What movie/s are you watching?

[Valarya]

LET ME IN would be a great, gripping, lovely, exciting, unique film if there wasn't a Swedish film called LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.
The acting is a bit better in the American version but there's just an other worldliness to the original. The idea that Sweden as a pure, clean, orderly place is deconstructed in LTROI. It's dirty, people are drunk and not everything works.

Don't remake good films, remake bad ones...or reinterpret good ones. But essentially a shot for shot remake of a film is pointless.

Yes! This! I get so tired of "Americanized" things cropping up everywhere. Let the Right one In is definitely otherwordly, creepy, and just fantastic. I like the less-is-more approach some directors use where you have to conclude certain moments on your own, and explore letting you use your imagination to some degree. This reminds me of two other foreign movies I recently watched that were WONDERFUL.

Troll Hunter, which is Norwegian, flows like a Documentary of a guy who deals with actual Trolls in his daily life. It isn't campy, it isn't cheesy, and it's just so well done. It was streaming on Netflix (for those of you in the states?) a while back. Definitely worth checking out!

The other is Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale.. this one Finnish. It's a creepy, but well-done twist on Santa. Good to watch this time of year, eh!?

(Edit: LOL @ the fact this post, including the quote, covers movies from Norway, Sweden & Finland. Hah!! )