It is an utterly hollow experience which leaves its audience somewhere between slipping into a coma and erupting into blind fury.” - Daniel Mumby, Three Men on a Blog, posted on 12.9.10. Michael tries unsuccessfully to coax his friend away from a fatal game of Russian roulette. It is in a very select group of films which are almost unendurable due to length, structure, tone and content. Mau Mau As if playing Russian Roulette against your military buddies while trapped in a POW camp isnt enough, try doing it while getting slapped in t. The russian roulette scene from the deer hunter led to real deaths one of the most famous big screen depictions of russian roulette is in 'the deer hunter,' and heres a (brief) recap (via roger ebert ): a group of friends who find themselves embroiled in the vietnam war are captured by the vietcong, and are forced to play russian roulette. The Deer Hunter is a truly hateful film, a badly-written, badly-directed, poorly-acted piece of garbage, at turns boring, racist, mawkish, churlish, pretentious and manipulative. “At the risk of slowly making myself unpopular, let me be perfectly clear from the outset. But that all changes once you’ve seen The Deer Hunter. “Which is worse? A heartless, soulless blockbuster with no wit, intelligence or shelf life, designed solely to milk money from moviegoers in the quickest and most cynical way possible? Or a film which presents itself to be a poignant, intelligent, moving work of art, only to emerge as a bloated, pretentious, self-indulgent piece of crap? For most of us, the obvious answer is the former. A controversial film about a controversial war ‘One Shot’ details how Cimino took the playing the of Russian Roulette as a metaphor of the US involvement in Vietnam and in turn gave us one of cinemas greatest antiwar films ever.

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