Very Important Movies
Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
The Deer Hunter
I couldn’t help thinking of Avatar while reading Jonathan Rosenbaum’s over-the-top takedown of The Deer Hunter, originally written in 1979. Excerpt:
Try and imagine a boneless elephant sitting in your lap for three hours while you’re trying to think. It’s flabby beyond belief, convinced not only of its importance but its relevance to Americans (i.e., human beings) everywhere, and even winds up bleating a mournful rendition of “God Bless America” in your ear, hoping that you’ll join in or at least have sympathy for its plight.
The Deer Hunter is on my list of Very Important Movies™ that I haven’t seen. Is it time to take care of that? Maybe just to fish for parallels with James Cameron’s Very Important Movie™ ?
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