Is it just me, or is The Wicker Man remake hilariously awful?

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I know it’s not a brand new movie, but I just saw it and looked for an old thread, and didn’t find one. I’m not a fan of Nicolas Cage at his best, but this…?

I don’t know where to start with this monstrosity – maybe him getting a medal for trying to save people in an exploding car, and there is no trace of the people found? Wouldn’t that result in an investigation, of HIM, rather than a medal?

The beating on kids? The pompous throwing his weight around when he has no jurisdiction? The bee hives that seem to be everywhere for the second part of the movie, when there wasn’t one to be seen anywhere at the start? The bear suit?

I mean, I know there is a world of bad movies out there, but this is Independence Day bad. Did I miss the trashing thread?

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I can’t believe I get to be the first person to post this!

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Not just you. I couldn’t make it past the first few minutes. The Woodward/Lee version didn’t need any fixing, much less fucking up.

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Boy…he punches out a lot of women in that movie, doesn’t he?

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How to tell if you are watching a bad Nick Cage Movie

But most of 'em are bad aren’t they?

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I’d say this is miles worse than “Independence DaY”. Oh my, did this movie reek.

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Everyone involved in this remake should be embarrassed about it.

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I haven’t seen it, but one of my Netflix friends did - their comment on the movie was pretty much “it’s hilariously awful” so yeah, not just you.

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The only good thing about it is it surely made some people seek out the original who otherwise would have never known about it.

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Man, that is way too wordy.

The only 2 questions worth asking are, “Does Nicolas Cage appear on the screen for more than two minutes?”, and “Does Nicolas Cage speak?”. If the answer to either is YES, it’s a bad Nicolas Cage movie.

But how bad he is, is another thread all in itself. 'Cause while he contributed, this movie was bad on so many levels I can’t imagine that recasting it would have done any good.

I’ve heard the original flick was pretty good, but I’ve never seen it. Can anybody tell me what was different between the two, besides Nicolas Cage?

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hated it, hated it.

Cage is like Keanu Reeves. They only are good if the character they are playing is supposed to be crazy or REALLY messed up. Other than that, sucks.

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What is it with Cage and the godawful remakes? He fucked up a Wings of Desire remake too.

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IS there a good Nicolas Cage movie? I’m sure I haven’t seen them all, but I can’t recall one, or even hearing of one.

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  1. It was good as a horror flick that really didn’t seem to be a horror flick for the first 19/20ths of its running time.

  2. One of the best “Gotcha Ya” moments in movies.

  3. Some decent Christopher Lee

  4. Nice skin in a dance by Britt Ekland

  5. Convincing lead role work by Edward Woodward

(Some of these things may be in the remake, but, as I said earlier, I didn’t get past the first few minutes of the Cage version.)

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He was pretty good in Weather Man. I’ll be honest. I liked that movie. However, he played a neurotic anti-social.

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What role did Christopher Lee play?

And no, no real hot chick Britt Ecklunds in this one that I recall.

And for Gotcha moments – I was wondering for a while whether this was some kind of farce comedy – I was literally laughing out loud while he was running around in the bear suit – there weren’t any. Unless you count, “I can’t believe how awful this is!” But that thought was a lot longer than a moment.

Was there a bear suit in the original?

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There be answers here :slight_smile:

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Haven’t seen that one. If another person speaks up for it, I’ll give it a shot. For Cage, I gotta get more than one endoresent of a movie to try it.

Though I just made that rule up after the Wickerman fiasco.

Come to think of it, though, I did kind of like 8mm, though I thought Cage was awful in it.

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I enjoyed Face/Off.

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Raising Arizona usually gets good reviews.