It's been 136 years, and they are still locked in study hall.

@keybyss98

7 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Levesque Their cheers and snores are still heard amongst the halls of Harvard to this day...

@Ratciclefan

7 жыл бұрын

You guys win the interwebs.

@thetalkingbear

6 жыл бұрын

Nathaniel Levesque It's an SCP

@wingsandash

4 жыл бұрын

136 likes. Not touching that.

Appreciate your acknowledging and giving factual info on the real Nate Champion His story is messed up, and sad, and he wrote a diary, while he was holed up in his house, fighting for his life, having a firefight w the hired guns. He wrote, knowing that he was writing his last words, so he made his last will and testament, after telling the sad story of how he came to be hunted in the first place, a sad, unfortunate misunderstanding plus evil men's greed. His last diary is actually quite poignant He was not, as they say, "a man of letters", but it still reads like tragic poetry, with an innate sense of storytelling and rhythm, and really makes you feel for this man, who died as he tried to defend his homestead

@nicholasjanke3476

11 ай бұрын

Some interesting casting by Cimino in that Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken both closely resembled the real life Jim Averill and Nate Champion, though the two men probably never knew each other.

"We've now arrived Casper, Wyoming I bet it's a ghost town"😂😂😂

Well, to be fair, it *does* make sense having John Hurt as class orator. Usually his voice could make the phone book sound cool. (See: The Black Cauldron)

@tychoazrephet3794

8 жыл бұрын

+angbandsbane Hurt as the Horned King was the best thing about that movie, I still remember how intimidating he was and I haven't seen that movie in like twelve years.

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

Wait he voiced The Horned King?

7:12 "It was a very interesting casting choice to hire John Hurt to play Martin Short." I died.

I know I'm a bit late but RIP Michael Cimino. You can never say he didn't strive for perfection.

@bartlebyscriviner6456

8 жыл бұрын

Oh and RIP Vilmos Zsigmond too

@drawsomethewizard3006

7 жыл бұрын

and John Hurt Sorry I'm Late on it

@Ironheart73

Жыл бұрын

Actually, he does get credit for that. At least today we are all in agreement that this was a beautifully shot film. But it was far from the masterpiece that he promised. Also, he should have never let success go in his head. It was his ego that bankrupted a studio, ruined Kris Kristoffersons career, and ended a certain way of film making which sucks.

@littlekingtrashmouth9219

7 ай бұрын

I just wish he took a better look at the script. In three and a half hours, you could’ve had an ensemble and we could’ve cared more about the immigrant characters. Maybe some were thieves and anarchists, maybe some were genuine ranchers. They could’ve had problems amongst themselves, a few betrayals, maybe some immigrants conspire with the death squad? Who knows? It could’ve been like a 19th century novel. Say what you want about Gone With The Wind-there was a lot going on with the story. That way, even if the love triangle subplot was boring, you’d at least have something else to be invested in and it would make the final battle all the more consequential.

That Irish stationmaster has the legendary line in THE THING: “I don’t know what’s in there, but it’s weird and pissed off whatever it is...”

@beyond72deepsoulfulhousemixes

Жыл бұрын

Cinema Snob?

@nicholasjanke3476

11 ай бұрын

Kris Kristofferson and Richard Masur did another film together starring Steven Segal. In that one Ricard Masur plays a lawman and Kris Kristofferson plays the villain.

Such beautiful music and yet this movie reminds me of Red Dead Redemption for some reason.

I smiled at "Must be a ghost town" but laughed out loud at "Bring out your sleepy! Bring out your sleepy!"

I love the intro music is like a mafia film and the film is a bit closer to a western

@jngr1

4 жыл бұрын

@Limau Purut It didn't help that John Williams was doing The Empire Strikes Back, and Morricone fell asleep in the meeting

"hes missing the running of the ebenezer scrooges" LOLOLOL

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

Well there are Runnings of Santa Clauses so this seems logical

the film was so bad that a whole cult named themselves after it and then killed themselves using poison pudding.

@popc5245

8 жыл бұрын

+Kaelan Macauley I think they don't have nothing to do with each other

@thenetwanderer6126

8 жыл бұрын

Keyser Soze it was a joke.

