The Deer Hunter Thread

Finally saw this for the first time, what a great fucking movie.

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It's moderately good if you skip the boring first hour.

3/10

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Name a more intense scene in film history then the final Russian Roulette

The whole urban, impoverished steel factory setting always makes me uneasy.

Can anyone rec me more war films where the focus is more on how war changes the characters when they return home than actual battle scenes? Hurt Locker attempted to do this but it wasn't nearly as poignant.

The setting doesn't bother, but working class ethnic white guys always bothers me for some reason. Poles, Italians, Irish, something about them is annoying

cimino should've cut down the wedding scene desu senpai

How did Mike get back into Saigon so easily?

The wedding scene is the ultimate pleb filter.

What a strange notion.

The Deer Hunter is all she wrote on the subject.

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This is the only one I can think of that rivals it, but roulette is more intense I think. That scene left me so drained afterwards, I felt like I had actually lived through it.

Maybe it's a bit of a stretch, but The Master. You never see the war but it begins with the main character coming home from WW2 and trying to adapt, although he was always a bit of a misfit.

Also The Pacific miniseries on HBO did a pretty good job of this in the final episode, if you don't mind committing to a series.

>italian/irish working class guy
Well fuck you too buddy

>At last I have truly become... The Deer Hunter
That was my favorite scene

>The Master
I see where you're coming from but in that scene where PSH is asking Freddy all those questions about his childhood and home life iirc it sounds like his fucked up personality stems from that than the war. 10/10 movie though

>The Pacific
Thanks for reminding me I need to watch that, along with Band of Brothers and Generation Kill

If you haven't seen any of them, watch Band of Brothers first since it's more solid than Pacific. I still need to watch Generation Kill though, I've heard it's fantastic.

The Thin Red Line

All I could think was Nickie was there for months sending back money to his friend, presumably earned from being a regular shooter at the Russian Roulette table. Yet statistically he wouldn't survive more than a handful of shots, and certainly not dozens.

The wedding scenes were way too long but besides that love the film

I think one of the Roulette guys said he played "many times", but considering Russian Roulette has a pretty high turnover rate of players, "many times" could mean only around 6 or 7 games. It's still unlikely but possible.

Poor man's Bad Grandpa.