The Wicker Man Clips
Several people have told me that Nicholas Cage’s performance in The Wicker Man (2006) is awful. They’re absolutely right. In fact, this remake of the 1976 classic is so bad that it has become one of my favourite films.
How can you not love lines like this:
You little liars. Rowan Woodward is your classmate. Isn’t she. Isn’t she! That is her desk! And you’re the biggest liar of them all. I’m warning you. You tell me another and I’ll arrest you myself. That is a promise!
I can’t understand why director Neil LaBute agreed to do the remake. Many of the scenes are incredibly campy with Cage in the lead role. The dialogue is horrible and the plot is a mess. The film didn’t screen for critics when it was released and was genrally panned - it has a score of 36 on Metacritic.
How can Cage win an Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas, act so poorly in The Wicker Man, then perform so well in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans? They guy is all over the map but he makes me laugh every time he screams, “how’d it get burned? How’d it get burned? How’d it get burned?”
Posted in Movies at 10:07 PM
Comments
So…I’m not sure how that was a “mashup.” In order for it to be a mashup, wouldn’t you have to “mash” it together with something else?
Posted by: Paul on December 28, 2009 6:48 AM
Paul, you’re right and I look like a total n00b for calling it a mashup. They’re all clips from the same movie so I’ve renamed the entry.
Thanks for pointing out the error.
Posted by: jay 
on December 28, 2009 11:53 AM
I’ve got to watch this again. I bailed out about halfway through it because it was so bad and then I later started seeing viral clips and clips on TV showing the worst/funniest scenes from it.
LMAO @ “step away from the bike!”
Posted by: DrewK 
on December 29, 2009 11:37 AM
I have to see the original film now. I’ve read that 60% of the dialog is lifted straight from the original although people say it is far superior. Hmm.
Posted by: jay on January 1, 2010 11:21 AM
