And the big deal is......

Rating: Null/10 (28 July 2001)

Quite simply: I did not see what was so great about "The Deer Hunter." Some people go off to Vietnam. They come back. They are different. War changes people. The end. It is nothing that has not been done before in countless other films - some of them quite good.
Was "The Deer Hunter" the first movie to treat Vietnam in such a manner? Perhaps it is the "Psycho" of the genre. The film that did it first and then becomes a cliche.
All I can say about "The Deer Hunter" is that I can put a check mark next to one more movie on the AFI 100. Hoo Hum.