In the end STUNG did mainly one thing for me: It raised expectations, because Diez has proved he delivers his product in budget and on time. With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning. Sting was born Gordon Matthew Sumner on 2 October, 1951 in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, the eldest of four children of Audrey (Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, an …
The ending did become a bit too absurd for my taste, it felt like a weird Alien ripoff which took this down a couple stars. It is, undoubtedly a fine ending. Nobody deserves sex, especially not a guy who feels threatened by a professional woman who needs rescuing from a sudden wasp attack.By the way, there are motorbike-sized wasps in this film. "Stung" has a pretty good ensemble of cast, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Lance Henriksen was in this movie; I didn't know that prior to sitting down to watch the movie. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. She's a fantasy projection, not a force to be reckoned with.Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured Esquire, the Village Voice and elsewhere.
By film's end, it becomes clear that Paul's virility is the only emotional stake grounding "Stung."
Julia is, in that sense, only as empowered as all the other chilly-but-capable femmes you'll find in schlocky horror films. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. Julia has some agency in "Stung," but not enough to make her sympathetic.
Stung is not a good movie, but that’s not the problem. In other words: Julia starts to see a side of Paul that's not typified by puppy-dog pouting, and boyish, uh, juggling (yes, in one scene, Paul actually juggles while Julia looks on with mute disdain).You can tell that "Stung" is really Paul's fantasy too in several ways.
She may stab one wasp with an icepick, but she doesn't really do much damage, and is only really a threat to the wasps whenever Paul is busy suffering for his "poontang" (his phrase, not mine). They're not bad, if you can get a good look at them through over-edited, poorly-choreographed sequences.But back to Paul, and his would-be conquest Julia.
And, undoubtedly, removing that ending would significantly weaken the movie.
Nobody deserves sex, especially not a guy who feels threatened by a professional woman who needs rescuing from a sudden wasp attack.
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.Wyoming, early 1900s. It is the exact perfect ending to that movie, in fact, and no movie about con men has ever done such a good job of baking a con against the audience right into its structure. But once giant wasps attack, Paul suddenly becomes useful, nay, manly. His life was only about his work, from the start of the movie until the end.