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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
http://horror.about.com/b/2010/05/10/first-pic-of-chloe-moretz-in-let-me-in.htm? nl=1 Just follow the link and be dismayed, particularly at the title change...hardly takes a genius to guess which film this refers to. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
This next link may also cause one or two hearts to flutter nervously at the prospect of going tits up, except it's A list stars may prompt a hope and a fervent prayer. http://horror.about.com/b/2010/05/12/colin-farrell-to-vamp-out-in-fright-night-r emake.htm?nl=1 | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
But this list of remakes which are considered better than their originals is food for thought: http://horror.about.com/od/horrortoppicklists/tp/10remakesbetter.htm | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
The Ring better than Ringu? **rolls eyes** And I don't care how silly that skeleton on a string is, nothing - not even a twosome with Geoffrey Rush and Jeffrey Combs - can steal my heart from Vincent Price! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Well the young cast in Let Me In do have good films behind them already. the boy was excellent in the Road - the only film that made me want to cry for all the right reasons as much as it did. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Yes, but what's "wrong" with the already brilliant (and very faithful) Swedish adaptation of Lindqvist's novel?  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
There's nothing wrong with it. Unfortunately there's too many people out there who refuse to watch subtitled films. At least this way they get to see a version of the story. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Just not the Right One. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.250.15 |
LET ME IN, though, is a much better title than LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, imho.... (Quiz for Weber [since he likes quizes{sp?}] - name the movie: "Let me in! Let me in!... You're gonna die in there!") | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Unfortunately there's too many people out there who refuse to watch subtitled films. Yes, they're called idiots! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
quizzes has a double z and I can't place that quote | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
LET ME IN, though, is a much better title than LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, imho.... Perhaps on its own but not in the context of the film (or the song title it's based on). | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Sounds like it should have been a line from 'Moon'? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
kate - you have to remember he's a yank. they don't get any pop culture references from outside their own country. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.5.4 |
Nah, I just think the one title's more "literary," the other more movie-big, scary, horrific.... Hint: 80's horror movie. (gee... I do hope I'm getting that quote right....) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
AH! It's good old JC's remake of the Thing - I think | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
I'm a Yank, Weber, and I know who Morrissey is.  | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Weber, I think the key word you missed there was "Producers". Everything coming out of Hollywood since 1980 has been presented on the basis of not taxing the knowledge of the potential audience member past their own navels. Because they've been doing it for so long, it has finally become wide-spread reality for a large portion of the country. Typically, those are the blue-coloured states on the map at election-time, with a certain amount of exceptions here and there, such as the Delightfully Special Ms K. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
Now that I think about the original point of this thread, I entirely agree with Kathleen (which isn't surprising, as it happens on a regular basis): what the bleeding hell is wrong with any movie that gets 're-done'? Psycho got done shot-for-shot in what was certainly the stupidest re-make ever; The Thing got re-made 15 times, probably; The Wicker Man was seemingly perfect the first time around (haven't seen it yet, though, sorry to say), yet was re-made anyway; A Christmas Carol has been done about 87 different times, even though the Alaister Simms' version is definitive (although the Bill Murray one and The Muppets' are my faves); and The Maltese Falcon was done three times before the Bogart version, finally, got the right mix of things. The last example is the only one I can think of which was actually an improvement. It's the exception which tests the rule, you see. The list above that Frank linked to might suggest that John Carpenter's thing was better than anyone else's (and what does Mrs. Carpenter think of it, eh?), but does any movie actually need to be re-done? The only thing that re-makes prove is that no one has a single original movie idea anymore, so they're making the movies they wish they had made themselves… or they're making a movie version of video games / 1970s sit-coms . BAH! [heads in direction of The Eleventh Plague by Darren Craske, which he bought for about $3.00 and is reading on his Kobo eReader] | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.210.209.136 |
Ian, mate - you must see The Wicker Man. It's great. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.50 |
(@ Weber: No, not THE THING.... Another hint, relevant to this thread: it's a sequel.) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
"I'm a Yank, Weber" Whoops! Sorry. Open mouth. Insert both feet. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
