What'd you think of "Deliverance?"

[Guaranteed]

I saw it for the second or third time a few nights ago. I thought it was great.

It's weird, for sure. But it's raw.

[Cocoa]

1. good date movie

:thumbsup:

[Guaranteed]

4. LOL nt

[sniffa]

2. great movie

but, hiLLbiLLies became unsexy because of it.

[Guaranteed]

7. Yeah, that was the worst part about it.

And I'm not looking the same way at pigs, either.

[maveric]

27. Poor Ned Beatty. Forever remembered as the guy that "squealed

like a pig" while getting cornholed by an inbred hillbilly.
Thats the first thing I think of when I see him.

[Guaranteed]

28. Yup. Probably the worst thing an actor could be known for. nt

[mindem]

3. Parts of it were a pain in the arse.

Great banjo music. Love banjo>

[CanuckAmok]

13. Banjo boy:

"As it turned out, though, there wasn’t much demand in Hollywood for banjo boys. Several months ago, when the director Tim Burton was on location in Montgomery, Alabama, shooting “Big Fish,” he kept asking where the boy from “Deliverance” was now, because he had a banjo-picking role in mind for him. No one knew. “The state film commissioners down there tried to placate me, or laugh it off,” Burton says. “But I was serious; the banjo boy was such an iconic figure to me. Whatever that visceral thing is in film, when you can’t explain why a scene grabs you—well, that scene had it.” Eventually, two “Big Fish” crew members drove through northeast Georgia one Sunday, asking, “Anyone know where the banjo boy lives?”..."



http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?031117ta_talk_friend

[SCDem]

5. Good music

but I don't like seeing men raped so not too sure I like the movie

Great rapids but unrealistic that they'd go down in a boat like the one in the movie

[Guaranteed]

10. Yeah, the canoeing didn't seem right

with all those rocks around.

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. It made me extremely afraid of hillbillies...

They aren't just lovable millionaires who make possum stew out by the cement pond any more.

But it was a great movie anyway

[Ron Green]

8. The dead look in the kid's eyes as he watches the canoes depart

down the river is one of the most chilling scenes on film anywhere.

[Felix Mala]

9. One of the all time great Guy Movies... most girls don't understand

why the trip down the river is so important...

[Guaranteed]

11. Right on.

Yeah, I watched it with my girlfriend. I was rewinding and stuff (not at THAT part)...I don't think she was quite as thrilled about it as I was.

[mzmolly]

12. It was "state-ist"

:P

Here's a little fun for ya:

http://www.laserp.com/dueling_banjos.htm

[Guaranteed]

15. Yeah, but they were trying to draw a contrast between

civilized man and our roots in nature...I don't think they were intentionally trying to insult anyone.

[mzmolly]

20. I know, I was just joshin' ya.

;)

I saw the film some time ago, and did think it was thought provoking.

In fact, I may watch it again soon?

[Guaranteed]

18. Hee hee funny animation nt

[mzmolly]

21. My daughter loved it.

;)

I really do dig that tune.

[sundog]

14. good movie, but "Straw Dogs" is better

Sam Peckinpah's amazing flick. It's in the same vein, but much more raw & gritty. It takes place in the English countryside... came out a year before "Deliverance," which makes me wonder if John Boorman `borrowed` anything.

Both are good movies, but "Straw Dogs" is a stonger film imo.

[CanuckAmok]

19. I found Straw Dogs to be forced and boring....

But then it's Peckinpah.

I really found Deliverance to be a stronger, more visceral and unnerving movie. The rape scene, and the whole underlying story about the local culture being wiped out(?)....

[sundog]

30. but "Straw Dogs" actually took more risks at the time

it was banned when it came out... it pushed the parameters of violence in the early 70's & certainly pissed a lot of people off.

SD definitely has a more sparse style, which I personally like.

I think Deliverance had a more broad approach in its style, which could account for its popularity. Yeah, you've gotta admire a film that can deliver a message & play on a marketable level. That, of course, is no small feat for a director. But Boorman also shat out "Exorcist II: The Heretic." That was his ~what was he thinking~ moment :P

[CanuckAmok]

31. Oh, I fogot about "the Hiliritic"

And while we're at it... Ever see Blatty's first film, the Ninth Configuration?

What a load of quasi-intellectual/religious pseudo-melodramatic shit! I've been trying to watch it for a week, but it's so bad I can only sit through about ten minutes at as time. I want to see the ending, though, because apparently is has Jesus on the Moon.

[sundog]

35. the only other thing Blatty directed

was "Exorcist III." Maybe they won't let him near a camera now. :P

I missed "Ninth Configuration."

From IMDB: A new commanding officer, Col. Kane, arrives at a remote castle where apparently insane soldiers are incarcerated under psychiatric care. But all is not what it seems as Kane attempts to cure his men, whilst combating his own personal demons.

Sounds like good fodder for Ed Wood... now I'm interested :P

[CanuckAmok]

36. Don't bother...

It's a blatant ("blattyant"?) rip-off of Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, without any of the wit or intelligence, and with stereotypical "insanity" which would make Max Klinger look like a complex Bergmanesque study.

[Maine Mary]

16. Good Movie but why'd you have to remind me now?

:spank:

SO and I are planning a canoe trip down the Allagash early this summer... It's very remote.

[Maine Mary]

22. How b'out "Easy Rider" instead

On 2nd thought never mind. That didn't end well either even though I liked it.. :freak:

[Guaranteed]

24. LOL that was worse, even

:P

[DelawareValleyDem]

17. Great Movie

Is that really Married with Children's Ed O'Neill playing a cop at the end of the film? Seems to be some disagreement on this.

[Bunny]

26. Yes - it's him:

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0642145/board/nest/2193985

[Twillig]

34. Whoah!

I'd never noticed. Sorta like Christopher Guest's role as a NY cop in Death Wish.

[Magrittes Pipe]

23. It was my prom theme.

[Biased Liberal Media]

25. Never saw it but heard enough to stay away!!!

[Felix Mala]

29. Same with Cool Hand Luke, but they like watchin' Paul...

[kwassa]

32. Squeal like a pig?

Made Ned Beatty famous.

[xmas74]

33. Reminds me of the town I went to school in.