re: The Deer Hunter

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The cast/acting is great. The movie itself is a chore to get through.

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It was a chore the first time, liked it better the second time through 4 decades later, mostly because of the actors.

At the time it came out I lived in Pittsburgh and it captures that well. Aside from the deer hunting scenes in the Cascades. WTF? Nothing east of the Rockies looks remotely like where they were hunting. Beautiful scenery, but it shattered suspension of disbelief for me the first time through, and I still think it is stupid when they worked so hard to make the Pittsburgh steel workers authentic.