Evil Cajuns????? Are you kidding me?? I am a born and raised Cajun and this is just ludicrous.....Cajun people are the the most laid back and friendly people you will ever meet........the people who made this movie should have done their research...I'm sick over seeing this piece of *beep* movie...enough said...
Billy,
Lafayette, Louisiana
They're laid back, until you cross into their territory.... DUN DUN DUUUUN!!!!!
peace.
The tag line for the movie is "It's the land of hospitality...unless you don't belong." That is nonsense since the "good" Cajuns were very hospitable to Hardin and Spencer. So the tag line should read "It's the land of hospitality...unless you misbehave and screw around with other people's property on their land."
As Hardin asks the Cajun trapper (James Brion) you mind telling us what this (i.e. the killing of their fellow soldiers) is all about?" The trapper says in reply, "It's real simple. We live back here. This is our home and nobody don't folk with us here!" Absolutely damn right.
Nobody don't FOLK with us? You sure he used that exact word?????
peace.
Of course he used the other "f" word but the point is that the way he said it actually sounds like something of a cross between the "f-word" and "folk." Whatever, it was a very distinctive (and unforgettable) way of saying it.
shareyeah, you say that. but when I was down in Loozyana, one Cajun got me in a headlock and hit me with his washboard, while the other squeezed my nose in the accordion. Bon Temps?? I don't think so!
shareThis is quite possibly the best post I have ever read
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I have come across this comment over 3 years after it was posted, and I almost fell off my chair laughing. Should Mr. howlermonkey ever revisit this page, I want him to know that he has left the most brilliant post I have seen on imdb thus far. I hope the nose is better now!
shareHow can you even ask the question in light of the high ratings and obvious international acclaim of this film? Of course it's not the worst film ever - In fact it regularly features in top 100 films ever here in the UK. I'm from London, but that doesn't mean I'll condemn The Long Good Friday, Snatch, Four Weddings and a Funeral, A Fish called Wanda etc as bad films just because they feature 'bad, distasteful, or simply stereotypical Londoners. In fact they're all great film as is Southern Comfort.
shareI think this is a great moive but it does paint Cajuns in a negative light. Sure, they were provoked. But it depicts them as cold, blood-thirsty killers that will go to great lengths to exact revenge upon people who have wronged them. The Cajuns in the town seemed fine, but there were many more images of the killer Cajuns pursuing the ignorant guardsmen.
sharei dont think they really went threw great lengths to exact their revenge on the gaurdsmen. they are from that bayou, they know exactly where the g men are at at all times, they poke and prod and play with them until its time to finish them off. i think i would have reacted the same way as the cajuns, having just witnessed some ignorant gaurds men steal mine and my buddies boats, then fire on us with an m60, which we dont know yet to have blanks in it. id say its time for war wouldnt you? then they take prisoner a fellow cajun folk, blow up his house along with his lifetime of belongings, did you see that rifle? it must have been from the french colonial days!
shareWorst post ever
shareSo four Cajuns are murderers, why does that mean all Cajun's have to be feared and despised. Think of them as individuals and not as a statement for an entire group of people. You take a hundred Cajun's and I bet you got a hundred DIFFERENT people...some cool and some ready to stalk u with an accordion!
At the end of the day SOMEBODY has to be play the killers. If we weren't allow to have negative characters be from any social group then thats lots of alien invasion movies. Or Tarka the otter.
Um...have you actually SEEN the movie? Your argument is the same as saying the film paints every single National Guardsman who ever lived as a stupid, thoughtless killer.
It's like the people who protested THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST or THE BOOK OF DANIEL without even seeing the film/TV show.
I agree that this is a fantastic movie. I love movies about people who live a different type of life than i am used to. The cajuns portrayed in this movie definitely live that different lifestyle.
Anyway, I dont know any Cajuns personally, but you claim they are the most laid back people in the world. You, however, didnt seem to be too relaxed or laid back after watching a simple fictional movie. "The ironing is delicious."
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Dude, if you think this is the worst movie ever then you clearly have not seen Glitter.
shareThis was a great movie. One of my favorites. It doesn't really portray either the Guard or Cajuns in a particularly good light. I was a soldier stationed in Louisiana and I can attest there are really good soldiers and some real s**t heads. Ditto with the Cajuns. I must say that often times the Cajuns I met were not too quick to welcome an outsider into their community. But once they do, they treat you like a long-time friend. (Merci for the Dixie and mud bugs, good eatin'. Laissez bon temps roulez! If you don't understand, I feel sorry for you.) Don't read too much into this film. It may be a metaphor for VietNam maybe not. What I see is that evil begets evil. If you treat someone poorly, expect to be treated the same way.
shareThis is nothing less than the quintissential Walter Hill film. He may have directed better films than this, but if you want to define Walter Hill in my opinion, this is the film. Masculine, philosophical, redemptive, violent, allegoric, bare fisted, profane... You can't go wrong with this film. One of Walter's greats and there's quite a few of them.
shareBronzescag stated Southern Comfort was "Masculine, philosophical, redemptive, violent, allegoric, bare fisted, profane... "
I'd like to rebut with these: sophomoric, implausible, inaccurate, anti-military, anti National Guard, anti-Cajun, puerile, gratuitously violent, and mostly just a jumbled up mess and waste of time.
The scenery and music, as I've mentioned on other posts, were excellent.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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Well whatever anyone else says this movie made a profound impression on me when I first saw it as a teenager growing up in Northern England. The place and people depicted scared the crap out of me - that includes the weird music and the pig-slaughtering scene. I never ever wanted to go near those swamps!
Now that I've been lucky enough to actually visit Louisiana I have a much more realistic impression!
However at the end of the day this movie still remains one of my favourites and surprisingly still little-known except by those of us that love it. It's a classic survival movie, with great acting, compelling action and you never know what's gonna happen till the end. (Except when you've watched it as many times as most of us have!)
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