Deliverance 35th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition [1972]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 7321902165127 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2007-09-17 Running Time: 104 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Utterly Unforgettable Comment: Wow. Where do you start with a movie as good as this? The cast are perfect (they've all been in so many movies since, it's hard to believe most of them were unknowns at the time). Burt Reynolds was never better than he is in this movie. If you only know him for his good-ole-boy comedies, you'll be surprised at how good he is here in a serious dramatic role (without his trademark moustache!). He wouldn't get anything approaching the quality of this role until "Boogie Nights." This film is not just full of memorable moments, they burn themselves into your brain and stay there forever. The deformed, in-bred hillbillies at the start, the "Duelling Banjos" scene with that withered kid, the awful, protracted male rape and the bloody revenge taken for it, Drew's arm being impossibly bent back behind his head, the nerve-shredding interrogations by intimidating Southern sheriffs and the ghostly hand from the water at the end. Even the smaller moments are unusual too, e.g. the snake slithering up the river in a handheld shot. The film has been beautifully remastered so you can see the shimmering river in all its glory as the director intended (I've seen some very old, scratchy and muddy prints of this picture over the years and its about time "Deliverance" got the remastering treatment). The sound has been cleaned up too and you can hear the voices of the men all around you now and the pleasant sounds of the river gushing past in glorious Dolby Digital 5.1 sound (I wish I could see this movie in a cinema, I never have before). The four documentaries are terrific on this DVD. They are almost worth the purchase price alone. They detail the long, difficult road the film took from the novel to the arduous shoot (with behind-the-scenes feuds between the director and screenwriter James Dickey) to the finished film and its reception. The 1970s were easily the best decade for movies in history. This is yet another unbeatable 70s classic for your collection. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven't, find out what all the fuss has been about and get it. You won't be disappointed. Customer Rating: Summary: Squeal, piggy, squeal !! Comment: It would be a shame to think of this movie in terms of its horrific male rape scene. It is probably the best thriller ever made. This is truely exception film making that doesnt let up from when the city slickers arrive in the backwoods to the moment their canoe journey ends. The tension is racked up through some superb set pieces. Director John Boorman never helmed anything as good as this; it would do him justice to ignore Zardoz and Exorcist 2. However, I strongly recommend his more recent movie 'The General' with Brendan Gleason. This Deliverance 35th Anniversary Remastered Deluxe Edition is packed with extras and is worth the purchase price and then some. Nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Movie...The Godfather won that year for the last category), Deliverance (1972), based on a novel by James Dickey, who also adapted it for the screen, and produced/directed by John Boorman (Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur), stars Jon `Joe Buck' Voight (Midnight Cowboy, Anaconda) and Burt Reynolds (The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit). Also appearing is Ned Beatty (Nashville, Network), in his first film, Ronny Cox (Beverly Hills Cop), Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward (Ghost Town), and Bill McKinney (The Outlaw Josey Wales), both Coward and McKinney honored by Maxim magazine as the number one screen villains of all time for their roles in this film (if you've seen the movie you'll have a keen idea why they were chosen). As the film begins we see quartet of men traveling into some deep, Southern backwoods the intent being to take a weekend canoe trip down an isolated body of water known as the Cahulawasse River which we learn is the `last, untamed, unpolluted' river in the area, but that's about to change as a new dam is in the works, one that will change the river, for better or worse. Anyway, of the four men there's Lewis (Reynolds) who's somewhat of an enthusiastic, naturalist type that also initiated the trip, his friend Ed (Voight), and Ed's friends Drew (Cox) and Bobby (Beatty). Upon arriving at a gas station the boys get a bit of local flavor including an unspeaking, banjo-picking mutant obviously from the shallow end of the gene pool. It's a little after this point when one of my favorite lines of the film comes about, as the boys are trying to hire someone to drive their cars down the river apiece so they'll be waiting for them at the end of their trip. Upon relating their plans, one local asks the question, with a pronounced, Southern accent, "What the hell you wanna go **** (rhymes with duck) around that river fer?" Amen brother...once their vehicles are squared away the boys hit the river in two canoes, eventually stopping and setting up camp before night sets in...the next day they begin down the river again. After awhile they get separated and Ed and Bobby stop along the bank for a breather...and thus it begins...about forty minutes into the film a pair of greasy, filmy, dirty, mountain men, played by McKinney and Coward, emerge from the woods brandishing a shotgun and bad intentions. After some small talk they strap Ed to a tree and the toothier of the two proceeds to put it to Bobby in a very uncomfortable place, all the while making him `squeal like a pig'...seriously...as the one finishes with Bobby the other decides Ed's got a `real purty mouth' but things don't get too far as Lewis, sporting a wicked compound bow, shows up and makes his point. From here the boys must now make their way down a river fraught with dangers, and possibly face the consequences of their actions if they can't agree upon what to tell, or not to tell, the authorities at the end of the line. Customer Rating: Summary: A Horror Film Really Comment: Though this movie is often termed as an action and adventure film, its a horror film really along the lines of "The Hills Have Eyes" & "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Like those films you got a bunch of ordinary people caught up in a horrifying situation involving some very peculiar individuals. The only difference being Deliverance was shot on a much higher budget with known actors. Some of the violence is tame by today's standards though the rape scene is as disturbing to watch as ever. This is still a chilling film that is well acted and full of memorable scenes. Customer Rating: Summary: Still disturbing. Comment: This film is an intense cinematic experience. It follows four city boys trip into the wild backwoods of rural America for a canoe trip on a river that is shortly to be dammed. What they find there is a lawless place populated by small minded locals and an unforgiving journey down stream. The story, the direction and the acting all come together to produce a film that will unsettle you. The scenes in the backwoods have a geniune sense of isolation and the rapid change of the characters from city business men into ruthless savages is very well done. The famous abduction scene was groundbreaking at the time and obviously was a big influence on "Pulp Fiction". This special edition also includes a four part retrospective documentary, with interviews with the director and the four lead actors and is a fascinating look at the making of the film and the impact on film culture and the actors subsequent careers. There is a contemporary making of documentary as well and a director`s commentary. An excellent package. More Reviews