Never made it through the whole thing (maybe watched 40 mins of it). Skimmed the article, but the film also killed westerns and and Kris Kristoferson’s career in addition to new holywood and UA. Honestly, I think Deer Hunter is a very overated film—far inferior to Apocalypse Now.Good article by Bret Easton Ellis on Michael Cimino:
I've never seen Heaven Gate's have any of you?
Absolute Beginners in the UK gets a similar bad wrap for being the film that killed-off the English film industry intended for cinema release. I think it's quite good.
That's funny, I watched it not that long ago as well. I agree with what you said. Overall it's a good watch, the ending is a bit predictable though.
I agree about Deer Hunter being massively overrated, I never thought that Cimino was a good writer or director for that matter most of his career is a bit of a dumpster fire.
De Niro hasn't been interested in acting for quite some time. He's a pastiche now. Wooden and stock acting. But then again he's of retirement age.
God, I've not seen that for years, in fact I watched with my late grandfather which would have been the 80s.
Well, you will be glad, it's definitely as good as you remember. I'm pretty good when recalling when I first saw remarkable films, A Matter of Life and Death and The Thief of Bagdad were both with my grandfather and must have been 1974/75. I've seen them many times since. One film I've only seen once, and it made a big impression on me and it was 1981, was the coming of age film, Breaking Away. I saw Big Wednesday at the same time, BBC2 were doing a series of coming of age/teenager films and those two films struck a chord. Only got the chance to see Big Wednesday again when it came out on video in the early 1990s.
The only coming of age film I remember from that period is P'tang Yang Kipperbang.
That's a good one, along with Hope and Glory.
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if youse have seen The Duke?
No not watched it. Its based on a true story, set in Newcastle, so they'll be talking with a Geordie accent. Not the easiest to understand at the best of times, especially so, if spoken with local slang, pet.Can I arks youse pommies
Does it have meaning for brits perhaps that an Australian might not get?
I saw it the other night, looking for something light, (as opposed to Belfast) and was seriously underwhelmed. I wondered why it was made. Its not a stinker - but I couldn't connect and couldn't understand about 20% of dialogue - might have been the cinemas sound system.
The Geordie accent I'm use to, but that part of the world, has some strange rivalries that are impenetrable to the outsider i.e. Newcastle and Sunderland. I've always found the North East of England very closed and dare I say it, old fashioned in attitudes and culture. Even now.Can I arks youse pommies
Does it have meaning for brits perhaps that an Australian might not get?
I saw it the other night, looking for something light, (as opposed to Belfast) and was seriously underwhelmed. I wondered why it was made. Its not a stinker - but I couldn't connect and couldn't understand about 20% of dialogue - might have been the cinemas sound system.
The original is THE classic petrolhead and crime avenger film. They got progressively worse after that. Fury Road was the ultimate in dumb post-apocalyptic nonsense.
