Has anyone watched The Power of the Dog

[montanacowboy]

on Netflix? Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cumberbatch is a whole new level of pure hate! Great acting by the whole cast, great directing by Jane Campion.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. yeah, that seemed entirely rapey and creepy even in the trailer.

[ItsjustMe]

2. I did not care for it.

I thought the writing was awful.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181592142

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Beautifully filmed, acted., and written.

While there seems to have a slow calm about it, there is some much undercurrent tension in this film. We'll done. I will need to watch it again.

[oasis]

5. Very slow moving. I mean s-l-o-w.

[USALiberal]

7. It started off slow and then proceeded to go slower.

[oasis]

11. The wood floor and furnishings in the big house were quite nice.

The authenticity of the props and signage were able to keep my interest, but the dramatic pace became to much for me.

[greenjar_01]

6. I thought it was great, though Plemons is miscast

Wild that it was a 1967 novel.

[NewHendoLib]

8. Gorgeous scenery, I suppose great acting - but way too minimal for our tastes, and too mean/nasty

Just not doing it for us - we stopped with half an hour to go and probably won't bother finishing it.

[relayerbob]

9. Zero intention of watching it

Nothing about it sounds in the least entertaining, nor positive. Exploitation of anger and hatred ... if I want that I'll watch Fox

[ItsjustMe]

12. This

I have better things to do with my time.

[milestogo]

10. I've started watching it twice, and just couldn't get into it.

[ItsjustMe]

13. Same here

I tried watching the movie twice, but the dialogue was just so awful. And, I got the impression the actors were not really into this movie.

[milestogo]

19. I watched it.

There's a couple of hours of my life that I'll never get back. I really like the Director, but this just did not engage me at all.

[Ocelot II]

14. I thought it was excellent - brilliantly filmed and acted.

Pretty disturbing, too; and the characters turned out to be not quite what they seemed to be.

[MLAA]

15. Yes, I was surprised.

I enjoyed it.

[MN2theMax]

16. I didn't get what happened

It was the subtle ending, but the person I was watching with immediately got it (I did not).
Apart from the weird story line, the cinematography was excellent. Once I understood what happened, I kind of liked it.

[Chautauquas]

17. Watched it a few hours ago

My wife and I kept making predictions about what was going to happen, and then changing our minds and making new predictions. It's a strange movie, with slow pacing until the final 15 minutes or so. I thought the acting was very good, especially true for Cumberbatch.

I like what the director, Jane Campion, said about the film:

“As the title stands, it’s a kind of warning. The power of the dog is all those urges, all those deep, uncontrollable urges that can come and destroy us, you know?”

She used Donald Trump as an example: “Like, when things didn’t go well for him, he melted. He couldn’t ever even say the words ‘I lost.’ He created this massive fiction. Even to say the word ‘failure’ is just not an option for someone like him, for these kinds of men.”

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

18. Tried watching it, but Cumberbatch's character was too mean and cruel

for me to stomach.

Living in rural red America, I already see way too much of that from supporters of TFG.

[Pobeka]

20. Wow. Watched it the other night.

That was something else. And a sneaky ending to top it off!