STRAW DOGS, directed by Sam Peckinpah,1971 (A BIZZEE Pick)

Hello, WORLD!! This is my first review in a minute. Have ya missed me? Well never again. I promise to post a movie review every day or at least 7 times a week. I also promise that each movie will be a worthwhile movie, one that doesn't waste your time, UNLESS the movie is so bad I feel like it's my duty to warn you off!! Also I got other critics going in on movies on this page now too. So, to differentiate from my fellow critics, my movie reviews, or other type of reviews, will be called BIZZEE picks. Clear? Cool!!!! Let's begin with a classic that you might soon be talking about again.*************************************************************************
In 1971, 5 years after his breakout role in THE GRADUATE, Dustin Hoffman appeared in a movie by director Sam Peckinpah called STRAW DOGS. Hoffman, who has since went on to one of the most respected Hollywood careers & Peckinpah, who had one directed one of Hollywoods most greatest Western movies, THE WILD BUNCH (1969) and would go on to direct 1 of the greatest crime love story's of all time the next year, THE GETAWAY (1972). Anyway, this is one of the greatest examples of what I call a GENRE BENDER because there is no one genre that describes this movie. In some eyes, it's a coming of age story. On many levels it plays like a drama but the end is pure horror on so many levels. The story, based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969) by Gordon Williams, concerns David & Amy Sumner, a couple comprised of an American man and his young British wife (Hoffman and the absolutely stunning Susan George), who leaves the USA, for some reason I wasn't quite clear on, to live in her childhood home. Complications arise at the arrival of the natives who come to spruce up their home; one of the natives is infatuated with Amy, which leads to some complications... Look, I could go into detail about this movie but this is one of those movies where it is best not to know what happens EXCEPT FOR ONE PART that I feel all women who watch may need to hear about. Midway through this movie, Amy is brutally raped by 2 of the guys and this one scene alone makes this movie as complicated as any I've ever seen, which leads to more complications. The ending feels, well, like the only way this movie could have ended but it's as painful as the rape scene itself in many ways. There are so many conflicts that are going on that one may need a score card to see who's actually on whose side. The reason I recommend this movie aside from the fact it's one of my personal favorite movies is the fact that it's due to be remade starring James Marsden & Kate Bosworth (both of whom can be found in the god awful SUPERMAN RETURNS) in February of 2011. PLEASE see the original before you see what is bound to be a butchering of one of the finest, most controversial of Peckinpah's career. That's all for now WORLD, but isn't that enough?