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Robert De Niro (Actor), Meryl Streep (Actor), Michael Cimino (Director, Producer) Rated:

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Winner of five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.45 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Michael Cimino
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 6 hours and 8 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 6, 2012
Actors ‏ : ‎ Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Producers ‏ : ‎ Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal Studios Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006TTC5DQ
Writers ‏ : ‎ Deric Washburn
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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Cheryl R.

WAR is Hell, Let's Not Repeat It

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2019

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I saw this movie when it was first released. I was pretty young at the time but I do remember that It helped me to understand why so many soldiers were coming back emotional trainwrecks. When I recently watched it again it had the effect of making me feel transported back in time to 1970s, it's just so real to that time. The deerhunter movie is like a time capsule of real life during the seventies. The houses, the buildings, the steel mill, the bar all look reminiscent of life in an established city of the time. This could be Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland or an number of areas in the U.S. The wedding, the Polish neighborhood, the ethnic dancing, the clothing, the cars once again are accurate to the times. The behavior of people in the neighborhood as well reminds me of the seventies. People were friendly and knew each other. The mother of the groom looking for pity because her son isn't marrying a neighborhood girl. The bridesmaids look real not like models with a ton of makeup. The group of women wearing babushkas and carrying the wedding cake to the hall. This is something you might have seen in such a neighborhood. The behavior of the men who hung out together after work and who go deer hunting together. The phones are few and are attached to the wall. The men trying to honor a soldier who doesn't want to talk about the war. So true of the turbulent seventies. As we follow the group to the Vietnam war we see them dealing with a lot of different circumstances which have changed them in different ways. In the initial Vietnam scene one of the friends can barely deal with the emotional trauma of hearing men pulling the trigger with a gun held to their head. In the hospital Christopher Walken is so traumatized that he can barely communicate. These are things which really occurred during the Vietnam war. People treating death and killing as casually as swatting a fly. Later we see that the recently married fellow has lost both his legs. We see scenes in which multiple soldiers are returning home dead in metal boxes. And of course the scene where Robert Deniro attempts to persuade his friend to return home but Walken shoots himself instead is also very emotional. All of this gives those of us who didn't go to Vietnam a peek of the horror show we missed. This is a movie about a group of people dealing with the effects of war during the seventies. Those people were changed forever by war. Robert Deniros character can no stand to see handguns mishandled and will not shoot a deer. His recently married friend will not walk again on his own legs and possibly may never work again. The third friend is dead and buried at the end of the movie. Anyone who watches should be changed also in some way. This is movie that shows the watcher that war is hell. This is important especially for the young to learn. Today it is common to see so many kids glamorizing war and viewing themselves as indestructible while playing video games. This is a movie that makes a statement to "wake up and see the reality of war." Few movies have have made an impact upon me as this one has. I think that's why do many people see this as one of the greatest movies of all time.

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“Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds…”

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019

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Winner of five Academy awards, “unforgettable saga of friendship and courage,” Robert de Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken…

I first saw this movie in 1978 in Atlanta. I remember coming out of the theater with this sense of unreality, and a serious dislocation from those around me, none of whom had been in the war. This was not “Hearts and Minds,” the terribly realistic account of the Vietnam War that I had seen in 1974, in Atlanta’s only art theater. No, this was the “big time, popular culture” version of the Vietnam War, a horrible phantasmagoria of the war that painted the Vietnamese as evil and the American participants as so damaged they would never be able to function again. This movie would be the first of several, certainly including “Apocalypse Now.” Yet, I was also fascinated by more than half the movie which depicted life around the steel mills near Pittsburgh, something that I knew a bit about, having worked in one for two summers, just as the Vietnam War was “cranking up.”

I knew this movie was bad… and that it had commenced a very distorted remembrance of the war in the popular culture. I’d been postponing a re-viewing of it to determine just how bad it was, but now have finally “bit the bullet.” It was even worse than I remember, and the 146 “trivia” items associated with this film helped confirm my even lower assessment. A new term: “Oscar baiting.” A “trivia” item explained how this was the first movie to use a number of techniques, like an initial small release, late in the year, to help ensure that the move would receive Oscars.

