What do you think about Straw Dogs '71?

What do you think about Straw Dogs '71? Oct 14, 2018 9:13:26 GMT

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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 14, 2018 9:13:26 GMT

Oct 14, 2018 4:04:35 GMT dirtypillows said:

I like it very, very much. The atmosphere really takes you somewhere else, and the culture shock of masculinity seems eerily plausible. I don't usually like Dustin Hoffman, but he was very good and very believable here. Susan George could not have been any better than she was.

It's both highly intelligent as well as coarsely entertaining. I loved Jerry Fielding's score, and some of the townsmen were so hot! I vote that Amy really wanted the sausage!

George was also excellent in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

I have only seen Straw Dogs once or perhaps twice and quite some time ago. I wasn't sure what to think, but I do own the remake with James Marsden and Kate Bosworth. The setting has been changed to deep south. But yes, she is portrayed as a hot bottom and she did entice and tease men. Non-pc and the notion that she asked for it would raise a few eyebrows of the 'me-too' movement. These guys were sociopathic jerks and not making excuses for their behavior, but I think the theme of the film is also about a females notion of what she expects in her man and for him to learn to man up and stop being a wimp in her presence.

Oh the irony! These feminist me-toos, want men to understand them and feminize themselves more, but ultimately—and I see this attitude in many women—they also want their man to be a strong, masculine and real men, because it makes them crazy. Which frickin' way do they want it?