I ain’t seen it in a long time and only then bits and pieces. But we watched it yesterday.
I love that it is set in Clairton, PA and the strong Slavic community culture.
Christopher Walken was so young and handsome.

Hard to imagine the horrors of war

What's the movie about? deer hunter that gets caught in a war I take it?

… it’s about Russian roulette lol

Vietnam vets returning to the deer hunting culture they came from and the issues of the time , the culture , how they adjusted to moving back and dealing with their war.

The worst part about it is they filmed the hunting scenes in Washington state with stags. Nothing like the whitetail hunting in our region of the supposed Allegheny mountains.
Oh well.

Other than discrepancies like that, very very good film.

I liked the scene where the Green Beret didnt have much to say about that war LOL.

Good movie, makes you think about what's important and what's not

I watched it once. Felt sick to my stomach watching it. I was about 13 years old.

One of the better movies ever made.
In my opinion.

Moe,,smack,,,,Moe!

I was very young when Schindlers list came out and my mom took me along with my cousin. We couldn’t take it. Had to switch movies and watch the Mighty Ducks.
To this day I don’t know why she thought that was a good idea

A very sad, but true movie. To think of mass murdering a class of people because of their nationality is horrendous. The final scene at the end where so many Jews acknowledged the saving kindness of Schindler by placing stones on his grave was very touching. Brought tears to my eyes.

Excellent movie, I just can’t watch anything with D’Niro in it anymore.

Iron City and Rolling Rock beer….in the movies!

I remember seeing the poster for "The Deer Hunter" at the movie theater and asking to see it instead of whatever movie my friend Paul's mother took us to instead. I remember she said it was inappropriate. I didn't know why and she got flustered when I asked. She said I would have to watch it with my parents. I said I wanted to watch it with my uncle. I would have been around 8. I told her my uncle David was a deer hunter and I was interested in hunting. I've still never seen it.

Keith

This is this........I think a remake would be better. There was some corny acting in it in my opinion.

IMO........you didn't miss a thing Keith. I have seen a bunch of that genre and again IMO..........Apocalypse Now was the worst but the Deer Hunter is a very close second. Not to ruin it for anyone but FYI.......the original screenplay that the Deer Hunter was made from........was about gambling and crime in Las Vegas. It never had a thing to do with Vietnam. The whole thing was just a bogus decision by the director to set the film in VN rather than Vegas. The nonsense about the Russian Roulette was about Vegas. Not Vietnam.

I watched it thinking it was going to be about deer hunting , it was a let down in that regard

That was the last movie he made that was any good. He's just a has been actor now. I don't watch anything he's been in since that movie.

I preferred Full Metal Jacket when it comes to Vietnam type movies, but the Deer Hunter was decent.