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The deer hunter DVD

  • 14-08-2002 1:01pm
    #1
    Gaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭


    I bought this at the weekend having heard about the movie for years and never managing to see it.

    And i thought it was a fantastic movie , very powerful ..really showed what the after effects of nam where like for some people

    There was a few things about the movie i didnt like however , I found it very choppy by that i mean jumps form one scene/location to another without any warning or build up... eg: one minute there walking into a village and the next there prisioners playing russian roulette. Also i felt the opening was very slow and the wedding scene was waaaay to long.

    there my only real gripes, apart from that i thought it was great.

    The DVD itself is nothing to right home about, has the trailer and thats about it , bit disappointing .... i wonder does the region 1 have any more ?hmm

    Oh yeah and i never knew that brialliant guitar theme was by John Williams


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  • #2
    pauldeehan
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    It is indeed a brilliant film, especially the Russian Roulette.

    The film shows Vietnam; Before, During and After. The wedding scene is long out of the necessity to show what the characters were like before the war.

    Ddin't know John Williams did the music...


  • #3
    daveg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭daveg


    A Classic film indeed...
    Oh yeah and i never knew that brialliant guitar theme was by John Williams

    Cavitina - a classsic song also...


  • #4
    Pigman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Pigman


    Originally posted by Darth Homer


    There was a few things about the movie i didnt like however , I found it very choppy by that i mean jumps form one scene/location to another without any warning or build up... eg: one minute there walking into a village and the next there prisioners playing russian roulette. Also i felt the opening was very slow and the wedding scene was waaaay to long.

    Oh yeah and i never knew that brialliant guitar theme was by John Williams

    Stanley Myers wrote Cavatina. I think John Williams just played it?

    Great film alright. The wedding scene is necessary but I agree with you that it's a little long. Almost half an hour on its own by my memory?


  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Pigman

    Stanley Myers wrote Cavatina. I think John Williams just played it?

    And it's a different John Williams. The guitar player. Not the movie composer. More than one movie book has made that particular booby.

    The Region 1 DVD is no better really. Additionally, the DVD was made the cheap way. It's mastered from an old widescreen master used for the laserdisc release. The picture quality is a little shoddy, plus they didn't adjust the contrast for DVD so in dark scenes much of the detail is missing. The region 2 is directly mastered from the region 1 disc.

    Still a great movie though. When they get around to releasing it on DVD properly it'll be even better.


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