Plus, Julio Iglesias!
The Last Movie You Watched?
- Thread starter TravelingMan82
- Start date
Plus, Julio Iglesias!
Cowboys & Aliens. I enjoyed it, a pretty good popcorn movie.
Bronson (2008) Bloody bizarre yet brilliant. Also instant on netflix!
Fright Night remake. Oh noes, they made it into a real film. Where is the camp humour of the original?
Edit> It's ironic because David Tennant can be as camp as they come. Funniest bit was in the DVD extras where he made the other actors genuinely squirm with embarrassment.
Edit> It's ironic because David Tennant can be as camp as they come. Funniest bit was in the DVD extras where he made the other actors genuinely squirm with embarrassment.
Last edited:
Yes Man- Not bad since I didn't have high expectations for it.
The Daniel Craig version? If so, did you see the the original? Are they comparable?
When Let The Right One In was remade I was pleasantly surprised at the US version.
I saw the Daniel Craig / Rooney Mara version. I was holding out on watching either version until I finished the book, but I got bogged down in 60 years worth of Vangers. I had to give in and watch it since it was the last major Oscar nominee that I haven't seen. I'll probably watch the other version now.
I wasn't a big fan of the US Let the Right One In, mostly due to the omission of a MAJOR plot point that changes the entire tone of the movie. I didn't hate it, but I thought it was the unfortunately stereotypical (neutered, no pun intended) remake of a great European movie.
Best review I've read in ages.
"Sucking on the z-axis"
+1. If the plot point that you mention is the one I'm thinking of, it was one of the things that made the original interesting. In all honesty, I just wish Hollywood would stop doing remakes of recent foreign films. For the millions of dollars spent making the movie the money could be better spent on an education scheme teaching audiences to read.
Watched the recent Astro Boy film the other night. It wasn't bad, but I kept trying to compare it to the original manga and there were some things that didn't work for me. Nicholas Cage as Astro's father?? I'm not sure about that one...Visually cool, with a slightly updated look to it, and enough of the original art style to make it work. I would rather see a Japanese remake of this series than a U.S. version. Worth watching.
When Matt Reeves first started the project to do Let Me In, he said something to the effect that we shouldn't be expecting another Let The Right One In, that it was going to be different - which made me even more fearful that it would be a typical American remake with CGI and crappy performances. But I thought the film did well in its own right. I think I know the omission you're talking about, but I thought the film was decent even so.
I definitely didn't hate it, I just prefer the original version. The remake was pretty well done indeed.
Buck. 
The real horse whisperer.
Ides of March.
The real horse whisperer.Ides of March.
Saw Our Idiot Brother tonight with my wife. I specifically got it for her. It wasn't so bad. A couple of parts made me chuckle.
Tron: Legacy. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would 
I saw Let The Right One In the full two years before its US version came out on cable, so there was sufficient time for me to have a slightly dulled recollection. There was definitely concern before watching Let Me In that it would be either a sloppy horror film or more of a Twilight type love story than I could stomach. So I definitely watched with a skeptic's eye.
A few days later I watched the original again. That's when I noticed the discrepancy. I don't think it was completely omitted in the remake, just delivered to the viewer differently and not as powerfully.
The original was probably predestined to be better if only because it is foreign and that dark Scandinavian familiar-but-strange feel really fuels the already ethereal and Grimm fairy tale tone of the film. I thought it was pretty smart of Reeves to set his film back 30 years. It was a good mechanism to grab at that same surreal familiarity.
Anyway, if I were rating them with stars I'd say LTROI is a 4 and LMI is a 3 (maybe a 3.5, I should give it a second viewing). The acting and directing is strong in both, but the little differences (foreign feel, pool scene, 'the reveal') edge the original a bit beyond the US version.
A few days later I watched the original again. That's when I noticed the discrepancy. I don't think it was completely omitted in the remake, just delivered to the viewer differently and not as powerfully.
The original was probably predestined to be better if only because it is foreign and that dark Scandinavian familiar-but-strange feel really fuels the already ethereal and Grimm fairy tale tone of the film. I thought it was pretty smart of Reeves to set his film back 30 years. It was a good mechanism to grab at that same surreal familiarity.
Anyway, if I were rating them with stars I'd say LTROI is a 4 and LMI is a 3 (maybe a 3.5, I should give it a second viewing). The acting and directing is strong in both, but the little differences (foreign feel, pool scene, 'the reveal') edge the original a bit beyond the US version.
