Let The Right One In, A Little Note On Remakes, And Watching Those Subtitles

I gotta be honest - I don't always like remakes.

In fact - sometimes I abhor them - or maybe loathe is a better word..

But I get it too.

Especially if they're in another language, because as much as I love watching film from another country sometimes a re-telling is in order.

And a new spin isn't always a bad thing.

Like The Departed. The original it was based off of - Infernal Affairs - that movie just stands by itself - but the Scorsese remake you gotta love that too (and who wasn't glad that he finally got his Oscar?)

It was just done right.

I'm not saying I get people who'll never watch anything in another language and who avoid them altogether - because by seeing the world from different perspectives you get to know it in a way you may never have really understood - those stories that are innate to all of us no matter where we rest our heads.

I guess I'm just crossing my finger that when October rolls around I hope I'll be saying the same thing about Let Me In just like The Departed and not how much I wish they wouldn't have made the remake.

The Remake Trailer

Chris Rock + Kurosawa

Don't quite know what to think about this since on one hand it gets Kurosawa's name out to more people while at the same time wondering how this could go (and for the record I'm a huge CR fan).

Chris Rock revealed his next project to Black Voices: writing the screenplay remake/adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 detective thriller High and Low for director Mike Nichols. If you were going to ask me who might replace David Mamet on this modern day remake/adaptation, Rock would certainly have been near the bottom of the list. Here are the details from BV [...]

Read it in full down at Slashfilm.