Of all the remakes info out there, this one pisses me off the most. If you haven’t seen last year’s sleeper hit Let The Right One In (check out my review) I highly recommend you rent the DVD as soon as you can so you won’t miss out on what the sensation was all about. Then you’ll know how perfect that movie is and how it doesn’t need any meddling from Hollywood. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? Whatever happened to that good ol saying?
I probably wouldn’t be this upset if a filmmaker like Spielberg or Eatwood is handling the project, but nope it had to be Matt Reeves who was responsible for the crapola Cloverfield, that poor excuse of a disaster flick.
Previously he said that he wanted to keep the setting in the 80s in Colorado. And today he talked again via LA TIMES begging the fans of the original movie to give him a shot…. O I’ll give him a shot alright!
“I was just hooked,”
“I was so taken with the story and I had a very personal reaction. It reminded me a lot of my childhood, with the metaphor that the hard times of your pre-adolescent, early adolescent moment, that painful experience is a horror.”
“There’s definitely people who have a real bull’s-eye on the film,” Reeves said, “and I can understand because of people’s’ love of the [original] film that there’s this cynicism that I’ll come in and trash it, when in fact I have nothing but respect for the film. I’m so drawn to it for personal and not mercenary reasons, my feeling about it is if I didn’t feel a personal connection and feel it could be its own film, I wouldn’t be doing it. I hope people give us a chance.”
I’m sure we’d all give him that chance if Cloverfield wasn’t so godawful! I fear that this remake will give us headaches too with hand-held camera craziness.
Reeves just finished a second draft of the script, with the story set in Reagan-era Colorado because he wants to keep the original story’s chilly, snow-swept environment. He is also working with casting director Avy Kaufman (The Sixth Sense) to find the two child leads, because he doesn’t want it to turn into a Twilight like romance.
The remake is titled LET ME IN, is expected to hit theaters in 2010.
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the original story is about “a fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to comes true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him. But Eli’s arrival coincides with a series of gruesome deaths and attacks. Though Oskar realizes that she’s a vampire, his friendship with her is stronger than his fear… Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing, darkly atmospheric, yet unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence.”
Hahahah, was Cloverfield that “godawful”? I'm trying to remember if I felt any disgust for the film after I watched it, but honestly it was like a roller coaster. I had a lot of fun watching it. I'm trying to think of there was anything insulting in it at all… what about it did you not like?
But no, I don't think he's the man for this job. I don't even think this job should be done at all. The original is fine. I think it's slightly overrated, but there were moments of absolute brilliance in it for the most part. Why it needs to be remade I have no idea.
Let's see.. CLOVERFIELD to me was just a huge mess.
overhyped
and I hated the fact that you don't get to see much of the action because the characters were underground…
and that stupid hand-held camera style was too much.. I didn't mind how Paul Greengrass incorporated it for The Bourne movies because it was still engaging..
Matt Reeves, on the other hand, aims to give you a headache.
The acting was horrible, the ending wanted to be all sentimental.. but it turned out dumb.
yes, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN shouldn't be remade at all.. I'm looking to see if somebody made an online petition asking people to sign to boycott this project.
But unfortunately I'm gonna have to see the remake anyway,.. it's my job to review it
Ahhh, alright. Yeah, those are all complaints I've heard before. I see where you're coming from. I enjoyed the handheld style quite a bit, mostly during the scenes of downtime. There was a shot at the beginning of the film where the camera fell on the floor to its side, and you see people coughing through the blue haze of the debris. I thought that was oddly beautiful, if a bit voyeuristic. Nah, the acting wasn't that great, but Lizzy Caplan was quite enjoyable. But I had fun, heheh.
Do online petitions ever work? I mean, if they did I'd sign a slew of them left and right but they always seem to be forgotten and whatever was being petitioned against still gets made.