@Egalitariat-likesecretariat

8 жыл бұрын

+Keyser Soze Why are you Bob Marley? You're supposed to look like either Kevin Spacey or no one at all!

@thenetwanderer6126

8 жыл бұрын

Paul Reeves what are you talking about?

@redactedredacted6656

8 жыл бұрын

I was honestly disappointed it wasn't about the cult.

The main problem with this film is the characters and the story. The characters are dull, bland, boring and some of them could easily be morphed into one single character and the story isn't big nor interesting enough for a five and a half hour film, hell three and a half hours is pushing it and I love long films; I prefer Peter Jackson's King Kong to the original, one of my favorite movies is Gettysburg, a movie that's four hours and fourteen minutes long, and the director's cut is seventeen minutes longer. The difference between Gettysburg and Heaven's Gate is that there was no major hype in it, the director was an unknown, and it started out as a TV miniseries for god's sake, and yet it was a pretty good movie with great characters, great action, great music, a great story that warranted a four and a half hour movie, and cinematography that was good but also allowed you to see what was going on in a war scene while still showing the carnage and the smoke. (a major flaw with this film's photography is that the battle scenes are so dusty that it's hard to tell what's going on and who dies) and yet Gettysburg didn't even have half the budget that this movie did. As it's stands Heaven's Gate isn't a terrible film, definitely not among the worst ever made, it's just a bloated and bad film that just stands in history now as a lesson that creator's aren't flawless. And this is coming from a guy who loves the Star Wars prequels as much as the original trilogy.

@Egalitariat-likesecretariat

8 жыл бұрын

*golf clap*, sir.

@robertyeah2259

8 жыл бұрын

I also love long films, but a film needs to warrant it's runtime for sure. I'm one of like 12 people in the world that liked The Shining Miniseries [270 minutes], I enjoyed Inland Empire [187 minutes], Michael Cimino's other film The Deer Hunter [183 minutes], I actually didn't know about Gettysburg but I want to watch it now.

@trustno173

8 жыл бұрын

Existential Dread It's a pretty good movie, it focuses on both sides of the U.S. Civil war, shows us how both sides suffered, how friends were forced to fight friends. Make it not so black and white as it shows both sides had good and bad.

@robertyeah2259

8 жыл бұрын

trustno173 I'll check it out.

@kuribayashi84

8 жыл бұрын

At the very least, "Heavens Gate" has excellent cinematography and very impressive sets. Clearly the money is on the screen and everything looks very authentic. This doesnt make it a *good* film, but technically an impressive one. Plus, Christopher Walken is a lot of fun, as always. Even as subdued as here, there is something arresting about his performance. :)

Heaven's Gate is seriously one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The only thing I remember about it is the stupid and completely unnecessary wedding dance scene which goes on for ten tedious minutes and adds absolutely nothing of value to the film. It doesn't advance the plot, it doesn't tell us anything about the characters, or anything. It's like it was only included to get the movie over three hours. Fuck this movie.

That guitar lick sounds reminds me of Silent Hill 1

@MrJimmyTide

4 жыл бұрын

Mandolin and yes.

I was waiting for Brad to upload this! Congrats on the 300th episode!

He finally did it. He did an episode on Caligua and an episode on Heaven's Gate, my two favorite "horrible" movies. Thanks mr.snob

So I actually finally got around to watching this movie and I really can’t I have to agree with Brad on this. It’s honestly not a bad movie and while I agree there are parts That are overly long and sometimes I could understand what they were saying I actually enjoyed the film and it did keep my attention

@Ironheart73

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, basically a well-shot movie but really lacks in the story telling department

@nicholasjanke3476

Жыл бұрын

@@Ironheart73 there's alot of unanswered plot points with the story..1. What is this friendship between Nate and Jim, when it's established that Nate is a hitman for the cattle barons, whom Jim hates? 2. Why does Ella hang out with Nate when she loves Jim? 3. Why did Jim give up his wealthy life style for a while to join the town? 4. Why is Billy part of the cattle men? -then there's other problems..1. Why does Jim bother to read out the entire list to the townspeople when he already said that nearly everybody in the town is marked? Shouldn't he use that time to arm the townspeople? 2. Why did Jim, J.B., Ella stop off at the cabin to get dressed up, when they knew Canton is after them? Then there's other problems: the film wants to make Nate into a sympathetic character when we know that he's a hitman for the association! (the movie Lepke, has the same problem, in that in the opening scenes we see the Tony Curtis character murder a man for not paying debts, then the film includes a love story about him and his girlfriend/wife.

