Personally speaking, I think this was a great decision and the other two-thirds of the film wouldn't have been as powerful without such a long opening. Another bit of criticism is aimed at Cimino and his decision to make the wedding sequence last for fifty-two minutes. The scenes in Vietnam with the solders being forced to play against one another are among the most intense scenes you will ever see. These scenes are some of the most powerful moments in film history so to say the film would have been better off without them is rather stupid. Many have said that the most powerful scenes in the movie were nothing more than a work of fiction but I find this to be a rather silly complaint because this was a movie and not a documentary. The film might have been praised but some threw a lot of criticism at it including some of the Vietnam scenes dealing with the Russian roulette. It's certainly not a fun or pleasant movie to watch but there's no question that Cimino made something incredibly powerful and at times shocking. The film was a hit at the box office and won all sorts of critical acclaim but I still think the film is quite underrated as it's one of the most draining and emotional films ever made. THE DEER HUNTER ended up winning five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Walken. The Deer Hunter (1978) **** (out of 4) Michael Cimino's masterpiece about three friend (Robert DeNiro, John Savage, Christopher Walken) whose lives we see before, during and after the Vietnam war.
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