Why The Deer Hunter Sucks

[@stevendavis1940]

You didn't say why it sucks. You only said you didn't like it.

[@jjrbarnett]

It's a Vietnam variation of Best Years of Our Lives. It's not really about the war, but how the aftermath affected the town and its people. Cimino was a stylist but also captured American folklore and rituals. At his best he was as good as Ford, Capra, Spielberg and Scorsese.

[@MrCarpen7er]

Spielberg has nothing to do with Cimino. Bogdanovich and Friedkin do.

[@jjrbarnett]

@MrCarpen7er They were all good filmmakers, captured American culture in some form or another.

[@gfunkehauser502]

sorry it doesnt have a superhero with magic powers in it for you, bro. lol.

[@michaeljorgensen790]

If I were the type of movie goer that thought all movies should make you feel good and warm and fuzzy inside.....I would also think the Deer Hunter really sucked. A more sophisticated thought process can appreciate when a writer or director is trying to provoke an uncomortable emotional response from an audience. The film did not win awards for making people feel good.

[@jeffyfielding3360]

Great movie. You are all clowns.

[@aldenshoemaker9783]

Is this bait? Sounds like you just read the Wikipedia.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I watched it on Netflix in 4K with HDR and stole footage from there! It’s leaving at the end of the month if you want to torture yourself.

[@Sweetwater20120]

@@VaughnJogVlog I have seen it 3 times and think it’s fantastic

[@Fatman6000]

I've been to weddings that were shorter than the wedding in this movie. We don't need an hour to establish they are close friends.

[@Loaf_of_Cat]

The destruction after is bigger here on in the godfather?

[@ubon11]

Most people of today certainly wouldn’t like this movie. It’s a product of a bygone generation. But you have to look at it from the perspective of it being released in the 70’s. Many people back then would talk about this movie after they seen it. It really resonated with people and stuck with them long after watching it. I recently rewatched it and now that I am much older, I thought it dragged on and on for no reason, especially the wedding scene. I wouldn’t say I loved this movie, but it didn’t suck for its time.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I think there are movies that didn’t quite know their genre. So we have a Vietnam war movie that didn’t quite do it right in a similar way there were proto-action movies that only knew mysteries and dramas so didn’t quite become fully realized, or horror attempts. in the ‘60s that couldn’t grasp a slasher.

[@MrCarpen7er]

Cimino always said that The Deer Hunter is not about the war. And if you watch the movie, it´s pretty evident.

[@sam4secretary]

is this is like a parody account? The jokes kinda fall flat. 100% chance this missed this point.

[@dahoomm3]

The most hilarious thing for me is the ending when they sing god bless america like they are protecting america from Vietnamese who are defend their land

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I’m sure that was supposed to be a dark humor anti-war take on the song.

[@dahoomm3]

@ i just finished the movie i agree the story not that much but i liked the vibe between deniro and chistoph .

[@RtB68]

Hardly a hill worth dying on. For me it was a bit of a meh. Not great, not terrible. Of all the Vietnam films for me the best was Apocalypse but I'm moved on from Nam and don't expect I'll ever return.

[@Partoftheratpack]

Thumb firmly down

[@matski666]

Glad I'm not the only one - bored me to tears !

[@aureliotrevisiol756]

Its hard to watch....the music score was excellent

[@bbrother92]

U also think this movies sucks?

[@VaughnJogVlog]

Yup. Just watched it for the first time. I suppose I would have heard more about it or heard people quoting it if it were any good.

[@bbrother92]

@@VaughnJogVlog it won Best Picture which is shame.

[@mrz2690]

100% agree with you

[@VaughnJogVlog]

Ok, because I thought I was on crazy pills waiting for this movie to get good.

[@clydedude]

I'm a VN vet Navy Corpsman with MC in Da Nang 1970. This is my least favorite VN movie. Absurd actually

[@judsongaiden9878]

What do you think of 'BAT*21'?

[@VaughnJogVlog]

The majority of films in this setting that I’ve seen are much better. Even Dead Presidents which is sort of a backdoor war film. Platoon especially walks all over The Deer Hunter.

[@shadowsayer1516]

Which Vietnam movie do you like the most? Platoon? Full Metal Jacket? Born on the 4th of July? etc

[@judsongaiden9878]

@@shadowsayer1516 They all come across as anti-American leftist propaganda except for 'BAT*21'. The villain is always an American.

[@MrCarpen7er]

@@VaughnJogVlog The Deer Hunter" is not a war movie or about war. Platoon is. Two different movies. I believe that you don´t know much about cinema.

[@reneprovosty7032]

well, the biggest reason for me is DeNiro has turned himself into a joke and I can no longer watch his stuff without seeing him through that lens.

[@mr.constitution]

Very true. The only exceptions for me is Goodfellas.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I’m willing to say The Goodfellas is his finest movie, but I’m not convinced he makes the film as much as Pesci or even Liotta. His baseless political grandstanding of late is a prime example for why people are tuning out celebrities.

[@mr.constitution]

@@VaughnJogVlog That why i picked Goodfellas. He is overshadowed by Liotta and Pesci.

[@handsomestik]

It’s okay. There are better Vietnam films. Good Morning Vietnam is better than this, hamburger hill, heaven and hell shit….casulties of war.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I haven’t actually seen any of those in their entirety. I started Born on the Fourth of July but was put off my the kid playing young Tom Cruise looking exactly like me at that age.

[@pommunist]

@@VaughnJogVlog Born on the Fourth of July, ugh! Platoon, Apocalypse Now are good... Have you heard of The Odd Angry Shot? A Vietnam War film about Australian soldiers, whom everybody forgets fought in that stupid bloody war as well.

[@archstanton3430]

Thank you for this. I saw it many years ago. Still have no idea what the hype was about. It's a meandering, boring mess of a film.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

Hey, someone had to say it.

[@johnskibajr5691]

I agree. One of the few movies I ever walked out on. I suffered through the overlong wedding scene and a bit more before I got the hell out of there. That was way back when and from that time on, I never put much faith into movie reviews.

[@AdamManning-f8n]

It was very overatted I think, it was hard to develop any feelings for the characters

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I had to rewind when watching it. Like what, they’re captured? Why is anyone into Meryl Streep’s character? For a movie this long it sure seems to have cut out the connecting scenes.

[@CurtisEarle-b7w]

Okay, now name a movie where you developed feelings for characters more than the ones in the Deer Hunter.

[@jackofsuit]

I never like this movie because of the russian roulette thing. It's like they wanted to make a comment about PTSD, but they couldn't do it without making it farcical.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

It’s as if the approach is supposed to be that we the audience wouldn’t understand because we haven’t been through it. Fair enough, but Nick is a survivor who has it together then simply decides to become a heroin addict Russian Roulette player. It’s not set up, just a switch is flipped and we’re supposed to buy this radical change of character. If the film started with them in the prison camp and introduced the game, and had one guy outlasting his friends, okay now weren’t going somewhere.

[@Archimedes616]

Wasn't the Russian roulette business from a story set in the US that was grafted into the Deer Hunter storyline?

[@sligo405]

Not to mention, the three guys look like they're in their 30s, where most infantrymen in VN were 19-25 years old.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

I didn’t understand that entirely. They didn’t appear to be drafted, but we’re overnight transformed into paratroopers.

[@bobsmith9804]

Glad I have never seen it :)

[@VaughnJogVlog]

Unfortunately I finally watched it.

[@andrewbarron7690]

No means No!