I’m against the Americanization of some perfectly good foreign films. I’ve heard people say that even though they’re aware that somewhere somehow there’s another version of the movie they completely adore, they don’t plan to see it because it’s not in English. I, for one, will almost always go with the original because the American production companies make their remakes with the sole purpose to gain money. I honestly don’t see another reason for their constant need to reproduce something that’s already good and working.
Seriously, what was the point of making Let Me In? I’ve tried several times to finish it and it felt like a horribly gory horror movie, which by the way, Let the Right One In is not. The Swedish version feels like poetry on screen. Even with all the blood and all the horror Eli brings, it still feels like pure art. Let Me In is just like another dozens of horror movies with the intent to scare and shock. Leave it to the Americans to take a masterpiece and make it their own, in that horrible cheap way they always do. It’s like they don’t trust their audience to have brains enough to understand the plot or to read the subtitles.
I’ve already said my opinion on Black Swan so I won’t attack it any further. But let’s take My Sassy Girl or Il Mare, both beautiful Korean romantic movies. Hollywood made its entrance and did its part with remaking them in another cheap romance flicks. I’m talking about My Sassy Girl (they kept the name) and The Lake House. The same stories with the required American adjustments and they become something you’ll forget soon enough. Hollywood strips them of their souls and gives us their empty version. Why?
You might not know this but The Departed is also a remake. The original is called Infernal Affairs. Hong Kong released in 2002 and four years later, here comes the American copy. And I’m pretty sure in the near future, we’ll get to see the American I Saw the Devil…
When it comes to horror genre, The Ring is the only one that’s better than its original Japanese version. The rest of them, Tale of Two Sisters, Shutter, Premonition, Dark Water, The Eye, Pulse, Into The Mirror (I admit, Mirrors is also pretty scary), One Missed Call are truly terrifying. Their English version is just a cheap copy.
Yes, they seem to me cheap copies because they always seem to be lacking something (just like in a counterfeit factory, where you produce masses of some product and you release it without caring of its defects) and their original seem to be like a complete full circle. Round and perfect.
I will always encourage people to see the original because if they love the American one and think of it as good, they should also see the first version, which most of the time is better. -Simina
Moody Clappers 
I agree with you in a way. The adaptation to American cinema of Asian films is financially driven. But apart from that, I understand the need some directors feel to adapt good stories. They have their own vision and think they can either add something or take it in a new direction. Shakespeare’s works didn’t need any adaptation, They work perfectly as they are, but over the centuries countless people felt the need to tell the story. Some told them better, some worse. But I understand the need,
Of course in most cases what happens is a producer watches a movie with dollar bills covering his eyes and tries to make a profit. It’s a shame.