#Deer hunter movie movie#

Long time fans are going to argue with me on this, but I honestly think that this first hour could be boiled down to twenty minutes and nothing of value would be lost. That's about it.Д«y the end of the hour, the only shit you give about the characters is based on the actors who play them, they are basically cut out characters, they have no deep defining moments, no gems of dialogue, it's long, it's boring. De Niro is the leader of the group and they're all due to head out to Vietnam.

#Deer hunter movie movie#

All we learn in the first hour of the movie is that Meryl Streep has an abusive father, she's pregnant and engaged to Walken, the baby isn't his, but he intends to raise it anyway. When you have a movie in which you intend to build the tension or develop characters, you should really develop the characters. Then we get into the official first act which is the characters at a wedding reception, this first act of the movie is about an hour long, nothing happens. There's very little dialogue between the main characters and what they do say is mumbled or unimportant.

If I make it sound like there's not much happening, it's because there isn't.

The film opens with the three main characters and some friends leaving a steel mill, they go to a bar and drink, we get a quick scene of Meryl Streep getting beaten up by her Dad, then back to the main characters. The Deer Hunter is a movie of three acts with the main characters being Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken and some other guy.