[film] Let Me In

[inulro]

So, a couple weeks ago Lovefilm finally sent us the remake of Let The Right One In.  I always have to watch the English-language remakes of foreign films I like, just to see what gets done with them.

The good news is, it hasn't been all Hollywood-ized and glammed up.  It's very faithful to the Swedish version, to the extent that some of the playground outside the apartment block shots could be frame-for-frame.  It's a bit shorter, so that the minor characters are really nothing but vampire food, but that's not a big quibble.

In fact, it's so close to the original, that I ended up just feeling "why did they bother?"  Aside from people who won't watch anything with subtitles, but most of those people wouldn't watch something this "art-cinema" anyway.

Comments

[badnewswade.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't bother with remakes. Either it's been fucked with and Hollywood-ized, or it's exactly the same as the original. Either way, a complete waste of time. Although I have got the remake of Insomnia, in my defence I haven't watched it and I only got it because it had Al Pacino in it.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

The remake of Insomnia isn't bad. It's pretty close to the original, but different enough that it's not a complete waste of time, and not completely Hollywoodized (well, a bit, but not completely glamorous and shallow).

Unfortunately it omits my favourite part of the original, the "I don't speak Swedish" in-joke.