Most overrated movie of all time

Rating: 2/10 (28 July 2009)

This movie is a disturbing piece of 'epic' crap that I feel is a waste of time and a waste of money.
I admit, I do have a Christopher Walken bias. He's the only character I liked in the movie. The Vietnam scenes kicked rump!!! The rest of the movie... dealing with that Pittsburgh-ish town... WTF? That stuff is so boring and retarded. A bunch of drunken ugly people running around and clipping out the set-mics with their terrible yelling and singing. What the heck? I mean, SO much of this movie is dedicated to scenes of people doing stupid stuff. The wedding scene was like 45 freakin minutes long. A standard length movie is like 90 minutes.
I don't see any sort of memorable significance to a bunch of people dancing around at a wedding, or a bunch of guys yelling inaudible things in a bar - then singing a cheesy song in unison out of nowhere.
Am I supposed to 'get to know' these terrific characters and understand their deep complexities through scenes of them doing random and useless crap? There are some good/meaningful scenes in the movie. De Niro not shooting the deer at the end, Walken blowing his own brains out, De Niro taking that skinny dudes gun away from him and showing him how hardcore nam-vet he is. That's pretty much all. Oh yeah, when they escape captivity back in Nam.
The other 2+ hours of footage is lost on me. I can't believe someone would destroy such a good idea for a movie with useless clutter. Oh, the ending scene was hard to watch. Not because it was sad, because it was a total piece of turd-matter. Porkey pig going into the kitchen and crying over the news of his friend (walken) offing himself in Vietnam(after he was pronounced missing/AWOL WAYYYYYY earlier, quite possibly monthsago in the movie). Everyone else sits around and sings "God Bless America".
Wow, way to drive the point into my soul *vomit* If this is considered the cinematic eye-opener about the damages of the Vietnam war to communities, well I feel sorry for the American public.
I think a lot of people trick themselves into liking this movie way more than any human being should, just because it has a way-rad classical guitar piece throughout all of the poorly executed 'dramatic' scenes. (Cavatina I believe it's called) I have a couple of friends who bring this movie up when we talk about awesome movies everyone should see. WTF? It's in the top 250? HA!