Deer Hunter vs Coming Home
 

I recently saw the Deer Hunter for the first time, and it moved me to say the least. I have yet to see Coming Home but I was having a discussion with a movie friend of mine about the fierce rivalry that existed between these 2 films. Of course, Deer Hunter won best picture and Coming Home took Actor and Actress for 1978, but what I found interesting is how Jane Fonda dissed Deer Hunter pretty bad from what I've read. I would like some perspective from knowledgeable movievewers on this subject. Thank you.

Deer Hunter, no contest. Coming Home is a great film, but Deer Hunter is conceived an an epic tragedy. IMO it's one of the best movies ever made about war, the direction is uncompromising and the actors work as an unique entity, something that's extremely rare, almost magic.

Coming home , it's more than anything a stage for a great Jane Fonda and a good but sometimes overacting John Voight.

My favourite in the movie is Bruce Dern, by the way.

Romy

"deer hunter" all the way baby, i love that movie!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: ~

Neither of them, actually, but if I was forced to choose I'd go with "Coming Home." "Coming Home" is a Lifetime movie before the advent of Lifetime & "The Deer Hunter" is one of the sickest movies I've ever seen while not being convincing in the least. There's a reason Cimino doesn't work these days: he's an atrocious director.

Do you like westerns?

Romy

I certainly didn't like "Heaven's Gate." :laugh:

Not even the uncut version? People say if you survive you'll love it. I didn't survive:cool:, but still think he's a great director who can't work anymore because 1) He made lose too much money to Hollywood, 2) He seems now, unfortunately, not very stable.

Romy

I didn't either. I gave up after two hours and sighed a great big sigh of relief over the fact that I rented it and didn't buy it. :laugh:

I think I would have loved myself for making it through it, not the movie!

I didn't think he was stable as I was watching the Deer Hunter. Only saw it once and I can still remember everything about, which disgusts me to a fairly large degree. I think he picked some amazingly bad projects that did nothing to show off any of the little talent he possesses, chief among them being the remake of Desperate Hours.

And Tony Hopkins in Desperate Hours had to survive to Rourke who apparently is unable to give fake punchs :mad:. By the way, there's at least a real beautiful scene inthe film, David Morse's death near the mountains. It was a touching homage to John Ford.

Romy

Replying to the first post, I have to say "Deerhunter". It is one of my two favorite movies of all time (the other one being "All that Jazz", by Bob Fosse).
No matter how many times I see it, I always get shiver during the scene where the soldiers are in the water and the vietnamese soldiers are playing the russian rulette and of course, towards the end, the meeting between De Niro and Christopher Walken - who is IMO, a brilliant actor in general.
Coming Home is also very good, but not such a unique movie, IMO.