‘Straw Dogs’ Download and Reviews
“Straw Dogs” Movie Details
Straw Dogs tagline: The knock at the door meant the birth of one man and the death of seven others!
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| Directors: Sam Peckinpah | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 out of 17,148 votes |
“Straw Dogs” Movie Review
“Straw Dogs” Plot Summary
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
First rate thriller.
Peckinpah’s post- ‘Wild Bunch’ movies were a mixed bag. Frequently battling studios, censors and/or his own demons, some are genuine classics (‘..Alfredo Garcia’), some are entertaining potboilers (‘The Getaway’), and some like ‘Straw Dogs’ are in between. I could never argue that this movie is his best work, but it is far from his worst, and whatever you can say about his movies, they are ALWAYS interesting.’Straw Dogs’ is the closest he came to making a genre horror/thriller movie. If you enjoy ‘Rio Bravo’-inspired siege movies such as Romero’s ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ or Carpenter’s ‘Assault On Precinct 13′, check this one out. But it is more than ‘just’ a thriller – it features strong character development, and morally ambiguous situations among the tense build up to the explosive climax. In these P.C. times ‘Straw Dogs’ offers no simple answers, but plenty of issues for discussion, and it is to be commended for that. ‘Right’ or ‘wrong’? YOU decide!
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‘The Stepford Wives’ Download and Reviews
“The Stepford Wives” Movie Details
The Stepford Wives tagline: Make one.
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“The Stepford Wives” Movie Review
“The Stepford Wives” Plot Summary
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who’ve created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller.
Colorful and comical remake.
Frank Oz’s remake of the classic 1975 thriller may be critically bashed by some, but is actually a very entertaining re-envisioning
Fired business woman moves to a small Conneticut village with her family, where she learns that the local housewives are acting very strangely
The Stepford Wives 2004 is one of the most cleverly done remakes around. Rather than try to capture the expectations of the original film, this remake looks at the already-familiar story in a whole new light as a dark comedy. Even more effective is the fact that this is a truly funny and well-written dark comedy! The direction is lavishly good, the film has some wonderful sets, a great music score, and a very stylish credit sequence
The great cast is yet another highlight. Lovely Nicole Kidman does an excellent performance as usual. While supporting cast Broderick, Midler, Close, Walken, and Bart make for some nicely colorful characters
Just why so many people dislike this film I don’t know, but it’s a remake that is worth being viewed before being judged. Some have come to like this version better than the original film.*** 1/2 out of ****
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‘Jurassic Park’ Download and Reviews
“Jurassic Park” Movie Details
Jurassic Park tagline: An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making
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“Jurassic Park” Movie Review
“JP” Plot Summary
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
I LOVE this movie!
This film is easily one of my favorite movies. I saw this movie when it came out in theaters back in 1993; I was only 9-years-old and, though some scenes scared the crap out of me, it blew me away. I was amazed at how, for the first time in a movie, I felt like I was watching REAL dinosaurs. For those who haven’t seen this movie (there are people like that?), it centers on a billionaire’s attempt to create a new amusement park on an isolated island creating bio-engineered dinosaurs; when a group of specialists are brought in to examine the park, things go terribly wrong
I absolutely loved the story of this film; I loved it so much I had my parents buy me Michael Crichton’s novel and I read it 3 times through the course of my fifth grade year. It was then that I fell in love with the work of Crichton and found myself reading the rest of his work. While, yes, the movie did divert pretty heavily from the book, I still felt it was a great adaptation. It’s Spielberg’s version of Crichton’s story, so I don’t mind the mass differences. The movie is much more family-friendly than Crichton’s novel and I would love to see a another version eventually, a darker version that sticks closer to Crichton’s novel. Unlike most instances when I can say ‘The book was better’ or ‘The movie was better’, I don’t feel the need in this case because they were both fantastic
The cast did a terrific job. Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough…all were great in their roles. Though my favorite performance came from Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm, the arrogant chaos theoretician. I’ve been a fan of Goldblum for a while and I thought he was the perfect choice for the role in this movie. Of course, I have to rave a bit about the film’s special effects. As I mentioned before, this film contains probably the most realistic dinosaurs seen in cinema. A seamless combination of practical animatronics and CGI were used to bring the dinosaurs to life. By now, the effects seem a little dated but they continue to stand strong even now, 15 years later
This movie is one of those films that every must see. It grossed $350 million in the US alone. The film marked yet another milestone in special effects in cinema. And most importantly, it’s just entertaining.
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