The Wicker Man reviews are in

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So has anyone seen this atrocity?

The reviews to date have been universally horrid

Funny quote from the one above:

Enter controversial playwright/filmmaker Neil LaBute (In The Company Of Men), who never met a story he couldn't turn into a paranoid-castration or myogynist-revenge fantasy. By way of script "improvement," he moves our island of neo-Druids from Scotland to somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, and has it run entirely by women (with Ellen Burstyn as the Queen Bee), with a few men existing as eunuch-servants.

Hey, but don't worry. Our hero Nic gets to punch some of these bad women in the face before we're done. As they say on South Park "dude, this is pretty f---ed up right here."

Washington Post review came to the same conclusion.

And here is my fav - from www.chud.com. Quote (rofl):


Nic Cage is strange from frame one of the film, and instead of the events on the island feeling like modern society meeting a pagan one or male society meeting a female society it feels like one mental institution having a softball game against another one. It’s like Cage is trying to out-odd these Ren Faire-esque women, and he sometimes succeeds.

I don't get it. I can see remaking something from the 70s that is horrible (like Battlestar Galactica). The original series was basically Lorne Green and his boys trade in their horses for vipers and move the Ponderosa into space to whup some cylon ass. The remake is so much better. A show that bad was in dire need of a remake. But how can you improve on a movie as awesome as The Wicker Man? And why would you even try?

Comments

[venischazeik.livejournal.com]

Nope, haven't seen it. And it's not even on my list of movies to see. It didn't look good to me. And apparently...it wasn't.

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

I might rent it when it comes out on DVD (which should be - oh - a couple of days after it's released). With reviews this bad, I have to see what the train wreck looks like.