Comments on: Guest DVD Review (Part I): Gates Of Heaven http://themoderatevoice.com/11156/guest-dvd-review-part-i/ An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:26:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cosmoetica http://themoderatevoice.com/11156/guest-dvd-review-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-55361 cosmoetica Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:37:36 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/uncategorized/guest-dvd-review-part-i/#comment-55361 Gray- the term flop refers to economics, so to differ with my assessment then restate the economic aspect is superfluous and makes no sense. I was not commenting on the art, lest I'd not use a term like flop. It's a pretty bad film, but its infamy rests not on its bad art, but its waste of $, which forced the studios to end the great 1970s auteur era. Apocalypse Now was also partly to blame, but that's a great film, and way better than Cimino's film. Gray- the term flop refers to economics, so to differ with my assessment then restate the economic aspect is superfluous and makes no sense. I was not commenting on the art, lest I’d not use a term like flop. It’s a pretty bad film, but its infamy rests not on its bad art, but its waste of $, which forced the studios to end the great 1970s auteur era. Apocalypse Now was also partly to blame, but that’s a great film, and way better than Cimino’s film.

]]> By: Gray http://themoderatevoice.com/11156/guest-dvd-review-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-55358 Gray Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:48:34 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/uncategorized/guest-dvd-review-part-i/#comment-55358 "not to be confused with Michael Cimino’s monumental Western film flop Heaven’s Gate" I beg to differ. It's monumental alright, and it's been kind of an economical flop, but it's not a flop as a work of art. Heaven's gate gives an unsentimental view of immigrants to the US and how their dreams of having a chance to pursuit happiness there where shattered by the establishment, out of purely selfish, capitalist reasons. Of course, the US public didn't like that view into the mirror, but that doesn't say that it isn't a great movie. Imho this saying reflects Michael Cimino's situation very well: "A prophet isn't without honor, save in his own country" “not to be confused with Michael Cimino’s monumental Western film flop Heaven’s Gate”

I beg to differ. It’s monumental alright, and it’s been kind of an economical flop, but it’s not a flop as a work of art. Heaven’s gate gives an unsentimental view of immigrants to the US and how their dreams of having a chance to pursuit happiness there where shattered by the establishment, out of purely selfish, capitalist reasons. Of course, the US public didn’t like that view into the mirror, but that doesn’t say that it isn’t a great movie. Imho this saying reflects Michael Cimino’s situation very well:
“A prophet isn’t without honor, save in his own country”

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