That is a hell of a line.

Hey, if watching Nic Cage in a bear suit punching out unarmed women before screaming "not the bees!" doesn't get you at least a little misty-eyed, you must be pretty dead inside...

It must've been the Middle Version (aka Final Cut) you saw, then. For a lot of people it's the definitive one, but personally I'm not a fan. In fact, even though it's one of my all-time favourite films, there's no existing cut of it that's perfect imo (I'm actually a rare defender of the controversial Short Version, aka Theatrical Cut- a statement for which I'm sure most Wicker Man fans would gladly see me go the way of Sgt Howie lol- although even I admit that it has its flaws, notably excising the whole of the Gently Johnny scene that introduces Lord Summerisle). My main problem with the Middle Version is, as you point out, that it omits the "the producers would like to thank the Lord Summerisle" dedication, opting instead for a slow zoom towards a picture of Nuada the Sun God. I also think the movie works best starting with Howie's journey towards Summerisle- the scenes on the mainland present in the Long Version (aka Director's Cut) are largely unnecessary (Robin Hardy himself agreed with me on this, hence why they were mostly taken out of the Final Cut), and I'm also not a fan of the Middle Version opening on Howie's sermon in the church, it establishes exactly who he is and what he represents too early on rather than letting us discover it more organically from his reaction to the villagers. I own copies of all three cuts (the Short Version on DVD and bootleg copies of the Middle and Long versions on my computer), and as soon as I get around to transferring my DVD copy of the Short Version to digital I plan to edit my own "Final Cut" (starting the same way as the Short Version but then including most of the Long Version- a guy called Adam Milazzo did a better job restoring it than the original Director's Cut release and also added about an extra minute of footage, so I'll probably use his version which I also have a copy of- with a few details chopped and changed to include some of the Short Version's structure that I prefer). Then there's the legendary 102-minute version that some people claim to have seen a bootleg VHS copy of, but I've yet to find any definitive leads on this myself... hopefully one day the original negatives will turn up somewhere and we'll finally get to see the original cut, but the common consensus is that they're landfill under the M4 motorway, so best not get one's hopes up too much. I do have a complete collection of all the available production stills of those lost scenes, so that's something I guess🤷‍♂

I could EASILY do another 20 and be very happy with my life choices

Poor little Jenna just like the beetle going round and round the same way until she ends up tight against the nail making daily wicker Man videos

Agree 500%

As a remake, it's the worst thing ever. As a standalone (unintentional) comedy, it's absolute perfection. I love the original Wicker Man more than life itself, it's been in my top 5 all-time favourite movies ever since I first watched it as a young teenager, and I've probably watched it close on 200 times- to the point where I can quote the entire screenplay from memory. But as a die-hard Cage fan I do make a point of revisiting the remake every now and then, it's my absolute favourite of Cage's bad movies.

Idk I think vampires might be irrevocably horny

@@saveoursquirrels4241 Oh, I feel that is almost certainly true, but some people work really hard to break anything that is not matching *their* world view, to fit in it. I'm *sure* the people who would try it in genuine seriousness... Would either fail (but think they succeeded) or succeed, and create something genuinely terrible.