The hotter, thicker Christina Ricci looks so goddamn much like a girl I used to date, I'm surprised I've never stabbed my cock through her face on my TV screen and hate-fucked it to death.

My wife (now ex- ) and I had Prince's "Pink Cashmere." Pretty close to sweet. If only she'd displayed so much as a fucking sliver of ability to keep a goddamn beat and not make us both look like a pair of car accident victims hobbling their way through physical therapy, it might have actually been nice.

Probably a bit late here, but I'm just gonna go ahead and pimp out my own blog here.

Because "The Osterman Weekend" doesn't provide quite the platform for neo-feminist cultural grandstanding that a hot potato such as "Straw Dogs" does.

My masturbatory habits say otherwise.

What's this now? Guys believing that power/status/success/financial security somehow increase their attractiveness and worth to women? No way. I totally know this guy who's been driving a bus the last 10 years and he has to beat 'em off with a tire iron, I'm telling you. "Maaan, I wish these hoes would back up and let…

Kate Bosworth has awesome tits now? Did Christina Hendricks, Scarlett Johansson, Monica Bellucci and Eva Mendes all suddenly die or something?

If you have a complete inability to read subtext in a film or consider that a character might have contradictory impulses, it is.

"It's better to seek conflict than avoid it"??
Yeah, I'd say you need to give it another spin or three.

Some of Lurie's comments about this remake have been pretty damn arrogant. Shit along the lines of "oh, I would never try to remake The Wild Bunch. The Wild Bunch is church. But Straw Dogs is state."

Well, as far as Peckinpah goes, Ebert was one of the reviewers who stood up and declared "The Wild Bunch" a masterpiece in a room full of angry, frothing-at-the-mouth reporters after its premiere. And he pretty much stood alone in his embrace of "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" back in '74.

Funny thing regarding the perceived misogyny of "Straw Dogs." From my personal observations, it usually seems to be the men who are bending over backwards to pick up the torch on behalf of the "female cause" and crow about how disgusting and unsavory they found Peckinpah's portrait of womanhood here, etc.

Great title. This is a movie about how Sarah Jessica Parker's arthritic 98 year-old granny of a film career just keeps hobbling along, long after it should have died a quiet death of natural causes - right?

Agreed. I've got a book of his interviews, including the infamous Playboy one from around the time "Straw Dogs" was released.

The new action flick with The Actor Formerly Known As Robert De Niro and the bald guy from "The Transporter"? Not a remake of the Peckinpah, I've heard.

Hmm. That sounds like a big ol' Add Some Kink To Your Sex Life Free card she just handed you.

Yeah, Phipps, not to gang up on you here but I also found your description of Peckinpah's original a bit reductive, to say the least.