Oh, hell, Nic Cage is the least of their problems...

director Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973 thriller The Wicker Man

Ew....get it off, get it off!!!!

I do have a serious question here, Jess. How can you hold Neil LaBute to being more offensive than Lars Von Trier (minus his earlier, more stylish movies)? At least Neil doesn't induce vomiting with his shakey-cam. I think they are both about equal in treating human beings like shit (with a special emphasis on women, possibly).

Nic Cage is an insurmountable problem, in my opinion.

I really liked Matchstick Men.

If X-Men 3 sucks, I will be incredibly disappointed. The first two were so good, and they've got the coolest X-Men story idea ever to build on.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

oh my, that is bloody brilliant. Destined to become an internet classic!

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stoopid double postie thingy

I do have a serious question here, Jess. How can you hold Neil LaBute to being more offensive than Lars Von Trier (minus his earlier, more stylish movies)? At least Neil doesn't induce vomiting with his shakey-cam. I think they are both about equal in treating human beings like shit (with a special emphasis on women, possibly).

That's a fair question. I find Lars von Trier to be a cold and soulless human who also somehow manages to make brilliantly evocative films. I've never understood the misogyny charges against him (and here, I must make an aside, because I just went over to Google to check the spelling of misogyny, and the sponsored link on the sidebar was this:

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..which was too funny not to share. Back to serious now.)

Anyway, the vibe I get off of Lars' films is that everyone is his puppet, and horrible things will happen to them. He's not a misogynist, he's a sociopath. He makes horrible things happen to women in his movies because, historically, women have had the short end of the stick, and so seeing them beaten down on film is that much harder to watch, and he wants his audience a broken bleeding shattered wreck. Why I find this fascinating rather than offensive probably has something to do with why I also identified so much with Anya over the years.

Neil LaButte, I think is a misogynist and a talentless hack. Everything about his films makes me want to hurt him, badly. (I've had people try to convince me that In The Company of Men was on the woman's side, but I'm not buying it. The vibe I get off his films is that he has never spoken to a woman in his life, and wouldn't bother wasting his time doing so if given the opportunity, because frankly, we're just not worth that much attention.)

The other thing is that Lars is pretty straightforward about his "dance, puppets!" attitude towards the rest of humanity. Neil seems to think he's actually a feminist.

The problem with him directing Wicker Man is that I've seen what his conception of feminism is, and my skin is crawling just trying to imagine what his concept of paganism is.

Saw Spanglish last night (hooray for free screeners). It was incredibly dreary.

The problem with him directing Wicker Man is that I've seen what his conception of feminism is, and my skin is crawling just trying to imagine what his concept of paganism is.

I'm dreading the new ending they probably tacked on, Where Cage's character breaks out of the wicker man, hunts down the leaders of the local pagans and stuffs them in the wicker man, and says, "Who's the Wicker Man now, bitch?" before lighting them all on fire and watching them die screaming.

But on the plus side, we'd then have a movie with the line "Who's the Wicker Man now, bitch?" in it.

But on the plus side, we'd then have a movie with the line "Who's the Wicker Man now, bitch?" in it.

Hee!