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Summary: Read the book.
Review: This is a good movie--well-acted, evocative cinematography, palatable dialogue--, but it works much better on the silver screen, and it can't touch James Dickey's book. Also recommended: PENTATONIC SCALES FOR JAZZ-ROCK KEYBOARDIST by JEFF BURNS.
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Summary: Scarier than George Buchanan
Review: We all remember an awful character from our past. Mine was George Buchanan, a twisted, dark-spirited bully who grew up in my neighborhood in Connecticut. He was a genuinely horrible person, someone to avoid at all costs, and--well into my adulthood--remained my personal standard for downright scariness. Until I saw Billy McKinney (the "squeal like a pig" mountain man) in "Deliverance," that is. Even if it happened that nothing else worked in this movie, finding somebody who could replace George Buchanan as All-Time Nastiest Person was value enough for me. By the way, I was backpacking in North Georgia a couple of weeks ago: I still praise "Deliverance" for its part in keeping the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains relatively free of pretenders, parvenus, popinjays, and other assorted pantywaists!
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Summary: Deliverance delivers walloping movie-going punch
Review: Deliverance is a classic, and should have won an Oscar for best picture in a rather watered-down field. The plot swirls faster than the waters upon which it takes place. Burt Reynolds and John Voight anchor the cast as two vacationing businessmen whose longtime friendship is put to the test in the face of an overwhelming life or death situation. Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty offer sturdy supporting performances, and the two villians are perhaps the most evil in movie history. While Deliverance seems tame by today's amoral standards, you must consider that when it was made Deliverance was a controversial picture. Until that point, only two or three other motion pictures pushed the envelope for violence and sexuality(one was Midnight Cowboy and it conicidentally starred John Voight). The infamous scenes with Ned Beatty and Bill McKinney are only one of several gruesome others that gave the 70's censors fits. Nevertheless, Deliverance is a very well-acted, strikingly-photographed drama that delivers a walloping movie-going punch that will stick with you long after the movie's over.
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Summary: Excellent movie
Review: I have seen deliverance a number of times and others that reviewed this movie are right about that the banjo annd squel likea pig are not the only good parts of the movie.The waterfall scene was excellent,and the very guiltyRonny Cox played an great charictor.This is a must see movie .For Burt Reynolds,Jon Voight,and Ned Beatty fans also
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Summary: This film is Ghetto Fabulous!!
Review: I love this movie. It is a must see! The most memorable part is that Faag stuff with the hill billies. Dana Reidvanas acted it out well.
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Summary: A Great Peice of Film
Review: Awesome cast lead by Jon Voight is memorible
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This film was James Dickey's commentary on the Vietnam war. It is filled with symbolism and metaphor. It is basically about people going where they really do not belong. Having no idea what they are getting into, and the profound effects it has on all of them after going through this ordeal. This is a film that has to be seen more than once to pick up on all the subtilties placed in this film. Well written, beautifully directed and brilliantly acted...a must see.
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Summary: Reynolds is awesome in this nail-biter
Review: If you are going to see this movie, see it for the infamous "squeal like a pig" scene. Horrifying to the core, it builds and builds until Reynolds' Lewis Medlock unleashes a lethal arrow into the heart of a hillbilly mountain man rapist. And just think, thats the beginning. You will admire the character Reynolds portrays here and you will identify with Jon Voigt's Everyman. The character development is unmatched in the genre Deliverance created. Reynolds is awesome, the direction is sharp and sure and the narrative has relentless drive. If I have not forced you to buy this film I have done you an injustice.
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Summary: Terrific, an all-time great
Review: Perfectly executed movie which sustains its atmosphere of fright and danger right to the end. The film is remembered these days mostly for the unusually explicit hillbilly homosexual rape scene, and that indeed remains one of the most chilling episodes in cinema. But the movie has got far more to it than that - it's about the limits of human endurance, the connection and possible contradictions between morality and the law, and man's striving to dominate the forces of nature. Each time you watch it, it makes you ponder these questions. Very, very good acting, and by far Burt Reynolds' best film. Perhaps the reason it never won an Oscar is because some of its subject matter was just too sensitive in 1972.
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Summary: Deliverance is just alright
Review: I can understand how people mistake "Deliverance" for a classic. Undeniabley, there are a few memorable scenes (including the "Dueling Banjos" and the "Sqeal like a pig" scenes), and the director does build up an adequit amount of tension. But all in all, this homoerotic macho adventure/thriller is long, anti-climatic and at times intolerabley dull. Really not that scary, and the good ideas are not followed through on as well as they should have been. The book is much better.
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