Have you people seen The Wicker Man?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

That movie was just...fucked up. Holy shit.
Duckie

[KitchenWitch]

1. The original or the remake?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. The remake....

I love me some Nic Cage.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Never saw the remake

It used to be a Samhain (Halloween) tradition with the coven I used to be a member of to watch the original after ritual.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. That's a little scary.

You frighten me.
:evilgrin:

[supernova]

8. I found the original at Tarjay

a few months ago.

I couldn't decide if it was just a clever horror movie are a swipe at pagans.

:wtf:

But it was very well done.

[devilgrrl]

9. The original is creepy, however, the remake is the most unintentional funny movie ever made.

Laughed my ass off! :rofl:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

10. I didn't get that...

I've heard you guys here at DU say this, but I was one the edge of my seat.
Duckie

[devilgrrl]

19. If you had seen the original, you may have felt the same way.

The original was just weirder and quite frankly, Christopher Lee rules. If you ever get a chance, check out the DVD, there's a documentary where the stars (Lee, Edward Woodward) discuss the film and some of the edits the director wanted to do but the original films were destroyed. Interesting stuff and still a better film.

The remake was just so silly to me.

:-)

[DarkTirade]

26. Christopher Lee is teh awesome.

He even managed to make the Star Wars prequels not suck quite so hard as the one he wasn't in. That takes some doing.

[Norwood]

3. I've never seen the original but I saw the remake

and it was easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life! I saw it with a group of friends and we riffed the whole damn thing, MST3k style!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Why am I not surprised?

DUers are notoriously the biggest movie snobs.
It was not a terrible movie. It freaked me out, and we were gone for 20 minutes because people don't know the difference between someone's apartment being on fire and someone burning a pie.
Duckie

[ghostsofgiants]

12. DUers are big movie snobs?

You sure about that?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. Very sure...

I can watch just about any movie and find something enjoyable about it, unless it's Scifi. Then it really has to be decent. I think that people on DU have a really hard time letting go of reality long enough to enjoy a movie.
Duckie

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Maybe it's because I'm an uber-snob (which I admittedly am), but...

I always notice DUers talking about movies that aren't that great and going on about how movie critics have no idea what they're talking about and that reading reviews is pointless, etc. Always seems pretty far from snobbish to me.

[Norwood]

17. I wouldn't really say I'm a movie snob

I just really didn't care for this particular one at all. The story just didn't interest me, I didn't think the acting was all that good, and it was just well meh to me anyway. I'm sure there are a few movies I liked that many people probably think are crap. Although watching Nic Cage run around in that bear suit was comedy gold! :rofl:

[skygazer]

29. Is that what a movie snob is?

I'll be darned, I guess I must be one.

I can't watch just about any movie and find something enjoyable about it. I can't do that with books, either. I want and expect my entertainment to be professionally done and show some care, talent and creativity. If that makes me a snob, so be it. :shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I saw the real one with Dracula.

Not the Nick Cage crapfest.

[Mike03]

11. The classic version with Christopher Lee?

Yes, but I was so young I doubt it was possible to appreciate it totally.

[Mike03]

13. What I DO have is the edition of CINEFANTASTIQUE devoted

to the original WICKER MAN.

Sorry it was so bad. Take care.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

15. It wasn't bad...

It was fucked up.
Duckie

[IntravenousDemilo]

18. Ya gotta see the original!

It blows most movies, not just this remake, out of the water. Edward Woodward is perfect as the stoic, deeply religious hero (I just can't picture Nicolas Cage ever being stoic), while a topless Britt Ekland oozes sex out of every pore. Christopher Lee commands your attention in every scene he's in, because -- well, because he's Christopher Lee. Even the music is great.

[terrya]

31. Indeed

I am so glad I watched the orignal...I have zero interest in seeing the remake.

[LibraLiz1973]

20. It was SO BAD that I left

Fuckin awful!!


I'm talking about the remake.

[Chovexani]

21. You should see the original

It's ten times better, Christopher Lee is creepy and badass in it. The remake was good MST3k fodder.

FWIW, I'm not a movie snob either...I admit to liking the Transformers movie because it was Robots Blowing Stuff Up, my favorite genre. ;)

[Shine]

22. isn't that a horror flick?

mama don't do horror movies. :scared:

[AlCzervik]

23. i saw the remake, normally i avoid Nicholas Cage unless he's Leaving Las vegas

and The Wicker man reminded me why, that movie was absurd and the end was about the most watchable part. I find his various hair pieces so prominent and distracting they become a supporting character in anything he's in.

[Radio_Lady]

24. Radio_Lady on Movies: I saw "The Wicker Man" recently on TV. IMHO, it was laughably bad.

Mostly I felt sad that Ellen Burstyn was in this film and that she was verbally drowned in a terrible script.

The score on this film from the Internet Movie Data Base attests to the view that most people didn't like it.

More than 12,000 people have rated it since it since 2006. It is now sitting at a 3.5 out of a possible 10.

The movie was nominated for a Razzie Award (for the Worst Film of that year), but it didn't win that award. However, the cinematographer of the film won an award from Canada.

Read all about it at:

http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/

[Radio_Lady]

25. Metacritic rates films via a scale of 1 to 100. The Wicker Man (2006) got a 36!

Generally negative reviews

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/wickerman?q=The%20Wicker%20Man

[Frank Cannon]

27. This compilation of clips has me laughing my ass off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE!

:rofl: Never saw the movie, but now I feel like I have to!

[ChickMagic]

28. Wow

The beard of bees yanked me right into the incredible tension!
:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

32. Check this one out....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo

[Frank Cannon]

35. OMG, that is funny

If you didn't know otherwise, you would swear that this movie is (intentionally) some sort of screwball comedy in the "Uncle Buck" vein.

I've now moved it to the top of my Netflix queue. Thanks for that!

[MrScorpio]

30. I've seen both

The Original is much better

The remake is just plain misogynistic.

[bridgit]

33. the new one sucks, Cage's 1st foray into production and he seemed to have given...

the project to a bunch of filmmakers with few ideas, that's pretty much what they admit in the DVD commentary and it shows on the scene after some 15-20min the film falls out the bottom

[freethought]

34. I saw that movie. I am almost ashamed

to admit I went to see it. I never did see the original.
Look, there was a time when I would go and see just about anything. I even like some movies that most everyone else thought were absolutely abysmal. Fortunately I can say that with some maturity
I am more selective with what I see in the theater these days. Best movies I have seen lately are "In the Valley of Elah" and "Michael Clayton".

"The Wicker Man" SUCKED!!! It sucked beyond all suckdom! I stayed in the theater to get my money's worth, but it was still horrible. What was even more disturbing was that it wasted the talents of two excellent actors, Nicholas Cage and Ellen Burstin. And who the hell was that ex-girlfriend?

[Aristus]

36. I've seen the original, but not the remake. The original rocked.

Britt Ekland dancing around in the alltogether. Not bad! :evilgrin: