Heaven's Gate - your thoughts?

[vienna]

I managed to make it through a single viewing many, many years ago. All I really remember is a scene where a wagonload of immigrant settlers, non-English speaking, took a very bad spill. The scene's dialog was subtitled. When the wagon crashed, the occupants were sent flying, screaming some thing like, "Arghh!!". Cimino had the screams subtitled: "Arghh!!"...


[QUOTE=Garion;2247535]I personally think that Heavens Gate is a Great film, I like the grainy textures in the roller skating scenes./QUOTE]

Maybe, but the musical numbers lacked depth and good choreography and I found the flying saucer scenes too long...


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[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by vienna

occupants were sent flying, screaming some thing like, "Arghh!!". Cimino had the screams subtitled: "Arghh!!".

YUP! it's "aaargh" when yer flying!

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

speaking of Bombs, let's not forget "Ishtar":

My personal "favorite" bomb is WATERWORLD.

Widely considered to be one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. Although it grossed $255 million from a $175 million production budget, this does not factor in marketing and distribution costs, or the percentage of the gross that theaters keep (which is up to 45% of a film's box office takings). The film came to be nicknamed "Kevin's Gate" after Heaven's Gate (1980) and "Fishtar", after Ishtar (1987), two previous mega bombs.

The 1,000 ton floating set used up all the available steel in the Hawaiian Islands. When more was required, it had to be flown in from California.