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The Deer Hunter [HD DVD] | ![The Deer Hunter [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516KdXx9BzL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep
Studio: MCA/Universal Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  282 reviews
Sales Rank: 18433
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Published), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 184 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 61031310
UPC: 025193131027
EAN: 0025193131027
ASIN: B000K7VHUA
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1979
Release Date: December 26, 2006
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Product Description
An epic three-hour tale of lives forever changed by the Vietnam War THE DEER HUNTER follows the transformation of a tight group of friends from a working-class town taking its place alongside such classics as ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT in telling a story of war and disillusionment. On the eve of going to war Michael (Robert De Niro) Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage) gather for Steven s wedding. Leaving Steven to his wedding night Mike Nick and pals Axel (Chuck Aspergren) Stan (John Cazale) and John (George Dzundza) depart for the mountains and one last hunting trip. The hunting trip is a funny poignant scene that firmly establishes the characters as they set off for Vietnam immediately after the trip. The scenes in Vietnam especially the Russian roulette game are among the most brutal war scenes on film. The characters' eventual return to the States is emotional and gut-wrenching. Michael Cimino's award-winning film is a powerful look at friendship and love in the midst of war.This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends from a Pennsylvania town was Michael Cimino's second film and established him in the pantheon of American directors. Complex and emotionally raw performances from Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep earned each an Academy Award nomination and Christopher Walken's portrayal of Nick who survives capture but is unable to escape its trauma is a tour de force that earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. With a keen eye for nuance and a carefully structured script Cimino interweaves the rituals great and small that make up the lives of his characters creating a poignant sense of what remained constant and what was forever changed by their experience of the war.System Requirements:Running Time: 184 MinutesFormat: DVD HD Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 025193131027 Manufacturer No: 61031310
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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
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 Sad To Say, It's Lacking October 2, 2008
Erik Morton (Carmel, CA United States)
This is one of those movies that SHOULD have worked so well, and comes so close. The best way for me to describe it is to actually compare it to another film with Robert De Niro: "The Mission." Although a very different film, it shares the same fatal flaw as "The Deer Hunter": we really never get a chance to get to KNOW these characters very well. So instead of feeling what they're feeling, we just sort of watch what happens to them. Both films feel very impersonal. But I think "The Mission" actually has more food for thought that this one.
But hey, I'm supposed to be reviewing "The Deer Hunter," right? This movie is incredibly well-acted and well-photographed, but the story doesn't compel. The opening wedding scene, for starters, is ridiculously long and ends up serving no dramatic purpose. And the different portions of the film (wedding scenes, hunting scenes, war scenes, coming home scenes) don't gel so well. And the pace for the entire film is out-of-wack; rather than gripping, it's for the most part uninvolving.
So, what's good about the movie? Several things, actually. Like I said, the performances by all involved are absolutely superb, even if their characters are all left underdeveloped. The Vietnam scenes are stunning and disturbing (I actually had a conversation with a Vietnam vet once who said that this is the one Vietnam War films that he could never watch), and you will never be able to erase the images of the Russian Roulette from your mind. Harrowing stuff, regardless of its apparent historical inaccuracy.
It's not a bad movie by any stretch. It's just not that great. Worth seeing at least once, though.
One of my wife favorites September 6, 2008
Charles Interrante (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife top five movies.I was not very crazy about it.Once again it tried to make fools out of us and what we did in the Vietnam war.
 Good But Too Long! August 23, 2008
gdeezy
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just couldn't get into this because of the length. As noted dozens of times, the wedding scene was just ridiculously long. My other problem was that the movie didn't flow... it just jumped from scene to scene leaving the viewer wondering what just happened. I'm glad I finally saw this, but what a waste of time.
 A defining film in the long history of war movies August 20, 2008
T-Rexx (France)
Deer Hunter is the story of a group of young American men prior to, during and after their service as GI's in Vietnam. It is a powerful, intimate and realistic movie that touches the very soul of the American Dream. The young men are innocent, a bit lost in their world, naive, full of life and expecting a lot from their future prior to fighting in Vietnam. Then they get there, in the midst of war, in that place where they lose all of their illusions, their mind or their body for some. Save for friendship, they come back from Vietnam as haunted shells.
The movie is a beautiful, almost documentary-like story. It tackles the questioning and naivety of the youth, the atrocity of war, the appalling handling of war casualties -be they physical or mental- as well as the power of true feelings in times of troubles and, most importantly, the need for finding something worth living for. Some of the characters will find it in friendship, or in respecting life, all of them will call it America.
The story line is extremely well supported by a plethora of top notch actors (de Niro, Savage, Walken, Strip...) that further add to the overall quality of the movie.
After watching Deer Hunter, the concept of war and freedom will never be the same again.
 Skip it July 20, 2008
nodice (Manchester, Ga United States)
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
I nearly fell asleep three times in the first hour alone. The last thirty minutes was a contrived joke and I hardly understand why it's called The Deer Hunter-should be plural. I like Deniro, Streep, and Walken but this movie is pretentious and boring.
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