Its one of the few films that really gets its point across.

Even if you don't like the movie, you can't deny how gripping certain scenes in this movie are. Unbelievable performances and direction - past that I don't even know where to...
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Its one of the few films that really gets its point across.

Even if you don't like the movie, you can't deny how gripping certain scenes in this movie are. Unbelievable performances and direction - past that I don't even know where to start.

This is must see for anybody and probably something you should see.

The Deer Hunter is a stunning feat of film-making. A three-hour, character driven film that doesn't bore. De Niro, Walken and Cazale are brilliant and perfectly cast. The direction is beautiful, also. One of the greatest war films ever made,...
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The Deer Hunter is a stunning feat of film-making. A three-hour, character driven film that doesn't bore. De Niro, Walken and Cazale are brilliant and perfectly cast. The direction is beautiful, also. One of the greatest war films ever made, without a doubt. It also features possibly the most intense scene in cinema history (the russian roulette scene with the vietnamese captors and the excellent "DIDI MOU!" - a phrase which I have started to use nowadays).

If you are prepared to pay attention for 3 hours, this movie should reward you with a great experience.

A three hour character driven spectacle would be the sentence that comes to mind when thinking of "The Deer Hunter". Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Cazale all allow us to see inside their characters superbly...
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A three hour character driven spectacle would be the sentence that comes to mind when thinking of "The Deer Hunter". Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Cazale all allow us to see inside their characters superbly and the culmantion is a movie that, while easily forgettable if you don't adhere to policy of not allowing your attention to wane and don't understand the complexity of friendships and war, gets you feeling about the characters, and gives a fascinating, albeit chilling, insight into the horrors of guerilla warfare.
The story follows the two steel working Russian Orthodox occupants (Walken and DeNiro) of a Pensylvanina town, and in three acts tells their story from social bliss in America, to the harrowing stage of the Vietnam war, and back to America (one alive one dead) where the remaining friend copes with the mental horrors of the aftermath of the war.
This film is superbly told, and until "Crash (2004)", was the only movie which could pull off a purely character driven script. Buy it, see it, and if you don't like it (which would be a surprising event) Ebay it.

Oscar wins:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Walken)
Best Film Editing
Best Sounf

Oscar nominations
Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Streep) (deserved a win)
Best Actor (DeNiro)
Best Cinematography
Best Original Screenplay (deserved a win)