<p>They have a lot in common (including some of the same - or nearly the same - lines of dialogue), so why do a remake? Read our review for an analysis as to why it's okay to have another Straw Dogs movie and whether or not Lurie and his cast - headlined by James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgard - were up to the task of revisiting the subject matter and making a film that stands on its own:</p>
<p>Cornwall where the locals view outsiders with a wariness ready to tip toward outright hostility at the slightest provocation. It's a town where egghead pacifist types learn quickly that violence sometimes provides the only answer and that letting women forget who wears the pants in a relationship is a mistake a man can't afford to make. Not a real man, anyway. Forty years later, this remake by Rod Lurie transplants the action to remotest Mississippi, but the most notable change has nothing to do with location.</p>
<p>To watch both films is to see a deeply repulsive view of the world as an unfailingly savage place expressed earnestly and executed chillingly, then to see the same recycled as a rote revenge thriller attempting to shoulder more philosophical weight than it can bear.</p>
<p>The would-be button-pusher behind The Contender and The Last Castle, Lurie retains much of his source material's brutality but ends up defanging it through other means. James Marsden steps into the ineffectual dweeb role originated by Dustin Hoffman, here reworked as a screenwriter hoping to finish a script about the siege of Stalingrad (foreshadowing!) while he and his actress wife (Kate Bosworth) hole up in her late father's country home. But trouble starts when Marsden hires a local contractor who also happens to be Bosworth's high-school boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard) to repair a hurricane-damaged barn. Watch Straw Dogs Movie Online</p>
<p>Skarsgard and his crew eye Bosworth with lust, looks she first unknowingly invites then purposefully courts after getting annoyed by Marsden's weenieish tendencies. They reserve a different sort of look for Marsden, contempt for his less-than-hardened personality and big city, Beethoven-listening ways. (And, yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd is on the soundtrack to provide contrast.) Also on hand: James Woods, who sounds a note of regional inauthenticity that rings through the whole film with his unconvincing, accent-challenged portrayal of an aging good ol' boy.</p>
<p>Netwebsite.In Is A Free Movies Website Where You Can Watch_Straw_Dogs_movie_Online</p>
<p>The most striking moments in Lurie's Straw Dogs stay faithful to Peckinpah's original. Put another way, the most striking moments lift whole shots and editing strategies from Peckinpah's original. Lurie's gift for mimicry ends up making the film feel even hollower than it might. Peckinpah's most controversial scene remains without its awful ambiguity and Lurie plays the finale for thrills where the original offered a nauseating descent into savagery. The original was repulsive but impossible to shake. This remake is pure applause bait, which makes it barbaric in ways Peckinpah would never have dreamed. </p>
<p>To View The Full HD free_movies_to_watch_online
</p>
<br><br><br><br><a href="http://iautoblog.com">iAutoblog</a> the premier <a href="http://iautoblog.com">autoblogger</a> software
No comments:
Post a Comment