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De Niro is great, but the movie is boring as hell


I was really hyped up for this movie, being a De Niro fan. And honestly I can say that this movie is possibly the most boring film I have ever seen. The only good thing I can say about it is that De Niro was fvcking stellar as always.

There really was potential here. The Vietnam sequence was a great and intense scene, but it was only a small part of the film. If the whole thing could've been at that level, this probably could've been an amazing film. But the supremely overlong wedding scene, and the boring, long drawn out sequences were a huge detriment to the film.

3/10

Highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.

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Sorry for giving you a douche comment, but the movie wasn't for you, then.

Many of us love the beginning, along with the rest of the movie - we get it, and it speaks to us.


By implying that you didn't get it, I'm not saying that you didn't understand it, or that you're not smart enough, etc. Just saying that the movie didn't hit its mark with you.

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Masterpiece.

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It is a masterpiece. This film isn't for you, fanboy. Go watch a Batman movie.

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That could've been a mature post, but you instead resorted to the old "If you don't like this movie you must be a Transformers/Superhero movie fanboy" reply.

Highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.

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Have you looked at his name? he destroys people like you.


I'm entirely sure that you're entirely sure what I'm implying.

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Thanks for calling my post a masterpiece scorsese-1. I really appreciate it man!

Highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.

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I think you probably came into the film with the wrong expectations.

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You're probably right.

Highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.

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I did not have the wrong expectations. I think this movies dupes people into thinking it is great when it is really, really too long.

Here are my problems with the movie. Read all them and then tell me that I am some Batman fanboy.

-Scenes are WAY too long.

-Characters only bond by drinking and being crazy, and oh yeah, by hunting deer, sort of.

-I've lived in the PA mountains. Those mountains don't even look close to PA mountains. I mean, pine trees and rocks? REALLY?

-Not sure what Meryl Streep did in this film. Why the beating in the beginning? Who did she really love? What did it matter?

-What are the odds that someone growing up together will be close enough to be captured to together in Vietnam.

-Despite the length and detail in scenes, the story just happens with little explanation. Suddenly Nick is making money playing Russian Roulette? How is that even possible to sustain for any length of time? Oh, but he catches the bullet when he and Michael are at the table though.

-IF Michael changed so much from Vietnam, why not show visible differences? He had the same hair and facial hair as he left. Hell, even the dude who lost his legs did too. The only thing that changed was creepy bald guy had a moustache.

Masterpiece? Hell no!






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FredWhite-the creepy guy with the moustache is John Cazale-he made 5 films during his short career and all were nominated for best picture.The Deer Hunter won.Cazale died right after the film was released.
I just think there was too much dialogue for you.Im sure you'd enjoy it if it had more explosions and used CGI.

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Oh look, another idiotic Deer Hunter fanboy reply.

Highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.

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Didn't you like that two hour wedding? It was a snooze fest.

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Didn't you like that two hour wedding? It was a snooze fest.

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