Jesse Turner (jturner083)

DELIVERANCE (1072)
directed by John Boorman (Hell in the Pacific)
featuring Burt Reynolds, John Voight, Ned Beatty, and Bill McKinney
from the novel by James Dickey

Four urban rednecks head for the Georgia mountains to canoe "the last wild, untamed, unpolluted, unf***ed-up river" they know of. The quartet pride themselves on having an adaptive survivalist mentality that will readily lend itself to any doomsday scenario. It is their intention to have a good time, but the locals have other plans for them.

The city slickers find out the hard way that the type of people who will survive a disaster are those already living through one, i.e. living in horrid conditions, able to drink dirty water, etc, And they don't take kindly to freewheeling tourists who venture into a place the locals would do anything to escape, from a home they would trade anything to have.

DELIVERANCE - Bill McKinney

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008)
directed by David Green
featuring Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Gary Cole (Office Space), Rosie Perez, and Ed Begley Jr.,

Dale Denton (Rogen) plays a pot smoking process server who witnesses a drug related murder and unwittingly drags his weed connection into a web of intrigue while trying to flee from the culprits who have managed to identify him and trace him to his dealer. A ganja fueled, convoluted comedy or errors ensues with confusion and mistaken identity as the pair try to stay ahead of a gang war, crooked cops, and turncoat drugged out associates.

There are some funny moments, but mostly a lot of confusion and slapstick that makes the viewer wince with nonstop apprehension. Pineapple Express is sort of a cross between Cheech and Chong and Hawaii Five-O. It moves along, but can't decide if it's a comedy, a crime drama or a verbal farce. It featured too much talk and a surprising degree of violence for my tastes,. Like many comedies, it derives humor from the irony of situations that would be unnerving and humiliating in real life.

Pineapple Exopress - Seth Rogen and Gary Cole