Advantages: Performances. Disadvantages: Requires your undivided attention.
Perhaps the main reason The Deer Hunter connects with me so much, emotionally, each time I watch it is because it's not really what I would call a "War Film". Opening in the late 1960s, in a small working-class town of Pennsylvania, it tracks three Russian-American steel workers, Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage), and Nick (Christopher Walken). The lives of these characters occupy the screen for a large majority of the movie: we see ... ...going on hunting trips into the mountains. The reason the film chooses to focus upon these hard-working people is to show the importance of human bonding; how one chooses to celebrate his life by surrounding himself with friends and family. The Deer Hunter never attempts to make its characters seem flawless; instead, they each are out just to have a good time before they depart to Vietnam with the army. When they meet a soldier at the bar of the ...
andycarrington 06.04.2009
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Advantages: Fantastic story line, Keeps you glued to the screen! Disadvantages: Quite long
...of his mother. After the marriage he and his best friends Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken) will join the Army and go to Vietnam… When all three are fighting in Vietnam the are captured as prisoners of war who finally escape their ordeal, although with several complications… The terrible experiences that they are subjected to change their whole life… Over the course of 182 minutes of screen time, "The Deer Hunter" presents outrageous ... ...devastating effect on one of the main members of the movie) while the prison guards bet on the result… Whatever his intention, Cimino goes courageously forth, staging with power his big end during the fall of Saigon showing the sad but true scenes of what occured in the vietnam war, depicting the trauma of war and the effort of one friend to rescue the other at all costs. ...
rector_21 26.03.2009
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Advantages: no other words for it fantastic Disadvantages: nil
...missed.
robert de niro in THE DEER HUNTER.a winner of five academy awards.
also starring john savage and christopher walken and a small part with meryl streep.
as a group of steel workers from pennsylvania lives are changed irrevocably by the vietnam war.
when michael (robet de niro) steven(john savage) and nick(christopher walken) are captured by the vietcong.
they are forced to play russian roulette by there captors.
who make bets on there ... ...the experience of capture leaves terrible physical and spiritual wounds.
when michael returns home to fulfill a promise.
he makes an horrific discovery.
the DEER HUNTER is widely recognised as one of the greats.
and contains one of the most memorable scenes in film history.
you can imagine what these guys went through.
by watching this film.
but dont take my word for it go watch it.
great film by michael cimino ...
mark422 26.03.2008 (28.03.2008)
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are changed irrevocably by the Vietnam war. Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter won no less than five Academy Awards in 1978 including Best Picture, Best Director and ...
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