GAM Bonus 012: The Wicker Man
Added 2017-05-10 02:37:21 +0000 UTCOkay, so it's not April, and for that we apologize. But we will be making a second bonus episode later this month to make up for it, so we've got even more horrible things on the horizon for you.
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If you watch the director’s cut you get to see Nicholas Cage get his legs broken - so there’s that …
Winter wiorkowski
2024-06-08 23:41:10 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Miss Ann
2024-06-06 23:56:25 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Talyn
2024-05-24 15:28:59 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Drunkarius
2023-12-06 04:35:22 +0000 UTCI wish all adds were like this
Erica
2021-04-19 21:20:17 +0000 UTCThere's already a show about a girl and a bear. The girl's name is Masha.
AaronRobertoMusic
2019-11-27 04:33:43 +0000 UTCI 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.
Neptune
2019-07-14 02:55:41 +0000 UTCI think the sequel you reference was to the original version of The Wicker Man. Now THAT version is excellent. Plus Christopher Lee.
Mark Webb
2019-07-13 17:09:54 +0000 UTCOh my god you gave a MUPPET MOVIE REFERENCE!! That made my day! WAHOO!!
JCS
2019-07-12 21:08:40 +0000 UTCThe only possible judgment for "Wicker man" can be ... "not the BS, oh my god... NOT the BS!"
Ugly German Truths
2018-05-21 22:05:51 +0000 UTCThere actually was a sorta-sequel a few years later, called The Wicker Tree.
jessah with the demon tits
2017-09-11 05:29:43 +0000 UTCEli, what's your unified theory of Wicker Man?
Jacob Davis
2017-05-29 03:34:11 +0000 UTCI vote Wicker Women for first crazy billionaire remake.
David S.
2017-05-16 02:09:33 +0000 UTCFuck. 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.
John Copeland
2017-05-15 01:05:31 +0000 UTCGreat 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....
LPDHappy
2017-05-12 05:12:35 +0000 UTCI 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.
Feral in WV
2017-05-12 04:02:50 +0000 UTCThat semi hallucination is the most unintentionally funny thing ever.
Thomas J Wood
2017-05-11 22:59:49 +0000 UTCCould you make a top 10 list of your favourite movies? Not christian movies, but your top 10 movies of all time.
Kjetil Hope
2017-05-11 19:58:40 +0000 UTCI'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.
James Russell
2017-05-11 07:08:53 +0000 UTCYou 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.
Bevin Flynn
2017-05-11 05:06:46 +0000 UTCOMG *does backflip* it's like my birthday & Christmas all rolled into 1. On my actual birthday! *woot fist pump*
Candicepenelope
2017-05-10 20:30:15 +0000 UTCYou 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.
Dustin Nelson
2017-05-10 17:22:49 +0000 UTCThis 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
2017-05-10 15:11:53 +0000 UTCThe writer of this tripe obviously don't know that worker bees are sterile females.
Mark Siefert
2017-05-10 14:41:04 +0000 UTCYou'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.
Mark Siefert
2017-05-10 13:59:04 +0000 UTCI'm not sure how you overact being burned alive but he pulled it off.
Alex Emery
2017-05-10 13:03:18 +0000 UTCOMFG!!!!!! My life has peaked!!!
Noo
2017-05-10 10:51:53 +0000 UTCIf 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.
Christine Garam
2017-05-10 04:00:55 +0000 UTCI 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).
Tyler
2017-05-10 03:54:31 +0000 UTCYou 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
2017-05-10 03:51:58 +0000 UTCMe 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.
Christine Garam
2017-05-10 03:47:40 +0000 UTCI co-sign your comment. The fellas need to take care of themselves.....
LPDHappy
2017-05-10 03:24:31 +0000 UTCI 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.
Brendan Horn
2017-05-10 03:16:54 +0000 UTCQuestion: 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.
Joseph Kubal
2017-05-10 02:57:48 +0000 UTCSomething more horrible than Nicholas Cage butchering a cult classic? Crivens!
Paul Freelend
2017-05-10 02:42:11 +0000 UTCOmgomgomg!! Ty in advanceeeee!!
Aaron Norell
2017-05-10 02:40:02 +0000 UTC
