I kept waiting for it to really begin and but it never did.

Rating: 3/10 (13 September 2005)

I remember watching this movie when it was first telecast on network TV. I was spending the evening with my dad and we decided to watch this movie which had been hyped for the previous week. It was a common trait for movies to be slow to start, but they would usually start getting interesting around 30 minutes into them. Several times during this movie it would seem as if the movie was really starting to get good and then it would just die. After the movie was over I remember looking at my dad and saying that I was still waiting for the movie to begin. He smiled and said "Me too." Other than spending an evening with my dad before he passed away, it was a waste of time. (We both got a chuckle out of these east coast steel town guys hunting deer in the mountains near Mt Baker in Washington State though) Ever since the Deer Hunter, I've looked at the best picture award as being a clear indication of a boring and meaningless movie. Or a movie that tries so hard to be artsy or give a message that it forgets to be entertaining. With a few exceptions in the past 25 years, they usually are.