Let Me In (2010)

Genre: Horror

Running time: 116 min

Plot: A remake of the Swedish film about a bullied young boy who befriends his new neighbor who is really a vampire. It's the story about how a relationship can build between two people no mater what the age or what their history entails.

Review: First thought... this movies reminds me of a Swedish version of Twilight mixed with ultra softcore child pornography... Yeah, sounds horrible but surprisingly entertaining. The relationship that builds between Abbey and Owen is a great reminder of how awkward you felt when you spent time with the first person you had feelings for. The plain innocence of the relationship seems so real and deminstrates how blinding feelings can be. They can make you forgive and forget a lot of hardships that can happen... like Abbey morphing into demonic vampire and mutilating people infront Owen on multiple occasions.

Let Me In is a very slow paced movie with spurts of vampiric action but mostly revolves around the two main characters. As the movie continues, you slowly learn some interesting details about Abbey's past. There are some details that were incuded in the original but left out of the remake. Is Abbey is really a girl or a boy or something completely else? The movie hints at what Abby is but you leave without an answer.

You might leave the movie craving Now and Laters but at least you dont have to ask yourself, "When did vampires start sparkling and become sissy-la-las?" Definitely a good movie to watch if you are in the mood for differnt style of a bloody romantic-horror.

Quote you might say after watching this: "The Twilight story is sooooo much better when you don't have to please stupid high school girls."

Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 7.5/10 bottles

Never Let Me Go (2010)

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 103 min

Plot: The life of love and betrayal of a group of perfectly awkward (so we think) British boarding school students. These so-called students go through their pre-designed lives with the knowledge that their sole purpose for existence is organ donation.

Review: I was fantastically surprised with this (seemed to be) drama about the two most common feelings in life: love and betrayal. It started out just like other life-drama movies with a group of people who create friendships and betray each other for their own jealous reasons and blah blah blah. Everything seemed normal except for the bracelets that the children had to wear to get in and out of the boarding school.

It turns out that these children are in many ways human versions of "Free-range Chickens." The movie gets interesting and sucks you in when the new teacher reveals the secret of what the boarding school actually is: A business of raising humans for, what I call "the supermarket of Organs." This is where the movie gets really strange, because these children seem to accept that they will not have a life of their own and will be harvested for their "Original."

Some things were not exactly clear about if these children were clones, test-tube babies, or only orphans, but I actually love how the movie left this ambiguous because the focus should be on how a society could even think about having a business that harvests human parts that can save the lives of others.... kill people to save people.

Overall, the movie is slow-paced but it is full of emotion and above average acting. The movie will tug at your heart strings especially towards the end when you realize that there is no hope and the power of love doesn't mean anything in a pre-determined life.

Quote you might say after watching this: "I'm glad I'm not British because they're all sorts of crazy."

Bottled Youth Movie Review Rating: 7.5/10 bottles