Quick thoughts of DVD Extras (Deleted Scenes/Making of)

[ColBlair]

That "elephant" is a mouse in the eyes of the intended audience of that featurette, i.e. just folks looking to find out about the making of this movie.

Keep in mind this whole thread began with the poster making a great big mistake, misquoting one of the producers about something Richard Jenkins suggested (using a garbage bag mask). A simple human error, that, according to normal standards.

You do realize that user was myself right

And I stand by what I said, they make out that the idea of Jenkins wearing a mask (be it a trash bag or a cloth mask as scripted) was Jenkins idea on the spot. When it wasn't, be it cloth mask or trash bag, it was still a notion and intent written into the script.

So yes call me skeptical on that little antedote...but that's not me saying "We should STONE them for lying" That's just me saying "Yeah Sure it was" in a sarcastic tone

I said it before, the 17 minute feature made me laugh...it didn't make me emotionally angry or annoyed at them...it just made me laugh over how much they spun truth.

To tell you guys the truth, I really don't know what was said in those interviews cause they were edited down quite a bit. Heck, I would loved to see a longer making-of video. I do agree with David though that the making-of video was aimed to those who were interested in Let Me In. However, I do agree that they could have maybe mentioned, just mentioned about the movie Let the Right One In as well. I really don't know what Alfredson did with the movie, aside of make the movie in his vision, while Reeves did his own vision. I also mentioned that Reeves recommended everyone to see Alfredson's LTROI movie as well in his commentary.

Other than that, I believe Richard Jenkins came up with the bag idea over the cloth mask idea. I never thought you were angry at the makers of LMI, Daniel.

[CyberGhostface]

That "elephant" is a mouse in the eyes of the intended audience of that featurette, i.e. just folks looking to find out about the making of this movie.

Who is this intended audience you speak of? Because given how poorly it did in theaters and how it only made twice as much as LTROI did in theaters worldwide besides being in 40 times as many theaters in the US alone, I have to imagine a lot of the people who bought the DVD aren't the mainstream but probably niche audiences more than familiar with the Swedish film.

And even if the audience is ignorant, what excuse is that to lie?

[Wolfchild]

Actually, I just got finished re-reading the novel. And it seems to me a bit extreme to expect Matt Reeves to go to Lindqvist and grill him (or search through interviews) in order to learn the source of every single 'bit' in the screenplay. He was adapting the novel and using the novelist's screenplay as source material.

I have not seen anyone authoritative say anywhere that Matt had access to John's orIginal screenplay. That has been on the list of questions that I would like ask Matt for four or five months now. Can you tell me where you saw this?

Well didn't this thread spiral out of control quickly

Actually, I'm grateful. Six pages of pissing contest and it has taught me nothing about either Let Me In or John's original story. Nothing in this thread says anything at all about whether or LMI is a good telling of of the story, or in what ways. However, it has been worthwhile if this thread acts as a magnet to sweep the other threads clean of it.

I doubt that anyone here can claim more affection or gratitude to Tomas than I (although there are many here who could claim to have exactly as much). If not for Tomas, this site would not exist. And yet, even I am willing to look for things to enjoy in LMI. So let me nominate this as the Official Dump On Let Me In and Everything Associated With It Thread, and the rest of threads can be dedicated to the film's actual content and how it relates to the original film and the novel.

[danielma]

Actually, I'm grateful. Six pages of pissing contest and it has taught me nothing about either Let Me In or John's original story. Nothing in this thread says anything at all about whether or LMI is a good telling of of the story, or in what ways. However, it has been worthwhile if this thread acts as a magnet to sweep the other threads clean of it.

I doubt that anyone here can claim more affection or gratitude to Tomas than I (although there are many here who could claim to have exactly as much). If not for Tomas, this site would not exist. And yet, even I am willing to look for things to enjoy in LMI. So let me nominate this as the Official Dump On Let Me In and Everything Associated With It Thread, and the rest of threads can be dedicated to the film's actual content and how it relates to the original film and the novel.

To be fair Wolf, that wasn't really the intent of this thread when I started it (although I do agree it does seem to have headed that way awfully quickly) It was really more or less to simply state my amusement over that 17 minute feature than anything.

As for finding something to like about LMI, well there are certain things I appreciate about it. But there really is just so much more I dislike about it. That I'll get into though in another thread. There are some things I like about LMI though. So I don't consider it a complete write off, nor did I really start this thread to write it off completely. It was just a way to vocalize my general amusement over the 17 minute featurette.