European feel/art house feel?

[Midwest]

Do you think LMI has a European "feel"? Although it's set in America, does the overall tone that Matt Reeves takes lends itself towards an art-house film given its source material? I never thought about it until now.

[bore]

To some extent yes, but since we have LtROI to compare it to it is also very easy to spot some of the hollywood cheese. (Like the "cheap" color filters and and the "I tell you what you should feel"-music.)
I guess that is inevitable. I don't think the people who work in the movie industry even think before they apply those tricks. It's just something they do to all movies.


Cold and hostile. (And awfully blue.)


Warm and cuddly. (Despite being outdoors.)

[Midwest]

Can you say it's 'European' because of the pacing and story structure? Many thought the film would've been Americanized (besides the music and color scheme) but it wasn't.

[bore]

Can you say it's 'European' because of the pacing and story structure. Many thought the film would've been Americanized (besides the music and color scheme) but it wasn't.

I would say that it were Americanized.
It's just that because of the source material it ended up way more "European" than it would have been if they had done a remake of for example Twilight.

[Tom]

Do you think LMI has a European "feel"? Although it's set in America, does the overall tone that Matt Reeves takes lends itself towards an art-house film given its source material? I never thought about it until now.

I don't think LMI is necessarily an arthouse movie, but it's certainly artsier than most horror movies that came out of America these days. You know, there are some European film makers and movie critics out there who would consider LTROI a mainstream film.

[Midwest]

I don't think LMI is necessarily an arthouse movie, but it's certainly artsier than most horror movies that came out of America these days. You know, there are some European film makers and movie critics out there who would consider LTROI a mainstream film.

LTROI mainstream? That's a first! I guess it depends on what country you're from. I'm from America and to me it definitely isn't mainstream.

[Tom]

I don't think LMI is necessarily an arthouse movie, but it's certainly artsier than most horror movies that came out of America these days. You know, there are some European film makers and movie critics out there who would consider LTROI a mainstream film.

LTROI mainstream? That's a first! I guess it depends on what country you're from. I'm from America and to me it definitely isn't mainstream.

Yeah, it really depends on how you define the word "mainstream".

[Tom]

To some extent yes, but since we have LtROI to compare it to it is also very easy to spot some of the hollywood cheese. (Like the "cheap" color filters and and the "I tell you what you should feel"-music.)
I guess that is inevitable. I don't think the people who work in the movie industry even think before they apply those tricks. It's just something they do to all movies.


Cold and hostile. (And awfully blue.)


Warm and cuddly. (Despite being outdoors.)

I think It's just a different visual style.

[CyberGhostface]

(Like the "cheap" color filters and and the "I tell you what you should feel"-music.)

Took the words out of my mouth. Especially with the music.

[DarkGuyver]

Do you think LMI has a European "feel"? Although it's set in America, does the overall tone that Matt Reeves takes lends itself towards an art-house film given its source material? I never thought about it until now.

I don't really think so.... Given the fact that the movie is set in America, the dialogue and the scenary is American, I don't think "Let Me In" has a "European feel". While Matt Reeves did adapt the script so that "Let Me In" would appeal to the English speaking audience, I feel that "Let Me In" is film in a way to make it more appealing to general American Market who don't like to watch subtitled or dubbed foreign movies.