Firebeetle's Reviews: Beware the Wicker Man!

[Pseudonym]

those bee related changes to make it less, er, "pagan", for fear of offending modern day ones?

I'll wager that modern day ones will be a large portion of its first weekend sales. There's been buzz about a remake of Wicker Man in the pagan community since the late 90s.

 

[trancejeremy]

God, I hope not. The first movie was really awful. Random. Gratuitous. Obvious.
How can any movie can be both random and totally obvious at the same time?
Well, it has lots of weird "what the heck?" moments through out the movie, but you
could see the ending from the beginning. It's like you might as well have started the movie 10 minutes before the end, just so the viewer can be SURE that the movie was going to end up there.

Well, it's got a rating of 7.7 at IMDB.com, which might not sound like a lot, but just narrowly misses being one of the top 250 movies there (#250 is rated 7.8).

 

[Firebeetle]

I saw the first film, but only vaguely remember it. I do remember thinking 'this is suppossed to be a horror film? I'm glad they burned his intolerant ass' at the end. At least he served a purpose, to renew the apple crop. Sounds like the remake is a combo between that and Dark Secret of Harvest Home.

That sounds about right. Definately NOT a horror movie in the convential sense, and it completely fails to be scary despite some good faith efforts. No real elements of the supernatural, just superweird.

The movie is reset in Pugut sound BTW, far, far, far away from England. The colony's ancestors came from there in one of the few things that IS explained.

I had no idea the original movie was THAT popular, that it registers near the top 250 movies of all time is just bizarre. What IS the appeal? I've always been a big student of all things Celtic and immediately understood all the references that were being dropped in both, and I still didn't find it that intriguing, just that someone either did their homework or was into that sort of thing who wrote it.

 

[Huw]

Those were both great links. Is there a list of quirky British villages out there in Netland? I've already stolen the quirks of those two locations for my homebrew and would love to have a longer list to raid for ideas.

What CR have you made the cheese race?

Those two are quite famous. Don't know if anyone's compiled a list. Trying a search ("Morris Dancing" and "Bonfire Night" might be a good starting points, as you'll get links to some local festivals).

 

[ddvmor]

the British seem to consider it one of the greatest movies ever produced

This Brit doesn't agree. I thought it was a load of old... er... rubbish.

 

[Spud]

This Brit doesn't agree. I thought it was a load of old... er... rubbish.

Oh i dont know it has two things of, er interest..

 

[ragboy]

It also has nudity, people fornicating in fields (without explanation), and two musical numbers (one given by a naked girl wanting fornication, go figure.) It's a weird, weird movie that has a cult following but little else going for it.

If the new one has THIS, then consider me sold! Fornication, singing and singing about fornication... woo hoo!

Ahem. Right. On to the next thread.

 

[Crothian]

Does the remake have the same ending?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What CR have you made the cheese race?

I'm going to use the rules from Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns.

I actually want my barony to be pretty quirky, like the Northern Exposure TV series, since my players are all fairly whimsical types. Plus, you know, ancient horrors that want to destroy the planet and all that.

 

[Simplicity]

Well, it's got a rating of 7.7 at IMDB.com, which might not sound like a lot, but just narrowly misses being one of the top 250 movies there (#250 is rated 7.8).

It says so on the Internet, so it must be true...

I am a big, big fan of horror movies. A movie like this one should have been right up my alley. I really don't come down on the poor quality of many movies, but I gotta draw the line somewhere. This movie sucks (the old one that is, the new one I haven't seen yet).

Maybe there's something uniquely British to it that I'm not getting.