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Originally Posted by FryeDwight
DELIVERANCE (1972)>>>>>>>>>>SPOLIERS>>>>>>>>>>>
Four friends (one is a Macho survivalist, the other three much less so) take a Canoe trip down a wild river that will dammed soon. Their weekend jaunt quickly becomes a nightmare as they have to battle unforgiving Mother Nature and a couple of Mountain Men looking for Love in all the wrong places, literally and figuratively.
Despite a lot of copying by many films, this has held up remarkably well, with great performances by Burt Reynolds (never better), Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty in one of his first films and what must have been a difficult shoot to say the least (the jury's still out on Jon Voight). And much Kudos to Bill McKinney and Herbert "Cowboy" Cowards for being two of the most frightening screen villains EVER.
Back in the early 2000's when there was remake after remake coming out, was sure this would have one of them. If it had been done, think Ryan Reynolds (Lewis), Jeremy Renner (Ed),the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman ( Bobby-he definitely would have had the balls to play this to the hilt) and Mark Wahlberg as Drew. For the villains, Sam Rockwell (especially after THE GREEN MILE) and maybe Steve Buscemi, kind of stuck for the "Toothless" man. ****1/2
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LOL Good casting choices, Frye!
The film has it's own odd deliberate pace, as lots of 70's films do, you don't know what's coming when or how. It's fairly adventurous and exciting.