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Straw Dogs - A Remake Of Sam Peckinpah's Classic
Straw Dogs (2011 remake)

Director Rod Lurie's 2011 remake of the original film of the same name.

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  • Dec 22, 2011
A well done yet still completely unnecessary remake of the Peckinpah classic, its only major flaw is the thematic shift from man's internal struggle between civilized man and his predominantly savage nature to the more simplistic elements of class warfare.
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review by . September 18, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
Non-Violent Timidity Vs. Brutish Machismo....
Remakes and re-issues seem to be all the rage these days; and as I have stated before, sometimes they can be necessary and they can be a way to update a story for more modern audiences. It is yet to be argued that the original “Straw Dogs” needed a remake, since it is another one of those movies which was a product of its generation. The direction by Sam Peckinpah was brilliantly simple and Dustin Hoffman’s portrayal of a passive, non-violent character was so effective that it …
review by . February 13, 2012
posted in Movie Hype
*** out of ****    Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" was released in 1971 and was immediately misjudged, seemingly at the very moment of its arrival. It sent movie-goers either running for the hills - never to look back again - or scratching their chins in an attempt to find some sort of intellectual meaning for what they had just witnessed. The film itself was the story of a mathematician and his wife who moves back to the latter's hometown - a small, quiet little town in England …
review by . September 17, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
Star Rating:         I described Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 version of Straw Dogs as visceral, disturbing, and unpleasant, and without a doubt, those same qualities apply to Rod Lurie’s 2011 remake. What surprises me is that this new version is far more agreeable, in large part because, while the basic story is exactly the same, the subtexts have been altered in such a way that they’re far more compelling. The original was essentially an extended metaphor …
review by . September 16, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
'Straw Dogs' 'Two Jews On Film' Have Different Takes On This Violent Remake (Video()
By Joan Alperin Schwartz      You are a Hollywood screenwriter.  You have a hot wife and a hot Jag.  You move to your wife's hometown in the Deep South after her father's death.  It's filled with God fearing, Bambi killing, football addicted, good ole Southern boys.  Do you really think you'll live happily ever after?      David Sumner (James Marsden) and his actress wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) …
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Director: Rod Lurie
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Release Date: 16 September 2011 (USA)
MPAA Rating: R
Screen Writer: Rod Lurie, David Zelag Goodman
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