Straw Dogs
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Movie Reviews of Straw Dogs
Movie Review: My favorite Peckinpah film....
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Sam Peckinpah film. I always loved it as a high schooler, and I still do. To see Dustin Hoffman, a calm, reserved intellecutal type turn into a monster like he does is chilling enough. But you find that you're actually cheering him on at the end of the film. This film, along with A Clockwork Orange (released the same year! What a year 1971 was!), really get into man's darker nature, and tell us some uncomfortable truths about ourselves. We really root for Hoffman, even though he's killing people, and he's enjoying it. Even in the quiet, rural, "idyllic" English countryside, there's still human garbage and barbarism. You can't escape life, so to speak. The editing, direction, and performances are first rate, making this one of Peckinpah's most daring films.Movie Review: Loved it.
Summary: 5 Stars
All you reviewers crying "misogynist" need to chill out. Don't forget that the first rapist had a previous intimate relationship with Amy. Still a rape? Absolutely! Does that explain a bit about her reaction? Most certainly it does. Peckinpah was not trying to bend his audience's morality in the direction of sexual violence. I really don't think so. This film is about an introverted, unassertive wussy who is married to an extroverted, smoking hot young woman. Throw in some cultural displacement and some local jerkwads who want a piece of said young woman and you've got acres of room for character development.
The naysayers themselves have proven with thier lengthy reviews that this film is important. They have obviously given quite a bit of thought to this work.
Movie Review: Classic 70's Peckinpah-pre politically correct film so GREAT
Summary: 5 Stars
I really and truly enjoyed his film!! People may wonder why me being a woman with 2 adult children-but you see I married young and grew up in the mixed up 1970's It was really and truly like that between young girls and young men!! Shockingly today that is so not the way at all!!! I am totally against rape!! In this film-if you really study it-I am a complete film buff from a young kid-The Meaning of Rape is different in this film between Amy and Charlie-She really loves Charlie from way back as children and should have married him instead of the older and condisending husband Dustin Hoffman who really treats her as his child and sometimes in a very abusive manner!! I mean I really think He wanted her to cheat on him with Charlie--I really believe that!Movie Review: Straw Dogs
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is without doubt one of the darkest most horrific films in the american mainstream market. While younger filmakers such as Tarantino, etc., go for the violence from the first, Peckinpah builds and builds until all the characters explode in one of the grisliest climaxes in film. Hoffman is perfect. For all you geeks out there who fantasize about actualizng your darkest revenge fantasies, RENT THIS MOVIE. But be warned, do not watch this movie with your girlfriend or wife. The film was slightly censored so some of the cuts are choppy and the ending has some cheaper moments, but all in all a great and very thoughful look into brutality.Movie Review: Excellent Film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Straw Dogs is one of the best films made by legendary director Sam Peckinpah. Starring Dustin Hoffman it is a tense and well make character study that transforms into an out and out action slash horror film. And to think this film came out in 1971. Engrossing and moody the film slowly builds and builds on the drama and the suspense. If you can't see it on the big screen please get the DVD. You want regret your purchase.