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    Anyone excited about this remake ? Im going to watch it, no doubt. The original is one of my all time favourites.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=5EJ24Vu2htI
    Heres the trailer, the movie looks ok, but I see no naked dancing or chanting :cry:

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    I doubt it'll reach the greatness of the original, but I might go see it just to find out how it'll turn out. :rolleyes2
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    The original = smurfING AMAZING

    The remake = HOPE ITS GOING TO BE smurfING AMAZING

    I cant wait to see it.

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    Tongue YAY !

    Ditto i can't wait to find out if it lives up to or flops >.<

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    Typical remake in that it makes completely unnecessary change to a classic film that needed no changes at all. Oh, and the change of location is something I find particularly annoying.

    I've not seen the remake, obviously, but I really don't see why they even had to bother.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heath View Post
    Oh, and the change of location is something I find particularly annoying.
    Same, The Wicker Man was great for various reasons, and I thought the Scottish location was one of them, cant Hollywood respect anything nowadays ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreddz View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Heath View Post
    Oh, and the change of location is something I find particularly annoying.
    Same, The Wicker Man was great for various reasons, and I thought the Scottish location was one of them, cant Hollywood respect anything nowadays ?
    Oh I think Hollywood is very respectful. Look at the new The War of the Worlds film. That kept the original setting of late Nineteenth Century England and... Oh wait.
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    I agree with Heath. This is a British cult classic, and Hollywood puts it stubby little finger in and twists the whole concept. I first heard of this remake when it's ad on a bus went by and I complained to my dad who give me his carefree opinion that it's all money, money, money and people don't give two hoots about making a good film these days.
    Nicholas Cage in the lead role?, that makes as much sense as a one legged man entering an arse kicking contest. Having said that modern day remakes do tend to get people interested in the original version. Let's just see how bad a burning the critics will give this one
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    Quote Originally Posted by mobiletype View Post
    I agree with Heath. This is a British cult classic, and Hollywood puts it stubby little finger in and twists the whole concept. I first heard of this remake when it's ad on a bus went by and I complained to my dad who give me his carefree opinion that it's all money, money, money and people don't give two hoots about making a good film these days.
    Nicholas Cage in the lead role?, that makes as much sense as a one legged man entering an arse kicking contest. Having said that modern day remakes do tend to get people interested in the original version. Let's just see how bad a burning the critics will give this one
    On the bright side it does mean that with Cage getting the lead role we get to see him burnt to death. :D
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    It cannot fail to be better than the original.

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    I find remakes are NEVER a good as the originals fair enough they may have better effects ect., but they still cant be better than the original

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    I think the original's overrated.

    The storyline was great, but I just found it boring.

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    Nicolas Cage + Movies = fail.

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    *crawls from underneath a rock..."the new 'Wickerman' movie is a remake?" and I thought I had seen all of the cult classics lol

    ...Wow, go figure. Hollywood is doing another remake...:rolleyes2


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    American remakes of Brittish films =

    why cant people just accept the originals, the remakes are never as good (ie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The Italian Job etc), i will not go watch the new version of the wickerman, it also seems to have a lower age rating than the old one so there will be less cool pagan bits

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