The Bad Kitty called from the mall saying she was looking at a poster for a remake of The Wicker Man, starring Nicolas Cage. Sacrilege says I!
Not that the original 1973 version was all that great, but it had as its villain that pillar of British cinema, that paragon of horror movie mythos, Christopher Lee! Let's see, who's playing Lord Summerisle in this new version? Um, Ellen Burstyn. As "Sister Summersisle." OK, I'll grant you, she was in The Exorcist, that's a scary movie, but she wasn't scary in it.
I'll also grant that Nicolas Cage and Edward "The Equalizer" Woodward are about on par, so we'll let that slide.
Let's see, who else can we pick on...in the original we had Britt "Trying way too hard" Ekland and Aubrey "Mr. P. R. Deltoid" Morris, and in the remake we have Kate "Coat Check Girl" Beahan and Paul "Cute Dance Boy" Becker. Two more points in favor of the original.
All in all, it looks like the original movie is the winner, but remember that it kinda sucked, except for Christpher Lee -- who you see very little of in the move, come to think of it. Maybe that's why it sucked. Also, the remake has a markedly different plot, so who knows, maybe the remake will be worth adding to the NetFlix queue. At the very bottom.
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Wait and see oh Bald One! I'm holding out on any judgement at least until I see a trailer. I'm very curious as to how they're gonna handle that whole religious intolerance deal that they could get away with back in the day in the original, but certainly not now...(in my dreams perhaps).
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