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 enlarge | Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep
Studio: MCA/Universal Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  282 reviews
Sales Rank: 1440
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 183
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D20177D
ISBN: 0783225997
UPC: 025192017728
EAN: 9780783225999
ASIN: 0783225997
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 1979
Release Date: March 31, 1998
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Classic February 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I feel that this movie was transfered to HD-DVD extremely well compared to the age of the movie.
 A true cinematic masterpiece February 6, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are flaws in this three-hour long film, but that doesn't take away from the power of this film. It is a true masterpiece. The cinematography is beautiful, the acting is phenomenal (especially DeNiro), and the story is sad and horrifying, while being uplifting at the same time. It is also very deep and complex with heavy symbolism. Its a "thinking man's" film. I especially like the element of male-bonding among these blue-collar, patriotic guys from pennsylvania. I could imagine hanging-out with these guys drinking at the bar and going on hunting trips.
P.S. Roger Ebert considers this one of the all-time "great Movies".
 Tooooooo long. January 20, 2008
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
The movie history is ok. The players were greats. But the edition was terrible. The first hour could be reduced to about 25 minutes easily.
A Must-own HD DVD! January 13, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
To summarize the whole thing, I've got to say this film is amazing.
There are some of the most beautiful scenes ever put on film in this title. These are contrasted with some disturbingly hellish imagery brought about by the tragedies of war. The story is truly compelling.
The HD DVD presentation offers the best picture you could expect from a 1978 film. The picture comes across as clear as the film can possibly be, finely detailed and very clean. The audio is excellent too for a film from this era.
"The Deer Hunter" is a three hour film, and for me the best way to view it was to hold onto it until having waken up at four in the morning one day and watch it with morning coffee...but that's just me. If you can stay focused on a film this long toward the latter part of the day then go for it. It's a great movie, either way.
I very highly recommend "The Deer Hunter" on HD DVD!
 A 70s RAMBO December 16, 2007
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
So, here is the - ahem - classic film that won five - five!!! - Academy awards in 1978. It must have been a bad year for films because this is a real howler. This is a review of the first 70 minutes because after that I switched off. It may have improved in leaps and bounds after that. I have my doubts, but you never know. The first 50 minutes or so deal with a group of Pennsylvanian steelworkers: their lives, their fights, their bonding, their background, culture, etc, all of which is quite entertaining - but not very - and then goes on to the war in Vietnam. It is from here where the film goes from being mildly engrossing to being an insult to the intelligence, a disgraceful rewriting of history and a hysterical jingoistic piece of flag waving.
The first scene in Vietnam shows our Pennsylvanian ex-steelworkers trying to protect Vietnamese villagers from the Vietcong, who are portrayed as a bunch of blood thirsty crazed geeks who shoot dead mothers and their children with gay abandon. Thank God for the Americans, eh? Anyone remember My Lai? Imagine a film set in France during World War II which showed German soldiers protecting French villagers from the French Resistance and with the French resistance portrayed as blood thirsty demons and the German soldiers as decent, brave Caucasian heroes. There would be a howl of outrage and everyone involved in the making of the film treated like a pariah. Deservedly so, too. In the same way that the French were fighting against a German invasion, the Vietcong were fighting against an American invasion, and no amount of Hollywood re-writing of history will change this fact.
The Russian roulette scenes are ridiculous -and a complete invention, they never happened in real life- and show the director's racist attitude towards the Vietnamese.
The best that can be said for this film is that some of the set scenes in Pennsylvania are quite good, especially the wedding scene, and shows Michael Cimino has a talent as a 2nd Unit film director. The acting and the cinematography are fine. One star for each. Avoid this film. It is awful. It makes the Rambo movies look like The Battle of Algiers.
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