THIS RIVETING FILM FOLLOWS A GROUP OF FRIENDS FROM A PENNSYLVANIA STEEL PLANT TO THE LETHAL CAULDRON OF VIETNAM.Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friendship and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it’s hardly a conventional battle film–the soldier’s experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon–but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war, they’re used here as a metaphor for the futility of the war itself. To the viewer, they become unforgettably intense rites of passage for the best friends–Pennsylvania steelworkers played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Oscar winner Christopher Walken–who may survive or perish during their tour through a tropical landscape of hell. Back home, their loved ones must cope with the war’s domestic impact, and in doing so they allow The Deer Hunter to achieve a rare combination of epic storytelling and intimate, heart-rending drama. –Jeff Shannon
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March 26, 2006
#1
This movie is just too slow and makes you bored.Except of some scenes (in vietnam)i can`t find something to keep my interest.Classic but…….
March 26, 2006
#2
Amazon should have a rating of minus five hundred stars to make it possible to adequately categorize this one. Well, while the USA was struggling with the social and psychological crises as the effects of their youth both being killed and tricked by the military leaders to into doing some meaningless killing in the Vietnam war, and then coming home to a society that did not want to talk about it or was only critizing their actions; somebody comes up with the perverse idea of using this a background for a totally apolitical and rascist movie that exploits generating banal and sentimental emotions with the cinema-goers.
Although faultlessly made and well acted, this is the single-most sleaziest movie I have ever seen. Had it come out in 2078, it would have been a high-class escapist movie for shallow ladies, much in the vein of the typical “doctor-novel”, portraying totally uninteresting characters. And the Vietnam generation would then have passed a long time ago…..but in the late 70`s?????
I am not an American, I am from Norway and I was 19 when this crap came out, but if my family had been hurt by this war, I would have punched the director and the whole cast in their faces for exploiting one of the biggest post-World War II tragedies of the western societies, while families had lost some of their sons and had others ruined their lives forever on the mental plane(read: losing them a decade or two later).
To top it all off, the Asians are portrayed as sadistic and crazy Russian-roulette players (to make the audience feel even much more sorrow for the main characters by creating a terrible enemy to unify against), a phenomena that nobody have found any proof for at all. All lies!
I just can`t believe it and never will do so!! These people behind this movie have no respect whatsoever for others. They certainly made a lot of bread on this emotional porn of theirs. Shame on you!!!
March 26, 2006
#3
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The critical acclaim of the Deer Hunter once again proves the common wisdom that if you produce an utterly boring movie, devoid of plot or substance the artsy crowd will fill it with imaginary attributes. In a nutshell this movie is zzzzzzzz………. There was nothing in it anywhere that relates to my experiences in Vietnam or its aftermath, nor any relation to the lives of other vets I know. If you think it’s art, fine. But don’t think it has anything to do with the real Vietnam War. Chop it to 90 minutes and it might become watchable. Deer Hunter most resembles one of those Italian or French films where actors stare into spce for 5 minutes of dead screen time.
March 26, 2006
#4
ZZZzzz Good morning o i just woke up i puit on the deer hunter and must have fell asleep. First of all this movie is too funny for a war drama, the first hour is the guys messin with each other, playin pranks and joking around. Secondly there is russian roulette not action, so when walken shoots himself at the end its not sad, its just predictable and stupid. Thirdly the is only about 10 minutes in vietnam, and the rest is talking and russian roulette. This movie was one of the most boring pointless movies ive ever seen. 1 out of a 10. Watch platoon instead way better.
March 26, 2006
#5
Wow. After hearing all the praise this movie has gotten and it’s great cast, I figured this would definitely be a good watch. After just a half hour of the movie, I became so bored I really wanted to turn it off. I didn’t however, and kept the movie running. During the next 2 1/2 hours I was baffled at what people saw in this snooze-fest. It’s a horrible movie. Beyond horrible! This couldn’t keep you interested no matter what happened. It just drags and drags and drags. A couple war scenes are slightly entertaining, but besides that it totally sucks. In closing, do not judge a book by it’s cover. Just because De Niro is in this do not think it will be good. This is probably the most overrated and boring movie I’ve ever seen. Steer clear of this unless you like wasting your time.