What the hell has been up with Nicholas Cage's roles in the past few years? Many of the films have not even been screened for the critics. Dude, get a new agent!

TomServo wrote:What the hell has been up with Nicholas Cage's roles in the past few years? Many of the films have not even been screened for the critics. Dude, get a new agent!

Seriously.

Andy/Monterey Jack,

Every other scene had Nick Cage either punching or drop-kicking women into walls. Heck, I lost my dinner when I saw him in the Bear suit showing up to the coven of nut-jobs.

And the one shot of him running down to the dock, then seeing the girl in the water; him rushing intgo the water and pulling her out. His hackneyed attempt at emotion on his face, with a sudden 60's style pull back of the camera.

Ooof.

Regards,
Ed

AndyDursin wrote:LOL. I have this feeling the new WICKER MAN is only going to rise with time as an all-time favorite. I didn't think it was as funny as John Frankenheimer's PROPHECY -- which is one of my all-time unintentional hoots as Paul knows -- but as modern duds go it's at the VERY top of the list.

It will be a cult classic, because you'll have to be in a cult to like it.

This isn't even STAR TREK V - THE FINAL FRONTIER bad, as that movie at least doesn't take itself too seriously. WICKER MAN, however, takes itself so seriously that NOMADS with Pierce Brosnan is Oscar material, by comparison.

Regards,
Ed

It's a sad state of affairs when Cage's one-line cameo in Grindhouse represented the best work he's done in years.

This was almost as funny as Born on the Forth of July (and only slightly less silly)...



Unbelievably, John Barry scored this instead of scoring The Spy Who Loved Me!

I need to find a good DVD of that, lol. Most of the US releases are public domain "specials"

Paul MacLean wrote:This was almost as funny as Born on the Forth of July (and only slightly less silly)...



Unbelievably, John Barry scored this instead of scoring The Spy Who Loved Me!

Ooof. that was horrible!!!!

Monterey Jack wrote:"Step AWAY from the bike!"

"What is that, what is that...?! Oh, no, not the bees...! AGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! AHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!! AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Cage ninja-kicking Leelee Sobieski gave me the biggest belly laugh I've had in years.

Yeah. What in the hell was all that about?What were they thinking? What could they think the audience reaction would be? Feminists would have gotten pissed at that, or, people would have just laughed uncontrollobly at the absurdity of it all! The desired effect was TOTALLy missed there, if anyone were to read that in the context of the film.

Edmund Kattak wrote:Yeah. What in the hell was all that about?What were they thinking? What could they think the audience reaction would be? Feminists would have gotten pissed at that, or, people would have just laughed uncontrollobly at the absurdity of it all! The desired effect was TOTALLy missed there, if anyone were to read that in the context of the film.

I may be burned at the stake for this but the original WICKER MAN is a very overrated movie on its own terms. Yes it has a certain mood, a measured performance from Edward Woodward, and a lot of atmosphere -- but in terms of a story, and filmmaking prowess, it's pretty crude and basic. Paul Maclean and I watched the movie back in January together and laughed at a lot of it...it certainly isn't scary or suspenseful, and those musical numbers? What the heck??!

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it (or seeing Britt Ekland dance around nude), but it definitely is NOT a "classic" film in my estimation. It was a movie of the moment, and I think a lot of its notoreity and "shock value" had to do with its ending, which these days isn't anything earth shattering.

As far as so many '70s horror favorites go, like THE EXORCIST, it doesn't hold a candle to them.

The remake just made it all more absurd, and Cage's performance was just so haywire, instead of being horrified at the end it was a good time to laugh

Edmund Kattak wrote:What could they think the audience reaction would be? Feminists would have gotten pissed at that, or, people would have just laughed uncontrollobly at the absurdity of it all!

From my perspective, the only positive aspect of the Wicker Man remake was its defamatory portrayal of the "womyns" culture, and the sinister, narcissistic, man-hating mindset which fuels radical wiccan feminism. I had an ex-girlfriend who got really messed-up by that stuff. That was the one thing which the Wicker Man remake really nailed. Otherwise the film is a laughable waste of time!

AndyDursin wrote: I may be burned at the stake for this but the original WICKER MAN is a very overrated movie on its own terms. Yes it has a certain mood, a measured performance from Edward Woodward, and a lot of atmosphere -- but in terms of a story, and filmmaking prowess, it's pretty crude and basic. Paul Maclean and I watched the movie back in January together and laughed at a lot of it...it certainly isn't scary or suspenseful, and those musical numbers? What the heck??!

"And on on that tree, there was an egg, and in that egg, there was a man..."

The while film looked like a 70s British TV movie, like 16mm location footage from Doctor Who. A good score would have helped, too (did The Wicker Man even have a score?).

The remake just made it all more absurd, and Cage's performance was just so haywire, instead of being horrified at the end it was a good time to laugh

"My legs! You broke my legs!"

Paul MacLean wrote:"My legs! You broke my legs!"

"And you're doing it for nothing! Killing me won't bring back your Goddamn honey!"