Let The Right One In (The HOLLYWOOD Version!)

[Perversion]

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Aside from the fact that the novel it's based on is in Swedish, and the first film version is in Swedish, and aside from the fact that the novel's author wrote the film's screenplay...yeah, aside from those two things, nothing, I guess.

[John Mora]

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If anything's the authoritive version, it's the novel. The film is just an adaptation~~~

[Perversion]

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Well, that goes without saying. But as the novel's author wrote the screenplay for the Swedish language version, it just might be slightly more authoritative than the Hollywood version.

[Perversion]

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Umm...this seems like it's actually going to be good.


They had the trailer and a bunch of film clips on Xbox 360 (just a coincidence that I turned it on while they had this movie advertised on there), and all the clips were quiet moments, not any loud, brash "horror" stuff as the trailer is cut to lead you to believe.


Got interested, poked around IMDB, and realized that the male lead is the kid from The Road, and that Michael Giacchino did the score. Read a few user and "professional" reviews, and they pretty much reiterated what the clips told me...this seems to be a fairly faithful remake with even most of the original dialogue intact. I was pleasantly surprised, and both leads seem as if they might have the chops to pull off the subtlety that the story requires.


And not like this really matters, but Jack Shephard's son is one of the bullies in this.


I have a feeling I'll end up seeing this at the theater.

[Big Rick Cook]

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And not like this really matters, but Jack Shephard's son is one of the bullies in this.

Of course it matters; it enabled you to talk about LOST in a thread that has nothing to do whatsoever with the show.

[Perversion]

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Touché.

[peachy]

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this seems to be a fairly faithful remake with even most of the original dialogue intact.

I don't understand the point of "faithful" remakes especially if they are just going to leave all the dialogue in.

If I wanted to watch the movie again, why wouldn't I just watch the movie again?

[John Mora]

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Because most people did not and will never watch the originals.

[Perversion]

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Oh, I'm sure I'll still like the Swedish version more. But from what I'm seeing, this version seems to not go out of its way to ruin what made the original so wonderful.


And just judging on what I've seen so far, Owen (Oskar in the Swedish version) just MIGHT be better-acted than his Swedish counterpart. And thank god, the stupid, ridiculous cat scene is not in this one.


As for "pointless" remakes, peachy, the shot-for-shot remake of Psycho WAS pointless. Michael Haneke's shot-for-shot remake of his own film, Funny Games, though, was not.

[peachy]

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Honestly it just feels like they make these kinds of films so that they can make a boatload of money because A. all the plebes will go watch because they haven't seen it, and B. all the snobs who've already seen it will go watch it just so they can talk down to the plebes like "Oh the original was so much better".

I mean what's the point of even making the movie if it's going to be the same goddam thing, the original came out like a year ago for chrissake. Make something original so I can at least feel good about wasting my money on Hollywood crap.

[John Mora]

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You already know why they make movies like this.

What alarms me more is why they decided Death at a Funeral required a "black" remake just a few years after the original.

[DarkwingChuck]

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Because everything's funnier with negroes.

[Magus]

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As for "pointless" remakes, peachy, the shot-for-shot remake of Psycho WAS pointless.

And hilariously miscast.

[Perversion]

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Make something original so I can at least feel good about wasting my money on Hollywood crap.

Maybe it's telling that they keep remaking all these foreign films, because there are, with a few exceptions, not that many original ideas coming out of Hollywood.

[John Mora]

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And hilariously miscast.

And he sort of missed the point when he cast Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates. The point behind the character was that he looks perfectly clean cut and ordinary... not at all like a killer or psychopath. When has Vince Vaughn ever looked clean cut?!