“Real men doing real men’s work”… that is a steel mill, or, at least it was. The locker room, and the bar, with signs for “Iron City” beer, but the preferred beer is “Rolling Rock.” Men, in their good-natured joisting, some faux male bonding. Drunks can be tedious; watching them in a movie, more so. Still, the center piece of the first hour and 10 minutes is Steven’s (John Savage) wedding, in a Russian Orthodox church. Steven’s mother is unhappy, ‘cause the bride is “showing” a bit. On the re-viewing, I heard, loud and clear, the Russian word “pozhaluista,” a handy word to know if you are traveling through the Soviet Union. Real men hunt; “one shot” is the only way to kill, ‘cause two is for… that slightly derogatory word for women. Depicted is, or at least was, Clairton Pennsylvania, just up the Monongahela River from Homestead. Although it appeared to be Clairton to me, thanks to the trivia section, it turns out it was really Cleveland, Ohio. The hunting scenes, even back then, were obviously NOT set in the rolling hills of Western PA. Rather, that old white Cadillac drove all the way across the country to the Cascades, of Washington state. Before they leave for the Army, Nick (Christopher Walken) extracts a promise from Michael (Robert de Nero): “You gotta promise me not to leave me over there…”

At 70 minutes, suddenly we are in Vietnam (Thailand). No hint what year it is. Michael, and we suppose Nick and Steve, are Green Berets, with the 101st Airborne, which requires a year of training. EVERYTHING about the military segments is wrong, outrageously so. You’d think Michael Cimino, the Director, would have someone check the uniforms, and make sure that they are right. No. A wild pastiche of badges and awards. Michael even comes back from Vietnam wearing a beard (which the trivia section also called out). Trivia section also noted that all three are too OLD to be in that sort of combat. The first Vietnamese shown immediately kills 50-100 women and children in a bunker. Michael uses a flame thrower, instead of his M-16, to kill this soldier, who is out in the open. Somehow all three are captured and are POWs, at a remote jungle Enter “Russian Roulette,” orchestrated by those evil Vietnamese. (The trivia section indicated that about 25 deaths have been attributed to the popularizing of “Russian Roulette” by this movie.)

Apparently, someone cornered Cimino enough that he would claim that the movie really was not about the Vietnam War… it was about all that “saga of friendship and courage.” Hum. That is the part when I really wanted to SCREAM. Somehow, drawing three cards to an inside straight, Michael manages to trick the Vietnamese captors as they play a bit of roulette, kill them, and then escape and float down a river. An American helicopter to the rescue, well, at least of Nick. Steven and Michael literally hang from the skids, before dropping back into the river. The helicopter leaves them!! Michael pulls Steven out of the river, noting a broken leg at the shin. He decides to carry him on his back from somewhere north of Danang to Saigon, through the jungle!! At the sign welcoming one to Saigon, he sees a jeep driven by South Vietnamese army soldiers. He dumps Steven onto the hood of the jeep, thus into ARVN hands, and wanders off. The next time he sees Steven he is in a VA hospital, with both legs amputated at the hip, and Michael asks him how he is doing!! SCREAM, redux. Meanwhile, Nick is making a pretty good living in Saigon playing Russian Roulette with those evil Vietnamese (and an evil Frenchman), for YEARS, sending lots of hundred-dollar bills back to Steven, that are kept in his drawer at the VA bedside, without being stolen.

It even gets worse! But if you’ve read this far, suffice it to say, I got a bit of this off my chest. As Charles Mackay described, almost two centuries ago, there are these delusions that sweep through the crowds. Anointing such an appalling fantasy with “must-see” Academy Awards is an example of such madness. And what did Streep and de Niro REALLY think about their role in this? This movie is not just “harmless” bad, and that extends far beyond the 25 roulette deaths, but remains a most damaging portrait of the war and its participants. Thus, I must provide a new rating category: “zero-stars.”

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nick eckerson

What can one really say?

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020

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It's 2020 and I write this amid the Corona Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rallies and protests. Riots have hit our streets-- are you sick of hearing about it? You're probably sick of even reading that last sentence. I am 30 and a dude from the suburbs and my mom and dad are sick of this movie because it reminds them of the parts of Vietnam their fathers and mothers lived through and rarely spoke about. The painful thing is that we must watch and must witness these things, not look away always. There's of course balance. The main takeaway for me was that they who survived stuck together, and as painful as it was, De Niro's character did his best to bring his group together again, whether they survived the war at home mentally, emotionally, or were damaged but alive-- Nikki, Stevie-- he did his best because at the end of the day, we all can watch this and know that we will survive only by coming together. That's what we are here for, is to go through life together. That's what the final scene is about, that's what the opening half is about. Whether our job looks like hell itself (the steel mill, the fire in the plant, or the fires in Saigon) or our time doing duty as a soldier in some way looks like hell, we who survive look out for one another. Let this sink in-- not once did they talk about who thinks what about politics or whatever else they could have-- they dealt with life as-is. God bless the veterans, the living and the deceased. God bless us then, now and forever in the future, Amen.

