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Summary: Effective
Review: And dates very well. All the performances are top-notch. Its historically a little marred by the infamous "squeal like a pig" scene, but after viewing it you'll see why that joke is so inconsquential. The scenery is beautiful and the twists are unpredictable. A good recomendation for anyone tired of the majority of the formulaic tripe that dominates the theaters nowadays.This takes garbage like the newly reimagined "Texas Chainsw Massacre" and "Wrong Turn" over it's knee for a spanking.
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Summary: Top Notch
Review: This movie is straight from the tep shelf. A thrilling movie, that doesnt involve tons of blood and guts. Movies like Wrong Turn have been influenced by this classic, along with many others. But they all fail to lift to the standard of this masterpiece. The Banjo Scene was a particular favourite for me. Two thumbs up!
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Summary: What A Movie
Review: I origionaly saw this film after seeing Wrong Turn and injoying that.When I bought this I was expecting a low budget horror film having not known about before.Wow this film is sooooooooo good its was what I was expecting in the sence of a creepy thriller but it NOT low budget and its NOT gory.If you want the story read another review I just want to say if you love good action suspence movies this is for you.
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Summary: They don't make 'em like they used to...
Review: Director John Boorman's exciting, brutal, brooding, explosive and violent masterpiece remains one of Hollywood's most intelligent takes on the complex, contradictory cultures of American manhood, otherwise the more familiar preserve of directors like Sam Peckinpah and Walter Hill. Based on James Dickey's novel, Deliverance roots itself assuredly in fascinating and provocative dualities: liberal modernity and backwoods barbarism; beauty and violence; kindness and cuelty; morality and pragmatism and, atmospherically, the existential and the visceral - situating it a distinct cut above the average Hollywood action adventure output. Four suburban friends - career-best performances from Reynolds, Voight, Beatty and Cox - take one last alpha-male shot at canoeing the mighty Cahulawassee river - just as it is set to be flooded - literally and figuratively - by the needs, culture and infastructure of the New South as it rolls unforgivingly through what's left of the countryside.Just as their own middle class tensions, arrogances and irritations begin to surface, they run - courtesy of the hostile local population - into a world much smaller(...). What starts out as an egoistic attempt to reclaim some element of American frontier manhood amidst the privileged, cosseted reality of an otherwise safely suburban life becomes a gripping struggle to survive the ravages of nature and (distinctly warped) nurture. Features what is probably the silver screen's most notorious male rape scene, an episode that slides so quickly and unsuspectingly from cautious negotiation to gruelling and humiliating cruelty that it still retains the power to shock and unsettle. Possibly did more than any other movie to forever demonise the poor-white population of the Appalachians, spawning a slew of inferior copycats as well as the opportunistic "hillbilly horror" sub-genre that persisted into the early 80s with such exploitation nonsense as Hillbilly Holocaust and Trapped. Walter Hill's differently brlliant Southern Comfort, Jonathan Mostow's efficient suspenser Breakdown and Curtis Hanson's The River Wild can be argued to be among Deliverance's more palatable latter-day spawn. (In the latter, Meryl Streep shows that otherwise meek women - pushed to the limit - can be just as primal given a reason and a river!) Deliverance is a superior film that harks back to the days when a thoughtful Hollywood film and a crowd-pleasing box office smash were - more often than not - one and the same thing.
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Summary: Bada da da da da da da da
Review: "Now, let's you just drop them pants." This line might just sum up the most disturbing concept in this film. When in a strange environ, most anything can happen -- even getting molested by a dirty, sweaty mountain man. Deliverance is a taught, suspenseful film with nicely conceived characters played by Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty. The foursome are on a trip down a mighty river. Final Destination: "Antree." When one of the mountain men they come upon exclaims, "This river don't go to Antree," you know these guys are in trouble!
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Summary: A river of emotions...
