Straw Dogs

[CBStew]

Talk about seeing remakes of movies!   Sam Peckinpaugh did this much better in 1972.  That movie caused more than one nightmare.  This movie is a nightmare on its own.  The acting is leaden.  The script is worse.  Buncha good ol' boys just hangin' 'round.  Huntin'.   Raping.  Drinkin'.  Same ol' stuff.   These characters are crazy for the sake of being crazy.   One stereotype after another.  The movie telegraphs every move several scenes in advance.  After all is said and done I only felt bad about what they did to that beautiful Jaguar.  If you want violence for its own sake, this is your film. 

[Quality Start Machine]

Talk about seeing remakes of movies!   Sam Peckinpaugh did this much better in 1972.  That movie caused more than one nightmare.  This movie is a nightmare on its own.  The acting is leaden.  The script is worse.  Buncha good ol' boys just hangin' 'round.  Huntin'.   Raping.  Drinkin'.  Same ol' stuff.   These characters are crazy for the sake of being crazy.   One stereotype after another.  The movie telegraphs every move several scenes in advance.  After all is said and done I only felt bad about what they did to that beautiful Jaguar.  If you want violence for its own sake, this is your film. 

Remaking Peckinpaugh isn't as stupid as remaking Hitchcock, but it's still pretty goddamn stupid.

[CBStew]

Talk about seeing remakes of movies!   Sam Peckinpaugh did this much better in 1972.  That movie caused more than one nightmare.  This movie is a nightmare on its own.  The acting is leaden.  The script is worse.  Buncha good ol' boys just hangin' 'round.  Huntin'.   Raping.  Drinkin'.  Same ol' stuff.   These characters are crazy for the sake of being crazy.   One stereotype after another.  The movie telegraphs every move several scenes in advance.  After all is said and done I only felt bad about what they did to that beautiful Jaguar.  If you want violence for its own sake, this is your film. 

Remaking Peckinpaugh isn't as stupid as remaking Hitchcock, but it's still pretty goddamn stupid.

Good comparison.  Even Mel Brooks effort at parodying Hitchcock was kind of flat.

[Quality Start Machine]

Talk about seeing remakes of movies!   Sam Peckinpaugh did this much better in 1972.  That movie caused more than one nightmare.  This movie is a nightmare on its own.  The acting is leaden.  The script is worse.  Buncha good ol' boys just hangin' 'round.  Huntin'.   Raping.  Drinkin'.  Same ol' stuff.   These characters are crazy for the sake of being crazy.   One stereotype after another.  The movie telegraphs every move several scenes in advance.  After all is said and done I only felt bad about what they did to that beautiful Jaguar.  If you want violence for its own sake, this is your film. 

Remaking Peckinpaugh isn't as stupid as remaking Hitchcock, but it's still pretty goddamn stupid.

Good comparison.  Even Mel Brooks effort at parodying Hitchcock was kind of flat.

And that was with his working with Hitch.