Straw Dogs
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Movie Reviews of Straw Dogs
Movie Review: passive agressive man leaves comfort zone, faces new reality
Summary: 3 Stars
[spoilers]Dustin Hoffman's character, obviously Jewish, leaves the comfort of urban American and travels to rural England, where his civility is perceived as wimpish and his inability to fit in as standoffish. He has a lovely sexy wife who is from the area. The local badins decide this unprotected weak outsider is easy prey and antagonize him to the point of one man screwing his wife in a pseudo-rape scene. There is a tremendous buildup of Hoffman turning the other cheek and trying to be a good sport for what seems like hours and then we finally have the explosion literally as Hoffman can take no more and fights back with a vengeance. The good ol redneck boys of the UK never knew what hit them in classic over the top Peckinpah fashion. This film is unusually insightful into the character of the average circumcised nice guy American who wants to get along but will kill you when push comes to shove. Just ask Al Qaeda. The Hoffman character is not cool has no style and can't **** worth a damn but he can certainly crudely lash out when he feels threatened. Late twentieth century American caucasion male to a tMovie Review: Too drawn out, but I can see why it's a classic.
Summary: 3 Stars
I know that, for it's time, this was one shocking movie.And I dont judge by todays standards (Not that there are many left..).
I think it's so annoying that Hoffman's character is such a pussy, and even after so much has been done to push him, he still tries to keep his cool! His role blank and underplayed... but then again, isn't that you end up screaming at the T.V. screen for him to do something about the lynch mob?!!! Good play. On the whole, it's not that bad, and I prefer Older movies to anything that's come out since the 90's. [...] It's like he only had to give her a good talking to to get her consent.
Movie Review: Straw Dogs review
Summary: 3 Stars
Couple rent house in English countryside. Pet cat is killed, then the wife is raped while husband is duck shooting. Ends with extremely violent scene. Dustin Hoffman and Susan George star.Movie Review: I guess it hasn't aged well
Summary: 2 Stars
Two thoroughly unappealing characters are for some reason married to each other and take up residence in her UK home town which is seemingly populated by even less appealing, drooling, drinking thugs. The whole thing just runs on for way too long. How George and Hoffman ever ended up together is a mystery that perhaps only Lolita could understand. There is a fairly grpahic "sort-of rape" which is never brought up between the husband and wife after it happens. David Warner plays a version of Frankenstein monster that brings everything to a head when the drooling thugs converge on the Hoffman/George house. Since you really find it hard to care for any of these people, the violent conclusion is not worth waiting for. Maybe in its' day ...