The Deer Hunter (1978)
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
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Directed By: Michael Cimino
Written By: Michael Cimino, Quinn K. Redeker, Louis Garfinkle, Deric Washburn
Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, George Dzundza, Joe Grifasi, Rutanya Alda, Amy Wright, Shirley Stoler, John Cazale, Joel Thingvall, Chuck Aspegren
Country: USA
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JohnnyZombie | 94 93rd |
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Good look at how a war can change people and their relationships. The first act drags a bit, but the rest of the movie is very powerful and distrubing at times.
Also interesting is the choice of "God Bless America" at the end of the movie. It suggests either dying or false patriotism from a mixed group of people (blue-collar workers and vets) that the American government claims to love, yet constantly turns their backs on.
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Farzan | 81 76th |
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The Deer Hunter is a very powerful film, and shows the bonds of frienship and the virtue of courage in a unique way. I really liked how the film is split up into three acts. The first act was dragged on for far too long, and the second and third acts were overall extremely well done. The Deer Hunter has one of the most intense scenes in any film - the russian roulette scene. There are a few of them, but the first one with Walken and De Niro was insane! Great acting, and cinematography. Awesome!
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frederic_g54 | 10 97th |
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This film grows on you, I think the problem with this one is that it's overshadowed by its own "greatness", and people tend to look past the more important aspects of this film (the wedding sequence etc.). I, for one absolutely adored the first hour: so well acted and directed (DeNiro and Walken are unforgettable). The rest of the film is very powerful, endearing and sad. A couple of flaws but it's still one of my favorite character driven stories and films... and no, it's not overrated!
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ewp805 | 88 91st |
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A powerful look at the changes a group of working class buds go through during the Vietnam Conflict. It suffers some serious pacing issues in the beginning, dragging far too long, but the characters manage to really drive it home in the second and third acts. Incredibly well acted with a brooding performance by De Niro and Walken's unforgettably haunting transformation studded with some very intense scenes. A difficult, yet rewarding, watch that will only get better with repeated viewings.
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djross | 55 53rd |
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A fine cast, attention to detail, harrowing moments, great feel for the milieu, and Cavatina. But the flaws are significant: a kind of absurdity that descends once the central motif takes over, the indefensible opposition between the humanity of every American and the inhumanity of every Asian (not just Vietnamese either), sketchy female characters, and the wholly unironic salute to the good ole US of A with which it ends. The opening really resembles that of DAYS OF HEAVEN. Re-watched 2021.
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ozymandius10 | 88 95th |
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Excellent movie. It has easily one of the saddest endings I've ever seen. Some would say that as a negative, but I say if you actually feel for the characters by the end of the movie, then the makers have done their job.
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| 3 | Sebastian | 50 13th |
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No question, it's a good movie. The characters and actors are great, it's very emotional, it's not boring (even though the exposition is too long), but it's racist. All the vietnamese people in this movie are torturers, prostitutes oder gangsters. To reduce the Vietnam War to the scheme of evil Vietcong and poor American soldiers is impossible.
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NathanDarko | 98 98th |
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[May contain Spoiler] This Movie don't care about explosions & effects. Cimino concentrates himself about the aftermath of the war, for every person that got involved by this cruel War. Family,Friends,Soldiers. War is Hell, and the Devil will be in their heads until they die. When Michael came home he felt like a stranger in his own Town. And Nick prefered to die after he realized that everything he saw will stay in his mind indespenable.Maybe one of the best Anti War Films ever made.
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moraesfelipe | 84 90th |
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It's somehow engaging and effective, despite its long running. Cimino tells the story of innocent americans who were dragged into war and could never be the same again. The male bonding is powerfully deconstructed through the russian roulete scenes, which presents Christopher Walken at his best.
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eveelun | 79 72nd |
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There's no denying that there are some powerful and memorable images and scenes, but it's very inconsistent in terms of pacing and tone. The acting is strong, but the writing and characterization wasn't always convincing.
