I admit, I do have a Christopher Walken bias. He's the only character I liked in the movie. The Vietnam scenes kicked ass!!!
The rest of the movie... dealing with that Pittsburg-ish town... WTF?
That shit is so boring and retarded. A bunch of drunken ugly people running around and clipping out the set-mics with their terrible yelling and singing. What the fuck? I mean, SO much of this movie is dedicated to scenes of people doing stupid shit. The wedding scene was like 45 fucking minutes long. A standard length movie is like 90 minutes. HOLY SHIT.
I don't see any sort of memorable significance to a bunch of people dancing around at a wedding, or a bunch of guys yelling inaudible things in a bar - then singing a cheesy song in unison out of nowhere.
Am I supposed to 'get to know' these terrific characters and understand their deep complexities through scenes of them doing random and useless shit?
There are some good/meaningful scenes in the movie. De Niro not shooting the deer at the end, Walken blowing his own brains out, De Niro taking that skinny dudes gun away from him and showing him how hardcore nam-vet he is. That's pretty much all. Oh yeah, when they escape captivity back in Nam.
The other 2+ hours of footage is lost on me. I can't believe someone would destroy such a good idea for a movie with useless clutter. Oh, the ending scene was hard to watch. Not because it was sad, because it was a total piece of shit. Porkey pig going into the kitchen and crying over the news of his friend (walken) offing himself in Vietnam (after he was pronounced missing/AWOL WAYYYYYY earlier, quite possibly months ago in the movie). Everyone else sits around and sings "God Bless America".
Wow, way to drive the point into my soul *vomit*
If this is considered the cinematic eye-opener about the damages of the Vietnam war to communities, well I feel sorry for the American public.
I think alot of people trick themselves into liking this movie way more than any human being should, just because it has a way-rad classical guitar piece throughout all of the poorly executed 'dramatic' scenes. (Cavatina I believe it's called)
I have a couple of friends who bring this movie up when we talk about awesome movies everyone should see. WTF?
Does anyone else share my pain or point of view here?
This "TIMELESS CLASSIC" Is more like a "TIMEWASTING CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF OVERRATED SHITTY MOVIES EVERYONE RESPECTS FOR NO REASON AT ALL"
Have you seen the cover to this fucking movie?
BEST PICTURE OF 1978.
Apparently 1978 wasn't a good year for movies. WTF?
I admit, the cover looks pretty awesome. I'm a sucker for hand-drawn/painted covers (ala Star Wars) and shit. It's something I don't see very often.
Speaking of rad movie covers to shitty fucking movies...
Righteous Kill is SO fucking bad I'm not even going to make a review about it. Im sure people will pick this movie up off the "New Release" shelves just because of the Max Payne ripoff depictions of Rob De Niro and HOO-AH! on the cover.
Well, back on subject...
For those who haven't seen The Deer Hunter - please don't. It's a waste of like 3 fucking hours. I don't know if it's that long, it felt that way.
I THINK IMMA GO SHOOT A FUCKING DEER
