Deer Hunter

best movie ever

the reason that this is my favorite movie is because of the great acting, also because i like de niro. even though it is 3 hours long you dont even notice it because it will have you mezmirized by it. the russian roulette scene is very brutal. so give the movie a chance and rent it before you buy it to see if you like it. belive me it is 3 hours well spent.

One of the 70's best films

The Deer Hunter is one of the best films of the 1970s (a great decade of film-making). Breakout performances by De Niro, Streep, Cazale, Savage and Walken; beautiful direction (the early wedding scene is a film unto itself) and a powerful script. Haven't seen it? You're missing something.

Russian Roulette

A movie that irrevocably changed at how Vietnam war movies (and war movies) were later made, this one is stylistically violent and distubing with many metaphors including the scenes with the deer hunting and the Russian Roulette sequences and proficient amounts of blood. Made DeNiro a household name.

What a letdown

For years I had heard about what a great movie this was, and with a cast like Savage, Walken, Streep and Deniro, I figured it had to be worth it, so I bought the DVD without renting it first. Big mistake. I am not one of those people who demands constant viscreal thrills from a movie, but for crying out loud something should be happening. It's easy to suggest that the narrative form of the movie is 'unconventional' or 'challenging,' but what's unconventional about it is how it wastes the viewer's time to watch a forty-minute scene of a wedding in which, basically, nothing happens. We get the idea about who the characters are and how they live, but we do not need to spend half an hour watching a party. The very lengthy scene doesn't carry the story forward or really reveal much about the characters, certainly not enough to warrant its length. The scenes taking place in Vietnam are much more compelling, although there is some confusion about events that looks, frankly, more like sloppy editing than brilliant choice. For all of his supposed genius as a director, Cimino followed this one up with one of the biggest train wrecks in cinema history - the disastrous 'Heaven's Gate.' There are often half-joking suggestions that the Academy ought to reserve the right to revoke an Oscar now and then. I'd call this movie a good argument in favor of that idea. Mind you, it's not all bad. If you're watching it at home, just spend the first hour making dinner, then eat it while you watch the rest. You'll see some powerful drama but not feel like you wasted the first hour.

ONLY ABOUT 30 MINUTES IS ENTERTAINING

I was greatly disappointed after watching this because I was told it was one of the greatest war movies ever. There's only like 10 minutes of war in this 3 hour long movie, so I wouldn't call it a complete war movie. The first hour of this movie is very boring, but serves a purpose nonetheless. But despite this film, I still love Robert DeNiro, he never lets me down.

Awfull

Bad Bad Bad and terrible

Great movie

Great movie, but this was NOT the first movie about the Vietnam war. Not even if your talking about the first movie after the war was over. A fabulous movie called 'The Boys in Company C' was the FIRST movie that came out after the war. In fact, if you ask me, Full Metal Jacket was a rip off of that movie. And as far as I can recall, 'The Green Berets' starring none other that John Wayne was one of, if not the first Vietnam movie. fyi

The Vietnam Classic!

In the first film about the Vietnam war, Robert de Niro plays Mike, a guy who is, as the title suggests, deer hunter. But he is THE deer hunter of the town. After his friend Steve gets married, he and Nick (Christopher Walken) go to the woods on a final deer hunt before Nick, Mike and Steve get shipped over seas to fight in Vietnam. While fighting, they are taken prisoner and barely escape. Nick stays in Vietnam and joins the Russian roulet under world of Vietnam while Mike goes home and Steve goes to a veterans hospital. Both still trying to adapt to the life outside of the war. I first saw this film and was just blown away with how the director was so good at showing what the Vietnam war veterans feel like when they come home from war. I give this a A+ score in my book.

yeah, baby, yeah!

2 thumbs up

A Must See

Admittedly, the reason I first decided to see The Deer Hunter was because I so greatly admire Christopher Walken's acting skills. However, not only did my admiration rise for such a taleneted actor, I fell completely in love with the movie. Although the very thought of a three hour long movie may make you decide to pick up a different movie, give this one a chance! Some scenes are disturbing, but sooner or later you'll be wrapped up in its emotional intensity.

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