"You're so full of shit you're gonna float away."

Uuuuuuuuuuuugh Deer Hunter. 3 hours of our lives we will never get back. This is another great example of an "epic" movie from the 70s that was just long to be long. The whole beginning with the wedding could have been pared way down, because it just went on and on but didn't really contribute anything to character analysis or development of the relationships. A lot of the time wasted there could have been spent making us care about these people. We just didn't. It was really disconcerting to slog through that first hour and then WHAM, the guys are prisoners in Vietnam. Huh? How did they get caught? How long had they been there before that happened? No, please don't tell us any of that - just spend another hour showing people screaming at each other and playing Russian roulette. Then just as suddenly we're back at home, following Robert DeNiro's character as he tries to pick up the pieces and fill the holes (hehe) left by Christopher Walken's character who has gone AWOL. We understand that this movie may have been important in the cultural framework of the time period, but it was a mega snooze for us.