Sigurd Kvernmoen
25Mar13
I agree. Same thing happened to me this evening. Brilliant and powerful picture.
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joey Noodles
10Mar13
I revisited this for the third time this evening, such a stunning picture, wow, it hits you like a rock, so emotionally overpowering.
Jake Cole
7Dec12
Cimino, who would destroy Griffith's co-founded United Artists within two years, makes his version of BIRTH OF A NATION. Perpetuating visions of the U.S. in Vietnam it seeks to dismantle, it is nevertheless an audacious film of the American myth, albeit one of Fordian ambiguities, even outright contradictions. There are aspects of it I just can't bring myself to forgive, but I also can't deny it is monumental.
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Jack Lehtonen
7Dec12
I'd have to disagree. Cimino is so far from a racist. The protagonists, as they always are in Cimino, are from a very, very specific milieu in America, and their vision of the war is very much a part of it.
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Jack Lehtonen
7Dec12
Heaven's Gate and Year of the Dragon are the same way. Cimino plays race and class relations so close to the cuff that people get put off. No one else has played it this close since Ford. Race and class in Cimino are akin to the complexities of THE SEARCHERS or TWO RODE TOGETHER. Every group has a subjective vision of their own, a true rejection of the idea of the melting pot.
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Jake Cole
8Dec12
The character limit bit me in the ass here. I had to use "Fordian" as a catchall for the film's very complicated approach to 'Nam and race, which can't be summed up in a graf. This viewing really prompted me to try to grapple with the its racial depictions where previously I was content to write off the whole thing. For a film that so routinely skirts irony (the dangling "Welcome Home" sign when Mike comes out from hiding from that welcome, Russian-Americans forced to play Russian roulette, the God Bless America end) but Cimino never takes that easy way out, and indeed he so resolutely roots his classical form in character perspective that I will have to watch it again (and again) to really cement where I stand with the film. If my blurb sounds too caustic (which I think it does), you should know this still represents a BIG reversal from the opinion I previously held, and I think it really might be a masterpiece.
orangey
19Aug12
Everyone must have had a joint lobotomy because I cannot understand how this is hailed as a masterpiece. Historically inaccurate,overlong,overblown,sappy. The Vietnamese come as close to reality as does Fu Manchu.And yet we never understand what the americans are doing there in the first place.That's right they're invading the place. And I don't care about mountain hicks being loud and obnoxious.
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WhatsUpWill
7Jun12
The Deer Hunter is excruciatingly slow and relies solely on a this Russian Roulette gimmick. However, the performances are all stellar (with DeNiro being the stand out, of course), the cinematography is frequently beautiful, and the story was genuinely moving.
Andrés Baldíos
2Jun12
Such an extreme experience it crushed my deepest nerves and made me cry with an increasing despair. Every single one of its scenes portrayed the After-War Thoughts and Doubts about staying alive as a survivor like any other film I've ever seen. Indeed, powerful and haunting... and hurting. Personally, a revelation in war-cinema, and yes, a fascinanting psychological drama. Another miracle that must be seen.
Mysterious F.
7Apr12
I swear, if that's how SW Pennsylvania was over 40 years ago, nothing has changed here at all. NOTHING.
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Michael Convery
25Dec11
One of the few films that has left me feeling like I've just read a great 600+ page novel.
Joks
19Dec11
It has its flaws, but i'd argue that its gritty depiction of working class life is the most authentic in American cinema. The feeling of community and camaraderie that is ultimately shattered by the war rings totally true at every moment. and that is precisely where the emotional core of the film lies, and ultimately the key to its success. I can take or leave the war scenes.
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Paula Barros
14Nov11
One of the best films i have seen, Well directed by Michael Cimino,very touching story about vietname and true friendship,a must see:)
Jakov Pejov
16Aug11
American propaganda. False American history, the hidden facts. Anyone who is gone in Vietna it would be better if he died, and then the movie had any value.
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Taylor Geddes
2Aug11
I don't think any movie is ever going to come close to giving me the unbelievably tense feeling I got when seeing the initial Russian roulette scene for the first time. Perfect piece of film in those few minutes. Whenever I watch this I wish I could forget it and see that scene for the first time again and again.
Noémie Wojto
30May11
je n'avais pas ressenti un tel bouillon dans mon estomac depuis bien longtemps, merci à Christopher Walken qui est boulversant (et particulièrement attirant... !) film aux 5 oscars MÉRITÉS
Tom Barnard
27Apr11
This is a difficult movie to love because it's so damn ominous. Not for a single moment can you truly feel at ease - practically and purposely, it works, but it makes for a haunting viewing. Of course, the Vietnam sequences are something to behold, regardless of the rest of the picture.
