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fishymcb and marred82 for a movie night yesterday. Namely, THE WICKER MAN and the 2006 remake.
Mikey: (reading the description of one) Oh God, this has Christopher Lee?! (reading the description of the other) Oh God, this has Leelee Sobieski?!
Now you may ask yourself... why in the name of Dormammu's flaming testicles would I ever want to subject myself, much less my friends, to such an experience?
Bear in mind, the original WICKER MAN is a classic. Sure, it's got moments of 70's cheese (the Britt Eckland body double slappy-dance chief among the goofy parts), but it's still a great movie. It's a rather subversive film not just on a level of comparative theologies, but as a thriller. Never once does it resort to "suspenseful music"; in fact, the movie's pretty well a fucking musical of folk songs! The "hero" is a completely unlikable, judgemental prick (although still trying to do the right thing, don't forget that... even though he is, as Kevin put it, "Like Capt. Rhodes without the charisma"), yet the increasingly suspicious islanders never treat his rants and curses with anything less than polite hospitality. And the ending... well, if you haven't seen it, I'll stop right here.
My point is that the original is, once again, a classic. And the Nicholas Cage remake, written and directed by Neil LaBute, one of America's most acclaimed and celebrated modern playwrights... just might be too.
Oh, sure, it was a critical and commercial bomb, so universally panned that it's not even worth pointing out how completely it misses the point of the original on a dozen levels, or how the female lead, over the course of the film, acted like she'd just been given a donkey punch. It's not even worth mentioning how crushingly boring the movie is for the most part.
Regardless of all that, this movie just might be a classic in its own right. Why?
Because if I ever feel depressed, no matter how low I get, I will always have... these two glorious minutes
Also, if you enjoyed that, I also suggest you check this one out as well, if only for the magnificent "God DAMN it!" Mikey, Kevin, and I had a field day with that one. Our entire experience watching the remake was making jokes about semis and bees. If you have a good group of friends with whom you can MST3K the hell out of a movie, I wholeheartedly suggest you watch first the classic WICKER MAN if you haven't already... and then the remake.
I mean, if for no other reason, do it for Nicholas Cage in a bear suit punching out Leelee Sobieski.
Tell me you can't watch that all day. I defy you.
NOT THE BEES!
fishymcb and marred82 for a movie night yesterday. Namely, THE WICKER MAN and the 2006 remake. Mikey: (reading the description of one) Oh God, this has Christopher Lee?! (reading the description of the other) Oh God, this has Leelee Sobieski?!
Now you may ask yourself... why in the name of Dormammu's flaming testicles would I ever want to subject myself, much less my friends, to such an experience?
Bear in mind, the original WICKER MAN is a classic. Sure, it's got moments of 70's cheese (the Britt Eckland body double slappy-dance chief among the goofy parts), but it's still a great movie. It's a rather subversive film not just on a level of comparative theologies, but as a thriller. Never once does it resort to "suspenseful music"; in fact, the movie's pretty well a fucking musical of folk songs! The "hero" is a completely unlikable, judgemental prick (although still trying to do the right thing, don't forget that... even though he is, as Kevin put it, "Like Capt. Rhodes without the charisma"), yet the increasingly suspicious islanders never treat his rants and curses with anything less than polite hospitality. And the ending... well, if you haven't seen it, I'll stop right here.
My point is that the original is, once again, a classic. And the Nicholas Cage remake, written and directed by Neil LaBute, one of America's most acclaimed and celebrated modern playwrights... just might be too.
Oh, sure, it was a critical and commercial bomb, so universally panned that it's not even worth pointing out how completely it misses the point of the original on a dozen levels, or how the female lead, over the course of the film, acted like she'd just been given a donkey punch. It's not even worth mentioning how crushingly boring the movie is for the most part.
Regardless of all that, this movie just might be a classic in its own right. Why?
Because if I ever feel depressed, no matter how low I get, I will always have... these two glorious minutes
Also, if you enjoyed that, I also suggest you check this one out as well, if only for the magnificent "God DAMN it!" Mikey, Kevin, and I had a field day with that one. Our entire experience watching the remake was making jokes about semis and bees. If you have a good group of friends with whom you can MST3K the hell out of a movie, I wholeheartedly suggest you watch first the classic WICKER MAN if you haven't already... and then the remake.
I mean, if for no other reason, do it for Nicholas Cage in a bear suit punching out Leelee Sobieski.
Tell me you can't watch that all day. I defy you.
NOT THE BEES!
