meantime -- SNUBBED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NWXq7Hy90
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Fans of The Wicker Man, any of you read The Dark Is Rising YA novels by Susan Cooper? The Greenwitch, in particular, taps into the same vibe, along the lines of what emily was talking about. Great novels!
Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
VP and his wife were rather merry Satanists in that film, weren't they?!?
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
plz note: i didnt call them hippies, i called that particular scene hippie dippie nonsense
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
La Valse'nt Price
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something.
That woman is EDNA FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!! I fell out of my chair and ROFLed and died when prim old Edna said "Hail Satan!"
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
AT HIS PERIL
"you're lying! you witches, you're lying! you're lying, you're lying!"
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
jjjusten, wasn't calling you out in particular.
I wonder if TWM sucked for some people becasue they were reacting to the islanders in the context of neo-paganism.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
(i've never read those books, btw)
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dont want to get that much into it and i havent seen it for a while but she is iirc seducing him through song and some sorta awkward modern dancing
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
again i want to get the movie because i trust yall, maybe i should just fast forward through that scene
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
you should make a jjj edit that has that scene taken out maybe
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
also does the remake actually replace the huge burning wicker dude with a HEADPIECE FULL OF BEES
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Guys, I'm going to reverse my opinion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4
While the movie is supposed to be about old-school religion, I feel like these people are less likely to throw me in a bog than slip me a couple tabs of acid.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
My mom saw the remake (with the bees) and had no idea about the original, and at some point I mentioned to her that friends of mine (LL and The Thnig) went to some of the locations where parts of the movie took place and she was like "The movie where they killed Nicolas Cage with BEES??!?! WHY would anybody do that???!?!?"
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Still pleasuring myself.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
OG wicker man wasn't dedicated to Johnny Ramone ... just sayin'.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ok but one last thing - She sings "our maid can milk a bull" (not to mention the lyric about "a bucketful") -- that's pretty...graphic stuff right there. I guess I don't take her seduction techniques lightly -- she's really trying to save him, giving it her top shelf treatment. He resists because he's uptight, pious, obedient, and stupid. It's kind of painful to watch, but not for the reasons most people think. I like that she's serious about what she's doing, but also soft and pretty.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't vote for The Wicker Man because I still have never seen all of it -- which maybe I will remedy soon -- but the discussion reminds me of this thread I started a while back.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
the nic cage-wicker man pagans weren't so nice b/c they didn't offer him, say, a naked Leelee Sobieski doing a seductive dance to save him.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
instead all he does is roundhouse-kick chicks in the face, sucker-punch them whilst wearing a bear suit, push over little girls to steal their bikes, and scream about bees.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
nic cage in the excorcist:
"Oh my god, I'm stabbing this crucifix into my vagina!"
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
exorcist
"Let me see that THING! Baby, that THING TH-THING THING THING! – SICK-SQO"
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7211/7263001272_eae80eee85_o.gif
03. THE THINGJohn Carpenter, USA, 1982(1117 points, 31 votes)
ok so there are 4 spots left and i feel like rosemarys baby makes 5 expected films? also if the thing wins this poll too i swear to god― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:02 PMbasically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:21 PM (58 minutes ago)Spider- head followed by "You've got to be fockin kiddin me?" line one of the great scene's in cinematic history.― Omar, Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)Every time I hear about Sarah Palin shooting wolves I think of the first scene of this movie.― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:08 PM (2 years ago)
basically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:21 PM (58 minutes ago)
Spider- head followed by "You've got to be fockin kiddin me?" line one of the great scene's in cinematic history.― Omar, Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)
Every time I hear about Sarah Palin shooting wolves I think of the first scene of this movie.― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:08 PM (2 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
i'm laughing hysterically now as i imagine Nicolas Cage's voice croaking out "you know what she did your cunting daughter?!?" and "your mother sucks cocks in hell you faithless swine!" from Regan's demon-possessed body
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
no first place votes!
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:57 PM (57 seconds ago)
and funny!
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
nice pun on this one
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
um that's a mistake
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, there was one. My bad again.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
So I'm assuming Wicker Man stans are primarily Britishors? I dig it, but it's not nearly top 10 material for me. Seems like something that would have a deeper resonance with you Old Worlders. Would've voted TCM #1, which is about as American as TWM is British I suppose.
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
God I haven't seen this one either :-( and I love horror so much, too! I'm like one of those self-professed music fanatics with a collection full of, like, The Screamers and Popol Vuh and Manuel Gottsching but no Beatles or Zep or Beach Boys or Elvis
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Which I mean actually I am, too
i would totally go to a double-feature of the thing and encounters at the end of the world.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh what a relief
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
this was my #1. if I'd known what the rest of you losers were voting I might have changed that...
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Obviously you people know your ilx better than I. I didn't expect The Thing to place. (tho I gave it 10 pts)
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
So I'm assuming Wicker Man stans are primarily Britishors? Not this one.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
well it just won the action poll and plans on winning the rom com poll whenever that comes up, i was hoping we could have a short break from it
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
if there's a sci-fi poll it will also place really high lol
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, top 10 thing seemed a given to me from the beginning, but i don't think of that as an aberration on ILX's part. pretty universally beloved by both horror nerds and film fans in general.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
will probably vote the thing higher in the inevitable sci-fi poll than i did here
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm curious about the overlap of people participating in rom com poll and horror poll.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
saw the thing during its initial run when I was 11, thought the effects were great but overall didn't have a ton of love for it (and I was a huuuuuge carpenter fan at the time). in subsequent viewings over the years I've come to enjoy it more, consider it a good solid horror movie but the undying devotion kind of baffles me. if the thing placed somewhere in the top 20-50 I'd be fine with it.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I said yesterday I thought I had the last 13--was right up until The Thing. I had no idea the remake was that highly regarded. I've never even seen it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
It's a remake?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
though it's one of my all-time favorite films, i stuck it way down at the bottom of my ballot because i knew its success here didn't depend in any way on me. would have been bummed if too many other people had done the same, though...
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 24 May 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link