What the hell ya talkin' about, gnu? Are you bein' funny? You talkin' to ME?

;-)

I really liked Bonnie and Clyde, John, but I have no interest in the basic premise of Straw Dogs. True, they both had some graphic violence onscreen...but that's about where the comparisons ended for me. Bonnie and Clyde is a really interesting depiction of 2 restless young people with no foreseeable good future in a society that is suffering financial depression...and they more or less haphazardly fall into a spiral of crime that starts out as a lark or a dare and becomes an inescapable road to self-destruction. It's like a Shakespearian tragedy set in the Depression years. It was handled very well, I think, and the secondary characters were all played brilliantly, as were the main characters.

Straw Dogs, on the other hand, is standard Sam Peckinpah fare....macho bullshit about "becoming a man" by taking violent revenge upon and killing a whole bunch of nasty people. HO HUM! Seen that before, and not impressed.