The Deer Hunter film

Discussion of the film's slow pacing, plot, and Russian roulette scenes

Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed

“You almost need to like – it's very slow, and there's no accounting for that. It has all the action of real deer hunting.”

Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive

“It's an amazing scene but the problem is i think it's an eros character that scars him and he can never have that high again”

Taylor · unverified▼ negative

“It's very, very slow for my taste, and I do like slow stuff, so that's saying something. I started this, and I got bored.”

Discussed the Russian roulette scene with Vietnamese soldiers and the overall depressing nature of the film about how war destroyed the protagonist

Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive

“You ever seen that? Dude, they're in fucking Nam, and the gooks have them in this pit underneath their party shed. It's a great scene.”

Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative

“The rest of the movie is incredibly depressing, though. It's a sad movie. The point of the movie is what the war did to De Niro, how it ruined him.”