{"id":841,"date":"2008-05-05T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=841"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:56:07","slug":"the-wicker-man-labute-2006-ludicrous-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"(LaBute 2006) The Wicker Man \u2014- ludicrous remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-Oh-No-Not-the-Bees2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\" wp-image-2677\" title=\"viewing 2008 apr-jun Oh No, Not the Bees!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/viewing-2008-apr-jun-Oh-No-Not-the-Bees2-150x150.jpg\" alt width=\"139\" height=\"139\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>Oh, no! Not the&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">BEES<\/span>!!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { color: rgb(0, 0, 255); } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Okay, I\u2019ve final\u00adly seen it.&nbsp;When I heard there w<\/span>as an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan remake of the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=195\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">clas\u00adsic 1973 British film<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> I knew it would have to be bad.&nbsp;When it came out, every\u00adone who saw it assured me that it was not just ter\u00adri\u00adble, but an absolute atroc\u00adi\u00adty.&nbsp;But still, I was not pre\u00adpared for how unbe\u00adliev\u00adably bad this film is.&nbsp;It\u2019s sick\u00aden\u00ading\u00adly, loath\u00adsome\u00adly, hor\u00adri\u00adbly, hideous\u00adly, insult\u00ading\u00adly bad.&nbsp;Not even the hilar\u00adi\u00adous sight of Nicholas Cage punch\u00ading an Evil Wic\u00adcan Fem\u00adi\u00adnist while dressed in a bear suit can make it seem charm\u00ading\u00adly bad, like an Ed Wood movie, or <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Robot Mon\u00adster<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">. The insult to the orig\u00adi\u00adnal film is sim\u00adply too mon\u00adstrous to per\u00admit that kind of plea\u00adsure. This was made by morons who under\u00adstand <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>noth\u00ading. <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The best way to watch it, if you must, would be to be dead drunk, stoned out of your mind, or, bet\u00adter yet, in a clin\u00adi\u00adcal&nbsp;coma.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I\u2019ve final\u00adly seen it.&nbsp;When I heard there was an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan remake of the clas\u00adsic 1973 British film I knew it would have to be bad.&nbsp;When it came out, every\u00adone who saw it assured me that it was not&nbsp;just&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=841\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-ds-viewing-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}