The Deer Hunter (1978)

[Dementeleus]

Discuss.

[luna]

a mess of editing and music ruins whatever good might have been found in here. but props to the first russian roulette scene.

 

D

Edited August 23, 2013 by lisa

[baumer]

a mess of editing and music ruins whatever good might have been found in here. but props to the first russian roulette scene.

 

D

 

What movies do you like?  I don't think I've seen you give any film a good mark.

[luna]

check my sig. or, look in the planet of the apes thread where i listed all the movies of the past 5 or 6 weeks that i've given a good mark.

[Dementeleus]

DEER HUNTER's pretty dated now, and the pacing is unwieldy (especially in the first half), but it's reasonably recent.

 

3/5, 65/100 or so. I guess that's around a B- in my grading system.

Edited September 13, 2013 by Telemachos

[Hatebox]

Only watched it once a while back. The first half hour (45 minutes?) is unforgiveably slow, but the middle section when we get to 'Nam is riveting.

[riczhang]

It is marginally dated, but I think the entire thing is just sublime. I love it. 

[peludo]

I love this film. Probably the best movie about friendship I have ever seen. A formidable film. I give it an A.

[Jake Gittes]

The first 100 minutes or so and the ending are basically flawless. Most of the third hour I'm not so sure about - it certainly became less sharp and coherent, and could have used another 10 or 15 minutes to help put things into focus. But at its best I thought this was an epic on both a grand and a human scale, a film as tremendously passionate as it was technically grand; it had me glued to my seat for the entirety of its runtime. The three-way juxtaposition of the happiness of marriage, the devastation of war, and the ruined life afterwards may not be subtle, but it hits hard. (On a human scale, I honestly think that cut from the characters quietly sitting in the bar, one of them playing a beautiful melody, to the explosions and killings in Vietnam rivals the bone-to-spaceship cut in 2001 in its power, except the effect is directly opposite). The final scene got tears out of me. Will see it again for sure.

Edited October 4, 2014 by Jake Gittes