I'm watching The Deer Hunter for the first time...Ask me anything!

[bicentennial_baby]

We were just talking about how neither of us had seen it, and here it is! Sniffa passed out on the couch though, so I'll have to fill him in on most of it...Damn, it's long! :o

:hi:

[DS1]

1. Sure is

Movies from that time sure love to build things up

[bicentennial_baby]

2. It's a rainy day, so I'll sit here with my leftover Chinese food,

some :smoke: and watch it :D

:hi:

[DS1]

3. Dude

Apocalypse Now is 1,000 times better for :smoke:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. I know, but I've seen it like 1000 times!

And, it's not on cable today...Might watch the Last King of Scotland tonight, it's on Comcast OnDemand.

[DS1]

5. Good flick

It's run watching Forrest W do a mood 180 in less than a second

[bicentennial_baby]

6. I've heard nothing but good things...

Wow, this movie's getting intense...yikes. :o

[doc03]

7. Some of it was filmed in the steel mill and town

where I work. Several local people were in the movie.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Really? Cool!

:hi:

[doc03]

14. It was filmed in a shit hole called Mingo Junction, Ohio

and Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp., it has been along time since I have seen it. It was also filmed in a mill town in PA, I can't remember where. One of my co-workers had a non speaking part in the bar scene at the beginning, the bar was torn down several years ago but this guy still thinks he's a movie star. Another guy drove for the stars he said you wouldn't believe the coke they went through on the way to and from the Pittsburgh Airport.
on edit: Googled it and parts were also filmed in Clairton PA and Cleveland OH.

[SPKrazy]

9. how the hell are you going to pay attention to the movie

if you don't watch it and are answering questions? :P


:rofl:

:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

10. I'm on my laptop in the recliner!

I can multi-task, Edward... :eyes:

How is you? :hi:

ps- do you like my new sig? ;)

[SPKrazy]

21. Edward says multi tasking is

over rated

:D

doing okay

yah, yer sig is da good vun!

;)

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Damn straight it is...

My sig line, that is...Fuck the haters... :D

Just ok? PM me if you wanna talk, ok?

:hug:

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wiggle, wiggle ;)

[JackBeck]

11. I never can turn it off when it's on.

Very haunting.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. It's riveting, so far...

:o

:hi:

[JackBeck]

20. ...

:hug:

[Parche]

12. Damn, its long

I head that last night!!! :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[kwassa]

15. I worked in a steel mill just like it.

summer job in college in the early '70s, same time frame. U.S. Steel National Tube Works, Lorain, Ohio.

I knew a bunch of guys that would vacation together, and drive to Colorado to go deerhunting.

I experienced the 24-bars and the Polish wedding, too.

The Vietnamese part of the movie is complete bullshit, though.

[GCP]

16. Just so you know - the end is tough

Just warning you

[LynneSin]

17. You have enough tissues

because there are some really weepy moments

This such a great film but I still can't believe the same director made "Heaven's Gate"

[SteppingRazor]

18. Best line in the movie:

Hey... Hey, elephants! Look at those elephants! Elephants! Make way... I gotta get elephants!

It's not the line so much as Walken's delivery. I think it's right about that moment when he snaps.

[Sequoia]

19. F'ing A

Yes, I have a photo of Walter Brennan, he's hot.

[bicentennial_baby]

23. Ok, that was disturbing/horrifying....

The Russian roulette scene near the end...Knew it was coming, but damn... x(

[Critters2]

24. Yep, that stays with ya.

:scared:

[bicentennial_baby]

25. Wow....

Now I'm at the scene where they're singing God Bless America....Ouch... x(

[GCP]

29. That's the thing I remember about the movie

That someone could be so fucked over by war and drugs that they'd do that to themselves voluntarily.

Extremely powerful movie-making.

[bicentennial_baby]

30. I know! Great filmmaking...

:thumbsup:

[querelle]

26. Excellent Film

But the torture and Russian roulette scenes are a bit hard to take. It's too bad that Michael Cimino committed career suicide with Heaven's Gate. I'm sure he had more Deer Hunter calibre movies in him.

Q

[bicentennial_baby]

27. Yeah, that was rough....just ended...

Glad I saw it though..and glad that my Dad got stationed in England during VietNam. Seriously...

:hi:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

28. Does it still end the same?

:)

[sniffa]

31. how much did you pay everyone to respond?

[bicentennial_baby]

32. Brazillions, dahling...

I don't have friends here... :eyes:

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