Christopher Walken pops up in this podcast a lot, mostly because any time Adam attempts

a foreign accent or an impersonation of any actor, it sounds like a Christopher Walken impression.

But now, on the heels of Walken's head-scratching tone-shattering appearance in Biloxi Blues,

he appears again in the head-scratching skull-shattering deer hunter, an embarrassment of riches to be sure.

You've heard of this film even if you haven't seen it because it's right at the top of the list of movies people have heard of but haven't seen.

This is the movie for people who thought the wedding scene in the Godfather could have gone

on for another hour, if only it hadn't wasted all that time introducing us to the Godfather.

A side effect of watching this movie is that you are now actually married to Merrill Streep

in the eyes of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Also, you are now a disabled Vietnam vet

But critics loved this movie and that had some hilarious

Hollywood consequences

Michael Chamino the director came off of making this 1978 behemoth with such a sterling

reputation as a filmmaking genius that United Artists wrote him a blank check to make his

Western Heavens Gate. A legendary suck fest you've also probably heard

of but not seen, which lost almost $40 million at the box office, destroyed Chamino's career,

and napalmed the entire auteur-driven filmmaking cult of the 70s, leading

to an abrupt crash of the directors wearing jackets with epaulets industry and a sudden

influx of 80s studio-driven films with talking cars and combat

tarzants wearing g-strings his shirts that Adam and Ben wrongly insist are the

high-water mark of American filmmaking. This is where the path to that flaming waterfall began.

And if you want to see what it looks like when a director has almost totally unlimited control of a film,

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