For vampire movie fans.
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Pellaz
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Paging Ruthven, paging Ruthven..... 
Gotta say, the plot sounds good....or rather, the way it's presented. (Reading the first viewer review.)
Gotta say, the plot sounds good....or rather, the way it's presented. (Reading the first viewer review.)
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Rakosh
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...and since it's only in limited release, and will probably never play a theater near you/me...
Why not pick up the book it's based on?
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Let-Right-John-Ajvide-Lindqvist/dp/0312355297/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224852395&sr=1-1[/ame]
Or better yet, buy it from an independent bookstore in your neighborhood.
(Yes, I'm pimping a book my employer publishes!
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Why not pick up the book it's based on?
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Let-Right-John-Ajvide-Lindqvist/dp/0312355297/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224852395&sr=1-1[/ame]
Or better yet, buy it from an independent bookstore in your neighborhood.
(Yes, I'm pimping a book my employer publishes!
)
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Paging Ruthven, paging Ruthven.....
Gotta say, the plot sounds good....or rather, the way it's presented. (Reading the first viewer review.)
Lucky for him it's playing in Nashville on the 14th of November. I guess I will just have to settle for Repo on the 15th here and catch this on DVD.
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I'm a bit afraid of it since one of the review quotes says, "Vampires at their Anne Ricean best!" That's like the best of the worst.
An associate of mine* wrote that quote, and while I can see what she was saying, I don't agree 100%. A better comparison for me is Miriam Blaylock from The Hunger or Edward Weyland from The Vampire Tapestry, but that wouldn't sell as many books. The vampire is sympathetic, but you never lose sight of the fact that it is a predator.
I liked the book a lot and recommend it for fans of vampire literature. It is very different than most vampire books being published. What is interesting is that Lindqvist doesn't do anything particularly unique with the vampire "mythos," but he creates an interesting situation and setting for the vampire to hunt in. I want to see the movie, and might make the trip to see it in Nashville if they do not announce a showing in Chattanooga (I have heard they are planning to expand the movie to more markets). The movie looks dead-on in many respects...even some of the camera angles in the trailer look exactly like how I imagined scenes unfolding in the book.
Vampires are popular right now (they always seem to be in some fashion, though), and it annoyed me that the English translation of Let The Right One In (aka published as Let Me In in hardcover in the USA) was going to slip through the cracks. I even had to tell Amazon to list the book on their "Vampire" listings! Let Me In/Let the Right One In is a change of pace from what is being published right now, and I am glad that an apparently high quality movie was made of it. More attention will be drawn to the book, and, by extension, different styles of vampire fiction.
* L.A. "Leslie" Banks, for Paul's reference
Me and Pellaz saw the movie today. I thought it was an excellent film and I look forward to buying the DVD when it is released next March.
Pellaz
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Way to dig out an old thread that I vaguely remembered from somewhere, Derek!
I, too, thought it was excellent. No idea how long it will be playing at LeFont Tara but hopefully it'll run for at least another week/weekend. I'll get the DVD in March also.
Rakosh, tell your employer to make more books! We stopped at two big bookstores over the weekend and neither of 'em had any.
I, too, thought it was excellent. No idea how long it will be playing at LeFont Tara but hopefully it'll run for at least another week/weekend. I'll get the DVD in March also.
Rakosh, tell your employer to make more books! We stopped at two big bookstores over the weekend and neither of 'em had any.
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