Movie-Deliverance

Well...I did learn something in Deliverance. I never knew the tune "Dueling Banjos" was from a movie. That song will never be the same to me again.

The 1972 film is good, but sometimes over the top too. Starring Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight and Ronny Cox it is suspenseful, but sometimes a little too dramatic, and a bit over the top. Especially as the tough guy Burt Reynolds portrays, the oozy confidence and disregard, I felt like the film was almost making a parody of a movie stereotype.

And when Jon Voight climbs up the sheer cliff wall...OK, that is when my disbelief went into overdrive.

There are some great lines from the movie though--- "He has a purty mouth." "Squeal piggy!" among them.

The four friends taking a trip down the river, that turns into a deathly nightmare seems cliched now, 30 plus years later, but it must have been fresh then. And there is a certain exuberance to the film, and a deft creepiness.

It is called a classic, and it is that. I don't know if that makes it great or not.