Cimino, after this epic failure, started life anew as Jon Lovitz. It would have been better if he just paid off the money he wasted.

RIP Michael Cimino.

If only Cimino had his ego in check and did not act like an entitled spoiled brat, director-driven films would still be existing today. The cool thing about UA is that they gave the director full control of the production, and they were even trusted with blank checks. The studio did not interfere in anyway with the creative aspects of the movie. Unlike today, studio executives will micromanage everything and would demand last minute rewrites. We know how this ruined a lot of movies. Also art films began to lose their mainstream popularity after this. Artsy films are now shown at festivals, since studios would rather distribute superhero movies since they are more profitable,

What's sad is that while the Director's cut is ridiculously long, it is an excellent movie. Not as good as Deer Hunter, but excellent.

@beckigreen

4 жыл бұрын

Geoffrey Sorkin Wrong.

Steven Soderbergh did an edit of the movie and holy shit it saved the movie

Honestly that tiny reference to Hooker with a Heart of Gold had me laughing for a good couple minutes

I'll give this movie *ONE* thing: That was one of the best renditions of Strauss's Blue Danube Waltz I've ever heard.

Honestly, I liked this movie. Sure it's really long and slow, but the story's decent, the acting is good and once it picks up, the action is just awesome.

@nataliep.9047

Жыл бұрын

I've heard people say the same thing about "Porky's".

@TheDiplomat717

Жыл бұрын

5 year later here is a fun fact. The epic battle scene in the first cut was about 4 hours long. I believe all that footage had been lost but people who say it saw it was incredible.

@nicholasjanke3476

11 ай бұрын

​​@@TheDiplomat717Jeff Bridges:"Heck not even the real Johnson County War was that long!" (referring to the last battle scenes of the film which uncut two hour battle footage)

Jim Averell was killed in the real Johnson County War. He and his wife Kate were the first victim of the war. Johnson County War 1888-1893

Talk about cinematic bombs, you ought to review Cutthroat Island. That film basically destroyed both the pirate genre for years, and Gina Davies' career

Every time I hear that staccato string song come up I keep thinking the Silent Hill theme is going to start.

love it man. This is movie a vibe when you look at it from your point of view. thanks

See it now before it gets flagged!

@modelmajorpita

9 жыл бұрын

culwin I'm really tired, but I have to force myself to stay up a little bit longer. The other parts may not be up in the morning!

@marcellofunhouse1234

4 жыл бұрын

@Mrs. Arthur Morgan 5 now

I'm glad we had Bro...uh sis...Sarah for a cameo.

Nice job including the true occupations of Jim Averell and Nate Champion. Good on ya Brad for doing your research!

Parts were filmed in my hometown of Wallace Idaho. Dante's Peak was too. You need to do that movie speak of it.

@CineMasterDamian

6 жыл бұрын

Dante's Peak is actually good,

I tried to watch this movie and it just fell flat for me...i respect the vision but the excess of it killed it for me.

I went in seeing this movie at a revival theatre in the fall and I've not seen sunlight since.

I would like to point out that this movie connects Back to the Future series, as Huey Lewis is in one movie, and "the News" are in the other. A Million Ways to Die in the West connects both together!

finally sitting down to watch this/these. I'm sorry you had to watch this drek, multiple times, and even had to take notes. I don't think folks understand how complicated these reviews can actually be. Kudos

I recommend checking out the book FINAL CUT if you get a chance. It goes into detail how the film was ultimately the undoing of UNITED ARTISTS and the "New Hollywood" era.

RIP Michael Cimino (1939-2016)

@SpeedyEric1

7 жыл бұрын

RIP John Hurt (1940-2017)

9:24 " What the fuck kind of graduation is this?!"😆

@nicholasjanke3476

11 ай бұрын

Apparently those rich boy schools' graduation ceremonies in the 19th century, really did often turn into drunken bar fights and the schools really did hire policemen to attend graduations.

