Deer Hunter

Pros: Walken, DeNiro, Russian roulette
Cons: Excessive length, slow moving

The Deer Hunter (1978) The Deer Hunter is a film about the long term effects of war, showing the fall out that takes place in individual lives - fall out many of us never come personally in contact with. The Deer Hunter is an Academy ...

Pros: pretty package; some intense acting
Cons: boring, pretentious, confusing, unengaging, drags, sensational...

NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she was blown away by the documentary Occupation 101. ******************* After pushing through the auditorium’s ...

Pros: good cast, won several Oscars
Cons: takes too long to develop, not compelling enough, got quite boring in its lulls

The Deer Hunter came out way back in 1978, and carried by the star power of Robert DeNiro, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep won some Oscar gold including best picture of the year. Now, years later, the film has lost a little of ...

Pros: great performances, worthy story
Cons: long, episodic, outdated production values

When it opened, in 1978, you couldn't give The Deer Hunter anything less than five stars - not without looking like a war hawk. This Oscar-winning film - starring Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Savage - was easily the most ...

Pros: cast, story, cinematography
Cons: very long and at the same time I would have liked a Director's cut

I grew up in the shadow of the Viet Nam war. The time I came of age in was before the fall of the Berlin Wall, when communism was still considered a deep threat to us as a people and a culture, rather than a source of cheap labor and financing our ...

Pros: Intense, violent character study as good as you've ever seen
Cons: Probably not to some viewers's taste

With all the films out there that provide an unflinching, harrowing view of the Vietnam war, perhaps there’s no other that so better illustrates the mental toll that war takes on soldiers than Michael Cimino’s THE DEER HUNTER. This expansive yet taut...

Pros: The acting was excellent.
Cons: The story is somewhat dull and it's too long.

Michael: You know what those are? Those are sun dogs. It means a blessing for the hunter sent by the Great Wolf to his children. It's an old Indian thing. Directed By Michael Cimino Robert Deniro as Michael Vronsky Christopher ...

Pros: performances, emotionally draining
Cons: tedious, some abandoned subplots

Not being a film historian - not to mention lacking the resources to accurately ascertain - I wouldn't know what war has served as the basis for the most American movies. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd probably say World War II. If asked to hypothesize ...

Pros: Direction, Cast, Cinematography, Score, Production.
Cons: Some Plot Holes on Timing & Historical Factors that Will Irk Some.

Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter is a three-hour anti-war drama about three Pennsylvanian steelworkers whose lives were changed during their service in the Vietnam War. Written with screenwriters Deric Washburn and Louis Garfinkle with ...

Pros: Great direction, good action, excellent cinematography...
Cons: ...at the service of horrific storytelling.

The Deer Hunter won five Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture. While the direction of infamous filmmaker Michael Cimino is commendable and the cinematography of genius artist Vilmos Zsigmond is amazing, the film as a whole does not in ...

Pros: The acting, the script, the wedding, the Russian roulette
Cons: Transitions can be confusing

One of the six movies I reviewed on my first night as a member of epinions nine years ago was Heaven's Gate.  Revisiting that review now, I note how many times ...

Pros: Dramatic and interesting.
Cons: Graphically violent, sometimes to no apparant end.

I admit, I may be too young to understand what this movie was trying to say to me. After all, The Deer Hunter had stars the caliber of Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken. It won several Oscars when it was released (in the 1970's) and...

Pros: Stuff
Cons: Less stuff

A glance at the AFI top 100 list shows movies created by directors of widely varying talent and fame. Some of the movies were directed by real, canonized silver screen legends: Steven Spielberg directed six, Martin Scorsese directed three, Stanley ...

Pros: Good character study, Good acting
Cons: Light on DVD bonus features, Excruciating plot, Pacing issues, Fractured storytelling.

It is surprise to very few people who follow my reviews for me to write that I have been watching a lot of movies lately. When one takes time and concentrates their time and focus on movies, it honestly takes quite a bit for one to get excited about ...

Pros: Excellent acting throughout by a strong cast
Cons: Sloppy filmmaking by a director too in love with his film to edit it down

The Deer Hunter is one of those movies that I think benefited greatly from the timing of release more than anything else. At the time, the post-Vietnam gloom was felt in the nation and a lot of movies were released that dealt with the war. The ...