You know that a lot of people make fun of this movie, I honestly don't see what the fuss is about, besides the gruesome ending I didn't think it was bad at all. I know I could be biased and just like it because Nicolas Cage is in it but I'm not, if I see a film with him and I didn't like it, I didn't like it. People online always seem to say about how funny the movie is but I don't see what's so funny about it... I'm not going to spoil it if you haven't seen it but if you have, you know what I'm talking about. And even if you haven't seen it, it's a horror movie and I'm sure you can work out why it's a horror movie based on the title alone. I don't watch the movie too often though, I don't like the ending besides The Purge and The Wicker Man, I find horror movies quite laughable and not scary. The Purge wasn't scary but I did like it, Wicker Man wasn't scary either but it certainly threw some plot twists at me and sent some chills down my spine. ( I love 8MM but I don't consider it a horror movie, like some do.)
Now, you wanna talk funny, the original Wicker Man is really ridiculous. People say it's funny when Nic was in his bear suit. You know what's funny? Edward Woodward in a clown suit and Christopher Lee dressed up as a woman. Not to mention all the naked women running around and all the drunkards. The original movie didn't really hold my interest for very long, I still watched it and the ending is as gruesome as you'd expect. It just felt like they weren't trying in the original, besides the ending, the whole film feels like a comedy gone wrong, there's a scene where a naked lady sings and slaps her behind while Edward Woodward cries about it. I know it was made in the 70s but it doesn't even feel like they attempted to be scary. The Nic Cage Wicker Man actually shocked me and I gasped 4 times and I don't think any other movie literally made me gasp at what I was watching.
Anyway this wasn't supposed to be a thread where I compare the two, even though I could do that. I was just sharing my thoughts. What do you think of the 2006 Wicker Man?
That`s really an interesting topic, Enzo! As I haven`t seen the original, I can`t really compare them, but the Nic-version of it has lots of scary and absurd moments in it! Especially, the scene, where he gets tortured, before he gets burned! In the version, that is availlable here in Germany, they did cut the torture-scene (in oposite to the directors cut- uk-version). I have both version, and watched them both, and the directors-cut is much scarier in my opinion! And, I agree, as I, honestly, don`t know, too, what should be so funny about that movie! I think, people, who think that, haven`t, either seen it, or doesn`t understand, what it` s about!
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I'm not big on horror movies either, so I haven't ever seen the original "Wicker Man" though I know the story and I know how it ends (thanks a heap, Bravo Channel).
Regarding the remake, I hadn't seen any clips nor read any specifics as to why people thought it was so bad - I'd just heard in general that people thought it and Mr. Cage's performance was bad. One night, I tuned in to watch the remake. Still don't know why, but....
Don't know how far into the movie this was (though now I gather it wasn't far at all), but I watched up until his character declared he was allergic to bees.
A little red flag went up in my head. Because I knew where it was going. And it went there, as you well know. I turned off the TV - I could not watch any more.
That said, I cannot watch that movie. I'd like to, to give his performance a second chance, and I do actually have the uncut version in my DVD collection (it's a bravery thing), but I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
So it majorly freaked me out. And I honestly don't think it's funny at all.
Something else I noticed while I was researching the remake was a lot of people were going on about him punching out all the women, and how the movie was misogynistic in its attitude towards women. Well, I'm a woman, and let me just say, I'd have punched out that woman (I think it's Sister Beech?) looong before he actually did. So. Just my two cents on that. =)
That`s really an interesting topic, Enzo! As I haven`t seen the original, I can`t really compare them, but the Nic-version of it has lots of scary and absurd moments in it! Especially, the scene, where he gets tortured, before he gets burned! In the version, that is availlable here in Germany, they did cut the torture-scene (in oposite to the directors cut- uk-version). I have both version, and watched them both, and the directors-cut is much scarier in my opinion! And, I agree, as I, honestly, don`t know, too, what should be so funny about that movie! I think, people, who think that, haven`t, either seen it, or doesn`t understand, what it` s about!