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Derekstar | 100 96th |
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Yes, the wedding sequence is long. Yes, it's strange when they sing God Bless America in the final scene. True, none of the characters are very likable. I've been reading mini-reviews about this movie, and all of these points are being brought up as points against this film. However, none of these things necessarily result in an inferior movie. It`s just a list of things that are technically true. I don't think any of you have a damned clue what you're talking about. Use your heads.
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Nathan S | 4 74th |
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Its gritty authenticity, sensitivity, and downbeat tone are in stark contrast to the usual tendency to depict war as sensational and operatic. The notorious Russian roulette sequences are a brilliant central metaphor around which the entire film is built, encapsulating the immense pressure these characters are under. It is needlessly long, and unfortunately doesn't rise above the one-sided cliche of a vile and inhumane enemy, but this is a film greater than the sum of its sometimes flawed parts.
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twincinema | 40 18th |
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I knew this film had a Russian Roulette scene. What I did not know was that film had Russian Roulette scenes. Plural. I wanted to play Russian Roulette rather than watch this film.
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TedDedon | 96 95th |
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The Deer Hunter is the greatest character driven war movie I've ever seen. It really has almost nothing to do with the actual war itself, but rather the excellent drive the main characters have and how these events completely reverse--or push--their lives. This may be a slightly flawed movie by today's standards but there are several scenes in particular that are, without a doubt, the most intense I have ever seen on film. Anyone who has seen the movie knows which scenes I'm referring to.
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tathiel | 97 99th |
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Fucking-A!
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Eric WK | 55 36th |
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Pretty much the 'Crash' of the 70s, huh? Maybe that's not fair. Maybe it's the 'The King's Speech' of the 70s - a film that tried so dang hard to win a Best Picture Oscar that it actually did! There are great scenes here and performances to match, but it's just such a mess. If you don't laugh out loud at the ending, it's time to reevaluate your ability to criticize cinema.
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DavidBlast | 85 88th |
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Mao!
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loc42 | 85 88th |
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There is no difference between shooting a deer and killing thousands of people. Small or large, the economy of expenditure and war is based on enormous amounts of sacrifice and irrationality. If "Full Metal Jacket" is a pre-war film and "Apocalypse Now" is a war film, then this seems to be a post-war film because it mostly focuses on the after effects of the war
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| 2 | DavidThomson | 95 86th |
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One of the great American films. This is a story in wich the stupid male pride of America bows to stronger forces and more elastic philosophies. It is a picture in which a small survey of manhood revelates desperate, tragic, and inadequate characters; in which women hardly know how to make their presence felt. It is redneck America. It is one of the few American films that work like a novel. It is unsettling, yet it is mysterious. Far more than Apocalypse Now, this film smells of Conrad.
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JSchlansky | 93 94th |
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It all hinged on an 8% chance https://youtu.be/6svL10xXulQ?t=141
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Hawkins | 94 95th |
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A profane game of chance and a sacred game of control dissolving and reinforcing the players' identities respectively. The slow pacing of the first act is necessary to spring-load the next two and really contains the soul of the movie.
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MartinTeller | 71 37th |
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Once-lauded epic that is now rightfully being re-evaluated. This film is the definition of "uneven", where every brilliant moment is counterbalanced by boring filler.
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Magb | 75 50th |
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The pre-war part is too long, in my opinion. They didn't need to spend that much time establishing what sort of life the characters were living. The rest of the movie didn't quite blow me away either, but parts are definitely very good.
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| 1 | triffid | 60 7th |
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Disturbing at some parts, incredibly boring everywhere else. The three parts feel like entirely different movies.
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| 1 | whomperize | 88 94th |
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A high score just for the famous Russian Roulette scene alone. The slow pace can be argued, but this remains, because of its simplicity and killer acting, one of the best war movies ever made.
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Harmonica | 85 81st |
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Glacial pacing at times, which might take a few viewings to appreciate, but this is a character drama film full of great performances where the added run time allows the actors to portray their roles to the fullest. Only worth watching in a relaxed and contemplative mindset, which might not come around too often, but hugely rewarding in that moment - emotionally draining but providing true catharsis in the best traditions of drama. The ending, when it arrives, is a powerhouse like few others.
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| 1 | rodoki_11 | 96 98th |
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A very good screenplay that rises to greatness in the capable hands of De Niro and a young Christopher Walken, in the finest performance of his career.
