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GAM Bonus 012: The Wicker Man

🕑 Added 2017-05-10 02:37:21 +0000 UTC

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Winter wiorkowski

If you watch the director’s cut you get to see Nicholas Cage get his legs broken - so there’s that …

Miss Ann

This was written and directed by Neil LaBute, who also did one of the most misogynistic movies of all time. "The Company of Men." He was also in the process of being excommunicated or disfellowed or whatever it is the Mormons call it. And the bee thing, instead of it being something that makes sense for Washington State, like apples? Yeah, bees are Mormon thing. This is one of the most unintentionally funny movies I've ever seen. I saw it in the theater when it came out, and I was NOT the only one laughing all the way through it. There were also some tween girls sitting down front who would do the fake screaming and then laugh at every unsuccessful jump scare. The reason it was dedicated to Johnny Ramone was that he and Nicolas Cage were friends, and the original was one of his favorite movies. I came to the conclusion that Ramone died in self defense when this movie was announced, because he didn't want to suffer through it.

Talyn

The best part is that they didn't had to make the plot sound like a MGTOW horror story. They choose to. In the original there was at no point the implication that they are a cult of only women, hell, Summerisle (and yes, that was the name used in the original too) was a male. But for this one I imagine a director asked: How can we make it more scary for men? And baby Paul Joseph Watson poped from under a desk answering: I know, we make it a cult of women who keep men as slaves, because that's what women do if you let them be in charge.

Drunkarius

This is driving me crazy, because so many of these plot points do kind of echo things from the first movie, but oh god did they just not get anything about how the original worked.

Erica

I wish all adds were like this

AaronRobertoMusic

There's already a show about a girl and a bear. The girl's name is Masha.

Neptune

I actually just watched this with my wife for the first time. There was no moment when I wasn't confused as shit by the dialogue and every actor looked just as confused at Nicholas Cage.

Mark Webb

I think the sequel you reference was to the original version of The Wicker Man. Now THAT version is excellent. Plus Christopher Lee.

JCS

Oh my god you gave a MUPPET MOVIE REFERENCE!! That made my day! WAHOO!!

Ugly German Truths

The only possible judgment for "Wicker man" can be ... "not the BS, oh my god... NOT the BS!"

jessah with the demon tits

There actually was a sorta-sequel a few years later, called The Wicker Tree.

Jacob Davis

Eli, what's your unified theory of Wicker Man?

David S.

I vote Wicker Women for first crazy billionaire remake.

John Copeland

Fuck. I really want to listen to this and the End of Days shows right away but I really want to watch the movies as well and there's just no time.

LPDHappy

Great episode, but alas, was hoping Lucinda would have been included. Not that Lucinda has to chime in on every soul weathering misogynistic cluster fuck. But, I'm sure she'd have had some serious and rather tart southern feminist dressing down of the protagonist. A redo? (sigh) oh well....

Feral in WV

I have fond memories of watching this with a high school boyfriend. As I laughed my way through the plot he got very uncomfortable. A week later I gave him a jar of honey as a present and he was gone. Still enjoy this disaster of a movie and loved the episode.

Thomas J Wood

That semi hallucination is the most unintentionally funny thing ever.

Kjetil Hope

Could you make a top 10 list of your favourite movies? Not christian movies, but your top 10 movies of all time.

James Russell

I've never actually seen this, out of respect to the original which is one of the great works of 70s cinema, but I know of its reputation. What you describe sounds far worse than I imagined, so much so I'm going to have to actually watch the damn thing now. Amazing how it seems to follow so much ofthe basic plot of the original but equally seems so utterly deaf and blind to the point of it.

Bevin Flynn

You left out Britt Ekland. And I'm not just talking about her lovely nude scene. She and Christopher Lee both display the sort of magical charisma that is rare in films these days, and especially missing in the remake.

Candicepenelope

OMG *does backflip* it's like my birthday & Christmas all rolled into 1. On my actual birthday! *woot fist pump*

Dustin Nelson

You should see the real Wicker Man (not for this show). It's brilliant, atmospheric, and has a genuinely unsettling climax, including a moment where the contrast in beliefs makes the protagonist realize all religions are wrong, not just the one he mocked during his investigation. Look for the 94 minute cut, there's some important exposition the heavily butchered theatrical doesn't have. Christopher Lee was convinced there was a conspiracy to keep it from being released, and some footage was destroyed never to be seen again. Lee also claimed it was his favorite role, and supposedly played Lord Summerisle (the community's founding family either named the island for themselves or took the name as a title) for free or minimal pay. The folk soundtrack is great too. Horror movies are my hobby and I know an awful lot about this one.

Mark Siefert

This entire movie is if Vox Day took a bunch of LSD and tried to write a "Call of Cthulhu" campaign without any supernatural elements and monsters.

Mark Siefert

The writer of this tripe obviously don't know that worker bees are sterile females.

Mark Siefert

You'd be surprised how many people don't know about the existence in mead. Americans tend to be grossly ignorant of any beverage that isn't mass advertised or sold by the six-pack.

Alex Emery

I'm not sure how you overact being burned alive but he pulled it off.

Noo

OMFG!!!!!! My life has peaked!!!

Christine Garam

If you click the blue link you can download the mp3 and play it on your phone or computer's music player. That's usually what I do anyway, because data around here is pretty sketchy and I listen in my car more often than not. I lose the patreon stream every time I hit an underpass.

Tyler

I really hope I'm not the first person to tell you, but your response meets the DSM-V diagnostic criteria for MMRSSY (Macho Man Randy Savage Syndrome, Yeeeeaah).

Christine Garam

You guys missed a golden opportunity to squeal "What's in the baaaaaaaaaag!?" and remind us all that there are still GOOD movies like Seven out there. just sayin'

Christine Garam

Me when I saw the movie to be reviewed : "YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMFGOMHONEYWICKERMAN!!!!FUCKINGWICKERMAN!IT'SANICKCAGEMOVIEIT'S FUCKINGTERRIBLEOMGOMGOMGOMGNOITSBETTERTHANTHECHRISTIANMOVIESOMGOMGOMG" At this point my husband looked at me like I was a lunatic escaped from the asylum and backed away slowly to watch reruns of Game of Thrones.... so that happened.

LPDHappy

I co-sign your comment. The fellas need to take care of themselves.....

Brendan Horn

I try to listen to the podcasts on Patreon when you guys put them up but I can't make it through them without the recording randomly freezing and refusing to play without stuttering past a certain point. This one craps out for me around 16:50. I can't get it to play past this part. I don't think it's a problem with you guys, I think it is something wrong with Patreon.

Joseph Kubal

Question: Especially with you guys taking on another podcast, what about trying to do only 2 bonus episodes every three months. Especially since you have all the lives shows coming up. Love the content, just don't want you getting burnt out.