Quoted from Aaron ...I respect Moore, but I wish he would have chosen to be a  part of. Your right though, strange that Gibbons was. I keep saying, and I might be alone here, Snyder is underrated. He's got a great visual style to his films and they are just awesome. Now about LTROI....IT. DOESN'T. NEED. TO. BE. REMADE.  End of story.

I can't argue with any of that. Spot on.
I think Moore got pissed off when things got legal and some dickhead accused the studio of plagarism or some such shite. Courts are best avoided, so he took his exceptionally well crafted script toys back to his faithful Northampton to play alone. And who can blame him?

Gibbons on the other hand is handy with the pens so they can't do him.

As for LTROI, that's the wisest thing I've heard in a while. Keep it up lad, you're on a roll...

Agreed on the Watchmen thing.

I mean Hollywood is just going crazy with these remakes lately to the point where I can't even begin to think of just how many movies have been remade in the past 3 years. This movie is....

A. To young to be remade, it still feels rather new
B.  Doesn't even need a revamp by Hollywood
C. Is fine as a stand alone movie.

  Plus the fact that I'm against remakes so........

Hollywood is fond of safe bets. In the current economic climate they have shited their pants even more than usual. Remakes can present a set of projected box office projections, as do sequels, prequels, dumbquels and arsequiels.

They love figures. Green ones and pretty ones. Sadly it's all about the money honey.

But, occasionally they do make something really good too.

Credit where it's due. We can slag until we're old men. I'm probably gonna get there first. But without them, where would we be?

Yes, occasionally remakes can be good. But, besides the $$$$$ (Which is really what they are aiming for) what's the point of remaking something that has already been made?

Quoted from Aaron Yes, occasionally remakes can be good. But, besides the $$$$$ (Which is really what they are aiming for) what's the point of remaking something that has already been made?

I'm gonna try one last time. If  money is their sole aim with this why are they purposely including stuff from the book and film that will alienate a HUGE chunk of their movie going audience? When they left other stuff out?

You know, I don't think LTROI needs to be remade. But I'd rather see a remake of a great story, than an 'adaptation' of a video game or a Hasbro toyline. At least with this I KNOW the source material works. That means this movie already has a huge advantage of your GI Joes and Transformers...

Oh and Bobtheballa, very good example with Watchmen. That's exactly what happens when you're afraid to piss off fans, who again really have no clue what works on film. Snyder is a brilliant visual director, and there are parts in it where that really shows, but that movie did not work, and the reason is Snyder wasn't directing as much as he was going through a checklist entitled "Tihngs to do to make Alan Moore like me!"

That's the thing. You can't argue with fans, they have built in specific responses that logic or reason can't temper. So you can only do one of two things: listen to them or not listen to them. You can be an ombudsman or a director.

Remakes and adaptations have been the Hollywood standard from the beginning. The majority of the highest grossing and award winning films have been either remakes or adaptations. The original stories occasionally float to the surface, but they are rare, and usually, whoever is behind them is extremely successful. We may be familiar with Let The Right One In, but outside of a group of aspiring screenwriters and movie junkies, who's heard of it? If you asked a random person on the street (in the United States) if they've seen it, the vast majority would say no.

Now, let's consider the repercussions of this remake. The consensus here is that it will tank. Fine. They decided to tagline it, "Based on the successful Swedish Film" or something along those lines instead of referencing the book. Guess what? That means people who see that tagline just might check out the original film. Heck,. I got it from my public library, so it's not like it's hard to get ahold of. In addition, another adaptation of the book will give the original author more royalties, and I doubt that person is complaining about that.

Since a lot of people are aware that a lot of Hollywood adaptations don't hold a candle to the original foreign adaptations, I would also be willing to wager that some viewers will go back to the first version to see what it was all about. Hence, the remake will shed light on the original more so than there ever was before. So Hollywood is potentially creating a big advertisement for the original film to some people. Granted, not all, but those people wouldn't have watched the Swedish version anyway.

I'm really not seeing how this is a bad thing. Complain all you want but any publicity is good publicity. Just sit back and watch the fireworks.

However, I do want to throw this out. Lord of the Rings was mentioned. How many people saw the 1978 version? It's got an awesome soundtrack and some really clever animation. Those things aside, though, Jackson's version is far, far superior in every way.

Remakes may not always be necessary (looking right at some modern horror movies), but sometimes, they serve to either enhance some already good material (I stand by my opinion that the American Ring was better than Ringu) or just make people curious enough about the original to go back to the version that inspired the remake (I sure hope people decided to watch the 78 Halloween after Zombie's attempt). But you know, if Hollywood wants to blow some cash, it's theirs to blow. Best way to protest is to not watch it.

An Oldboy remake? Hm... Not sure about that one, but I'll probably watch it all the same.

George, your right, it is good publicity for the film. But Hollywood just takes anything and says "Hey-let's remake this". Not sure how this is gonna turn out

I actually don't think remakes are good publicity for the original films. With the exception of big ones like Friday The 13th, to your average moviegoer, most of them are original films. And why wouldn't they believe that? The trailers rarely indicate they're for remakes. Even so, I don't think the general public would ever flock to the originals, especially in the case of foreign films. I'm predicting this'll turn out looking like Orphan or The Unborn. Why would fans of those movies, having become accustomed to the style, wanna weed out some boring Swedish movie with subtitles when they could just rent A Haunting in Connecticut or something?

It doesn't matter though. Hollywood will almost certainly remake every film you ever loved, for better or for worse, but in the end, Let The Right One In will still be great.

Hey, as a result of this discussion, we have quite a few who have only viewed it that know about the original. It won't lure them all, but more will know of the film than otherwise would have.

speaking off topic I was over my sister'N'laws place a few weeks ago and her husband was all excited cause from his work he got a pirate copy of Watchmen and he told me he got a cool superhero movie for his 6 and 8 year old sons to watch while being totally ignorant of what he really held in his hand. I was so horrorfied my bottom jaw hit the floor.

As some one said above: philistines.

Yeah,  fucking philistines. They will doom us all.

It's heart breaking to hear that such a beautiful artful movie such as let the right one in even  has to be remade. Just terrible and sad.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjavOLdPk1c&

Looks like a shot-for-shot remake ala Psycho '98 with a police subplot (different to the one in the book) added in for good measure. What a waste of money and talent.

--Julio