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| 1 | bizort | 98 99th |
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I've never had a movie hit me like this one did. What a moving story
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Alex Watkins | 3 38th |
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Very strong Vietnam fare with great performances. It pales in comparison to Apocalypse Now, though it's a different beast; much more character-driven, and in this case, the performances are uniformly excellent; De Niro, Streep, Walken and Cazale give some of the greatest ensemble acting ever.
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PeaceAnarchy | 71 29th |
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Such an incredibly mixed bag. The opening wedding scene is interminable and the whole thing is much more dated than other Vietnam movies. On the other hand it has some incredibly powerful moments and social commentary, and the performances are really wonderful.
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AFlickering | 4 56th |
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so much inner life to this movie, so much sincere emotion to the performances, i can forgive the laughably overdone pair of metaphors at its centre.
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Suture Self | 7 67th |
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It's a bit lethargic, and focuses too much time on laying a foundation for unecessary character development. However, while it could use a lot of editing ( the pre-nam part, specifically ) the next two chapters in this three chapter epic are haunting, and feature incredible acting ( Christopher Walken is fantastic ). The russian roulette sequences still give me chills...
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martryn | 92 95th |
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Christopher Walken and Robert DeNiro deserve every bit of recognition and fame they received from this classic. Watching these characters change... quite the impact.
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JooJoo | 5 80th |
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Everyone says the first hour needs to be cut but I'd rather the rest [especially post-war] be the bit to get the ax.
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| 1 | st_fly | 93 97th |
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Excellent
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Duder | 60 40th |
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Many people said that this needs a second watch. I guess it does. It's 3 hours long but looks like it needs an hour more, too many time jumps and all that. Performances are so superb that you keep watching but the story fell apart for me, emotions were all left tangled, early cuts in emotional scenes etc.. Dunno.. It is a good movie but has some serious problems.
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andayb | 80 91st |
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aside from cimino's questionable pacing, there's very little to fault in this film. the first act is indeed overstretched, definetely overstays its welcome. but the stuff that breaths life into this film is the uncanny story and the amazing performance of the leads. walken establishes himself as a top caliber actor, while de niro cements his status as a master.
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c3mgur | 88 88th |
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Perfect beginning, perfect end. Surely deserves every letter of "classic" word.
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whatismyname | 60 49th |
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God damn it was long. Cut the first 50 minutes and nothing changes from the film. A part of the film that really bother me was when they were captured in Vietnam, they gave no clues on how exactly they were captured, little things like that bother me..
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Vandelay1 | 94 99th |
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Great
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edkrak | 65 53rd |
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Good direction and acting, but it's yet another story about those poor Americans who killed themselves some Vietnamese and now they're so miserable. Also this whole russian roulette plot seems like from some B-movie. I have a hard time deicidng about the score.
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muzak66 | 97 98th |
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VERY POWERFUL AND GREAT MOVIE and I was filmed in a local Pittsburgh town.
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| 1 | pompousass | 20 44th |
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Cimino's Vietnam War story centers around an "ours not to reason why" trio of mindlessly patriotic Middle Americans from a small Pennsylvania steel town. Three hours long, in the tradition of bigness established by the Second World War stories of Norman Mailer, James Jones, Herman Wouk, and Irwin Shaw, the movie has an enfeebling lack of dramatic focus, of overall form, of individually interesting scenes, of social context, and of point of view.
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Kebapche | 80 65th |
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I really hope that singing "God bless America" at the end was sarcastic
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Okkervil | 80 83rd |
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Laced with brilliance, full of super performances, and really very powerful and suspenseful. But there are issues, primarily with pacing. "The Deer Hunter" drags its heels terribly at times. With repeat viewings it improves though.
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billkerwin | 89 80th |
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Impressive in many ways, but overlong. Also, the Russian roulette scenes are ridiculous. Still, DeNiro, Cazale, Walken and Streep all deliver extraordinary performances, and the atmosphere of a small eastern industrial town in the 60's is excellent.
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Cinema_Asia | 75 71st |
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Good acting from a fine cast but it's a bit overrated because of a few visceral scenes that have become a part of film lore. The morals and personal introspection is also rather shallow in hindsight.
