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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 13, 2021 14:22:27 GMT
I’m surprised this one hasn’t been done yet. I remembered when the remake first came out. I had no idea it even was a remake. All I kept hearing was “omg I can’t believe they’re remaking this one it’s a classic.” I decided to watch them both. One after the other.
I honestly never saw what the big deal was about the original. Heck I was shocked to learn Hoffman was even in a movie like Straw Dogs knowing what he’s been in as of recently. I don’t think the story is all that great, the rape scene isn’t all that either and I just found Hoffman really unlikeable.
This is one of the few movies where I prefer the remake. I can’t really explain it. I think probably cause I felt the gang in the new one deserved exactly what they got and I got a much more fun movie. I know that sounds weird, but I’d watch the remake again more than I would the original.
Remake for me.
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Post by movielover on Jul 13, 2021 14:34:46 GMT
Love the 1971 one myself, but I’ve never seen the 2011 one.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 13, 2021 14:41:19 GMT
Love the 1971 one myself, but I’ve never seen the 2011 one. Check out the 2011 one. I feel like it only gets hate cause it’s a remake. I honestly even think it’s better than the Last House On The Left remake. |
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Post by movielover on Jul 13, 2021 14:43:40 GMT
Love the 1971 one myself, but I’ve never seen the 2011 one. Check out the 2011 one. I feel like it only gets hate cause it’s a remake. I honestly even think it’s better than the Last House On The Left remake. Will do. I’ve heard good things from other posters about it as well.
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Post by marth on Jul 13, 2021 14:45:29 GMT
I like both of them, can´t choose.
I think the remake is very good, too.
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Post by movielover on Jul 13, 2021 14:46:48 GMT
I like both of them, can´t choose. I think the remake is very good, too. Ha! You were the poster I was just referring to, and you posted 2 minutes later. What a cowinky-dink. 
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Jul 13, 2021 14:50:25 GMT
2011. I like how the remake was tension filled and better shot and acted
1971 feels so amateurish. With the exception of Hoffman, the acting of just awful. After hearing so much about how controversial the rape scene was, it was tame and not at all disturbing. It was rather lame.
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Post by marth on Jul 13, 2021 14:52:01 GMT
I like both of them, can´t choose. I think the remake is very good, too. Ha! You were the poster I was just referring to. What a cowinky-dink.  I watched the remake before the original, and I think both are very solid movies.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 13, 2021 18:10:58 GMT
1971 - 6.5/10
2011 - 5.5/10
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 13, 2021 18:12:24 GMT
Love the 1971 one myself, but I’ve never seen the 2011 one. Check out the 2011 one. I feel like it only gets hate cause it’s a remake. I honestly even think it’s better than the Last House On The Left remake. I think the remake is a pale imitation of a movie that I already don't think is all that great. I understand why people would like it though, because it isn't a flat-out bad remake. It is one of the middle-ground remakes.
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 13, 2021 18:19:42 GMT
'71. No contest.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 13, 2021 19:18:38 GMT
Check out the 2011 one. I feel like it only gets hate cause it’s a remake. I honestly even think it’s better than the Last House On The Left remake. Will do. I’ve heard good things from other posters about it as well. The problem with the remake is that there is nothing authentic or shocking about it. I have a couple major issues with the original, but it is provocative and unsettling in a way that the remake isn't. Dustin Hoffman is miles better than James Marsden and it also suffers from moving the location from England to the Southern U.S. James Woods is the best thing about the remake.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Jul 13, 2021 19:45:06 GMT
I like the first one. The review from allmovie.com summs up the new one maybe:
To unseasoned viewers, Straw Dogs might be a convenient waste of time starring their favorite cable-TV hunk, yet its resonance will not go much farther than that -- and frankly, for that to be the case for a film featuring such a brutal rape scene is almost a crime. Hollywood made the film when it did because it could bank on hot stars and the climate was right for remaking taboo-breaking cinema (see 2009's The Last House on the Left and 2010's I Spit on Your Grave). With so much taken away from the source material and nearly nothing of worth added, the film just becomes a sensational pulp thriller. Like many remakes, Straw Dogs will be forgotten, but the Hollywood culture which produced it unfortunately will continue to badly retell yet more beloved tales.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jul 13, 2021 22:07:19 GMT
I've only seen the original so I won't vote, but I was only somewhat a fan of it anyway. It's such an unsettling and bleak movie without a single likable character.
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Post by spooner5020 on Jul 13, 2021 23:14:49 GMT
Will do. I’ve heard good things from other posters about it as well. The problem with the remake is that there is nothing authentic or shocking about it. I have a couple major issues with the original, but it is provocative and unsettling in a way that the remake isn't. Dustin Hoffman is miles better than James Marsden and it also suffers from moving the location from England to the Southern U.S. James Woods is the best thing about the remake. See I felt that way about the Last House On The Left remake. Everything that’s in both remakes you’ve already seen in the originals unless you never saw them. Even the cat death in the remake wasn’t shocking to me because I already knew it was gonna happen. Also small issue I have with the remake and maybe someone could explain this. So the scene where the James Marsden character is jumping rope he said he was gonna do 100. He did maybe like 10 or however much I don’t remember. His wife comments on the fact he didn’t do 100 and he says “I counted in binary”. This joke DOES NOT work in the remake cause in the remake the character is a screenwriter not a mathematician. So why did they keep that line in? |
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 13, 2021 23:43:23 GMT
The problem with the remake is that there is nothing authentic or shocking about it. I have a couple major issues with the original, but it is provocative and unsettling in a way that the remake isn't. Dustin Hoffman is miles better than James Marsden and it also suffers from moving the location from England to the Southern U.S. James Woods is the best thing about the remake. See I felt that way about the Last House On The Left remake. Everything that’s in both remakes you’ve already seen in the originals unless you never saw them. Even the cat death in the remake wasn’t shocking to me because I already knew it was gonna happen. Also small issue I have with the remake and maybe someone could explain this. So the scene where the James Marsden character is jumping rope he said he was gonna do 100. He did maybe like 10 or however much I don’t remember. His wife comments on the fact he didn’t do 100 and he says “I counted in binary”. This joke DOES NOT work in the remake cause in the remake the character is a screenwriter not a mathematician. So why did they keep that line in? The first half of the Last House on the Left remake works for me (it is still extremely intense and Garrett Dillahunt is perfect imo), the second half doesn't at all and the very ending is next-level stupid. The difference in this case is that I don't like the original much at all. Still a better movie overall than the remake though. I can understand why you would have the same issue I have with Straw Dogs remake with Last House remake though. Straw Dogs (1971) is a much better movie than Last House on the Left (1972) imo. I haven't seen the Straw Dogs remake since it's release, so someone else will have to attempt to answer your question about the rope jumping.
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Post by OldAussie on Jul 13, 2021 23:58:53 GMT
1971 - 6.5/102011 - 5.5/10 yeah, mine are similar, maybe 1971 - 7/10 2011 - 5/10
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 14, 2021 0:05:41 GMT
1971 - 6.5/102011 - 5.5/10 yeah, mine are similar, maybe 1971 - 7/10 2011 - 5/10 Your rating for the original is closer to mine than your rating for the remake. I'm more towards a 6/10 than a 5/10.
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