Cimino's gluttonous approach to movie-making is our gain while far from a high-octane adventure, every second of Heaven's Gate mesmerizes the senses. There are romantic trysts, shootouts, Christopher Walken monologues, and multiple scenes of roller skating.
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Brownish hued and dusted, as if dug up from the Earth, the movie, set in 1870, follows Kris Kristofferson's Harvard-educated Jim, who stumbles into a class war when he becomes Marshal to a developing patch of Wyoming. But you know what's great? Heaven's Gate.
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Where to watch it: Rent on iTunes, Amazon, and YouTube 20th Century Foxĭeer Hunter director Michael Cimino's Western carried such an expensive price tag, took so long to film due to indulged perfectionism (rumor goes that by Day 6 the movie was already five days behind schedule), and was such a disaster at the box office that it singlehandedly sank its studio, United Artists, in 1981.
Whichever the case, it's sad it bombed because there's lots to be loved here in the performances and the nuance of this rather faithful adaptation. Maybe it relies a little too much on viewers to have some knowledge of or familiarity with the source material before watching. Maybe the way it unspools is a bit convoluted. But when it hit theaters, Stateside viewers weren't foaming at the mouth to see this haunting-yet-inspiring story about a former slave who can't escape the ghost of her daughter.
These three films also cost between 200 billion and 250 billion dollars each. Many of the Marvel movies generated box office revenues exceeding one billion dollars, including "The Avengers" (2012), "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015), and "Iron Man 3" (2013). The film performed impressively at the box office, earning almost 2.8 billion dollars worldwide – almost eight times its budget. "Avengers: Endgame" (2019) alone cost 356 million U.S. The Marvel Comics movies are notorious for their high production budgets.