"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
07/03/2016 at 12:26 • Filed to: None
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"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
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I watched !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! a few years back to see for myself. No amount of re-editing, re-imagining, or explaining can save it from being the trainwreck that it is. It is a Western with a five minute roller-skating sequence in it. It is 325 minutes long (and I mean long). Joe Queenan writes about it !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , in what is the funniest movie review I’ve ever read. It bankrupted a studio and ruined several careers, including !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Cimino was, by all accounts, an autocratic, difficult, Ayn-Rand-loving director and human being. And now he’s dead. RIP.
ttyymmnn
> Steve in Manhattan
07/03/2016 at 13:14 |
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In the BBC’s obit, they linked to an article they ran last December claiming that Heaven’s Gate is actually an under appreciated masterpiece. I’ve never watched the whole film, but I have sat through that interminable roller skating scene and wondered.....why? After reading the BBC piece, I went to Wiki and read about the Johnson County War . As a history nut, I found it to be a fascinating read, and a terrific movie could be made out of it. But I’m not sure Heaven’s Gate is it.
Say what you will about Heaven’s Gate , Cimino’s true masterpiece, The Deer Hunter , is a film that had a profound affect on me (I was rather young when I saw it in the early days of HBO) and one that I will likely never watch again. I think it was a very important piece of catharsis for our country coming out of Vietnam, and may have been Walken’s and DeNiro’s best film.
I think Cimino rightly earned the flack he received for Heaven’s Gate , but I don’t think we can dismiss his whole career for it. Unless Heaven’s Gate just proved how much of obsessive egotist he really was. But then again, aren’t most most directors?
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Steve in Manhattan
> ttyymmnn
07/03/2016 at 14:10 |
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I have met Rob Reiner, and he seems to be easy to work with - not that I have, but others have said as much. Similarly, Penny Marshall and Ron Howard are said to be great to work with.
And I’m sure Heaven’s Gate is not it. Normally I’d advise people to hate watch the 3:45 hour version, but not anymore. It’s a gigantic piece of shit, and he had the actors and the budget to make something lasting. But nope.
4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
> Steve in Manhattan
07/03/2016 at 15:42 |
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I hadn’t heard of him, and now I can’t stop reading his name as Mitch El Camino.
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Steve in Manhattan
> 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
07/03/2016 at 15:48 |
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I’d buy a used car from Mitch El Camino anytime.