Watched The Deer Hunter last night

1finny

1finny

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Still utterly brilliant.
Remember seeing it when it first came out. Had quite an impact on me.

How De Niro didn’t win best actor?
Will have to re watch Coming Home. John Voight beat him to best actor
 
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I have seen that twice and never really enjoyed it, other than Cavatina. I have yet to meet someone who thinks as I do though.
 
Is that where they play Russian roulette & later one of them goes home, stands on a bank looking at his home then turns his back & walks away forever, they're the only bits I've seen
I should watch it one day
 
I think it's a dreadful film. I watched it when it first came out and it was touted as this masterpiece of modern cinema. It really isn't. It's way too long, disjointed, uncritical (America good - North Vietnamese bad) and if you take out the big set pieces which are admittedly well done (but only amount to about 5% of the running time) nothing much happens.

I'll never watch it again.
 
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Coming home was one of the best films I'd seen at the time it came out. Voight is superb in it. I have the Deer Hunter on record on SKY so I'll watch it soon. I've never actually watched it all the way through.
 
Yes a little too long as well for me

it’s a good film with some iconic moments but it’s a hard watch at times.

it’s no apocalypse now
 
My favourite film on a number of levels.
De Niro is utterly brilliant.
Watched it again only a couple of weeks ago.
Great call 1finny.
 
Without getting too deep it also portrays what it would be like for the likes of us Teessiders in a similar instance .
Happy to work in a dismal background with enough to support ourselves not asking for much . In steps a pitiful war governed by ‘leaders’ that have their own agendas . Then wrenched away and to witness abominable acts only to come home ( if lucky ) like nothing happened .
It’s happened to us Joe soaps countless times over centuries all over the world .

Ps on a lighter note it’s gotta be quality cos they’re drinking Rolling Rock - proper upstate Pennsylvania 🤗
 
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I think it's a dreadful film. I watched it when it first came out and it was touted as this masterpiece of modern cinema. It really isn't. It's way too long, disjointed, uncritical (America good - North Vietnamese bad) and if you take out the big set pieces which are admittedly well done (but only amount to about 5% of the running time) nothing much happens.

I'll never watch it again.
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It was a well crafted modernistic movie but spoilt,as muttley says , by it's massive " America good" bias.
 
Have to remember it was released only 3 years after the fall of Saigon and affirmation of their defeat which might explain the "God bless America" tone of the film.For an unbiased account of the conflict,including contributions from NVA and Vietcong vets,I would recommend a 10 part series called The Vietnam War.
 
One of my favourites, although I like pretty much everything with De Niro or Walken in.
Platoon and Good Morning also great movies and great casts. If I recall correctly a young Jonny Depp was in Platoon?
 
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