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tinysausage | 75 63rd |
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Ding mao!
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| 1 | glm | 89 89th |
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88.750
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Velvet Crowe | 46 46th |
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I don't get the love for this film; its pacing is painfully plodding and mundane scenes go on forever. The character arc is one-note and it's pretty clear that being a movie about Russian roulette they had to do a lot of shit to pad out the run time. Its depiction of PTSD comes off as tepid and absurd while very obviously not having any idea what the Vietnam War was actually like. There's occasionally some sparks of genius but the movie is a boring, overly long mess.
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Rufam | 75 72nd |
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"The Deer Hunter" is neither the tightest nor the most partial film I've seen, but it's still a pretty solid motion picture. It's strong in its storytelling but feeble in its propaganda. Its unfair depiction of the Vietnamese as well as the laborious length bring it down. That said, it is very good for what it is -an engrossing, touching, well-made, effectively manipulative and splendidly acted (De Niro, Walken and Streep are all remarkable) war melodrama.
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hellboy76 | 91 98th |
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Some powerful scenes are weighed down by a bit of fluff but it still sticks with me even a decade or more after originally viewing it. Walken is great.
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Noblet | 80 70th |
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It has it's ups and downs - I thought the film's portrayal of the Vietnamese mostly as evil maniacs was an unfortunate decision. And there are a lot of pointless scenes, this didn't need to be 3 hours long. However, the depth of the American characters, anchored by some great performances, and some of the most intense scenes I've ever seen in a war movie really made up for the bad parts in my opinion.
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snallygaster | 53 52nd |
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Not the patriotic ode to the USA and its military that some seem to take it for. However, its message is a bit too confused to work as a real criticism, either. The internal logic of the film seems to suggest that its Vietnam is just a symbol of war in general, and that the 3 American soldiers represent its casualties. Yet it also relies on the viewer having certain specific assumptions, such as Vietnam as a failed (US) policy, and seems happy to avoid any real challenge of nationalist mythos.
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guy piranha | 80 90th |
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An engaging twist on the genre, an anti-war movie in which the depiction of war only takes the tiniest bit of screentime. The focus is definitely on the impact war has on people, and how that is in no way limited to the place where it is fought.
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Gnalkhere | 90 91st |
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It's like anything that went wrong in Heaven's Gate, went right in this film
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lex | 90 80th |
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Where Apocalypse Now showed the destruction of the human psyche and Full Metal Jacket the mass produced dehumanization of becoming a soldier, here's a Vietnam film simply about people, and how their lives are before, during and after their war experience. It's a bit overly long, yeah, but the acting is incredible and really brings out the human core of the story so it never seems like it's just wasting time.
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deep_green | 50 26th |
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Obviously ambition went beyond the director's reach to some degree, but I personally applaud the film that is riding a fine line between an uncompromising vision and then trying to hold it all together. Nathan S is right in the greater than the sum of its parts assessment for this reason, but what I really want to see is something less determined by its cultural ancestors and more radical; something trying harder to be committed than impress.
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Boxcars | 9 89th |
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Make no mistake: 'The Deer Hunter' is not about Vietnam, and it makes to claim to recreate the war with historical accuracy. Instead, it uses the war and a brilliantly powerful symbol to show how three different men respond to pressure induced by a senselessly grim world. While it may occasionally drag in doing so, the picture as a whole makes it worthwhile.
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anilscn | 45 37th |
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??? Şaka mı yapıyosunuz aqqq sokarım verdiğiniz puanlara. Yıllardır duyduğum "vietnamlıları cani, abdlileri iyi gösteriyorlar" konulu filme rastlamadığımdan, bu cümlenin aşırı anti kapitalizmden sanrı görme olduğunu düşünürdüm. Değilmiş. Ya şu filme yüksek veren insanların bahsettiğim cümleyi kurduğuna o kadar eminim ki. Ayrıca kurgu da kocaman bir bokkk gibi. Recep ivedikle filan kapışır. Verdiğim bu yüksek puan "savaş karşıtı" yanına ve görüntüye
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