Spectacularly bad film night experience!! Mental health challenge!!

Todays film night featured Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs a film we literally selected from a pile based on the writing on the back.

It was not as billed "Amazing".

It was in fact Nauseating, and both of us simultaneously stopped watching it. (I walked off into the kitchen to make a cup of tea, unable to take any more of the nastiness on my little screen, and assuming that my reaction of revulsion was unusually strong or even inappropriate in todays context I had to go back and pause the film to ask him to "tell me when to change over because I ain't watching this crap", to find he had gone also... 

Presumably because it's on a DVD this sort of thing has a following out there, all I can say is that for once I was SO GLAD that No-One from here attends my film nights. I'd have been mortified which if I understand correctly mathematically speaking equates to "Ashamed" raised to the power of two.

UGH. After that experience, going out tonight will be a breeze...

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  • I just read the wiki page re: plot.  That is pretty/very dark.......very early 1970's "shock horror" type thing.

    Those were strange times on the screen?!  All the "major" actors of the time seemed to do one or more of these nasty (best word for this type of movie) movies....Donald Sutherland did a REALLY upsetting one - can't remember the name....and Edward Woodward.

    On a lighter note - I love the sound of that name - Edward Woodward....there's a fair joke with his name that I also can't remember.

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  • I just read the wiki page re: plot.  That is pretty/very dark.......very early 1970's "shock horror" type thing.

    Those were strange times on the screen?!  All the "major" actors of the time seemed to do one or more of these nasty (best word for this type of movie) movies....Donald Sutherland did a REALLY upsetting one - can't remember the name....and Edward Woodward.

    On a lighter note - I love the sound of that name - Edward Woodward....there's a fair joke with his name that I also can't remember.

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