Lets do the Awards over again!!!

Rating: 3/10 (30 July 2005)

I saw this film when it was released back in 1978 and I wasn't impressed. Just finished watching it on VHS and I am still not impressed. "Coming Home" which was one of the contenders for Best Picture for that year should have won as it was a far better movie and quite possibly may have won if Jane Fonda wasn't in it. In any case Deer Hunter was a big disappointment, for me anyway. DeNiro as usual played over the top when he should have been low key but then again I was never a big fan of his. Chris Walken on the other hand is one of the greatest actors of out time and his supporting Oscar was well deserved. In fact the movie could have been edited down by an hour with more concentration on Walken's character. Another thing that bothers me is the way they dressed DeNiro up as though he were Audie Murphy. He was drafted along with his buddies which meant a two year hitch and he wears a three year chevron on his arm and the "time in combat" hashes on his other sleeve show at least three years of combat???. Add to that all the ribbons and badges and it just doesn't work. Obviousely nobody paid attention to detail in this area and it shows .