Getting On My Wick

"The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion."

- Proverbs 28:1 (NIV ©1984) 

The Wicker Man (1973), on the other hand, just stood there until he had work to do.  And by golly, he did a splendid and entertaining job of it, too.

The Wicker TREE (2010), on the OTHER other hand:

• pissed away 96 minutes of my life which I cannot get back
• has the audacity to even MENTION Christopher Lee's name in the credits, when his role consisted of seconds of dialogue...IN A FLASHBACK, for corn's sake
• contains nothing even remotely as hot as Britt Ekland's performance in The Wicker Man, despite having a gigantic flame-engulfed version of the titular tree (you thought of Britt when you read "titular," didn'tcha? >:^D) and was released THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS AFTER The Wicker Man

And so, to writer/director Robin Hardy, of both Wicker Man AND Wicker Tree, I say I firmly believe it is time that you become reacquainted with The Wicker Man.

Intimately.

Permanently.

In summation:

The Wicker Man - a spookyweirdwickedfun film.

The Wicker Tree - WASTE OF CELLULOID.

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