The Deer Hunter

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Plot: Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friends...( read more  )hip and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it's hardly a conventional battle film--the soldier's experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon--but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war, they're used here as a metaphor for the futility of the war itself. To the viewer, they become unforgettably intense rites of passage for the best friends--Pennsylvania steelworkers played by Robert De Niro, John Savage, and Oscar winner Christopher Walken--who may survive or perish during their tour through a tropical landscape of hell. Back home, their loved ones must cope with the war's domestic impact, and in doing so they allow The Deer Hunter to achieve a rare combination of epic storytelling and intimate, heart-rending drama. --Jeff Shannon

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  MCT:

  May 15, 2008

  An absolute classic...Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep with awesome performances....

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  May 12, 2008

  By far one of the best war films that I've ever seen. If I were to rank the 100 best films ever made, this would probably land somewhere around 50. It's that great. Every single actor is fantastic, but the standouts are Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, and Christopher Walken. Michael Cimino does a terrific job directing this masterpiece with tremendous sets, and good ending, and tons of great war scenes. Although it's over 3 hours long, it really doesn't seem like that. Terrific film that everybody should see!

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  May 6, 2008

  War movies usually (always?) make a good job of making war seem glorious. This film does quite the opposite: it shows the brutal annihilation of mind, body, friendship, love and a community. Unfortunately though it takes an endless 3 hours to do this.

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  MCT:

  April 28, 2008

  There's many appropriate words for this: Strong, gripping, powerful and so on.
  One of De Niro's best parts and Walken is great as always. I must say it was worth the Oscars it got.

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  April 26, 2008

  The acting was awesome, but for me it was too slow and the main story line was not very good. The situation side was done very well, how peoples lives changed because of a war was very deep and dramatic.

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  this and apocalypse now are great vietnam war movies

  posted 405 days ago

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• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Michael Cimino
• Genres: Drama
• Released: January 1, 1978
• DVD Released: September 6, 2005

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