Thank you The only reason I'd ever recommend the original is to make sure you could compare them both. Yeah, I agree with you there. I wish that people online would keep an open mind and not just follow what everyone else says.
I'm not big on horror movies either, so I haven't ever seen the original "Wicker Man" though I know the story and I know how it ends (thanks a heap, Bravo Channel).
Regarding the remake, I hadn't seen any clips nor read any specifics as to why people thought it was so bad - I'd just heard in general that people thought it and Mr. Cage's performance was bad. One night, I tuned in to watch the remake. Still don't know why, but....
Don't know how far into the movie this was (though now I gather it wasn't far at all), but I watched up until his character declared he was allergic to bees.
A little red flag went up in my head. Because I knew where it was going. And it went there, as you well know. I turned off the TV - I could not watch any more.
That said, I cannot watch that movie. I'd like to, to give his performance a second chance, and I do actually have the uncut version in my DVD collection (it's a bravery thing), but I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
So it majorly freaked me out. And I honestly don't think it's funny at all.
Something else I noticed while I was researching the remake was a lot of people were going on about him punching out all the women, and how the movie was misogynistic in its attitude towards women. Well, I'm a woman, and let me just say, I'd have punched out that woman (I think it's Sister Beech?) looong before he actually did. So. Just my two cents on that. =)
You bring up a lot of good points.
I'm not sure what it was, but while I was watching the movie I did notice that Nicolas Cage's acting seemed different, now I'm not going to knock the man for acting because it has to be one of the hardest jobs going but he did say in an interview after the film was released 'you don't make a film about a guy in a bear suit and not know it isn't ridiculous' he wanted to go over the top with it but too many people say no, so he still sort of did it in his own way anyway. Y'know he delivers some lines in a sarcastic manner, doesn't know the customs of the island he is on, he just acts like any normal person would on this odd island- a mix of nervousness and over the top.
Well, yes, he does punch a lot of women because they have been anything but helpful to him. He's just an ordinary guy who went to an island to look for someone and no one is telling him any straight answers, they outright lie to him and even trap him at one point and he just has had enough. I think its the opposite of misogynistic, the island is filled with women because they feel they are superior and treat the men like slaves.
I have only seen it once, and have never seen the original that I can remember. Possibly when I was young, those kind of movies often played at the drive-in theatre which we went to as teens. My memories of those movies are pretty vague.
I seem to recall a tv movie years ago with Bette Davis with a similar plot, but I can't remember much about it, except it was creepy.
Anyway, it didn't scare me, although some moments made me jump, like the scene on the wharf with the child, and the ending is very disturbing, of course. I did find it funny, I laughed a lot, some of those scenes were just ridiculous to me. I thought it was very surreal and oddly told, and some of it was confusing. I would say it was misogynist in that whoever was responsible for that story line seemed to dislike women, and maybe fear them, didn't like women to have power anyway.
I thought Nic was great in the movie, he was a man thrown into this horrible situation and trying to see his way through, and he portrayed that with awesome intensity and realism. Could not take my eyes off of him in all his scenes. Come to think of it, he really dominates that movie, doesn't he?
I do own it but I don't really like those kind of stories, I find them so emotionally manipulative, so I don't know when I will ever watch it again.
besides The Purge and The Wicker Man, I find horror movies quite laughable and not scary. The Purge wasn't scary but I did like it, Wicker Man wasn't scary either but it certainly threw some plot twists at me and sent some chills down my spine. ( I love 8MM but I don't consider it a horror movie, like some do.)
In the version, that is availlable here in Germany, they did cut the torture-scene (in oposite to the directors cut- uk-version). I have both version, and watched them both, and the directors-cut is much scarier in my opinion! And, I agree, as I, honestly, don`t know, too, what should be so funny about that movie! I think, people, who think that, haven`t, either seen it, or doesn`t understand, what it` s about!
The only reason I'd ever recommend the original is to make sure you could compare them both. Yeah, I agree with you there. I wish that people online would keep an open mind and not just follow what everyone else says. 
