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Summary: One of the 10 greatest films ever made.
Review: When i first saw this film i was stunned. It just made me think about what a disturbing impact the Vietnam war had on so many lives. De Niro and Walken are terrific and the final scene, when they face the two friends face each other at the russian roulette, is one of the best scenes in movie history.A must for all movie fans.
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Summary: Contrary to opinion, this is a good movie.
Review: The Deer Hunter is about friendship first and foremost. Maybe it is a little long. However,that's a small complaint. Also this is not a prowar movie as some would believe. Cimino is not celebrating "small" town America, he's exposing it. Stan punches his girlfriend, Linda is physically abused by her father, Steve's fiancee is pregnant by another man, Michael and Linda are intimate, and Linda is therefore unfaithful to Nick. Throughout we see people who are not connected with society. Alcohol is consumed prodigiously. Rather than celebrating a hero (Michael), Cimino is trying to convey the complexities of a community and of a war. Watch the movie with all this in mind and not with the expectation that it's going to be like Apocalypse Now, or Platoon, or even Coming Home.
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Summary: Hellish
Review: This is one of the best war movies I've seen, and one of the best period. Sure, the movie is long, but I don't think it's overly long. The Russian Roulette scenes are the most horrific and difficult parts to watch of the movie. Highly recommended to all fans of drama or war movies.
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Summary: The emperor has no clothes
Review: Here is one of those "classics" that everyone is afraid of saying anything bad about. This movie doesn't for one second belong in AFI's Top 100. It is overly long (right at 3 hours) and is only compelling for a few minutes of the 180 long ones the viewer must endure. It takes an almost an hour and a half to get from PA. to Vietnam. Yes we meet the characters but do we really need to spend so much time learning who they are. The wedding scene last longer than some weddings I have been to in real life. And I'm sorry, they could not have picked a more disturbing theme on which to base a movie. Yet just because it is disturbing, does not mean it can support a 3 hour movie. Boring.
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Summary: From awful to classic
Review: The first hour and a half of this film is rediculously boring and long. It all revolves around some friends going off to war and one of them is getting married. The whole wedding seen goes on and on and on and on and on........It seems endless.All of a sudden the friends are in Vietnam and are captured by the Viet Cong and forced to play Russian Roulette with eatch other. Than they escape and the rest of the film deals with the aftermath of what they went through. This whole part is wonderful. Its a shame they couldn't edit it a little bit at the begining. Great acting from DeNiro and Walken. All the other performances are just ok. Worth watching once but I don't think I could sit through the begining again.
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Summary: Makes a point.
Review: The details in this film are a bunch of crap. The film overall does very well in showing what that war did to the people that served in it, and to the people that waited for them back home.
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Summary: Offensive to just about Everyone
Review: Chimino and this waste of film stock were so over-hyped. This film has no real story, no real message, and is in fact offensive to those who fought, supported, or protested the war. This is by far the worst film in the 1979-1980 stretch in which several real masterpieces were released. Might I suggest Being There, The Shining, Raging Bull, or Atlantic City? Even The Empire Stikes Back, as silly and pretentious as it is, is 10 times better than this senseless film.
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Summary: Fasinating Wartime Epic
Review: This Horrific masterpiece of modern cinema comes full circle in telling the tale of these brave fighting men. The dark overtones that truely opitimize the hellish underbelly that is war at it's utmost. De Niro's superb method acting does this Comino classic pure justice. The first roulette scene, in which Mr.De Niro revolts against the prevese antagonist that try to devilshly perswade him to atempt the unimaginable, were in turn he uses the weapon to attack the Capturers and carry his friend (Walken) to a waiting rescue chopper. Streep's stunning "Post-war dipressive wife" performance is real and sometimes almost frighting. True to hummanity this film was at times distrubing for anyone that diverted the fight, and sertinly those who saddly didn't. But it is a must-see for those that like War Drama as well as "FILM", in general. Thank You.
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Summary: A beautiful film
Review: Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter is a classic that certainly deserves its praises. It's a war film although those looking for battles better look elsewhere. This movie is complete emotion. The performances from Robert de Niro, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep were worthy of their oscar nominations. In comparing The Deer Hunter with four of the other well known war classics, it's not as good as Saving Private Ryan because it lacked the complete anti-war feeling that Ryan had and it wasn't quite as horrific. The Deer Hunter was almost as good as Platoon and is a notch or two above Apocalypse Now. It's definitely much better than the overrated Full Metal Jacket.
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Summary: totally unbelivable and unintresting
Review: THis film hardly does justice to vetrans of the Vietnam war becaues it exploits what happend to them and then plays it in complety unrealistic ways( I know becaues my father is one) Above from the story unrealistic tones, the film is hardly intresting in any cinematic terms. Every scene is draged out way to long and every charter is carboard or worse. THe film musical score is equally hokey. The film also is done in by weak writing and genrally bad acting. ( espacilly di nero which is shocking) Wlakens ok but nothing speical. The story telling is badly disjointed and tells a secen from one to many angles. Any one who claimed they went throught a similar story has bowed to waht the media thinks hapend in vietnam. I
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