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Let the Right One In
Dartful Dodger:
My girlfriend is a Europhile so we end up alternating between European movies with English subtitles and explosive action movies.
The movie is about a 12 year old boy living in the projects that gets bullied at school and meets a vampire whose pretending to be 12 year old girl.
I've see a lot of European movies that got great reviews and ended up being Eurosnob crap, but this is actually a good movie.
If you're thinking about seeing this movie you should avoid reading the reviews about it.
The reviewers are snobs and they are giving it great reviews just to show how much class they have, but they’ll also want to prove how smart they are by ruining the plot twists of the movie with their interpretation of what's happening.
It’s not gory(relative to most modern movies) and it’s not nightmarishly scary. It’s just a cute story that has the right amount of creepy bits in it.
shardian:
I might have to look in on this one.
There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.
shmokes:
I've been recommending Let the Right One In for weeks to anybody who will listen to me. It's seriously good. Probably the best vampire movie ever made. BTW, contrary to what Dartful said in his synopsis, I don't think she's pretending to be 12. I think it's more complicated than that. But y'all will have to see it for yourselves to know what I'm talking about. It's only in limited release, so there are likely no theaters in your city playing it, but there's a decent DVD screener rip floating around the torrent networks.
BTW, to give you an idea of how good this movie is, it's only in limited release and already there's a Hollywood remake in the works. ::) The guy who directed Cloverfield is making an American Let The Right One In, to be released in 2010, I think.
edit: retarded grammar
Ummon:
--- Quote from: shardian on December 15, 2008, 02:08:19 pm ---I might have to look in on this one.
There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.
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AHH. You just ruined it for me. I had absolutely no idea what it was about.
shardian:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 15, 2008, 02:33:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ummon on December 15, 2008, 02:23:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on December 15, 2008, 02:08:19 pm ---I might have to look in on this one.
There are some good movies that come from over the pond for sure. Recently saw Pan's Labyrinth, and it was really good. I thought it was gonna be a monster movie - but it was really a brutal take on the Spanish Civil War...with a monster here and there.
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AHH. You just ruined it for me. I had absolutely no idea what it was about.
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Yeah, cause a movie called Pan's Labyrinth WON'T have magical creatures in it. ::)
He recently did The Orphanage which is creepy as hell, too. The scene with the psychic almost had me trembling.
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The beer bottle scene really freaked my wife out. That's all I'll say about that.
Anyways, I have briefly heard about The Orphanage, but not too much. I think I will have to get both of these movies.
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