Old school movies Deliverence

[oilboy123]

I remember seeing this when I was younger on TV. This was in the mid 70s. I saw something on TV with people talking about it recently and thought I would rent it on Netflix.

Pretty simple movie no political correctness about it at all. I read the special features on the actors and was not even aware Burt Reynolds was part American Indian? Went to Florida state on a football scholarship. Got hurt and went for the Hollywood $$$$$.

Good special effects and good story.

 

[SaturnIonVue]

That was a good movie. It did bother me some with the comments and stereotyping of Appalachian mountain people.

While on the subject of good movies I would highly recommend watching the movie "Matewan" which is about the coal mine strikes and unionization attempts of coal miners in West Virginia circa 1920's and 30's. The movie stars: James Earl Jones and Chris Cooper and was produced/directed by John Sayles.

One does not need to be pro or anti-union to realize how terribly ill treated, abused, used, and exploited Appalachian coal miners were treated. Coupled later with Black Lung Disease and Silicosis prevention and treatment of the 1960's and 70's and you have a perfect storm of not taking responsibility, exploitation, and something that looks very much like modern day slavery in our own times. While I lived and worked in WV, I almost came to believe Marks and Engels were right about exploitation of the Proletariat, at least in the coal mines of the region.

 

[cos]

Ya, Deliverence is a classic.

 

[greenaccord02]

That's a heck of a movie. One of my favorites.

 

[Popinski]

SQUEAL LIKE A PIG!!!!!!

 

[oilboy123]

I meant to say good movie without special effects.

Yes they were kind of rude to the Appalachian people.

 

[fdcg27]

If you liked the movie, read the novel.
The movie was a pretty faithful adaptation of the novel.

 

[PeteTheFarmer]

One of my favorite movies. Great cast including Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, John Voight and Billy McKinney. Can't believe how much young they all seem.

 

[mechtech2]

Poor Ned Beatty! I hope he was paid well.
After that movie, he may as well have a tattoo on his forehead saying "OINK!".

 

[bradepb]

Great movie, when they first went into production they were using realy lame fake archery equipment, and Fred Bear was consulted and set them straight. this movie is what got me interested in archery, still shooting recurves today.

BTW some of you BITOG fellas got real purty mouths!

 

[Benzadmiral]

Originally Posted By: mechtech2
Poor Ned Beatty! I hope he was paid well.
After that movie, he may as well have a tattoo on his forehead saying "OINK!".

He wasn't typecast, though. He played Lex Luthor's idiot henchman, Otis, in the first and second Chris Reeve Superman films, Dennis Quaid's police commander in "Big Easy," in TV's "Homicide," and a ton of other things -- so it didn't stunt his growth as an actor.

 

[wings&wheels]

I'd rate this as one of the best horror movies ever made and what makes it so powerful is that you know sometime, somewhere something like that happened...

 

[oilboy123]

I enjoyed it almost 40 years after it was put out. Dang I'm reminding myself how old I'm getting........ Yes it seems plausible that it could have happened.

 

[Propflux01]

Quote:
..Yes it seems plausible that it could have happened.
OK....All you guys saying that live in the North...!!!

 

[oilboy123]

I was not bashing the South at all. There are crazy people everywhere, not just in the South. We had Ted Bundy and kinds of fun guys.

 

[wavinwayne]

I carry anti-squealing insurance from Glock, Inc. when conducting any activities in the backwoods.

 

[greenaccord02]

Originally Posted By: wavinwayne
I carry anti-squealing insurance from Glock, Inc. when conducting any activities in the backwoods.


True. Even as a youngster watching that movie I thought, "what the heck are these guys doing walking through the woods with just one rifle and a compound bow between them." You see where that got 'em.

Interesting tidbit: James Dickey, the author of the book, has a cameo at the very end as the sherriff.

 

[LordAbbett]

Originally Posted By: wavinwayne
I carry anti-squealing insurance from Glock, Inc. when conducting any activities in the backwoods.


+1 In the backwoods being armed is good. If things turn out badly at least it will probaly end quickly. One way or another.
That scene with Ned Beatty. It happens only in the movies... or prison.

Anybody remember Pulp Fiction? Ving Rhames

 

[Rhymingmechanic]

Originally Posted By: oilboy123
I was not bashing the South at all. There are crazy people everywhere, not just in the South. We had Ted Bundy and kinds of fun guys.


True. I think isolation and just plain craziness probably have more to do with the "backwoods" thing than region. And there are plenty of people in cities that I wouldn't want to have any truck with.

That said, I thought Lynyrd Skynyrd songs were fiction until I spent a few years in the mid-South.

 

[greenaccord02]

Originally Posted By: Rhymingmechanic
That said, I thought Lynyrd Skynyrd songs were fiction until I spent a few years in the mid-South.


That's funny. No, those songs aren't fiction and neither are David Allan Coe's.