Will you see the US remake of "Let The Right One In"?

[SecularMotion]

Lonely Boy Finds Friend in Blood-Craving Pixie

The title of “Let Me In” might be understood as a plea to the audience. Even if you think you’ve had enough of the vampirization of popular culture — “Twilight,” “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and so on — find room in your heart for this one. And though it teases out the usual horror movie sensations of dread and anxiety and eyes-averted disgust, this movie also makes a direct and disarming play for affection, eliciting in viewers something akin to the awkward, resilient tenderness that is its subject.

Vampire romanticism is nothing new, of course. Millions of us, not just teenage girls, have followed the courtship of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen through every deep breath and smoldering glance. But the love story in “Let Me In,” between two 12-year-olds, one of them a blood-craving undead pixie named Abby, is both more intense and more innocent.

The subtext of the relationship is not sexuality, as it is in “Twilight” or “True Blood,” but rather the loneliness of children and their often unrecognized reservoirs of rage. Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her pal, a trembling, big-eyed boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee), are fragile and quiet but also capable of horrifying violence.

“Let Me In,” Matt Reeves’s worthy and honorable remake of “Let the Right One In,” Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish adaptation of the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, is disturbing because it takes you inside the minds of its young main characters, Owen in particular. Ignored and harangued at home by his mother — his parents are in the midst of a divorce — Owen is easy bait for bullies at school. He compensates for his powerlessness by bingeing on candy and shutting himself in his room, where he spies on the neighbors with a telescope and acts out sadistic serial-killer fantasies in front of the mirror.

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01letmein.html?src=dayp

The comments are interesting.

[Orrex]

1. I give the original a solid B

Not sure that the remake will be much better.

[fishwax]

2. I loved the original -- I'll probably see this one on DVD

I don't get to the theater much during the fall semester, so I probably won't get to see this one in the theaters. Based on what I've seen, it looks like it could be pretty good.

I find it amusing when people get so worked up about remakes, though. Some are good, some are bad, just as with movies adapted from any other source.

[rusty fender]

3. I hated the original

I will not see the remake. The original was so utterly gory; will the remake be even gorier? I was not moved by the 'romance.':puke:

[Wickerman]

4. The first one was forgettable

Doubt I'll mess with the remake.

[frylock]

5. watching let the right one in this weekend..

i'll prolly catch the american version as well.

[The Northerner]

6. I couldn't care less if there were remakes of US films BUT I

despise US remakes of foreign films which are Americanized.

But, as much as I disagree, that decision belongs to the owners of the films.

But still, I think it's embarrassing for foreign film to be remade and Americanized, yuck!

[mackerel]

7. Actually I heard Let Me In is pretty good for an

American remake.

Hollywood is really big on remaking successful foreign films right now.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/original-sin-hollywood-addicted-to-remaking-foreign-films-20100923-15okb.html

[Onceuponalife]

8. Just saw Let the Right One In a few days ago

I enjoyed it but thought it was a bit overrated. I heard so much high praise for it that I expected more. I do enjoy Swedish films, though. I like how everything isn't over-explained like you see so much with American cinema.

I will see Let Me In, also, so I can compare and also because I find the casting of Chloe Grace Moretz interesting.