Regret not seeing the film at a local arthouse theater

[Drad]

I first saw the film in September of 2009, a year after it was released. I was 15 years old, and the film left a huge impact on me... it literally changed my life. It was a perfect film to me, and at that point in my life, the story said so much to me about loneliness, and love.

I was well aware of the film when it came out, however. There is a movie review site I would often visit called Spill.com, and the reviewers on there went on and on about how great the film was. I looked up the trailer, and thought it was a horror film. I thought it was a movie about a vampire girl who comes and turns a lonely boy into a killer. The trailer (as mentioned on here many times) was very misleading. I really wanted to see the film, but didn't get around to seeing it until a year later.

I recently discovered that an arthouse theater near where I live was playing this film when it was released. This theater is amazing... it's locally owned, always has good prints of films, and going there is a real experience. I really regret not being able to see this film when it first came out on the big screen... but I also feel like if I saw it then (I would have been 14), I wouldn't have loved it as much as I did when I saw it a year later. Because I really grew up that year, and went through a lot of experiences during that period of my life that made me appreciate the film even more.

Lol, this is just a random thread because I really do regret not seeing this film at my favorite movie theater. I was looking back at previous films it showed, and saw the poster for LTROI, and panicked, and felt really shitty about missing it. Oh well.

[gary13136]

I think your experience was quite typical. When it was in "first-run" status, I agonized over whether to see it or not. I had seen the trailer and it tempted me. My problem is I don't like movies that have a lot of graphic violence, and the trailer gave the impression that LTROI was one of those movies. However, I did finally see it just before New Year's Day 2009, and was glad I did. It turned out to be entirely different than I originally thought. The only real shocking part was that only two other people were there! I never could figure that out. But when it reached "art house" status later on (where I saw it several times), the crowds were much improved. By that time I had also read the book. Apparently this movie was better advertised by word-of-mouth than it was by the trailer.

Naturally I've come to the conclusion that it only appeals to certain individuals (such as myself) and to us it is a classic. It's definitely the best movie I've ever seen, and I doubt that any other movie will ever take its place. For me it's the standard.

[lombano]

It wasn't even on my radar when it was originally in theatres. I'm lucky to have seen it twice on the big screen, but that was long after.
I agree the trailer was very misleading, it made it look like a conventional horror film. Trailers are generally not to be trusted I think, it's not the only instance of misleading trailers I'm aware of.

[mackousko]

I never saw it on big screen. It makes me feel very unhappy.

[Dutchie]

The marketing in the Netherlands(if there was any) was terrible for this film. They trailer and the short talks about it made it seem like a horror for kids, the dutch kids also voted this film the best of the year, so that made me think it was a kids film even more. Then I read an article in the paper about this film and that article made me want to watch it. I found out it was by no means a kiddie film and ever since it has been one of my favourite films. And yes, I hate not seeing it at my local art-house theater(big word for such a tiny place). I didnt even bother to look if it was showing, it probably was.

[Jameron]

I never saw it on big screen. It makes me feel very unhappy.

Same here.

I came to Let The Right One In last year, sadly nowhere is ever likely to show it on the big screen where I can see it.

I really do regret missing out. I bet the soundtrack is awesome in a theatre.

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[Wolfchild]

I never saw it on big screen. It makes me feel very unhappy.

Same here.

I came to Let The Right One In last year, sadly nowhere is ever likely to show it on the big screen where I can see it.

I really do regret missing out. I bet the soundtrack is awesome in a theatre.

Not just he soundtrack, but also the light. That silvery light that Tomas and Hoyte got in the outdoor scenes comes flooding off the screen, and you feel bathed in it.

[EEA]

I wish I had seen the movie in the movie theater too. I wanted to see it when I read a movie review about it. But then I forgot about it.

[intrige]

I was either 13 or 14 when the movie came out, and it probably screened in my city, but I was lost in myself and never knew it was there. I think I would have loved it if I saw it back then, I was going though a lot of the things Oskar went though, and I read a few horro books in my childhood, so I suppose I would have loved it. But I don't truly know. I understood quite a lot too, but I had a different way of thought. It was more "right now" and egoistic than I am now. I don't see how that would have made a difference though.

I would still have loved to see the movie with good quallity the first time, I saw it with really bad and blurry quallity online the first time. Really depressing actually

Drakkar du you know which month it came out in Norway? In 2008.

[CyberGhostface]

Who knows, maybe they'll show it again sometime as part of some midnight cult screening.