatu is pretty good. But it'd be hard to compare it to a more modern film.

NEAR DARK, NEAR DARK 100 times more NEAR DARK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6VeaiSSupI

30 days of night was also good, plus Nosfertu and its admittedly good werner herzog remake.

oh and...


I was more reffering to the '90% of the best movies are made by Americans'.

This was true before Hollywood gave up and just started copying itself wholesale, there has always been remakes, but the sheer volume at the minute combined with the large number of trashy big-budget crap like 2012 means a lot more people are looking elswhere for quality filmmaking.[/quote]

30 days of night is good? I always get it mixed up with the 28 periods of time later movies...

 

[ThePantomimeThief]

I love the original. It's genuinely creepy, strange and bleak, and absolutely fantastic. I really don't want to see the remake. Not that I boycott every remake (the US version of Queer as Folk is vastly superior to the original British version in my opinion, and it does help to reach a larger audience) but it just doesn't look as good, judging from the trailer. It still looks closer in terms of feeling than Quarantine was, that was awful.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Never. Watch. A dubbed film.

That's like saying you played Battlefield with your screen upside down so that's why you didn't like it. But I absolutely love that film. Plus, it seems like you are extremely closed minded about movies... 90% of the best movies are made by Americans? Out of my top 5 favorite movies of all time, 2 of them are American and 3 of them are in English.

It's absolutely the best vampire movie I've ever seen and one of the best movies ever. And I'm furious that they're doing a remake.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Like people have been saying, you watched it dubbed? The only good dubbed foreign movies are kong fu movies for the lols. Don't watch a psychological horror dubbed.

I loved Let the Right One In, in fact it's one of my favourite foreign movies. One of the reasons I generally have a lot more fun with games than movies is because once you've watch most movies once there's very little reason to watch it again, unless it was brilliant. Let the Right One In is one of the main exceptions to this rule, because there's so many layers to the story you see something new every time you watch it, and it disturbs you more every time.

Strangely enough I think Let Me In (the american remake) may actually be decent. The trailer wasn't bad and Chloe Moretz is playing the part of the little girl (easily my favourite child performance is Hit-Girl in Kick Ass) so it may be good, if not great.

Not every remake is bad. The 80's remake of "The Fly" is one of my favourite movies.

 

[Talon_Skywarp]

Watch it with subtitles

Realise it's awesome

 

[adam352]

wrong

adam352, I don't agree with you, but I probably wouldn't have watched this beautiful film if it hadn't been for this thread.

I've gotta say. I just finished watching this movie for the first time and it was fucking brilliant. And the girl that played Eli is a fabulous actress.

One question I had about the film,

Spoiler

I'm guessing Eli's original caretaker was a man, like Oskar, who fell in love with her at a young age and ended up growing old taking care of her. Does that insinuate that Oskar will be doing the same for her?

No real answer, more of a theory than a question.

Seriously though, best vampire film I've seen in a very, very long time. If not ever.

Haha, i'm very happy my thread made you see a film you enjoyed

I think i'm gonna give it a go again (subtitled of course)

oh, and i think you're theory is correct

Double oh, thanks guys for helping me get my first forum badge thingy