So I'm watching the movie "The Wicker Man" with Nicholas Cage...

[driver8]

and there is a scene where Nicholas Cage is having a discussion with the local school teacher.

I have never been into the "school teacher fantasy" but OMG !! If I had a school teacher who looked like this I would never have learned a thing...unbelievable!

(I looked up the actress on the IMDB and her name is Molly Parker.)

[ThomCat]

1. Is it a remake of the classic?

Or just a rip-off?

[tjwmason]

8. It's on my list of films never to watch.

Because of the great potential for ruination of a great masterpiece...

Right up there with The Dukes of Hazzard, The Ladykillers, and The Italian Job.

[ThomCat]

9. The original was a good film

with some scenes and directoral choices that were just brilliant.

I agree that I probably will not see this new film. There is just too much chance that it ruins the story.

[LeftyMom]

15. That's my thought too

It'd piss me off to see such a good movie mangled.

[China_cat]

10. remake

with a twist...Lady Summerisle instead of the Lord so eerily done by Christopher Lee.

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for remakes, here. I also doubt that the nude dance in the original was recreated.

[ThomCat]

11. Thank you.

:)

I agree about the nude dance. It's not likely to be included in a modern film.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. Random trivia -- it's not Britt Eckland's bum

& she's not especially happy that a double was brought in (IIRC she was away from the set the day it was shot).

[LynneSin]

2. She's a regular in Deadwood

Also had a great role in "Iron-Jaw Angels" as the woman who defied her politico husband in order to support the woman's sufferage movement back in the early 1900's

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I'm not going to see this one.

The Christopher Lee one works just fine.

[MiniMandaRuth]

4. I'll go see it, just to see the Man With An Eternal Hangover

burn to death in a giant wicker statue.

While being sung to by hippies.

[WCGreen]

5. I remember the Equalizer was up there getting burned to death

in the original....

[Tyrone Slothrop]

6. How was it?

I'm a fan of the original and am curious as to whether this remake works or not. Seems like it would be hard to do -- even though there are a lot of rough spots in the first one. (Due to low budget, primarily.)

[driver8]

16. Unfortunately, Molly Parker is the best thing about this movie.

I am dying to see the original, though. The story idea is great -- unfortunately, they didn't do much with it in this version.

[enigmatic]

7. Molly Parker is a Goddess

And a great actor...

[driver8]

14. Oh yeah...that's what I'm talking about!! n/t

[bikebloke]

13. I guess I won't be skipping this one then.

Molly Parker

Early in my DVD purchasing days (before I quickly became picky) I bought the original Wicker Man with both the European and u.s. versions. One disque was a dud. So Anchor Bay sent me another set. Same thing. In the end, they kept both returns and my money. But the original was good, even if Molly Parker wasn't in it.

[GCP]

17. The final scene in the original was absolutely stunning

As the sun goes down and the Wicker Man's head bows down.
The new movie can never live up to the original IMHO.

[cedahlia]

18. If you like Ms. Parker you should check out Deadwood!

She does a phenomenal acting job (and is also *smokin' hot*) as Alma Garrett Ellsworth on Deadwood. (My avatar is actually a picture of her from Deadwood!) Anyway, I would recommend starting with Season 1 of Deadwood on DVD...you won't be disappointed!!

[driver8]

21. I will definitely be checking that out!!

Wow -- is she ever sexy in "The Wicker Man"!!

[Withywindle]

19. UGH, was this remake really necessary?

The original is such a whacked-out masterpiece. One of my all-time favorites.

I'll bet they didn't even keep the songs, the pompous hacks.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

22. We do have Hardy's "Cowboys for Christ" to hopefully look forward to

ROBIN Hardy spent a month with evangelists in the southern United States in search of inspiration for his latest novel, Cowboys for Christ. In his new book, Hardy returns to The Wicker Man's themes of religion, paganism, sex and sacrifice.

"People will see it as inhabiting the same territory (as The Wicker Man)," said Hardy. "But there are three very real ideas in the book, which I experienced either in America or in Scotland: a cowboy from the Cowboys for Christ church which I visited, a festival taken from Scotland's real tradition of Borders riding festivals that I witnessed some years back in Kelso, and the silver rings, a real-life sign of fundamentalists who do not believe in sex before marriage."

The plot involves Beth, a gospel singer (and Britney Spears lookalike), and her cowboy boyfriend, Steve - two virgins promised to each other through "the silver ring thing" who set off from Texas to enlighten the Scottish heathens to the ways of Christ.

Meanwhile, in the Scottish Borders village of Tressock, preparations for the May Day feast get under way with Sir Lachlan Morrison, laird and chairman of Nuada Nuclear Power Station, going on the hunt for the Queen and her Laddie to fulfil a horrifying pagan fertility ritual.

"As a writer it was telling to look at how the US once considered itself a liberal society," said Hardy on the book's conception. "It's hopefully an interesting assessment into how fundamentalist America is drifting further and further into what we would probably have considered Scotland to be pre-war in terms of ideologies."

(...)

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=372112006
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323808/
http://www.cowboysforchrist.info/

[Broken_Hero]

20. don't be coy

with a teacher that hot, you would have learned quite a few things! :rofl: