I say his best performance might be a underrated early Martin Scorsese masterpiece Mean Streets

Bad grandpa

De Niro is the greatest actor ever. Don't come and argue.

His work in 20th century is unbelievable and his range in 1970s and 1980s is otherwordly.

He was much better in "Taxi Driver."

Right Axel?

no way those mountains are in the eastern US. No way at all.

Lol true the timeline can be a bit confusing on their last day before the war.

As a Washington native, it was honestly distracting to see those mountains that are clearly nowhere near Pennsylvania when they went hunting

It's not a documentary. I'm sure these decisions were made for artistic impact.

@@SandfordSmythe yes, maybe the nuance of my comment was lost on you.

​@tiptopdadddy You have to explain those big words to me. Art has many layers. You have to go through the layers.

​@@tiptopdadddy most modern "war" movies are partially funded by the military and in turn become propaganda. I'll take little inaccuracies like the ones you mentioned if it means we get an honest take and not just what the military approves.

What ?? Really ?

ok

yaa, kinda.

Brian Meints I honestly don't know how you can consider this a bad movie?

Brian Meints you’re actually dumb. The Russian roulette sequences are some of the best Filmmaking ever.

i dont expect everyone to see what i see in this briliant movie amazing actors i dont expect everyone to feel what i felt in this masterpiece of a movie im just glad i watched it and eversince i watched it i havent been able forget it ...its engraved in my mind constantly when i have to think of a favourite movie because it exceeds all expectations in my mind i love the setting the story and most of all i love Robert de Niro he is my fav actor for as long as i live so no not everyone wil appreciate ths movie and thats ok cz not everyone has good taste ..

Brian Meints 🤣 stop trying to be edgy kid your mother wasted three hours giving birth to you

I mean the wedding scene in the Deer Hunter sets up the characters, it shows how the characters are in a normal time before they go through what they do in the rest of the film. It was important to show them being normal and the wedding scene did just that. Whether or not it didn’t meet your tastes isn’t a problem with the movie. It isn’t a flaw it’s more of you thing, the wedding does have a purpose in the story, just because you didn’t like it doesn’t mean it failed.

just get through that scene, movie gets better

@@yospidey0078 We learn very little from the first hour of that movie. They work in a forging plant. They like to hunt. Streep's dad is a drunk. Most of the plot is ridiculous. At the reception they meet some bitter and disillusioned solier sitting alone at the bar. They get upset that he's unresponsive as to what his problem was. They don't have TV? This is 1968. They didn't notice that most of the country had turned against the war and our president announced he wasn't going to run again because of how he botched the war effort? Add to that this question: What 35-year-old men were enlisting in the army in 1968? The Deniro and Walken characters were not 19. And John Savage's character was around 27. Who get's their girlfriend pregnant, does the right thing and marries her, but then enlists to go to Vietnam? This movie failed in the two keys elements of good writing. What is the story, and how that story was told. We get 30 minutes of dancing at a reception, which does nothing for us, but no scene that explains how the three buddies get captured by the Vietcong.

@@yospidey0078 the viewer learnes nothing important about those characters and that wedding reception. The wedding reception just happens and kills time. Compare that scene to the wedding reception in “The Godfather.” In “The Godfather” we learn all about Michael at the reception-his “that’s my family, not me, Kate” speech-and the scene alternates between a happy reception and the don’s office, where the conversation there will lead three men being badly beaten. We learn a lot from opening scene of “The Godfather” We learn absolutely nothing about the characters at the wedding reception in “The Deer Hunter.” The scene where they meet the soldier drinking at the bar is totally absurd. Given the time period when this movie takes place, there’d be no mystery as to why that soldier was disillusion. It’s like these friends never watched the TV news, or read a newspaper. And who gets his girlfriend pregnant, marries her, and the next day leaves for basic training/Vietnam? That’s ridiculous.

I felt exactly about this film at the time of watching this film, it didn't achieve enough with the length of the opening. Another problem I had was that it never showed how war changes people, because there was so little of what the war was like. I was expecting more psychological depth but there was only the metaphor with Russian roulette and the physical disability (which seems like a cheap way to explain that someone has suffered from the war). But there are parts which have aged quite well in my mind, you could argue it has a documentary-like feel where it is not aiming to make everything deliberate and meaningful.