They’ve weaponized the moon!
I’m not really a fan of Nicholas Cage. In fact, I’d say that in general I do not like his body of work with the exception of Raising Arizona. I love that movie so much I actually included it in our wedding registry lo those many years ago.

I’m sure he’s a nice guy. He’s got a weird Elvis thing and he kind of reminds me of Lurch and his hair is all over the place (he should call Piven’s hair plug guy). But whatever, I’m sure he’s a fine actor. I just don’t care for him.

And I could care less about his remake of the Wicker Man. In fact, I find it weird that the film is being remade. Here’s the thing about the Wicker Man – it was weird, unscary and as surprising as your average episode of Murder She Wrote. Except it had more nudity, impromptu singing and Christopher Lee.

I rented Wicker Man when I worked at the video store a million years ago in high school. It was billed as the scariest movie ever made (up until that point – which was the early 70s). I watched it, I think I may have taken a short nap in the middle (I had mono) and then awoke to find The Equalizer having a throw down with Dracula. That seemed like a cool thing, except that the movie plodded along and I just hoped that the Equalizer and Dracula would have some momentous battle. Spoiler alert: it didn’t really come to pass. However, I think the ending was probably surprising at the time, it seems telegraphed from the first appearance of Edward Woodward.

Anyway, if there was ever a less essential movie that needed to be remade it is The Wicker Man. It wasn’t good the first time around – I can’t imagine what Neil LaBute has done to update it and make it either a) relevant or b) good.

It’s not on my essential movie viewing list and sadly, Nicholas Cage films won’t be added back to my must-see list.