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Posted by minnie_tx (My Page) on Sun, Aug 20, 06 at 22:10
It looks like they have remade the 1973 "The Wicker Man" that starred Edward Woodward (a very popular actor at the time)
This one is with Nicolas Cage. If I remember correctly there was a surprising and unsettling ending to the original. |
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| Minnie I just saw a preview for it-the name did sound familiar but I wasn't sure why-never did see the earlier version. Pat |
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| We probably saw the same preview. I remember the movie vaguely. I think because of the ending. |
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| Oh dear, yet another remake of a classic... The original Wicker Man is a bit uneven (there are some very odd scenes with Britt Ekland), but Edward Woodward was brilliant and the ending is truly shocking and unexpected. I don't expect that Nicholas Cage will be able to match Woodward's performance, and I probably won't bother to find out - Cage started out well in his early films, but has since become a guarantee for rubbish! |
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| I remember the original and the ending is very disturbing. I've seen the previews to the new one and I have to say, it doesn't really look like the original. I wonder if the story has been changed considerably? Didn't the original take place on an island? |
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| Seems one of the more interesting things about this remake is that the Broadway playwright Neil LeBute is doing it. His plays are known mainly for tackling issues about issues between men and women. He also did the films, "In The Company of Men," "Posession," "Nurse Betty" and they turned his play "The Shape of Things" into a film. |
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| I saw the 1973 version of The Wicker Man for the first time about a year ago. Very odd, mixing pagan religion and horror-twist ending. I saw a TV ad for the new version with Nic Cage. It will be interesting to see the reviews, see if the plot is similar. I believe they changed the locale from Scotland to Pacific North West US. HMmm. . . |
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| I saw the original not too long ago and was blown away by the ending and setting. I cannot imagine that any re-make could be any better. N. Cage ruined Captain Corelli's Mandolin for me, utterly. I am sorry they are changing the setting from the UK. The island made it even more unique and the ancient Celtic culture certainly should play a dominant role. |
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| SPOILER ALERT I bet they'll change the ending to a more victorious one... Nicolas Cage does not play people who walk into traps and get burned alive... |
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| I wish there had been more room between the Spoiler alert and the actual spoil. I thought we were doing pretty good by not giving away the ending IMHO At least 20 lines maybe. |
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| Sorry about that, Minnie - although you have said that you remember the ending of the original; so with any luck other people hit the 'visual brakes' a bit faster. If not, my sincere apologies. |
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'visual brakes'
I like that. I'm not as fast as I used to be lol |
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| A close friend just saw this and reported it is awful, compared to the original. Has anyone seen it? |
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| We just rented the original to re-watch; I definitely enjoyed it more on this second viewing. It is a rather mixed bag, though; most of the musical 'numbers' are awful, especially the one with naked Britt Ekland thumping the walls. Great story though; there hasn't really been another film dealing with a similar subject (that I know of). I'll probably rent the remake when it comes out on DVD, but I will not go to the cinema for it! |
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| My mother borrowed my copy, but she didn't like it enough to watch it all the way through. She had me tell her the ending. As far as the ending goes, the only record we have of that practice is a description in Julius Ceasar's Gallic War, so there's a lot of doubt as to whether the Celts actually did that. |
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