13 Movies That Scored A Legendary F With CinemaScore

12. The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man 2006 Nicolas Cage not the bees
Warner Bros

Not many people really needed a Wicker Man remake, because the original was one of the most famous and beloved British movies of all time. Remaking it - with Nicholas Cage starring, no less - was like waving a red flag at audiences, who were so uninspired they only bought tickets to the tune of $38.8m (less than the $40m budget).

No wonder CinemaScore lumped it with the dreaded F.

Did It Deserve It?

In conventional critical terms, The Wicker Man is awful to the point of being almost unwatchable (a status made all the more concrete when you consider it next to the original), but if you appreciate it as a curio in the long perverse history of Nic Cage's weird screen career, there's some kitsch enjoyment.

Ultimately though, ironic appreciation doesn't mean it deserved more than that rating.

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