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Set in the Georgian backwoods, four white-collar gentlemen from Atlanta, looking to add adventure to their lives, find that their getting-in-touch-with-their-manhood whitewater rafting trip has turned...( read more 
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MCT:October 8, 2008i was told this was a really good must see movie... i could have lived my life with out ever seeing it... man... its was so stupid...
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MCT:September 20, 2008fantastic film 1 of my favourites...this has got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that the director of this movie had done a really good job of directing this movie because its just so amazing 2 watch,,,,this has got a good cast of actors/actressess thorughout this movie...i think that burt reynolds plays a good part throughout this movie...i think that the director of this Classics movie had done a really good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie...the gun shoot outs are really kewl throughout this movie..i think that jon voight is a great actor n hes made some good movies....this is an absoulute classics movie 2 watch...i really enjoyed n loved this movie because its so good
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MCT:September 19, 2008It was a great movie, all 4 of the main actors were great and it is actually realistic, something could happen like it. Some great scenes and some deserving scenes, it's a damn good movie though.
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MCT:September 4, 2008I see now where some quotes come from. This movie came out before I was born. I don't see what the big deal is. It was ok, probably better in 1972 though.
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MCT:August 9, 2008
The Scariest Movie Ever because the guy who gets assraped is from Louisville and born in July and so was I so I ain't going to George ever
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MCT:July 22, 2008
I guess it was very shocking when it was first released, but I didn't really see the point in it. Overall, it was ehh...
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MCT:July 19, 2008
If you are a proud WASP this movie may dislike you. But if you have no nationalist prejudice; this movie is great. A smashing snapshot of the deep American south.
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MCT:July 11, 2008Pretty effective action/thriller with some very creepy and disturbing scenes. The rape scene alone is enough to give you chills. But to me it's the little boy playing the banjo. Will that every get out of my head!?
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MCT:June 29, 2008
A very confronting film. Burt Reynolds was at his best. Some friends going on a water trip seemed like an innocent holiday but when you watch the movie you start seeing why it was a time they all would not forget. Also famous for the duelling guitar/banjo
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MCT:June 29, 2008
Outstanding performances by all involved. Incredibly beautiful scenery as a backdrop to a nightmare. Very disturbing. Every character changes in this morality play. To be over thirty-five years old, this film has aged very well.
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MCT:June 24, 2008
To say this movie is creepy would be an understatement. This movie is the very definition of disturbing. Not for the weak stomached or faint of heart, but otherwise a fun romp through the backwoods terror.
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MCT:June 10, 2008
Lewis: Can that chubby boy handle himself?
Ed: Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.
Lewis: Insurance? I never been insured in my life. There's no risk.
An adventure thriller that is very entertaining due to its stunts and photography as well as disturbing and creepy due to the pushing of human nature to its limits. Its certainly the best movie using river rapids as its setting that I have seen.
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds (looking awesome), Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox star as four men from the city, looking to have a fun river trip. Reynolds' Lewis is the most confident as a mountain man, while Voight's Ed is more restrained. The four initially arrive in the backwoods of the Appalachian Mountains, where Ronny Cox's character plays guitar with a hillbilly boy on banjo, creating the famous "dueling banjos" theme, which sets the tone of the film. These men are in for a wild and unpredictable river trip.
Ed: Look, what is it that you require of us?
Mountain Man: What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.
As this is a film better left to be seen in terms of where the plot goes, suffice it to say, it will be a trip not forgotten by these men.
The cast is terrific in this film. They all work in providing varying perspectives on how to handle different situations. It is especially cool to not that all of the stunts, including Voight's mountain climb, were performed by the actors themselves.
Of course the big themes concerning man and nature are all very present, and one can view aspects of how this film was shot as a visual motif referencing the themes. It is especially apparent when dealing with the status of the town around the river and its eventual destruction at the hands of development.
Still, getting back to the adventure/thriller aspect, this is a wonderful movie in terms of showing characters go through tense situations, complete with an ominous sense of how to take everything at the end.
Bobby: Hey, what happens if we flip this thing over?
Lewis: Now that you brought that up, hang onto your paddle. And if you hit any rocks, don't hit 'em with your head. -
MCT:June 9, 2008
A fantastic film with outstanding performances from all. You really get that feeling of being on the river with them and away from civilization. An unsettling turn of events takes place and this feeling of seclusion made it all the more effective and intense.
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MCT:May 20, 2008
So now I've finally seen this one. I'm not very creative when I scream "WhhheeeeeeEEEee!" Sure, everyone makes that reference, but I full on endorse that message.
You can imagine why Southerners might not like this message. Sure, the main characters are from Texas, but everything else you can look down on is about Georgia. Applalachia. Yeah. What I'm surprised more about is the format of the movie. I honestly thought this would be more of a horror movie like Wolf Creek. Not so much. This is more of a thriller. We have to wonder how "civilized" people become murderers and only watch out for themselves when their lives are threatened. Burt Reynolds surprised me with this movie. His character seemed very scary in a different way. It was an honest kind of bigotry that came out of him. He throught himself a man of the earth, but rewally was a spoiled brat. There's a depth to his perormance that I'm not used to seeing from him. He's usually very superficial and I'm genuinely impressed by what he put out there.