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rob stirling

Incredible film but astonishingly sad and depressing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2020

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Time for a reappraisal of this war drama regarded by many as a classic, and it is another dvd that is still available in multiple editions and is still often watched and reviewed on Amazon.
The edition I'm reviewing is the 2 disc Special Edition. Sadly it clearly states that there are NO English subtitles.
Disc 1 has the film at 2 hours 56 minutes with director Michael Cimino's audio commentary as an extra. Disc 2 has all the bonus features as listed by Amazon.

Superb widescreen presentation, acclaimed cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond ( yeah, me neither ) but be aware that huge segments of the film are set in industrial Pennsylvania and it's not meant to look pretty. Certainly yer man has captured the dourness of that part of the world extremely well. So too the excruciating chaos of the fall of Saigon and in-between the awful prison sequence that set our three protagonists on their road to the irrevocable change to their lives. The contrast of these settings is outstandingly handled by Cimino and his writer of the screenplay, Deric Washburn.

As I saw the film the first hour tries to be jovial and is set around the wedding of one of the three. There is always an edge and it didn't work entirely for me but I admit that I knew what was coming ---- like many others we were expecting a war film and needed to go there. Perhaps reflecting over the overall plot the wedding segment could have been shorter, but for some it probably was the best part of the film.
A good part of the next hour is set in Vietnam ---- the Russian Roulette game may be a total invention and fanciful as some have criticized the film for that content, but let me say that as a young many I met some ex- soldiers who served in Vietnam who claimed that an American could be filmed shooting a Vietnamese on camera......... for a price. I have never read confirmation of that service offered by unscrupulous Vietnamese. Perhaps that too was an invention but I believed the guys who recounted their experiences.

The final part of the film shifts between both countries and is so desolate, leaving this viewer very sad and confirming the powerful performances of De Nero, who has never looked and sounded better in a film, Walken and Savage.

Sad to say again this 2 disc Special Edition with the Studio Canal logo has no English subtitles.

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Martin

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2018

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This film has been criticised for being over-long and I can understand that critique. However, for me anyway, the portrayal of the Pittsburg area steel workers Orthodox community was brilliantly done over an extended time; I've watched it a few times ... outstanding ... I'd have to draw a veil over the Russian Roulette sequences in VN, though, so 4*... the steel workers are not there anymore, their government shipped their industry abroad after shipping them abroad to fight a pointless war that it (the govt) started ...

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Tattooed Celtic Dragon.

The Deerhunter, the horrors of the Vietnam War.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2020

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The film stars Robert de Niro and Chris Walken, and is about a group of friends from Pittsburgh PA, who are totally unaware of the horrors of the war that is going on in Vietnam.
They are sent there when they are conscripted into the US Forces, who are fighting the Vietnam war against the Vietcong in a guerrilla war.
The war really comes home to them when some of them are captured as POWs by the Vietcong, and are forced to play Russian roulette for their captors entertainment.
Two of them manage to escape from their captors, and when the war is over they go back to try and find one of their friends who was left behind, and try to get him to return to the USA.
The film brings to the screen the horrors of the Vietnam War.

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トリッパ

日本語字幕がありえない

Reviewed in Japan on November 7, 2018

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映画自体は皆さんご存知の通りの名作です。
このブルーレイ商品について書かせていただきます。

私が気になって、まともに映画を鑑賞できなかったのは２点あります。

その１　
日本語訳が普通の会話では使わないような言葉、分かりやすく言えば簡易的な翻訳ソフトで英文を日本語に直訳してるイメージです。
なので映像を見ながら字幕を読むのに時間が掛かり、なおかつ直観では理解できない事が多く、理解するのに多少のタイムラグが発生してしまい映画に集中できない。

その２
連続したセリフの中で、画面上２行一杯に字幕が表示されているのに、ほんの２秒弱で次の字幕に切り替わってしまう。
何度も繰り返し見てセリフを暗記しているならともかく、これでは全くセリフが入って来ないし、感情的にも映画の中に入っていけない。
ましてや、↑その１の事もあるので、翻訳が表示されている時はそれを読むのに一杯いっぱいで、映像をしっかり見る事は出来ない事が多々ある。

パッと見で２行の翻訳が頭に入ってしまう人は関係ないかも知れませんが、この作品のソフトをいくつも買い揃えてる私としては、以前に発売されているＤＶＤの方が断然見やすいですし、きちんと映画として鑑賞できます。
私は最後まで見ませんでした。
誰がこんな仕上がりでＯＫしたんですかね？

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David Brereton

They don't make movies like this anymore

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2020

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Absolutely classic film, particularly for the way in which it spends most of the movie building up its characters (which most movies don't seem to do anymore) with phenomenal acting and a great soundtrack. Despite some tense scenes and emotional depth to the characters and situations it is not the most exciting film to watch and if you are looking for a 'war film' you will be disappointed with the lack of action and inaccuracy.

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