Connections Features Born Yesterday User reviews Review. Top review. Intense film, great acting, true to the original.
Sam Peckinpah's original classic is one of my favorite thrillers. So when I heard they were remaking "Straw dogs", I wasn't surprised but somewhat leery of having high expectations. But once I read the casting and saw the trailer, I became excited for the remake. I was not let down. It didn't alter the story drastically or disrespect the original's legacy. The director simply rebooted and modernized the tale for a new generation.
Everything that shocked you and every scene you loved in the original is still in the remake. The change of setting actually benefited the film and gave it a little more realism in terms of violence and social dysfunction.
The violence is high and the rape scene is disturbing. But the acting was top notch by everyone involved. James Marsden did a great job playing the weak, timid, and quiet intellectual who eventually turns into the strong, violent, and "manly" protector. His performance was very "Hoffman" essque but he still made the role his own. I think a lot of girls came to the film solely for Alexander Skarsgard true blood fans and they were generally disturbed by his turn as a heel.
There were a lot of gasps during a particular bear trap scene. Bosworth, Woods, and Purcell were all perfect in their roles as well. A film that deals with aggression, manhood, and human connections pushed to the extremes.
There are many subtleties in the performances and some great metaphorical images. A great thriller that literally intensifies until it's satisfying climax. Best film I've seen in months. ManBehindTheMask63 Sep 17, Details Edit. Release date September 16, United States. United States. Official site. Screen Gems Battleplan Productions. Box office Edit. Storyline Edit. Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction.
When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house. David always dreaded the day he might have to defend his wife Rated R for strong brutal violence including a sexual attack, menace, some sexual content, and pervasive language. Did you know Edit. Trivia In the scene where David Sumner Dustin Hoffman first enters the local pub, director Sam Peckinpah was unhappy with the other actors' reaction to this stranger entering their world.
Eventually, he decided to do one take where Hoffman entered the scene without his trousers on. He got his reaction, and these are the shots shown in the final film. Goofs In the scene where David is taken duck shooting, he fires his gun into the air at ducks flying overhead. We see ducks flying to the right and straightaway to the left. It is the same film reversed. Quotes [last lines] Henry Niles : I don't know my way home. Alternate versions The video version was twice rejected by the British Board of Film Classification in after the distributors refused to cut forcible stripping and any signs that Susan George was "enjoying" the rape.
Video versions were available in Britain before the law which required all videos to be classified. There were two such releases, one of which was uncut, and one which lost some dialogue due to print damage. Connections Featured in Eagle House Soundtracks Symphony No. User reviews Review. Top review. First rate thriller. Peckinpah's post- 'Wild Bunch' movies were a mixed bag. Alfredo Garcia' , some are entertaining potboilers 'The Getaway' , and some like 'Straw Dogs' are in between.
I could never argue that this movie is his best work, but it is far from his worst, and whatever you can say about his movies, they are ALWAYS interesting. But it is more than "just" a thriller - it features strong character development, and morally ambiguous situations among the tense build up to the explosive climax.
In these P. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep the bear trap and the cat found strangled, and it tells the same story.
It is every bit as violent. I found it visceral, disturbing and well-made. James Marsden and Kate Bosworth star in the roles originally played by Dustin Hoffman and Susan George , as an intellectual and his wife who move to a rural area where he can work undisturbed. There is something about this man and his sexy wife that disturbs the locals down at the pub, and what begins as a subtle competition over territorial rights in the Darwinian sense escalates implacably into a full-blown lethal struggle.
The lesson learned is that the egghead contains the possibility of using great violence when his home and wife are threatened. At the beginning, he doesn't know that. Something within me has shifted in the 40 years since "Straw Dogs" was released and its original X rating in England got it banned from theaters. Four decades of screen violence must have tempered me, and I am no longer as vulnerable to images of barbarism and mayhem.
Peckinpah at the time was notorious for his violence; his masterpiece " The Wild Bunch " was considered in some quarters to be unreleasable. I praised it, and yet drew the line at "Straw Dogs," which crossed some sort of line with me. Since Rod Lurie , the director of this version, cannot be accused of having softened the material, my own feelings must have changed. Perhaps I am more in touch with them now and recognize how close to home the movie strikes.
I fear the story's hero represents me and finds me lacking machismo. Not since grade school have I ever willingly been in a fistfight. I have never fired a rifle, except in ROTC classes, and never touched a handgun. I avoid physical confrontation. When somebody tries to cut me off on an expressway, I let them.
I depend on society to protect me. I have always feared I couldn't do it myself. A man isn't supposed to admit that, but there's no purpose in denying it. Now here is Marsden playing David, a Hollywood screenwriter who has moved with his wife, Amy Kate Bosworth , back to her old hometown on the Gulf Coast, where they will live in a handsome fieldstone house with a barn much damaged by a hurricane. Amy was a cheerleader here in high school, left for California and has had a little success on a TV crime series.
Their first day they go into a bar and grill where any sensible person would know to make an immediate U-turn and walk out again. You've seen this place in dozens of movies. Everybody knows one another.
They inhabit a macho bar culture where violence is always close to the surface.
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