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re: The Deer Hunter is a terrible movie.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 6:51 pm to ManBearTiger
Posted on 3/29/17 at 6:51 pm to ManBearTiger
The Deer Hunter is one of the greatest movies ever created. I've never been more serious in my entire life when I say this, but go fricking frick yourself. How in God's name could you hate this movie? It's perfect.
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Posted on 3/29/17 at 6:54 pm to Jack Ruby
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The Deer Hunter, on the other hand, is one of the greatest movies ever made. What you may see as pointless scenes are actually character development and beautifully staged set pieces with superb acting.
Absolutely well said. The long scenes develops the personalities of the characters, and makes the movie even better. Completely agree.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 7:16 pm to ManBearTiger
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Unbelievably, mind-numbingly boring movie. How did the frick directing this conclude that this is a 3+ hour long story? I feel like that shitty wedding scene took 45 minutes, I felt like I was having to sit through an actual mass in the middle of a movie. Sure, there was solid acting, but the characters were all as deep as a drool puddle.
Scenes like when the guy takes a leak and his buddies kept driving off pissed me off so much- it's like the director was constantly finding ways to bore the shite out of the audience with interminably prolonged scenes that add absolutely nothing to the story or characters, to saty nothing of the audience's experience.
Walken gave a pedestrian performance, don't see what the fuss was about his outting. Ditto that for Streep. Deniro and Cazale gave the best performances, third would be the VC dude who keeps slapping the POWs til they play roulette- at least he was interested in moving shite along.
This was such an obnoxious movie. I will never understand how it maintains revered status.
take a ritalin ... hell, take two ... movies don't have to move at a breakneck pace and have explosions every 5 minutes ...
Posted on 3/29/17 at 7:17 pm to ManBearTiger
The script reads like a bad comic book.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 7:57 pm to ManBearTiger
The Russian roulette scene with Dinero and the viet cong is one of the most intense scenes ever in a movie.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:00 pm to Brazos
MAO MAO
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:17 pm to geauxtigers87
Probably the best performance in the whole flick. That VC guy was giving this movie the kick in the arse it needed, but then the protagonists ridiculously escape and.... An hour or so of monotony punctuated by maybe 10 minutes, generously, of good material follows.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:17 pm to lsusportsman2
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The Deer Hunter is one of the greatest movies ever created. I've never been more serious in my entire life when I say this, but go fricking frick yourself? How in God's name could you hate this movie? It's perfect.
Dude people can hate a movie. Apparently Vietnam Vets hated this fricking movie. Are you going to tell them to frick off?
And no movie is perfect.
I was on a ship years and years ago...and this was the movie they put on...and nobody had anything else to do or anywhere else to go...and of the people who didn't fall asleep, 1/3 of the rest left. I think out of 100 - 10 people (including myself) stayed for the end.
I don't dislike the movie - it has a lot of great scenes...and great acting...Cazale, Streep, DeNiro, Walken...are you kidding me?
But Cimino needed a skilled editor (as Spielberg always talks about in making people's careers.)
He didn't have an editor and got ran out of town.
It is widely accepted among critics that Cimino’s reputation as an irresponsible director with quixotic ambitions (a reputation that was largely established during the filming of “The Deer Hunter”) is to blame for his inability to achieve enduring Hollywood success.
He just shot and shot and shot film.
"The Deer Hunter’ insults the memory of every American who died in Vietnam,” wrote Vietnam War correspondent John Pilger. LINK
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:26 pm to ManBearTiger
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Fresh retort pal
Well it was a "hot take." Otherwise why post it?
It was a tad too long for me but a great movie.
suum cuique,
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:39 pm to ManBearTiger
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I was pretty meh on the film. I'll give it another shot this weekend. The wedding scene absolutely was obnoxious.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 8:43 pm to THRILLHO
Longer than any wedding I've been to. LOL.
But most of those had Elvis in them.
But most of those had Elvis in them.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:19 pm to goatmilker
The Deer Hunter is one of those movies (much like Citizen Kane and 2001) that I think those who fancy themselves cinephiles claim to like because they are supposed to. It is overly long and does drag horribly in places. Any film that is as much a test of your endurance as an enjoyable viewing experience is by no means a masterpiece. The acclaim it received was largely as a result of the time it was made - the immediate post-Viet Nam era. If it was made today it would get shredded critically. Unfortunately, by the time I saw it the most famous scene (Russian roulette) had become such a pop cultural reference point that it had lost a lot of its dramatic tension for me. I can see on its initial release, though, it had quite the impact. It's not the pile of dreck the OP implies by any means. It was just meh for me and struck me as nowhere near the critical buildup if had received.
Posted on 3/29/17 at 9:58 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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The Deer Hunter is one of those movies (much like Citizen Kane and 2001) that I think those who fancy themselves cinephiles claim to like because they are supposed to.
Even if some don't enjoy Citizen Kane or 2001, they should at least acknowledge the significance and influence that those works had, especially from a visual standpoint.
Objectively speaking, The Deer Hunter isn't on the same level. It's honestly a pretty dull and ugly looking movie, which makes sense given the overall mood. It definitely has some tense and powerful moments throughout to go along with some great acting, but it isn't a film that I wanted to see again any time soon (if at all).
Posted on 3/29/17 at 10:59 pm to dawgdayafternoon
Agree
Posted on 3/29/17 at 11:14 pm to dawgdayafternoon
I would conpare it to The Hurt Locker. I thought that was a great movie, infinitely rewatchable- but there are legitimate gripes with it that must be conceded that it are a product of that specific moment in time.
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 3/30/17 at 7:28 am to ManBearTiger
I thought it was a great movie.That town they lived in was the dirtiest steel mill town I've ever seen.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 7:57 am to ManBearTiger
I've watched this movie, I'm glad I watched it...but I doubt I'd ever want to sit through it again. I surely didn't hate it, but don't see why it gets as much praise as it does.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:27 am to SoFla Tideroller
Well I think you are wrong.
The first time I ever saw this movie, I just stumbled upon it by accident, and had never heard a word about it. I was instantly sucked in and incredibly focused the entire movie. Like others have said, there doesn't have to be forced dialogue and explosions every 5 seconds. I enjoyed the silences in the movie, the drawn out scenes where all of you think "nothing" was happening.
I guess it takes a different kind of mind to appreciate the "nothing", but I loved every second of it. I have watched it countless times since, and am always just as enamored with it as the first time.
The first time I ever saw this movie, I just stumbled upon it by accident, and had never heard a word about it. I was instantly sucked in and incredibly focused the entire movie. Like others have said, there doesn't have to be forced dialogue and explosions every 5 seconds. I enjoyed the silences in the movie, the drawn out scenes where all of you think "nothing" was happening.
I guess it takes a different kind of mind to appreciate the "nothing", but I loved every second of it. I have watched it countless times since, and am always just as enamored with it as the first time.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 11:15 am to SoFla Tideroller
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Any film that is as much a test of your endurance as an enjoyable viewing experience is by no means a masterpiece.
*cough* Terrence Malick *cough*
I enjoyed the hell out of The Deer Hunter the one time I watched it years ago
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