The Deer Hunter

A long movie, with some very good scenes, and some that were merely good--I admit the editing (or lack therof) is what kept me from giving it five stars. I have to admit, the setting in Pittsburgh did help endear it to me. Bobby DeNiro is good as usual, Christopher Walken is a hoot, and Meryl is Meryl. It's hard to watch the John Cazale scenes, knowing he'd die so soon after. I appreciate the desire to show how raw the experience in Vietnam was, but it was over gleeful in painting the Viet Cong soldiers as barbaric sadists.