The Wicker Man (2006 - UNRATED)

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The Wicker Man (2006 - UNRATED) (2006)

The Wicker Man (2006 - UNRATED)
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Out patrolling a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl's lost doll. Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward fails to save them before the car explodes...and then spends months of his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his head. But Edward is about to get a second chance. A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), arrives at his home with no postmark. Willow came into his life and left just as unexpectedly years before. But now, her daughter Rowan has gone missing, and Edward is the only person she trusts to help locate her. She asks him to come to her home on a private island - Summersisle - a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again, and soon finds himself on a seaplane bound for the islands of the Pacific Northwest. But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, where a culture, dominated by its matriarch Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), is bound together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth." The secretive people of Summersisle only ridicule his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed there... or if she ever did was no longer alive. But what Edward doesn't know is that Willow's plea for help has invited more into his life than a chance for redemption. In unraveling Summersisle's closely held secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And one step closer to the Wicker Man.


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Lew Irwin
RATED 0 STARS


The Wicker Man was not screened for critics in the U.S. but Peter Howell of the Toronto Star got a look at it, presumably at a public preview screening. Howell notes that it may be "a tad unreasonable" for the filmmakers to "be burned at the stake for what they've done to The Wicker Man, that most British of cult movies." He accuses Cage and writer/director Neil LaBute of "taking a classic of downbeat cinema, a cautionary tale about conflicting religious values, and transforming it into a feminist encounter session with dialogue akin to a valedictorian speech delivered by Britney Spears."

The expected dreadful reviews materialized over the weekend. Kyle Smith in the New York Post figured that Warner Bros. released the Wicker Man remake "without previews because it would rather lose money than be accused of misogyny." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post recalled that after the original film was released, there were rumors that Rod Stewart, whose girlfriend, Britt Eklund, performed a nude dance in it, tried to buy up all existing copies and have them destroyed. "Only Stewart can say whether this is true, and he's not talking," Hunter wrote. "I do believe that in a few years, Nicolas Cage will buy up all the prints to this Wicker Man and burn them. I'll be happy to help him." Of Crank, Liam Lacey wrote in the Toronto Globe and Mail that it was "so blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious." Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel wrote that it was "so hyped up, it's the movie equivalent of a speedball shot straight into a major artery, and every bit as irresponsible." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post summed it up as, "brutal, nasty and, thank God, short." And Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News wrote that the movie "has an excellent shot at ending 2006 as th






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Reviewed by: Spectreman_29 on 3/23/2007 10:21:37 AM
RATED 0 STARS

Nicholas Cage acted out his part really well. Although he was the most intresting in the entire cast. That sister Summersville what a lousy villian she turned out. ***SPOILER***And Edward Malus/Nicholas Cage was completely betrayed by his wife and daughter. Give me break all the women who mocked Nicholas Cage really pissed me off and deserved to get hit upside the head. Especially when Cage punched one of them. I felt in my mind..Thats what you get you liberal piece of scum. How could they not feel any sympathy whats so ever. It seemed like all the females were taught to hate and despise men and treat them like submissive slaves. Honestly this movie would appeal more to Gothic type psycho lesbians who if given the chance would enjoy performing rituals and sacrificing men and boys.



Lew Irwin

RATED 0 STARS

The Wicker Man was not screened for critics in the U.S. but Peter Howell of the Toronto Star got a look at it, presumably at a public preview screening. Howell notes that it may be "a tad unreasonable" for the filmmakers to "be burned at the stake for what they've done to The Wicker Man, that most British of cult movies." He accuses Cage and writer/director Neil LaBute of "taking a classic of downbeat cinema, a cautionary tale about conflicting religious values, and transforming it into a feminist encounter session with dialogue akin to a valedictorian speech delivered by Britney Spears."

The expected dreadful reviews materialized over the weekend. Kyle Smith in the New York Post figured that Warner Bros. released the Wicker Man remake "without previews because it would rather lose money than be accused of misogyny." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post recalled that after the original film was released, there were rumors that Rod Stewart, whose girlfriend, Britt Eklund, performed a nude dance in it, tried to buy up all existing copies and have them destroyed. "Only Stewart can say whether this is true, and he's not talking," Hunter wrote. "I do believe that in a few years, Nicolas Cage will buy up all the prints to this Wicker Man and burn them. I'll be happy to help him." Of Crank, Liam Lacey wrote in the Toronto Globe and Mail that it was "so blatantly contrived it could be called The Fast and the Spurious." Roger Moore in the Orlando Sentinel wrote that it was "so hyped up, it's the movie equivalent of a speedball shot straight into a major artery, and every bit as irresponsible." Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post summed it up as, "brutal, nasty and, thank God, short." And Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News wrote that the movie "has an excellent shot at ending 2006 as the worst film of the year."





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Reviewed by: Spectreman_29 on 3/23/2007 10:21:37 AM
RATED 0 STARS

Nicholas Cage acted out his part really well. Although he was the most intresting in the entire cast. That sister Summersville what a lousy villian she turned out. ***SPOILER***And Edward Malus/Nicholas Cage was completely betrayed by his wife and daughter. Give me break all the women who mocked Nicholas Cage really pissed me off and deserved to get hit upside the head. Especially when Cage punched one of them. I felt in my mind..Thats what you get you liberal piece of scum. How could they not feel any sympathy whats so ever. It seemed like all the females were taught to hate and despise men and treat them like submissive slaves. Honestly this movie would appeal more to Gothic type psycho lesbians who if given the chance would enjoy performing rituals and sacrificing men and boys.




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Reviewed by: Spectreman_29 on 3/23/2007 10:21:37 AM
RATED 0 STARS

Nicholas Cage acted out his part really well. Although he was the most intresting in the entire cast. That sister Summersville what a lousy villian she turned out. ***SPOILER***And Edward Malus/Nicholas Cage was completely betrayed by his wife and daughter. Give me break all the women who mocked Nicholas Cage really pissed me off and deserved to get hit upside the head. Especially when Cage punched one of them. I felt in my mind..Thats what you get you liberal piece of scum. How could they not feel any sympathy whats so ever. It seemed like all the females were taught to hate and despise men and treat them like submissive slaves. Honestly this movie would appeal more to Gothic type psycho lesbians who if given the chance would enjoy performing rituals and sacrificing men and boys.

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