Review: Even people who haven't seen "Deliverance" are at least familiar with several aspects of the film...banjos, backwoods, hillbillies and wild river rapids are usually the first images people conjure up. But there is so much more to this exquisite thriller. The story and premise are simple and well-known. Four "city boys" head to deep Appalachia to do battle with a river that will soon be dammed over. The untamed wilderness these average Atlanta businessmen plunge themselves into is everything they hoped for...and everything they feared. The four men, played with intense reality and emotion by Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, John Voight and Ronnie Cox, portray dramatically different characters. The vital question, to be answered by these men over the course of the story, is who has the combination of inner and outer strength to survive their little 3-day excursion? The trip that unfolds is unforgettable. Man is reduced to his primal level, with survival becoming his only focus. Every side of human emotion and expression is captured in this 48-hour journey, which wouldn't have been possible without the extraordinary physical and mental effort on the part of the actors, director and film crew. In this highly visual film, emotions and physical acting speak louder than any words. A taut, dramatic thriller, "Deliverance" merits several viewings. Watch it again and again (as I did) and you'll recognize the beauty and brilliance in a film where morning bird song blends seamlessly with man's mortal cry. Life and death fight for a balance in this John Boorman masterpiece.
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Summary: Great quality version of a true classic!
Review: This DVD is a wonderful quality version of the classic suspense drama, DELIVERANCE. Everything about this feature film is perfect---the performances, the direction, the cinematography and the sheer elegance of the amazingly understated writing. Unfortunately, other than a trailer and short, dated "behind the scenes" featurette, there are no notable special features to enhance this magnificent movie. How could none of the stars make themselves available for a commentary track? Nonetheless, a definite must-have for your collection...this one never ceases to engross the viewer and sure beats the sanitized, chopped up version you'll catch on the tube.
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Summary: Deliverance and Damnation
Review: Deliverance, the story of man against nature, man against man, and man against himself. This 1972 movie directed by John Boorman based off a book of the same name by James Dickey, brings you to the heart of darkness and never lets you go. Like it changes the men invloved from complex civilized people to primitive animals it will change the viewer. This is a must see for all outdoors people with a love for classic good cinema as well. It is twisted, violent and grotesque, but as is nature itself.
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Summary: My Feeling about Deliverence
Review: I only watched the film for once,but I still remenber the details.Although I had nothing feeling about the adventure in this film,I could understand it.,expecially when Lewis killed the mountain man.I was scare when I watched it.Ecvry person can imagine that when you do something wrong,expecially something have disobeyed the law,what's your feeling going to be?So I agree with ED..As we know,he didn't want to burt the dead body.He said that it was wrong."If we do so,it means we admit that we killed the man disorderly."But if they didn't burt the man and killed the other man,they had nothing clear evidence to prove their innocens.What decisions are we going to make in such a conditions,if we were them?Maybe,I will put the dead body to the police.Even I know I would be involved in lots fo troubles.
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Summary: Discovering Yourself: Man Versus Himself
Review: "Deliverance" is a classic film that features Jon Voight before he got old and typecast. I really enjoyed his performance and completely changed my opinion on his acting abilities. Going into this film, I expected to encounter some of the most disturbing images ever captured on video-as I had been told by a friend of mine. In fact, the film is not disturbing at all. While the famous five-minute sequence is gripping and hard to watch, it is delivered with a lot skill and patience. One of the things that impressed me over and over again about this film is the pacing. This film does not rush itself at all. The effect of this is that it lends the film a realistic, natural feel. The horrible sequences are rendered all the more horrific due to the natural, slow pacing. Also adding to the natural feel of the film is the low-budget nature of the entire project. Dickey himself plays a part in the film; and the mountain men are actually civilians from the area the film was shot. The dueling banjos sequence is wonderful, as are the powerful shots of the river and nature. The tagline for the film is something about the fact that when man comes in direct contact with nature, he discovers within himself powers he never knew existed. It is trite to call this film a classic man-against-nature film, but it is. And it's a good one.
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