Stop comparing Southern Comfort with Deliverance

Oh shut up, they're both classics.

Watch both films again. Deliverence could have been made last week whereas Southerm Comfort has dated considerably. No contest for me. Deliverence is a truly iconic tour- de-force of a movie. Once seen, NEVER forgotten. To this day, when you find yourself in an unfamiliar place that makes you uncomfortable, someone will always immitate the banjo music.

Both Deliverance and Southern Comfort are both essentially films about survival and manhood, it's just that Deliverance explores those themes much more coherently. The main thing that distinguishes Southern Comfort from Deliverance is the clearly intended Vietnam allegory, although what the is actually trying to say about that conflict are rather sketchy and opaque. Deliverance wisely avoided going down that road and is the much better film for it, in my opinion.

Both are very good imo. I like Deliverance a little more.

YOU WERE KIND OF DUMB,HUH?...DELIVERANCE IS A CLASSIC.

Southern Comfort, while a decent movie, is a forgotten footnote.

Deliverance is still talked about to this day.

You just described the same movie. 🤔

I think you can kind of lump them together in as a general category of films that were sort of about "rural panic", where modern people go to rural areas and find hostile locals engaged in hostile, primitive violence. Even some Satanism films like "Race with the Devil" play into this a little.

I think Southern Comfort makes it more about a Vietnam metaphor, but still its got an urban vs. rural aspect for sure.