Have you ever seen "Straw Dogs" (1971)?

What about it, OP?

Stop being so vague in your multi thread churn out. You're tiresome and uninteresting.

[quote]What about it, OP?

I'm quite clear what I'm looking for.

[quote]Stop being so vague in your multi thread churn out

I don't know what you're talking about.

[quote] You're tiresome and uninteresting.

and you're projecting.

It's quite a strange film about a man failing to defend his wife and home from more "masculine" and brutish men. It's kind of misogynist too. The girl is just like a symbol on which the men try to project their masculinity. Rape and violence are just tools to proving they are real men. It's creepy.

I remember watching it as one of the first VHS tapes I ever saw. Had to turn it off, found it far too violent and unnerving.

And the hatefest begins with R3 and R4... so predictable. This thread has nothing to do with Straw Dogs. You just hide behind it to talk like idiots.

R5 doesn't even makes sense if he/she is the OP.

*make sense

R5 what the fuck are you going on about "hatefest"? we were asked what we thought of the film so we gave our opinions. What's your problem? ?

Don't bother with him, R8. He's AWFUL.

Awful, like this dreadful crappy over-rated movie.

Misogynous bs.

a classic from sam.

Found it to be extremely gratuitous in its violence. Maybe a misogynistic wet dream as film?

I remember the scene in which one of the bad guys takes a tumble down the stairs and lands head first on an antique spring-loaded animal trap, the kind that looks like a pair of toothy jaws. You never know when those quaint objects you've collected may come in handy.

The country cottage set looks so fake.

The rape scene seems to go on forever, and as R3 pointed out, the female character is a symbol and a plot device rather than a fully fleshed personality.

Thumbs down.

I just saw the remake. The original is a very successful exploitation film and portrays something primal about these rural English villages populated by a limited gene pool for a thousand years.

The remake is embarrassing liberal Rod Lurie's personal fears about poor white trash.

I still can't believe I sat through the original all those years ago. In those days--per Pauline Kael--Sam Peckinpah was a cinema god....Hard to believe that, too.

It would've been a lot more interesting and relevant to the film's themes if it had been the guy that had gotten raped and brutalized instead of his wife. It also would've been a lot more controversial for the time and saved this movie from the Wal-Mart dollar bin.

Yes, and apparently it didn't make much of an impression because I don't remember anything about it. "The Wild Bunch" is outstanding though.

Alexander Skarsgard was truly abysmal in the Straw Dogs remake.

The remake should've flipped the script and had the rednecks sodomize James Marsden.

Stories about posh people who get a nasty shock when they move into old country cottages was a surprisingly frequent storyline around then, at least in British movies and teleplays.

Extremely dated movie about a woman who needs a man to be protected, and a man who realizes that being a real man means being violent. Possibly one of the most sexist and unpleasant movies ever made.

So of course they did a remake. Which was, of course, terrible.

Yes I agree R24. I didn't realize it was a remake, but that trailer looks awful and I had to turn off the new one at the rape scene.

Richard from Keeping Up Appearances @ R23!

Apparently it's a real cult classic. People think it's tremendous.

The actor who raped Susan George was HAF.

I have seen the remake and wasn't surprised that James Woods was part of the cast 😄 The message boards on imdb were a mess in reguards to Kate's character.

I found it very, very disturbing.

What are small country villages like? Is the portrayal of the men true life?

Weirdo @ R31.