Remember watching the academy awards and the “film of the moment” wins over something that you know 20 years down the line will held as a classic. Well I feel that The Deer Hunter It was nominated with Heaven Can Wait, An Unmarried Woman, and Midnight Express. I guess something had to win. was a film of the moment.
This film is unnecessarily long. And every time a film is unnecessarily long we always say the same thing: “well I know what they were trying to do.” Sure - they were “establishing the characters” so that when the critical plot points hit, we would be more affected by the tragic turn of events. It didn’t work here.
The first half of this film could have been cut down to 45 minutes and the characters could have been more developed and sympathetic. By the time they got to
That’s about as deep as it got.
