MOVIE: straw dogs

     This is my first post about a movie because I still feel like i should mix up my topics in order to stand out among this blogging sea of uniformity, although it may just be mine that is too uniform.  Anyway, I saw the movie straw dogs last weekend and it was terrible.  The plot was weak at best and I'm the kind of guy who looks for a good plot in movies.  Its about a movie writer and his wife who move to her parents house after the parents die and then hire some of her old friends to rebuild the barn at the side of the house.  The trailer made it seem like the whole movie was about how the couple were trying to survive while these men attacked there house for some reason, and i've always like the suspense created by that type of situation as well as the strategy of defending the home.  However, the majority of the movie is pointless with no presentation of relevant plot information or surprising volte faces.  There were a few but they all occured within the last half of the movie.  I think they should have been spread throughout the movie in order to attract the viewers attention and then maintain it.  Also, the reason for their fight at the end of the movie is completely and utterly dissapointing it was all extremely far fetched and just not believable.  I like a little realism in a movie and it just wasn't here.