Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Part 2 of 8)

Documentary about the fiasco involved in the production of Cimino's masterpiece Heaven's Gate.

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• Mansfield

[nergvol]

The ultimate sin was........the film lost large amount of money. Had it made money, he would have been considered genious. Ed Wood

[chriskoob]

a western where people are line dancing on roller skates....how could it go wrong?

[Ziru322]

@veregi This country is ran by money. Nothing good or bad is realized unless someone is making a senseless ridiculous amount of money. Every social and foreign policy is about how much money the suits can make.

[keishamania]

Pathetic how Michael Chimino let his Academy Award get to his head. He really must have thought he was invincible and that he was a gift from God. He's crazy and delusional. No wonder power is placed in the wrong hands while the people who really deserve power and control never get it. BTW....Michael Chimino WHO???

[orpheusband]

@nergvol Did Wood misspell "Genius" too?

[TimCollinsATL]

The film looks visually intriguing from the clips they've shown, but it seems that UA gave Cimino enough rope to hang himself. And he did just that with his perfectionism. The stories about him make working with Kubrick sound like a stroll in the park.

[quasimoto270]

@AlexDeLarge90 yeah sure the deer hunter was a great movie and i still watched it to this day, unfortunately the same cannot be said for heaven's gate. i've seen the movie and it was honestly boring to watch, no matter how you spin it, whether for artistic purpose or cinematography, from a viewer standpoint, the movie was a borefest.

[AlexDeLarge90]

@quasimoto270

Did Ed Wood ever make an Oscar winning movie like "The Deer Hunter"?

Nobody questions the craftmanship of "Heaven's Gate". Ed Wood was a dreadful scriptwriter who literally wrote on a 13-year old's level. No amount of money, competent actors and cinematography could ever have saved Ed Wood from writing a flop.

[snakes3425]

Here's a question, if Cimino was so obessed with accuracy how could he over look this one crucial detail, the Johnson County War, the event at the heart of his movie, was fought in Johnson County Wyoming, WHY THE HELL WAS HE FILMING IN MONTANA

[snakes3425]

4:16: that was henious.

Yeah Deer Hunter's success and that best director oscar went right to Cimino's head

[snakes3425]

@chriskoob

You want a list

[quasimoto270]

MICHAEL CIMENO" THE ED WOOD OF THE LATE 70'S

[ravishingravi]

The funny part of this documentary is one the point agenda against Cimino. As though he was only one responsible.

[MassimoPiai]

cimino should do the cinematic version of blood meridian.

[EverettDudgeon138]

@nergvol Thing is, Ed never went over budget. He had a budget and worked within that.

[albertstock85]

@Kalle72 I always thought Cimino looked like Jon Lovitz

[GratefulVince]

Isabelle Hupert is smoking hot in this movie...anyone agree?

Also this movie is a masterpiece.

[SisyphusMyth]

@Kalle72 How about Jon Lovitz?

[elitestar]

@Kalle72 Now Yoko Ono would be playing Michael Cimino in a biopic

[thedrmat]

@EricAKATheBelgianGuy

It was all politicized at some degree. After Heaven's Gate, he became something of a boogeyman within the industry.

[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

@jksonny I wouldn't go that far, but his ego is incredibly large. I think that he's a compulsive liar as well, but that alone doesn't necessarily make him a sociopath.

[MondoBeno]

I'm told that Roger Ebert, as he left the theatre, said "it'll be the end of Cimino's career, and good riddance!"

[jksonny]

I think Cimino may be a sociopath - huge egotist, unapologetic liar, no conscience, no empathy, no sense of responsibility or consequences, etc..

[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

@ryantherebel I think it was also Cimino's arrogance and attitude toward the press, and some of their vitriol was out of spite.

[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

@mink61 I don't necessarily think it's that; for me, the subject matter is so obscure that nobody can relate to it. I mean, how many people had even heard of the Johnson County War before this film?

[EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

@blackamerican40

Had he scaled it back after "Heaven's Gate," maybe he could be respectable again. However, his follow-up, Year of the Dragon, may have been worse.