The Wicker Man Not Being Shown To Critics
Posted by John Campeaon 29. 06. 2006in News Chat
Ahh the trend continues. The new Nic Cage film “The Wicker Man“, a remake of the 1973 film of the same name, has put out a press release that gives us some insight to the film. The folks over at I Spit On Your Movie give us the following:
I have just read the press release for Lions Gates UK release of The Wicker Man re-make. At the bottom of the release in large print is the following: Please note the film is still in post-production, therefore screenings before release will not be possible.
You know what that means right? Let’s put it this way, if the studio was going to be HONEST, the press release would have looked like this:
“Upon reviewing our new film, we’ve realized that it’s a total pile of shit. Once word gets out how bad our movie is, it’ll tank at the box office and many of us will lose our jobs. We can’t stop word of mouth, so our only hope is to not allow critics to see it in advance and warn you. That way, we may still be able to pull in $30 million on opening weekend before word of mouth starts spreading around. Thank you for your understanding, and continued naivety.”
So there you have it folks. Be warned. The Wicker Man is going to suck, because by not releasing it to the critics in advance, the studio itself is pretty much admitting it themselves. Stay Away.
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Again… a pointless remake of a great original. What was the last good remake? I don’t even remember.
Oh, I will stay away. Whenever I come on here and see a topic and the heading reads “not being shown to critics” I drop the film out of my head as if it never existed.
More time saved, and another piece of shit avoided.
Thanks MovieBlog. :) *thumbs up*
I’ll be honest in saying that I never really was interested in this project at all. I have never seen the original, although I intend to one day. I love the ironmaiden song of the same name though. The trailer really didn’t conflict any interest whatsoever, either. I’m not saying I thought it was going to suck all along, I just never planned on seeing it in theaters in the first place. Personally, Ill wait till it comes on HBO.
I love the original film – arguably the best ever horror movie to come out of the UK and was really sceptical about news of this remake.
One of the brilliant things about the original is how slow and tense it is in its build up to that infamous last scene, qualities you don’t really expect from a Hollywood popcorn flick starring Nicholas Cage. The trailer was a steaming pile of shit too and this news confirms it – this movie is gonna suck BIG TIME…
What? You don’t believe that they really need some post-production recouperation time???
—Varun
PS: Please catch my sarcasm
Original Wicker Man, arguably the most oever rated, boring piece of crap
in movie history… this can’t be worse even if they tried
Not showing to critics have never been any mark how good movie will be, that too is complately bogus of course…
cheers
of course not going to see this one either because origianl was such a piece of vomit movie…
Original Wicker Man, arguably the most oever rated, boring piece of crap
in movie history… this can’t be worse even if they tried
Not showing to critics have never been any mark how good movie will be, that too is complately bogus of course…
cheers
of course not going to see this one either because origianl was such a piece of vomit movie…
“Not showing to critics have never been any mark how good movie will be, that too is complately bogus of course…”
… It does how ever show a lack of confidence in the film from the studio, if they thought it was great they would be more than pleased to have critics view it so the film could be hyped by positive reviews!
The original is the best musical about dancing farmers I’ve ever seen. Damn good film but not entirely what I expected.
The trailer for this remake sucks balls. I used to be a fan but Nicolas Cage hasn’t done anything remotely interesting in a very long time. After his great Face/Off and Snake Eyes period he went into a shitty rom-com (Corelli), borderline self-parody (Matchstick Men) and The Most Retarded Movie Of All Time (National Treasure). All downhill now. The most predictable actor of his generation? I reckon. Well even though World Trade Center looks like a ridiculous piece of shit at least we got more National Treasure to look forward to.
Seeing the trailer for this made me want to see… the original. I never saw it but I think I’m going to just rent it. Anyways, a movie about a little girl who goes missing and the person looking for her finds themself in a town full of religious wackos. Hmmmm. I think I saw that, its called Silent Hill. AJ, the last remake i can think of that worked is True Lies. The original is a bag of S-H-I-T!!!!
uh… imdb has the official title of the remake as “COWBOYS FOR CHRIST”…. someone please tell me… please… that NO ONE is stupid enough to release a movie with that title.
i see… i see a marketing campaign similar to SNAKES ON A PLANE, where the movie poster has clip art cowboys riding into the sunset… which is eclipsed by a clipart cross… which is wrapped up by two snakes…
Cowboys for Christ is Robin Hardy’s (the original writer and director of the wickerman) project , nothing to do with the Neil LaBute movie which stars Nic Cage.
I dunno man… this is the first Cage project in a long long time that has me interested. The fact that it is a Lion’s Gate film and that LaBute is the director makes me want to see it all the more. I enjoyed the original a lot, and the trailer looks like they are going to follow it fairly closely, and it seems to have the same tone as the original. I don’t listen to critics, ever. if the studios know the critics are just gonna slag then flim, then why should they bother pre-screening it? Besides, I think critics look for something different in a film that the average film-goer does… anyhow, i choose for myself what i will or will not watch. I am not a lemming… i can march off a cliff alone :o)
It follows the original “fairly closely”? Dude, are we seeing the same trailer? Just from the trailer, let’s have a look at how close it is to the original:
- The same tone? The original had happy dancing people, a song every five minutes and a humourless Christian copper. I see no singing here, all I see is miserable and tortured Nic Cage (why do big actors love playing miserable and tortured so much?) running around chasing things in dark barns and sewers.
- Big explosive car crash? Didn’t see that in the old one.
- The cop as a tortured haunted-looking dude? No. It’s not the same character. And naming him Edward and the girl Rowan Woodward is about the clumsiest reference they could have possibly done. Sorry, it’s just poo.
- Biggest change: Rowan’s mother as some skinny weepy-eyed bitch in tight clothes. “Don’t believe anything they tell you” she says. Why not just write in the letter “Oh, yeah, and look out for the massive twist at the end!” In the original the cop was completely alone, now they’ve made this bitch into a sappy love interest.
- The cop is seeing ghosts now? Seriously?
They’ve just retarded the movie up and put a star in it. The trailer is dark and whispery enough to make it an inoffensive date movie and that’s all it seems to be aiming for. It’ll come out, get 2 out of 5s, do fairly well at the box office and then we can all forget it ever happened. Cage gets a horror movie on his resume and he gets to be miserable and tortured some more. 8mm with a ghost and a twist. Whoopee.
Director Robin Hardy will be talking about The Wicker Man following a screening of the film at the Phoenix Cinema in North London on Thursday 3rd August 2006.
I loved the original film, but when I saw the trailer of this remake – it was horrible.
Original Wicker Man, arguably the most oever rated, boring piece of crap
in movie history… this can’t be worse even if they tried
Not showing to critics have never been any mark how good movie will be, that too is complately bogus of course..
Are you too stupid to spell “over” correctly? I think you are!
Watched this movie for the first (and last) time tonight on DVD. Wow. I’m sorry, but why am I filled with this murderous rage all of a sudden? Could be because this film deepthroated and then snaggletoothed hard all the way back up?!?!?!?!! Wow, again, I can’t beleive Cage could have sunk to such a preponderous low. How much did they have to pay him to play this part? And the women in the movie: how does one surmise that despite being so cunning and dominating they still manage to seriously dingus things up by killing their one-and-only means of transportation, provisioning, etc? Didn’t the pilot mention he had to make daily trips out there at the beginning? Not a very logistically sound decision to do him in as well as his plane!
Horrible movie. Not worth the money used to rent it. Knowing now that it didn’t hit the screening room before the box office makes a helluva lotta sense from the producer’s perspective of course!!