Yeah I liked The Departed, been a while since I saw it now. Also don’t think Fincher’s movie was that much better really, but you can tell there’s a higher budget involved. Better score as well, in my opinion.

Loved Let Me In but it is very similar to the original. Haven’t seen the original but, for me, the The Ring is amazing. Gotta mention Sorcerer as well, what a film.

So I can just about guarantee the reake wonn’t be as good. American remakes very seldom are.

I don’t agree Fincher’s version was better. It was sanitized and slicked out. The grittier, less safe (original) version was much better.

The Departed is one of the few remakes I can think of that was better – but only barely. Infernal Affairs is pretty terrific.

Of course it’s an attempt to make money. They wouldn’t do it otherwise but plenty of these remakes turn out bad and don’t make a ton of money.

Why did no one see the original? I don’t live in the states but I bet they didn’t push it very hard. I just wish they would give these films a real chance.

Yeah, that one was good but then, on the flipside you have the Oldboy remake which was quite frankly shit, as is often the case. It’s not like Fincher took a piece of shit and made it good, is it? It should be better when you have a bigger budget and can just copy everything that was good in the original and then add onto it. Did Let Me In make any money? I loved it but if I remember correctly, it didn’t do too great.

You’d have to be crazy to think it’s seriously about subtitles. Did the U.S. vote on this? That every foreign movie must be remade because they don’t wanna read subtitles? It’s just a dumb excuse studios like to use to justify these remakes.

Nobody saw the original, and it had a good idea for a movie, so – like Sean says – it’s about taking i.e. stealing that idea and make a more commercial movie out of it.

Then again, it’s hard to complain when something like Fincher’s DRAGON TATTOO remake was clearly superior to the Swedish original.