So...consensus here, is the original Wicker Man worth watching??

Oh yes, it's a cult classic.

Funny...scary...?

Funny...scary...?

Pagan?

That's kind of why it's known. It was a rare expression of pagan beliefs in the seventies. But it's also scary/creepy. It's not laughable like the recent one.

Other people's beliefs are usually pretty interesting. Nicholas Cage's movie roles however...

"Put... the bunny... back... in the box."*

Jilli, did you see LOTR: The Return of the King? I have a friend who shares your phobia, but he said RotK was sufficiently non-realistic that it didn't bother him.

You need to see the original Wicker Man if you're going to see / have already seen the hilarious travesty that was the LaBute version. Because it's not just that he made a craptacularly bad movie about how scary life would be if Teh Wimmins were in charge, it's that he made it out of that source material.

And, you know, because it's a good movie. (Ideally, I think people should see the original first, in order to be properly horrified by the remake. But it works almost as well in reverse.)

I liked The Departed well enough, but it's not even remotely in the same league as Children of Men. On rewatch of The Departed, I found myself getting bored and wondering why it was so long. Children of Men, I saw in theatres 4 times and would happily watch it 40 more. There's just SO MUCH THERE.

he said RotK was sufficiently non-realistic that it didn't bother him.

Huh, I had the same reaction for the opposite reason. Shelob, to me, looked like a giant spider would actually look, and wasn't all that scary. Unlike the giant spiders in, say Chamber of Secrets, which looked exactly like the evil phobia-version of giant spiders, and had me hiding under my seat.

Huh, I had the same reaction for the opposite reason. Shelob, to me, looked like a giant spider would actually look, and wasn't all that scary.

Maybe I shouldn't have said "non-realistic" as much as "not at all like the real-world versions, on account of the huge size."

I don't even remember what the Chamber of Secrets ones were like.

Actually, I might have skipped that movie....

I saw the original Wicker Man about 8-ish years ago. I dunno - the whole singing naked chick trying to seduce the cop just seemed silly to me, and kind of took me out of the scary for a while. I kinda' remember liking it more as it got towards the end. I should watch it again, but I don't have a VCR anymore. (You know, those things with the analog signals magnetically encoded into "tape"?)

We saw Michael Clayton last night. It's good for what it is, though the stakes seem a little small. The overall plot and BIGLAW framework was pleasingly thought-out. Lots of fun performances to watch.

wrong thread.