This Yooper finally watched "The Deer Hunter"...my blog review
The Deer Hunter came out the year after I graduated high school. Having grew up in a blue collar Upper MI town in the Vietnam era, I shied away from it for nearly 40 years!
Here's my blog review:
http://ricksrealreel.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-deer-hunter-catches-me-at-last.html