Karen Allen wasn't against hunting in any way. But what woman's panties wouldn't drop upon witnessing Bambi get resurrected?
Nothing to do with hunting and only to do with her witnessing the compassion of the alien.

Technically speaking, hunting IS primitive compared to farming cattle.
"I don't need to believe it's real. I just need to believe it."

Uh Karen Allen's character didn't say anything about hunting being primitive, or anything about hunting at all other than giving the alien the basic explanation of why the animal was dead on the car.
It was just the alien that implied it was primitive. And he didn't go inside and eat a burger either.
No plot hole, no hypocritical behavior from either character.

The deer was not yet gutted.
It likely was shot & killed not long before the hunter(s) stopped at the diner.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

I have never hunted (which is why I don't eat animals), but I thought if you were going to kill an animal for food, you have to gut them shortly after death or the meat is poisoned. So it struck me as odd that Starman would be able to reanimate the deer if indeed the hunter had shot her for food, and therefore gutted her. But hey, maybe he magically restored her innards. After all, he made himself human out of hair, right?

Your comment must have been designed to start an argument because it makes no sense. Karen Allen's character wasn't anti-hunter. She was anti-bozo because the gentleman in question was a well known jerk who liked to start fights just like you.
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good point.
I really dont see what those safari hunters want out of it.
Do they think its a challenge? "ooh look boss , theres the big cat you asked us to find, heres a big gun , why dontcha shoot it?"

hunters don't just shoot animals for fun, even sport hunters simply shoot a larger animal with a bigger rack but they still eat the animal
What a crock of sh!t!
I suppose that retarded dentist ate that lion he shot did he, go back to Texas ya redneck.

hunters don't just shoot animals for fun
And you dare to call others "clueless about hunting"?
An idiot
and
a hunter, what a delightful combo.
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence (& their directors)

Well said. Its a shame you have to unpack it still in 2015.

Unless you and everyone involved in the making of this film are vegetarians and use no byproducts that come from animals you are all hypocrites.
VHS>DVD

Starman ate eggs. The animal didn't have to die in order to feed him.

The starman has an egg sandwich. Jenny Hayden has a burger. Their food choices were character driven.
The resurrection of the deer set up the resurrection of Jenny Hayden. We learn that one of the key differences between the starman's culture and ours is a reverence for life.
All movies, plays, and operas have some kind of conflict to be resolved via the characters and plot. This has been going on for millennia, so it's hard to see it as Hollywood malfeasance.

"There is a difference with shooting for fun and eating meat."
You are clueless about hunting, hunters don't just shoot animals for fun, even sport hunters simply shoot a larger animal with a bigger rack but they still eat the animal, why would the guy strap the deer to his vehicle if he just shot it "for fun". He even offered the Karen Allen character some venison at the diner which shows he was going to eat it like all hunters do with game they killed.
It just shows Hollywood has always been very hypocritical when dealing with hunters in movies because peta is heavily tied to Hollywood like with Bambi where the hunters kill everything in the forest and every animal is in danger when they come around which could not be further from the truth. In Starman they demonize hunters with the typical stereotypes of hunters and are against killing a deer, but then the 2 characters go in the diner and have no problem eating dead animals that were raised on a farm and killed for money and food.

There is a difference with shooting for fun and eating meat.
Damn right.

There is a difference with shooting for fun and eating meat.
Its that man again!!

Who gives a crap?