NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

jc-999-591106 This movie proceeds very slowly, it could have been shortened by an hour. That said, the story and acting are very good. The sound not so much. Isabelle Huppert, Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges and the rest of the cast are amazing.

bonnchnd I waited 38 years to watch this, all because of the horrible reviews. bad press and the general disdain that the Hollywood King-Makers had for it. I watched the shortened version and and in my opinion it is a masterpiece of Western Film making. (except Sam Waterson, he's laughable in this). Our ancestors, the immigrants in this film, faced unbelievable hardships and yet they prevailed. Their lives are portrayed with accuracy, comion, laughter and great, great sadness. A case of the "man" keeping the people down. If you are able, please watch this movie. It is worth it!

Samiam3 Arguably one of the most self-indulgent movies ever made. Heaven's Gate is the ultimate paradox of epic and empty. Few movies are as beautiful as this one, or as boring.Michael Cimino's of the Johnston country war is like a museum of epic paintings, beautifully shot but void of intelligent dialogue and sympathetic characters.Kris Kristopherson goes through the movie as if he is suffering from a hangover, dreary and dull. Christopher Walken and Isabelle Huppert fair somewhat better but the problem is that Cimino is incapable of finding his characters motivation, so everyone seems lost. There is a major absence of backstory in this movie, and instead we have numerous 'cast of hundreds' scenes that are stretched out beyond any reason other than Cimino is in love with the images.Cimino is more interested in telling the story through the picture than through the writing, and he in so ham fisted in his approach that Heaven's Gate feels like a 1920's propaganda film by Griffith or Eisenstein. He doesn't seem to appreciate that movies have changed since then and so have moviegoers. For the audience it takes three seconds to comprehend a message that Cimino takes four minutes to convey. The sound mix is also bombastic, mainly because long segments of dialogue are inaudible behind the cacophony of horses and carriages. The only memorable about Heavens Gate is the photography, everything else is a waste.

sol- Learning of a plot to slaughter immigrants, a Wyoming sheriff takes action in this sprawling western from Michael Cimino. The film boasts detailed period sets, mobile camera-work from Vilmos Zsigmond and a talented ensemble cast, and yet it is easy to see why this was a commercial flop. For all the extra character detail that we get due to the enormous length and leisurely pace, there is little tension and sense of imminent danger. Kris Kristofferson has some great moments early on as he reacts in horror to Sam Waterston's speeches about killing immigrants, but his disgust is often sidelined as the movie progresses. He has time to romance brothel ladies and roller-skate without any urgency to stopping the planned slaughter and the characters outside of Kristofferson are dull. John Hurt has some solid moments as a college chum whose idealism has turned to cynicism as an adult, but the rest of the cast feel wasted. The film has some great touches for sure, and with a slowed The Blue Danube Waltz sublimely appearing on the soundtrack near the end plus several detailed battle scenes, the film is not an entire waste. This is, however, a movie for which its checkered history is more fascinating than the films itself, with the bloated near four-hour final product the direct result of Cimino being given carte blanche after winning two Oscars for 'The Deer Hunter' two years earlier.