The Wicker Man (Original)

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sarawna

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Did anyone see this on TV Sunday night?

It was the first time i saw it, i thought i'd watch it as it sounded really good and had very high ratings on the internet.

Well, i watched it and thought it was awful. Very strange in most places (and yes i know it's meant to be that way, but you know what i mean.;))

I just wondered what everyone else thought of it? Did you think it's worth all those high ratings? :)
 
Was it the original cinema release version, or the director's cut?

I first saw the director's cut version (before cinema) and it made a lot more sense.

Excellent film.
 
Got to admit that the first time I saw this film, I felt a lot like you, but it has so grown on me. The music is superb. Try watching the Directors cut as it does make more sense.
 
I remember the first time I saw this was on TV when I was about 12 or 13 and I laughed out loud at several bits (including Britt's naked dancing and banging on the wall) until the end. The last few scenes haunted me for ages.
 
it's a pity that so much was cut out of the theatrical version just so they could crowbar it into a double bill with Don't Look Now
 
The original version is much better because there are fewer clues to what's really going on. The restoration completely undermines the final shocking revelation. I still remember how stunned I was on first seeing it, totally unaware of what was to come.:eek:
 
The film is all the more chilling because you could actually believe something like that happening today. I remember a few years ago it was on ITV or Channel 4 on New Years Eve/Day and I was round at some frienRAB and we all watched it and no one said a word yet we`d all seen it before.
A truely GREAT movie.
 
It's a masterpiece, a great british cult, the Citizen Kane of horror etc, which is perhaps part of the problem these days. Its reputation precedes it and it's possible you were expecting something different. A gore-fest? A shock filled scary movie? I don't know, but it's a film that grows on you.

First time I saw it all that stuck in the mind was, cough, some dancing, Christopher Lee's hair and an ending that felt ho-hum. But there's enough there to make you want to watch it again, and again... Then it gets to you. The bleakness and rareness of the futile ending where nobody wins, not good or evil. The... Oh I could drone on but it either gets you or it doesn't. Or as someone summed up beautifully, and went something like, it's a film based on a crap horror novel and written by a man who thought he was writing a psychological thriller, filmed by a director who thought he was making a musical starring people who had no idea what they were in and which won an award for best film of the year at a science-fiction festival. In other worRAB, it's unique.
 
The first time i saw it was several years ago on Channel 4.Unknown to me at the time it was the Directors cut they were showing.I enjoyed the film that much i went out & bought the double disc dvd which has the Th/Cut & the Directors Cut.The dvd also has an audio commnetary & some other extras.
 
Its interesting that the act of sex (something Howie doesnt believe in before he's married) is what provides him with his only chance to live. If only he'd succumbed and boffed Britt he could have escaped. :eek:
 
Christopher Lee has often stated that it was the best movie he was involved in. I enjoyed it and it was far superior to the remake with Nicolas Cage. Then again I suppose it's a matter of taste, I know many who also think that it was awful.
 
Is Britt using her voice in the movie? I read somewhere her voice was dubbed but on the audio commentary on the DVD, its claimed she could do a good Scots accent, or something like that.
Are the frontal shots Britt or a body double?
 
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