Its 2014, and this is still….
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Ghenghy — 11 years ago(July 21, 2014 11:43 AM)
I'll give a 1/2 hour, thanks.
Anybody interested can watch the edit here.
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jimmyr5595 — 11 years ago(August 03, 2014 08:07 PM)
It's just that there are so many HORRIBLE movies out there. This, even if you don't like it, is at least something that someone put EFFORT into. Someone had a vision for it. Some are just absolute trash, and I feel it's insulting to put this down with those movies.
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Zak_007 — 10 years ago(May 09, 2015 08:38 PM)
I agree. Worst movie and what a waste of $40 million.
So he spends so much time and money composing every shot in the
beautiful scenery and then he uses a brown/yellow filter for the whole film which washes out what should have been colorful scenery. Why would he shoot the
entire film in that filter? It's not California or Arizona desert.
Even if he had to use brown/yellow filter, Sergio Leone and other Western movie's have shot that brown/yellow tinged much better. Great cinematography and composition in Once Upon the time in the West and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid for a fraction of this movie's budget.And that movie was interesting even though it was long. Even the cinematography is overrated. You give that much time to compose shots and plenty of money and artistic freedom, many cinematographers would have done a far better job. John Toll (The Thin Red Line) or Conrad L. Hall (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Road to Perdition) have done a far better job.
I've watched other slow, long art movies like The Thin Red Line or Once Upon a time in America. But they were interesting movies despite the pace and length. This movie has no interesting cast/acting and no interesting dialogue to remember. Worthless. -
Zak_007 — 10 years ago(May 09, 2015 09:27 PM)
Here is a quote from Roger Ebert's review of this film when it released. And these lines are specifically about the Cinematography and the Brownish Yellow filter. I seriously thought something was wrong in the quality of broadcast in MGM HD or settings in my HD TV. But now I know.
"It is so smoky, so dusty, so foggy, so unfocused and so brownish yellow that you want to try Windex on the screen. A director is in deep trouble when we do not even enjoy the primary act of looking at his picture." - Roger Ebert on Heaven't Gate. -
pete36 — 10 years ago(June 27, 2015 11:07 AM)
Having seen it recently on ACM (216 min.) it is truly awful. Besides the direction the acting is really terrible, from everyone involved. Cimino is the main culprit but also the producers are to blame, having agreed to his every demand and whim. He should have been taken off and replaced by Norman Jewison (as was the plan).
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bh_tafe3 — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 04:19 PM)
Not a fan. I think the recent BBC Poll which had this ranked at #9 was a joke. Having said that, it's not even in the worse hundred films I've seen. But i will never watch this again. Tge Soderberg cut possibly, but not the tedious 3+hour cuts.
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The_TJT — 9 years ago(June 30, 2016 03:49 AM)
I think we can safely ignore your opinion since you rated 1/10
Cross of Iron
Schindler's List
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
City of God
Ran
and who knows what else.As for Heaven's Gate, it's rather solid western epic with great cast I watched the 216 minute version on one go. Rated it 7/10. Imo the cast and sets with realistic feel were its biggest strength.
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Ghenghy — 9 years ago(June 30, 2016 05:02 AM)
LOL Cross of Iron is the worst WWII movie ever made, its laughable. Shindler's List is nothing but pure propaganda, and you bought it. Not even going to talk about that silly cartoon Crouching Tiger.
In any event, Heaven's Gate for the grand epic it was intended to be stands above all other in its genre as a complete miss and nothing but a monument to Cimino's ego. If you can sit through 216 minutes of this beep then you must not have much else to do, and know little about Westerns. I'm not going to insult you any further, its obvious you don't know what the hell you're talking about, but thanks for researching my page rookie. LOL