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DVD The Deer Hunter (Legacy Series Edition)
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 friendship 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
Review(s): DVD The Deer Hunter (Legacy Series Edition)
Wow, it's great to see this.
The Deer Hunter could possibly be the most emotionally shattering film of our time. Not only that, but it shares a 3-way tie as the greatest Vietnam War film of all time (tied with Apocalypse Now and Platoon) It stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep. It is about 3 friends' life before, during and after Vietnam. It is a stunning film in every way, and Christopher Walken gives the best supporting performance any actor has ever done in a Hollywood motion picture. De Niro, John Cazale, and Meryl Streep are incredible, but Walken's performance is unforgettable. The cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond is staggering. It won 5 Academy Awards, inculding Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Cimino) Best Supporting Actor (obviously Christopher Walken) Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. The Deer Hunter is and will remain a legend.
Rating: 10/10
DVD Features:
Disc 1:
Newly Remastered Audio and Video
Audio Commentary by Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond
Disc 2:
Deleted and Extended Scenes (about an hour's worth)
Production Notes
Orginial Theatrical Trailer
Worth seeing
I give this three stars.
Minus one for the wedding/reception scene being toooo long. It was well done and all, but still WAY too long.
Minus another star, because parts of the plot made absolutely no sense. I'm not going to go all into that, because other people have complained enough about it, in good detail.
Walken and DeNiro are great in this movie. Also, while some people thought they didn't "show enough Vietnam", I thought the time they took to instead build up the characters and their relationships with each other was very well done.
This movie is worth seeing for anyone, and obviously worth owning for any fan of DeNiro or Walken.
One last thing that I found hilarious: --->(SPOILERS)<--- in the VA hospital when Mike goes to see Steven, Steven shows Mike all this cash that his wife at home has been receiving from someone in Saigon. Steven's wife Angela then gives it to Steven, hidden in balled-up socks. SOCKS! The man has no legs.... I don't know if they did that on purpose to be funny, but I roffled.
Love it!
In one scene, this movie took me from sheer terror to sheer ecstacy. I got up and shook my fists in joy when DeNiro turned the game of Russian roullete on those commie jerks. I also cried like a baby at the end. It was the second biggest tear-jerker of my life.
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