The Deer Hunter, over rated shit or WTF?

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yeah it does a good job of showing how witnessing Viet Cong troops blowing up trapped villagers and then being taken captive and forced to play Russian Roulette will seriously fuck you up, unfortunately these things have very little to do with the reality of the Vietnam war or the trauma of returning soldiers, many of whom would have been involved in the slaughter of civilians and the razing of villages.

The truth for american pows was tiger cages, not fictionalized games of Russian Roulette with some asian guy screaming "Mow! Mow!"

Whatever that means. I think the russian roulette scene was a spoof on every american tourist's worst nightmare: being in a restaurant in a foreign country where the waiters don't speak english, and you think you ordered the omelette, but they bring you a plate of uncooked beef.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Apocalypse Now, wtf, now that's an over rated film!

No, you're wrong about that.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

They don't have a height restriction in the army you daft twat, infact with my brains and size I'd be probably stuck in a tank firing depleted uranium at schools.

I wouldn't mock anyone's physical appearance if I were you

I think you'd be in a submarine.

 

[London_Calling]

In the topedo tube.

 

[Dillinger4]

torpaedo tube.

 

[not-bono-ever]

its fantastic.

Polish American immigrant culture set aginst a colonial war, exploring identity, dissolushionment and the sense of belonging.

fuckin great stuff.

 

[weltweit]

The Deer Hunter is on the gogglebox again tonight. Now actually.

Shall I watch it? I am not convinced. I have seen it a few times and honestly I am just not sure!

 

[Kaka Tim]

nearly four fucking hours of snail paced, middle american naval gazing - 'wah wah wah - bombing the fuck out of millions of foreign types has really screwed us up'.

I'll give it a miss I think.

 

[zoooo]

There are some bloody slow bits (the sections set in America) but the main part of the film is fucking stupendous. Well worth the boring sections I'd say.