Mark Kermode - Deer Hunter comments/Jarhead

Marks contorversial comments on The Deer Hunter. Then a review of Jarhead

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[TulseLuper]

I agree that The Deer Hunter is massively overrated and self-indulgent but I disagree about Christopher Walken -- I think he's fantastic -- and I don't see how it's a racist film. Was this really a controversial statement for Kermode? Did he get a lot of flak for it?

[badhead]

Not a huge controversy. But quite a few people emailed in disagreeing with him. Marks full opinion on the film is on the Deer Hunter wikipedia page.

[machiaveliyoohoo]

Although I disagree with Kermode on his comments on the Deerhunter, I still think he is one of the more knowledgeable and insightful film critics around..and he shouldn't take the fun out of watching films, because your opinion is your own and you don't need to agree with him...Without critics like Kermode, film studios will continue to churn out rubbish purely because it has "mass appeal" ( and more movies are made now then they used to be, alot of them the cinematic equivalent of junk food)

[TheDensley7]

Kermode calls Deer Hunter racist, yet he loves Friedkin, who made Rules of Engagement. That film's depiction of arabs would seem tasteless in an 80s action film.

[Transformers2themax]

Jarhead's mindless and uninteresting...It ripped on Full Metal Jacket, and the scene with them spraying machine guns in there is so annoying that while watching it, I almost shouted as if I had tourettes syndrome.

[yeoldsid]

@vhead1 I absolutely agree, the russian roulette scene is incredibly tense, and the best part of the film! I really like The Deer Hunter. The only two reservations I have about it is that it's maybe a bit too ambitious and a tad too long! Other than that, solid movie.

[DeadCamper]

@marlboroman1985 Wait, I think we have a misunderstanding here. I thought you were talking about Jarhead in your first post.

[marlboroman1985]

@DeadCamper Yeah but Mark seems to think it is racist, when it accurately depicts what the Viet Cong did to POWs. Google "John McCain arms." And he says its "politics are in the wrong place," when it is clearly not a pro-war piece. Everyone who survives in the movie comes back physically or mentally fucked up, and it affects everyone around them. I think the end is obviously an elegy or ironic, but it never beats you over the head with political messages.

[DeadCamper]

@marlboroman1985 No, he "disliked" it because it says something we all already know. He wanted it to go deeper.

[blynny97]

Mark kermode has the perfect name for a film critic, he talks so much toilet. 

[vhead1]

Deer Hunter is over-rated but that first russian roulette scene is one of the most tense scenes in cinema

[marlboroman1985]

He dislikes a movie because it isn't PC? Ugh, dork.

[lordtufty]

Jarhead = FUCKING SHIT