The Deer Hunter
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Movie Reviews of The Deer Hunter
Movie Review: Stunning filmmaking
Summary: 5 Stars
This amazing film will leave you shell-shocked. Made before Apocalypse Now, and eight or nine years before Platoon and Full Metal Jacket it was the first major film to deal with the Vietnam war.
The film breaks down into three main sections. The opening long section, is all about character development. The first time you see it you may think this section is too long, but with subsequent viewings it becomes more and more important to the films structure.
The second section in Vietnam starts very suddenly and is a complete nightmare. Everybody knows about the Roulette scene but this is only one part that vividly displays the hideous nature of war and the inhumanity of man to his fellow man.
The after effects of this are shown in the third section, which is all the more shocking because for the men involved the war is over, but the psychological damage caused by the war has changed their lives.
This really is an epic film that you need to see more than once. However, unlike a lot of Hollywood films this deals with the realities of war and you may not find repeated viewings easy to take!
Movie Review: reality
Summary: 5 Stars
i am getting tired of these people writing how cimino was a racist for depicting the vietnamese in this picture as only sadistic, power-hungry animals, while the american gi's are the good ones with no faults, angels amongst the heathens, if you will. for one thing, what nationality were those dead bodies in the village during that short battle scene? i believe they were vietnamese...hmmm...it's a well known fact that the vc and the nva killed thousands of their own people. that's not an opinion...that's a fact...you can look it up. and, this idea that the americans had no faults is ludicrous. walken became a psychotic individual, bent on self-destruction. stop your folk singing and your flag burning and your draft card burning...that engine is dead. get over it. have some respect and show a little courtesy. The Deer Hunter is not about hating...it is about tearing down the romance of war and showing the gritty details that most of us, thank God, haven't experienced or will never experience if we're lucky. it's a love story. DeNiro let the deer go, didn't he? "Okay?!?" he shouts. get with it, this is a great film.Movie Review: flamethrowers and madmen
Summary: 5 Stars
you can't compare this movie to any other movie about vietnam. it does stand alone, to be sure. funny thing, though, in the video hound guide to war movies they gave the Deer Hunter only two and a half bones, saying the movie was racist, depicting the vietnamese as beasts and savages. Meanwhile, they give Siege of Fire Base Gloria 4 out of 4 bones. That movie was terrible. Anyway, i just don't get how people can say that the vietnamese are a gentle people who are only victims. That is the other side of a coin, and that's it. yeah, i'm sure there are some decent vietnamese people. yeah, they've been fighting with china and themselves and the french and us and whoever else for the last 1000 years. Claiming superlatives only belittles them, whether you call them the worst or the best. by the way,The Deer Hunter also showed slews of dispossessed vietnamese peasants walking the roads. Ask Philip Caputo what he thinks about the vietnamese, and he'll give you a complex response. And that's what The Deer Hunter is: a complex response to possibly the most complex situation this country has been involved in since our own Civil War.Movie Review: PERFECT MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
PERFECT MOVIEThe Deer Hunter is one of the most powerful, emotionally satisfying movies ever made. In terms of acting, cinematography, story, screenplay, etc. it should rank with Dr. Zhivago and similar all time great movies. It's not so much a "war movie" as a movie about the effects of war on the daily lives of real people, particularly the strains on relationshps between friends and lovers. It's more of a love story. The Best Acting Awards were well deserved, it is one of Meryl Streep and Robert DeNiro's finest roles. This movie is not for the weak. The war segment is almost as hard to handle as the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan, especially the "Russian Roullette" scenes, which I still cannot watch, I have to close my eyes. The acting in this movie is so exceptional. The characters so real, you care for them, you feel for them and with them, and in the end you are as emotionally scared as they are. One of the saddest movies I have seen.. I cry over and over again.. and I'm a guy! A perfect movie... as for the DVD itself, not much as far as extras, but the video and audio are pretty good.
Movie Review: Heart Wrenching Tale of Friends Dealing with Vietnam War
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film in a film theory class that I was taking and was completely blown away by it. This tragi-realist movie rings truer than almost any Vietnam War movie that I've ever seen. It tells the story of 3 friends, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, who take one last deer hunt before entering Vietnam.Many people might complain that the film is too slow and if you consider the superficial MTV-culture that we live in that might be the case, but the deliberateness of the first third only heightens the poinancy of what happens to these friends in Vietnam.
This isn't your typical "American is bad" Vietnam movie. It shows a realistic portrait of what the war was like and what the cost of it was in real human lives. Plus the films takes twists that you won't see coming.
The performances are incredible and credible across the board. De Niro and Walken quickly make us lose sight of their star personas and view them as characters.
This is a true "must see" and should serve as an antidote to big budget emotionless war movies like Pearl Harbor.
Completely worth the search to find.