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you touched upon one of my other issues with the deer hunter - the pacing is a disaster. the first hour ish is incredibly slow pacing and then minus the first Russian roulette scene it’s a whirlwind of pacing until the end of the movie. really, really needed a much better editing job. cinematography? generally great. though you start to get some of that “everything dim all the time” approach during the fall of saigon sequence. the main reason i watched it is as part of an effort to watch every feature length film which john cazale has been in, which, isn’t a very long list…