The odd thing, though, is that Burt Reynolds really isn't the main character in this story. (I wish it was Ned Beatty, because I'm a fan), but it's really a story about Jon Voight's character. His is the character that goes through the biggest change throughout the movie. Voight really brings his A-Game on this one. Not the biggest fan in the world, it was interesting seeing him take charge in this movie. Also, he's a beast if he's able to climb that ledge. I watched the original featurette that came with the movie. Apparently, he was adamant about not getting a stunt double for climbing that ledge. That scared the heck out of me. Personally, I would have seven separate stunt doubles do it for me. I'm also kind of a puss.
Finally, I'd like to discuss the Dueling Banjos. The song was really made famous by this movie. (Mainly, because it was adapted to its dueling form for this movie.) The first thing I'd like to state that I was amazed that the song was thrown into the first five minutes of the movie. But then making it its primary theme throughout the movie. It got a little old, but it was pleasant to hear the entire thing at the beginning of the movie. -
MCT:May 20, 2008
J'ai faim. Faim d'une meilleure fin.
Il y a de ces films qui vous laissent un tant soi peu insatisfaits, dont les réponses finales ne parviennent pas à combler l'ampleur de vos expectations. Sans pour autant gâcher la globalité du film (loin de là), la fin de Deliverance fait exactement partie intégrante du club des dénouements amers. En soi, le déroulement de l'histoire, appuyé par des millions de péripéties débouchant sur des mystères les uns les plus intriguants que les autres, est absolument formidable, et quand bien même le sujet principal m'intéressait peu, j'en suis venu à demeurer scotcher sur l'écran, mon coeur vibrant au rythme des galets qui s'enfonçaient tour à tour dans la tôle du canoë de ces quatre camarades.
Les dialogues sont riches, incroyablement pertinents et nous laissent tous perplexes, en proie à un long questionnement. En ce sens, la scène d'ouverture est absolument magnifique, ponctuée par un débat qui oppose l'économie américaine à l'écologie planétaire, tout juste de quoi contenter mes petites pulsions anti-capitalistes. Voight, Reynolds, Cox et Beatty interprètent incroyablement les rôles de Ed, Lewis, Drew et Bobby, des personnages fascinants qui semblent si courageux mais qui, au fond, recèlent tous un tant soi peu de pathétisme.
Définitivement un excellent film qui, par moments, me rappelle même curieusement un peu le style de Haneke. Quoi qu'il s'agisse tout de même là d'un film dont j'aurais apprécié qu'on me fournisse davantage de réponses. -
MCT:May 1, 2008Not as good as I was hoping. Lots of my friends gave this quite a high rating and yet I don't see what was so great about it. The plot could have been so much better than it actually was. The whole set up lasted just a little too long than was actually necessary. And when things finally did start happening it didn't come as strong as I expected. Jon Voight was good and i've never been a fan of Burt Reynolds so I didn't think he was that great. Not his worst performance though, I could have hated him and I didn't. The other actors did a good job. The ending was a bit of a mess. Right when I thought something else was going to happen, it didn't. Right when I thought it was going to end, it didn't. And all the crap added on the end, didn't really matter at all. I suppose some people will probably love it, I thought it could have been a lot better.
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MCT:April 25, 2008
When Burt Reynolds is shaved, Jon Voight must take care of things in this movie that is considered by some critics as the best action thriller to the moment it was made.
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MCT:April 19, 2008
I'm not sure what to think of this movie. Is it simply exploitation or is it intended to show the nature of man? It surely felt more like the latter. Guess I might have to watch it again...
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MCT:April 18, 2008
Good movie. The banjo kid creeped me the hell out thought. He looked like a dead man........playing a banjo. Overall good movie.
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MCT:April 14, 2008
Deliverance, an oldy, is a 1972 Warner Bros. motion picture drama directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, Jon Voight, and, in his film debut, Ned Beatty.
Widely acclaimed as a landmark film, Deliverance is the story of four suburban professional men from Atlanta on a weekend canoe and camping trip. The film is noted for the memorable music scene near the beginning that sets the tone for what lies ahead: a trip into unknown and potentially dangerous territory. In the scene, set at a rural gas station, character Drew Ballinger plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally-challenged hillbilly youth named Lonnie (implied as being an inbred albino in the novel, portrayed by Billy Redden in the film). The boy eventually outplays Drew with his banjo. The song won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.
The film was selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made," while the viewers of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom voted it 45 in a list of The 100 Greatest Films.
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MCT:April 9, 2008
Very entertaining! Shows the strugle between doing the right thing or doing what is needed to survive.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
a film with great music, good cinematography, a gruesome shot of Burt Reynolds with a bone sticking out of his legs and Ned Beatty getting raped. that says it all really.
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awiseman1986posted 293 days ago -
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Great movie... That kid can really pick that banjo. I wish I was that good.
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