"Let the Right One In" Review

I decided I'd take a few minutes out to talk about a picture I watched on DVD. I was just distressed by the thought of this excellent love story being ruined by another crappy American remake.

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[swrcrew]

If americans are stupid (have most advanced technology in the world and develop most of the things you use now internet for example) What does that make you?

[jimmybenkins]

*Scratches head* I'm about the whitest, most American boy you'd ever meet. I never said that Americans were stupid, just that I was a little peeved that our movie industry keeps revisiting ideas that don't need to be revisited, just yet, or maybe ever. Listen more carefully to what someone says before you go up in arms to try to defend yourself.

[allecctori]

if you wanna review an awesome foreign scary-movie/nazi-zombie-movie, review the norwegian "død snø" or "Dead Snow".

[jimmybenkins]

I've been wanting to watch that one but (Like "LTROI") it hasn't come to any theaters near me I'll prob netflix it.

[Mcrlover2death]

dude can u review orphan?

[jimmybenkins]

Probably not.

[BearBudah]

Typical. As soon as a europian makes an undeniably good movie the americans has to buy the rights and buttfuck it.

[laurelfan1]

@swrcrew This comment is LATE but actually, Estonia is ahead of the U.S. in technology. Who do you think created Skype? Estonians. Btw, I'm American. Estonia and Sweden rock!!

[LuciferianHeretic]

You can't remake such a Masterpiece, I listened to Let the right one in about twenty times in three weeks and I only needed one listen from Let me in to see clearly how it was messed up, every important points were missing and this is more than a remake, it is pratically identic! Remake is only for money that is all.

[random0moniker]

swede here, id like to throw my brothers a line trollhunter(nowegian) and rare exports(finnish) are awesome and a similar type of movie.

btw, if you want to watch a sort of brutal realism the martin beck series are pretty good.

[Raven236]

I agree with you this one was much better.

[Raven236]

I aree with you after seeing this it made the american one look like crap

[TheTrooper247]

I agree with this, but in actuality, the remake was pretty fucking great. It's a great companion piece to the original, which is still better, but the remake doesn't tarnish the original one at all.

[RedCyberOmega13]

(continuing from previous comment)

this movie the praise and attention it deserves, increasing the amount of people who like the film (I am reluctant to use the term "fans") which will possibly landslide the amount of fans Twilight has, putting that abomination of a film/novel in the darkness where it belongs.

Anyway, you people aren't even giving these remakes a chance yet. Isn't it just possible for a film remake made in the current decade to actually be a good movie? Please tell me.

[RedCyberOmega13]

A reason why America would remake this film is because, like you said, it had a limited release and it got overshadowed by an inferior film with sparkling vampires and cheap Devil's Rejects wannabes, so it wouldn't receive as much attention as it should have done. A remake of the film (actually it's not really a remake, it's more like another adaptation of the novel) made by American film companies will most likely achieve a world wide release, allowing more people from across the world to give

[clashrogers]

@815cosmic The reason why the film focuses on the realtionship between Oskar and Eli is that the director is unfamiliar with the vampire mythology and surprisingly the fans of the book were impressed. Not to mention they managed to have the author of the book writing the script..

[zahir13]

Loved the first film. Loved the novel. The new film is based on the novel, so it isn't really a remake at all. The cast of LMI is impressive, and if you watch the trailer carefully it seems some of the more disturbing subplots from the novel are now in the new film. I will judge the new film on its own merits.