Seemed to consist largely of Nicholas cage running about dressed like Alan Partridge , punching women ! its comparable to the crimes against cinema comitted by Liz Hurley & co.in "Bedazzled (2000) " to name just one of many similar examples.
Thought i would share, excuse the rant please. though i think i am among sympathisers! The original film has always been one of my favourites... and i had managed until the last week to avoid the 'remake' since i had a feeling it would be utter cack -such is typically the way with rehashes of the classics........but nothing prepared for me for quite what truly awful American crap it is!
I've got an absurd love for this movie's soundtrack. There;s just something genius about using pretty, lovely folk/trad. music as accompaniment for an occult thriller featuring some jolly good human sacrifice and pagan ritual.
What's that? Why, my embilical cord, of course! Where else would it be but hanging off a sapling that springs from my grave?! Are you retarded or catholic or someting?
@ponysoprano I don't think all the blame should be placed on Cage, though he a big part of why that movie sucked. The director is the one to really place all the blame on, and the producers. Hell everyone involved in that movie should be blamed. Just be glad Edward Woodward didn't do a cameo because he was offered one.
Why is there never any official credit to this fact and why is there no full copy, as is often commented, available. The knocks everything else in the film right out of the film. Bizarre to ignore the best thing you've got. The cynic in me wonders f it wasn't to do with royalties... were there none to be collected on an old Burns' tune? Such a shame it's not on the CD, talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Its not the Burns version is it? Burns wrote down an existing song but so did lots of other song collectors and I think this recorded version derives from one of the others.
Thanks for the info.... I just find it frustrating that the most beautiful song on the film (as opposed to the awful cod-folk written for the film) is omitted from the soundtrack. As you suggest, many of these songs go beyond textural sources and were surely alive and well and evolving in an oral culture. Thanks again.
I know, its a shame the full original recording does not exist. I think the reason is that they rerecorded the soundtrack for the album and simply didn't do that one and the tape used for the actual film soundtrack is not available.
Lesley Mackie (Daisy from the film) sang it. Despite her appearance as Daisy, she was 21 at the time. She also sang the soundtrack album version of "Willow's Song."
Why didn't he go with 'The Landlord's Daughter'? A truly brilliant film!
Blabloo72 3 weeks ago
Seemed to consist largely of Nicholas cage running about dressed like Alan Partridge , punching women ! its comparable to the crimes against cinema comitted by Liz Hurley & co.in "Bedazzled (2000) " to name just one of many similar examples.
BadgerLaser 4 weeks ago
Thought i would share, excuse the rant please. though i think i am among sympathisers! The original film has always been one of my favourites... and i had managed until the last week to avoid the 'remake' since i had a feeling it would be utter cack -such is typically the way with rehashes of the classics........but nothing prepared for me for quite what truly awful American crap it is!
BadgerLaser 4 weeks ago
pure genius
trickiewoowoo 1 month ago
I've got an absurd love for this movie's soundtrack. There;s just something genius about using pretty, lovely folk/trad. music as accompaniment for an occult thriller featuring some jolly good human sacrifice and pagan ritual.
Replicaate 3 months ago
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Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.
GolliwoggMusic 5 months ago
What's that? Why, my embilical cord, of course! Where else would it be but hanging off a sapling that springs from my grave?! Are you retarded or catholic or someting?
TheMikesoviet4444 7 months ago 3
@TheMikesoviet4444 Wheer else wud it be, but on her own little trree?
jillgivler 5 months ago
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eightyeightthousand 1 year ago
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eightyeightthousand 1 year ago
excellent-sets the scene for the ensuing film well-melanchloic underplayed horror
MrBrooke66 1 year ago
We need to track down Leslie Mackie and have her re-record this in full.
ecnalubma696969 1 year ago 10
@ecnalubma696969 lesley is my mum's cousin, she lives in dundee :)
Sandi1605 3 months ago
Wicker Man!! (the REAL version, sans Nic "greezy" Cage!)
ponysoprano 1 year ago 2
@ponysoprano I don't think all the blame should be placed on Cage, though he a big part of why that movie sucked. The director is the one to really place all the blame on, and the producers. Hell everyone involved in that movie should be blamed. Just be glad Edward Woodward didn't do a cameo because he was offered one.
Videot01 1 year ago
Why is there never any official credit to this fact and why is there no full copy, as is often commented, available. The knocks everything else in the film right out of the film. Bizarre to ignore the best thing you've got. The cynic in me wonders f it wasn't to do with royalties... were there none to be collected on an old Burns' tune? Such a shame it's not on the CD, talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater
boleary100 2 years ago
Its not the Burns version is it? Burns wrote down an existing song but so did lots of other song collectors and I think this recorded version derives from one of the others.
hostroute 2 years ago
Thanks for the info.... I just find it frustrating that the most beautiful song on the film (as opposed to the awful cod-folk written for the film) is omitted from the soundtrack. As you suggest, many of these songs go beyond textural sources and were surely alive and well and evolving in an oral culture. Thanks again.
boleary100 2 years ago
I know, its a shame the full original recording does not exist. I think the reason is that they rerecorded the soundtrack for the album and simply didn't do that one and the tape used for the actual film soundtrack is not available.
hostroute 2 years ago
It really sucks that you cannot find a complete version of this song....
ThoughtTraveler 2 years ago
Lesley Mackie (Daisy from the film) sang it. Despite her appearance as Daisy, she was 21 at the time. She also sang the soundtrack album version of "Willow's Song."
MedbCruachan 2 years ago
If she's dead, she's..."protected by the ejaculation of serpents"...lol!
hyperion30000 2 years ago
I love this song - this is the best version that I have ever heard. Thanks for posting this :)
GreenLantern1916 2 years ago
Little Rowan loved the march hares.
TheSnowballEarth 2 years ago 22
Rowan Morrison is dead! Or is she a hare?
clemdane 3 years ago