Let me in

Thanks everybody for all of the EXCELLENT spoiler alerts. I haven't seen "LET ME IN" but I did see "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN". Had a big impact on me, definitely a great film in my book, and speaking of books, I'll definitely have to read that one.

As far as "LET ME IN" goes, from the bits that I have read here (thankfully, no spoilers) I'm going to see it as well. At first I thought NO WAY, just another lame american remake. I even read somewhere that they shortened the title so it would "appeal to more people, the other was too long.", and I thought "JEEZE, they're making this movie for morons! Title too long...).

But it seems that most folks in here, those that have seen the original AND those that haven't, seem to have positive opinions and that's good enough for me.

Thanks again everyone!

As I said in my review, if you liked the first you'll like this one. It's not trying to reinvent LTROI by any means.

I saw LMI yesterday.
My wife never saw LTROI, and I managed to talk her into going with me. She said it was a good, particularly the acting. However, her overall assessment was 'wierd'.

She also said as we were walking out, "all that just so she could get another protector..."

***possible spoilers***

That said, I enjoyed it. I thought it seemed faithful the main story line, as I remember from LTROI, just craftfully Americanized. The narrative flow, particularly the pacing was a bit quicker, and the overall presentation was crisper and less 'low budget' than LTROI seemed to be at times.

But, due to the faster pace, I also missed the deeper connection with the neighbors. It kept the consequences at a distance, and I missed that more nuanced emotional element.

Other random notes:
The movie seems to do a good job of establishing a connection between the audience and Abby - at least it did for my wife... when then cop is in the apartment and reads the note about the bathroom, my wife blurted out a quiet "oh, no".

Excellent job of setting the period. I grew up in the 80s, and every bit of that felt 80s to me, including the slightly grainy film. Well done, without being garishly over the top.

The bathroom seen with 'dad' and Abby was nicely played. Poignant and sad.

Worth seeing. Sad that there were 9 people in the theater counting my wife and I.

I havent seen let me in yet but I have seen the euro version even before the american remake was being made and I liked it but like some others in this film it just wasn't the right type of weird. Like the kid in his under pants in one scene why? To weird but I like wierd no matter what but alot don't(ever see human centipede don't get much weirder).

Anne Rice writes some weird stuff in her books much wierder then kid in his under pants they just don't make that into movies. Instead they make Lestat killing and trapping a ****** in a coffin(maybe not in that order) just to torrment Loius that's the type of wierd american culture likes and thats why Anne Rice vampire movies are the best and Let me in failed.

ps I forgot about queen of the damned movie Which is just trash.

Warning, consider all of below SPOILERS!

As promised, I watched Let the Right One In last night (Halloween night), and I loved both of them. Despite their differences, overall, it was pretty much the same film, and there were parts of Lina Leandersson's performance which made it clear why they casted Chloe Moretz for the role.

However, talking about parts where they were the same doesn't say much about what I thought of the film, so in that I felt LTROI was slower then LMI. The scenes with Håkan killing weren't as thrilling as the father's car shtick, especially how he got caught. Also a lot of the camera work throughout the movie was a bit better done in LMI. Like the barfing scene, the bridge attack, the pool attack, etc.

Oskar was a lot closer to his parents than Owen was. There were times you could see him having fun with his mother and father, so you knew why it was hard for him to leave them. However, it made him less symphathetic when he did leave. Also the scenes with the father felt only necessary to show why Oskar would be open to dating a boy.

I found Eli a bit less of a monster than Abby, especially seeing her cry over a kill, and she was also far less subtle about her manipulation of Oskar and Håkan than Abby was with Owen and the Father.

I liked getting to know the neighbors in LTROI, however it didn't really add anything more in this film that wasn't already handled by the cop in LMI, as he took on himself most of their thoughts lines and roles. The scene with the CGI cats was just way out there.

I thought the dynamic between the Father and Abby in LMI was handled better than it did in LTROI. They never gave a reason why Håkan was messing up and being far less careful during the time of the movie, and LMI pushed a little more their relationship with the apologetic note, the head touch, the picture of them together. Also Håkan was far more mature than the Father, and since they did without the picture or explanation of why they were together in the first place, it left you wondering or going with the explanation from the book if you've read it or others told you about it.

Abby's subtlety made Abby and Owens relationship was also more romantic than Eli and Oskar. In that, Oskar and Eli felt more real as a couple of kids getting together as that's what you would see in real life as an adult observer, while in Abby and Owens case was more like what they would see. Oskar also felt less innocent more thugish than Owen, in that he kept clippings of serial killers and he showed no emotion when hitting the other boy with the stick. Not that I thought these differences made either film any better or worse from each other, but it did make the ending very much different. In LTROI, the end felt like Oskar found a like soul, while Eli found herself a new friend and future Håkan. In LMI, Owen found someone that needed him as much as he needed her, and vice versa, sad as that existence will be as that same correlation with Owen and the Father was also clear.