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I agree with a lot of the thoughts here, but I would have highlighted how awesome Tony Leung is! (I liked him a lot more than LDC)
It is rare for an American remake of a film to be remotely as good as the foreign film it’s based on, let alone be better. Let Me In is one of the only ones I can think of off the top of my head and it still isn’t the instant classic that Let the Right One In has become in my mind. Usually, American remakes dial down any sexual or disturbing content (barring violence) that made the original stand out, and because they almost never improve upon the original piece in any way, they are simply redundant at best and bastardizations at worst. With that said, am I a terrible person for thinking that The Departed is vastly superior to Infernal Affairs, the 2004 Hong Kong film it is based on?
I watched Infernal Affairs for my film studies class (where we’re watching nothing but gangster movies) and…
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