Ok, I bitched and bitched about them remaking Let The Right One In, and while nothing will replace the original, I’m sold on this version and can’t wait to see it. It’s another filming of the book, not strictly “remaking” the film, and it has Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl in Kick-Ass) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (the boy in The Road) as the kids.
The international trailer looks good, although it does give a lot away, most scenes won’t mean anything to anyone who hasn’t read the book or seen the original film, and those who have will recognize most of the scenes anyway.
I know a lot of crap is going to be said about this film before it even opens. If it’s not crap about it being a remake, it’ll be crap about it being yet another vampire movie. If they’re faithful to the book, it should be very good. If they’re faithful to the spirit of the original film, it should be very good. If they don’t wimp out on the gore and violence, it should have the more delicate Twilight fans screaming running for the theater exit, which would be good.
At one point I would have been the leader of giving the movie crap, but what’s done is done. It’s going to come out no matter what Let The Right One In fans think or want. We should hope that it’s good, to expose more people to the original.
I’m willing to give it a chance now and wish it the best.
Edit to add it’ll be released in the US October 1.
It looks great, honestly. I’m not one to complain about remaking something into an English-from-the-get-go version, because dubbing kinda sucks, and so does trying to read and appreciate cinematography at the same time.
It looks like they very successfully copied the tone and look of the original. I’m looking forward to this - thanks for posting the links!
They wussed out on the the big twist about Eli in this one.
I also fear that they will wuss out on the ending. The studio says they’re trying to “make it more accessible to a wider audience” which is code for saying they’re going to pussify it.
I’ll wait for the reviews, but I really don’t think there was anything wrong with the original.
Yeah, I’ll be surprised if the twist–heavily implied in the movie, explicit in the book–is in the remake.
The trailer makes the movie look like a standard horror-vampire movie. It doesn’t mention Oscar’s home life or the bullying he suffers at all. I hope the movie will be different.
I agree that it looks like the trailer for a standard horror vampire movie. It makes it looks like a good horror movie, one that I would go probably go see, but it does make me wonder about how the movie will be. It seems like either the movie will be like the original, and a lot of typical horror fans will be disappointed based on what they were expecting from the trailer. Or the movie will be like the trailer and disappoint all the fans of the original.
I like the look of the first teaser poster. Cold and bloody.
This could be considered by some a major spoiler, so please be careful everyone. A lot of people are like Zebra and haven’t read the book or seen the Swedish movie.
Though it’s not really a twist in my opinion, it’s just another piece of information about Eli and Eli’s past. When I think of twists I think of something that changes the entire plot, like The Sixth Sense. This bit of information does not do that. Still, even though “knowing” doesn’t make a difference in enjoying or being mesmerized by the original film and book, I’m going to talk about it in spoiler tags. Do you know that for sure? I’ve tried to stay away from reading anything about it, so I hadn’t heard one way or the other. Have you seen it absolutely stated that they took out that part of Eli/Abby’s past?
Quote from the link: Next and this is my final beef. HUGE SPOILER!!! The decision to not clarify that Abby is really a castrated young male vampire leads me to ask if this was again to make this film more digestible to the movie going public.
Besides Cloverfield, the director, Matt Reeves, hasn’t really done anything. Although I did enjoy Cloverfield, I didn’t think the direction was particularly outstanding. I’m not sure if Reeves has what it takes for this film to match the original.
I think it is the best move to cut that (Umm…) part out. If you want a movie to make money, you have to give people what they want. And most of the American movie goers into horror movies don;t want something like that in the movie.
[spoiler]There’s a part near the end of the movie when Eli is changing clothes and Oscar is watching her through a door. At one point she lifts her dress, exposing her pubic area, and we see a shot of the scar where HIS genitals were cut off.
This moment is not commented on by either character, though. It’s just shown as something Oscar notices. It’s more explicit in the book, but the flashback scenes filmed of Eli’s backstory (pre-vampire) were delted from the final cut.[/spoiler]
I think it’s fair to say that in the original that scene was quite ambiguous if you take the movie on its own terms. Although it’s well supported by the Eli’s earlier statement:
“I’m not a girl…”
That’s as equally necessary to interpreting the scene to signify what happened in the book.
This may or may not suck, but I’d still classify it under “unnecessary remakes”. Though in either case it may cause a few more people to seek out the first one, which can only be a positive thing.