Annoying American remakes.

So, I've just seen a trailer for the, "Feel bad movie of Christmas." 2011. And guess what it is? An American remake of the first in the best selling Millennium Trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Now, this makes me extremely angry. Why do the Americans have to do this, all the time? They do it with Asian horror and it's never as good. They did it with another Swedish awesome film, Let the right one in and now they're doing it with this. I mean, why? Have you seen the films? The cast is superb! And to be fair, they even did a dubbed version in English anyway. We always watched the Swedish with subtitles, as I love to hear the language and sounds. You get much more of a feel for the country in which its set and how the characters feel. But you know, they still very helpfully provided a dubbed English version. So what is the problem?

Why do we need America to come and make some ridiculously high budget, action version, where the characters become a dumbed down, caricature of themselves and its just never gonna be as good. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!

America, sometimes Europe does things better, or Asia and they should be left alone. Just watch things with subtitles. It's not difficult, it's simply a case of reading and it's great because you get both languages and it really puts you in the situation of the characters. At least that's what I think anyway.

Well, now I've got that off my chest, I'll return to writing scenes from Book 3 of one of my proposed series for young adults.

I am boycotting this American re-make. Who will boycott with me?

Helen
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