Comments on: First Photo of Chloe Moretz in Let The Right One In Remake

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:46:55 +0000

Am I wrong or did the DVD have an English audio track? I could swear I didn’t watch it with subtitles. If that is the case and I think it is, then remaking this just to have familiar American faces in it seems ridiculous to me. I can understand not wanting to read subtitles, I will do it if necessary, but it does distract from what is going on visually. I think the original could have succeeded in theaters here if marketed with a little patients, and they give it time to build up word of mouth. But then again maybe not, “The Hurt Locker” couldn’t make money no matter what. I guess if you don’t make a 100 million the first weekend it is a flop?

By: pcch7

pcch7 — Sat, 08 May 2010 23:17:09 +0000

I think this movie is completely unneccesary but ChloÃ« Moretz has single-handedly made me at least curious with her awesome performance in Kick-Ass. Leandersson looks a bit more creepy and more like a boy which is appropriate with the book but whatever.

By: Napalm

Napalm — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:21:17 +0000

she doesn’t have that creepiness the original girl had.. she looks cute.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:36:35 +0000

She’s not sparkling.

By: christopher reed

christopher reed — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:01:10 +0000

oh shit avatar 2 already

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:50:09 +0000

They’ve said repeatedly that they’re not altering the story to do capitalize on the popularity of Twilight. Hence the leads still being aged correctly. When there was first talk of the remake people online were freaking out thinking it would be changed into a teen love story.

I honestly don’t think there’s any reason to worry about the film getting neutered. In fact, everything said so far leans toward the opposite (hence me having hope for the film).

As for Moretz vs. Leandersson… every time someone new takes on an old role people say the same thing. Sometimes it’s true, often times it’s not. Remember when there was no way that Ledger was going to be as good as Nicholson?

By: Fatbologna

Fatbologna — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:37:53 +0000

I personally felt the tone of the original was pitch-perfect. It felt like a really solid coming-of-age “dramedy” with just enough light-hearted moments to offset the darker stuff. I also don’t think a studio would be MORE willing to tackle the darker stuff in the book than the original filmmaker as it gets pretty damn grotesque in spots. I think any odd tones that you guys spotted come from the region it was made. Europe in general is a little more open to having a lot of different tones in a film. I’m worried that the American version will end up being completely morose in the worst way possible(ie. Twilight!).

I’m not against remakes of older films but I feel like these remakes of foreign films are unnecessary and only made for the sake of lazy movie goers unwilling to try something with subtitles. I think there’s potential in this story to capitalize on the Twilight audience but from a strictly creative standpoint this does seem redundant. Also, if they do want to get the tweens in the seats does that mean they’ll neuter this for a weaker rating?

As I said before, I WILL watch this to sate my curiosity but I have no hope that it will add anything substantial to the story that the original didn’t cover.

Lastly, Moretz or no, no one can embody the character of Eli like Lina Leandersson did.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:05:36 +0000

@JY

The people involved and what I’ve read about the way they’re approaching it give me hope that it’ll be good.

My main issue with the original had mainly to do with the secondary characters… the “old folk” if you will. A lot of the scenes not including Oskar and Eli didn’t feel up to par with the scenes that they were in. Basically the opposite of what is usually expected from film.

Honestly, I just feel that within the American film “system” the right people could do a better job with a lot of the peripheral stuff as long as they stay on the right track overall (and I’m hoping they will)

By: The Man

The Man — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:40:49 +0000

I know it’s just one screen shot, but she looks to clean. The girl in the original was dirty looking. I thought that was a more interesting choice visually. I think this verion will be just as if not more gory than the first. But I grantee you they will abandon the whole boy/girl thing. I peronally don’t care if they do or not.

By: bullet3

bullet3 — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:35:29 +0000

The casting gives me hope, and I think that photo totally nails the look/tone of the character, so I want to be optimistic. I agree with Ben, that the original isn’t perfect and has some “off” parts (like the CGI cats).
However, I just don’t see the studios taking the same approach as the original. They’re probably going to add some kind of bullshit “bad guy vampire” character, add more action, give it a more traditional structure. I’ll have to wait for a trailer before I can get a feel for which direction they’re gonna go.

By: JY

JY — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:31:53 +0000

@Ben

I don’t want to make it seem like you’re being teamed up on, I’m just curious what makes you so optimistic about the direction the remake is going.

There doesn’t seem to be much information floating around about it yet for me to get a clear idea what Matt Reeves is doing with the content. Without getting too much into it, what areas of the original were you most disappointed with and why do you suspect the American version will attempt to fix these problems rather than make them worse (like other recent American horror remakes).

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:06:37 +0000

“Even though most remakes are never really good”

Disagree. Had you said “Even though most remakes are never really [better than the original]” I could have possibly gotten behind that. However, I’ll continue to assert that, percentage-wise, MOST are at least “good”