@ Craig Was it Bambi 2 the revenge? The one where Bambi contracts rabies but before he dies he tracks down the hunters who killed his mother and kills their families first before killing the hunters themselves? That line would be from the scene where he's trapped one of them in a shed and is about to savage him while the hunter's friend desperately bangs on the door trying to get in. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Weber - do you know anything about why I can't email out of my account from Yahoo because it keeps telling me I have contents which amount to SPAM. I ask because I've tried emailing you over a dozen times since yesterday morning...especially with regards to your story. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
"Unfortunately there's too many people out there who refuse to watch subtitled films. Yes, they're called idiots!" I don't refuse to read subtitled films, but I dislike subtitles. From my point of view, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, and most other foreign films suffer because they're in a foreign language. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
@ Frank - Coz Hotmail is shit | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Let me suggest that the remake of Judex is finer than the original (much as I love Feuillade's surviving work). | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
I still can't send messages out of my Yahoo account to anyone. Is there perhaps some 'facility' in my account which I may have activated accidentally, which can be deactivated? Protodroid - I actually like subtitles. I don't find it a hindrance. I like to hear the original language in its original context. Or perhaps you were kidding, and it went straight over my head...which is difficult on account of my size (: | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.226.159 |
...bangs on the door trying to get in. Close! Now picture a screen door... man with a hat.... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Paddington versus the unholy zombies from hell, part 3! Oh no, that was a bear in a hat... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
which is difficult on account of my size...I wish...should read which is not difficult, etc, etc, etc | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.226.159 |
unholy zombies from hell Even closer! An "unholy zombie from hell" is a very apt description of the utterer in person... and no, it's not Freddy.... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.12 |
Is it Bambi 3 - the zombie deer in a hat? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.12 |
Frank - have you tried emailing my work address? did you get the messages I sent you today? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
Frank, no I wasn't kiddling. In order or preference, I'd prefer: no dialogue, dialogue in ones native language, subtitles, dubbing. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.148 |
I wasn't "kiddling", apparently. A pound of kiddelies. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.12.129.12 |
Lets ask all those people in other countries to only make films in English then. That should solve that problem | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.8.97 |
Is any movie "Part 3" or more a sequel? Or are sequels just sequels to the original movie? If I said, "This is a sequel to X," is it implied it could be Part 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.?... I always took "a sequel to" to specifically mean, only Part 2. (Yes, I am determined to infect this thread with as deadly a form of Boredom Radiation as I possibly can....) | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
That's quite interesting. How many of us have considered a later sequel to be the 'official' sequel over its earlier cousin? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Exorcist 3 over number 2 every time. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Exactly. Or more recently, the third Bourne film. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
'Exorcist III' is, for most of its length, a near perfect adaptation of 'Legion' but the ending deviates hysterically from the book which was far more subtle and terrifying. 'Exorcist II' and all the later additions are pants imho. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Yes, the shame of the Exorcist III is that only horror fans and film buffs are aware of how good is is. Haven't read the book, though. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I read it back-to-back with 'The Exorcist' recently and scared the shit out of myself!!  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
On that recommendation I will check it out. Many thanks, Mr. Walsh. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Stevie - did you get my email the other day? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Not if he's on Yahoo he won't. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Well you got that email - the one with the story in it. Actually, I hate to say this but facebook me if you want to pass on any comments- I'm on there as Marc Francis | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Marc Francis - why so many names? Are you Weber, Lyth, or Francis. I prefer to email you the comments by email. I will try an old hotmail account I have, just have to try to remember the password. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I'm Weber here because I'm pseudomynously brave apparently - according to someone who has more names online than anyone else I've ever heard of. Marc normally, and the others are my last and middle names respectively. I don't use facebook if I can help it so I picked a name there so people wouldn't be able to deluge me with requests for all the crap that goes on there. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.95 |
Behind Weber's many and hideous forms, his real name is Nyarlathotep. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
That's supposed to be a secret Craig, or should I say Bubba Ho Tep | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Yeah, I see your email, Marc, and haven't had a chance to read the story yet but will give you the usual feedback anon. Let's see, that'll be the fourth story of your's I've read so far but none of them can top the sheer subliminal horror of knowing that somewhere within that photo of naked people in Manchester lurked a grinning Weber [shudder]... I've been having nightmares ever since.  |