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Oct 04, 2016ManMachine rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Question: Did this film really offer the kind of entertainment that American and Canadian movie-goers wanted to see back in 1972? Answer: Yes. It would seem so. And proof of that is here in one plain fact - Deliverance was made on a modest budget of just $2 million and yet it grossed over $46 million at the box-office in its first year, alone. I guess its phenomenal popularity all came down to Deliverance being the very first mainstream film to ever show a homosexual (a hillbilly homosexual, that is) being killed. And that, I guess, gave many movie-goers the greatest pleasure and satisfaction in being witness to it. I mean, otherwise - What else could it be that attracted such a large audience to sit through this tiresome picture and then, afterwards, praise it with glowing approval? *Note* - Deliverance also lost some significant points for exploiting "real-life" human deformity (aka. the inbred hillbillies) solely for the sake of idle entertainment. (Yes. Those "freaks" we see in this film were real people, sans make-up effects)