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                  Proof that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt
                                        
[This is not Burning Man] [1]
 

Wierd timing. About two weeks ago I saw “The Wicker Man” [2], a movie made in
1972 about a Christian cop investigating a missing child on an island of
pagans.

Today, via Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin [3], I learn that Hollywood has a
remake of The Wicker Man [4], staring Nicolas Cage [5], that is darker,
bloodier and probably more “scarier” than the original (but alas, it looks
like with much less nudity).

And the only thing I can ask is “Why?”

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2006/06/06/wickerman.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/21.1
[3] http://progressiveruin.com/archives/2006_06_04_archive.html#114957416490967780
[4] http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thewickerman/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/

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