3:14 Am I the only one who thinks that Michael Cimino looks like Jon Lovitz?

@alecdaley6105

8 жыл бұрын

nope. i was actually talking about The Final Cut with some friends of mine and said that if they made it into a miniseries... they should cast Lovitz as Cimino

@BenOnBass

4 жыл бұрын

Well this would be MORE, wouldn't it?

@JoJoJoker

3 жыл бұрын

ReyaitheShadowWolf go find a picture of him later on in life. He looked totally different after jaw surgery.

Atleast we still have directors like Quentin Tarantino to breathe new life into the western genre.

@theAngryscotman

7 жыл бұрын

What did you think of the remake of Magnificent Seven?

Let us also not forget that Heaven's Gate practically decimated the Western as a movie genre, with the exception of such films as Silverado and Pale Rider (both of which came out in 1985) and the early 90's with Dances with Wolves, Unforgiven and Tombstone (all great flicks) the Western has never really recovered in Hollywood since Heaven's Gate.

@billjacobs521

5 жыл бұрын

Eh. Honestly, I feel like westerns should be a small, niche genre, like WWII movies. Compared to the endless possibilities of sci fi or fantasy, westerns are all set in the same area, same time period, same aesthetic. And hey, the remake of True Grit was good.

@ShadowSonic2

2 жыл бұрын

@@billjacobs521 What's the East Coast equivalent of a Western?

@nicholasjanke3476

Жыл бұрын

There's Legend of the Lone Ranger but that's another story.

This is one of those movies, the cinematography is astoundingly gorgeous, but the story is garbage and there's just no motivation to anything. This movie also reminds me of another colossal failure which was John Wayne as Ghengis Khan.

@baronvonpenguin6112

9 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, The Conqueror...

@10191927

9 жыл бұрын

That's it, the conquerer, that movie was atrocious, plus pretty racist having a white cast poorly portray Asian people. Not to mention its many historical inaccuracies.

@Contemplativeman101

9 жыл бұрын

Every once in awhile a good movie will have one big fault and ruin the film outright. Exorcist II, beautiful looking movie but a weird ass plot and actors who didn't care. Star Trek TMP was great in story, good in acting, high budget, and slow as molasses with too many effects. Sometimes it just takes one or two faults to ruin it all

@dzhellek

9 жыл бұрын

Marth Oh yeah, that John Wayne movie. You know there are going to be problems when the actor cannot correctly pronounce the name of the character he is playing.

@docmarten8269

9 жыл бұрын

+dzhellek At least John said that he knew he shouldn't have taken the role and made an ass out of himself. Good actor but def wasn't right for the role. I just don't see what they were thinking casting an actor with such a thick Southern accent to play Genghis Khan. Guess they just didn't care and wanted a big name.

keep up the great work!!

that cimino dude looks an awful lot like john lovitz

@rudeboyzippo

6 жыл бұрын

I thought the same damn thing ! Why is Lovitz in EVERYTHING ?!?!?!

@vfaulkon

5 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say...

RIP Michael Cimino

No lie, I thought that first photo of Michael Cimino was Jon Lovitz.

iI love the snob keep it going!

"Casper, Wyoming. I hope it's a ghost town." Perfect delivery on that line.

Why isn't part 2 and 3 on the playlist?

Your phone looks like mine, with the crack at the end. I had to do a double-take just to make sure it wasn't the same model. XDD

I liked it. You can not look at it like a western. It is a movie about people and how life was then. My favorite character is the beauty from of the brothel.

Your joke about John hurt playing Martin Short sent something flying out of my nose.

i love this guitar.. do you know the name of this song?

@Made_In_Heaven88

8 жыл бұрын

look up "Heaven's Gate soundtrack - Sweet Breeze"

I love this movie

I happen to live in Casper, Wyoming. I can absolutely confirm that it is, in fact, a ghost town.

Michael Cimino I hope you make it to heavens gate

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

I bet he's making films up there...hmm that always got me wondering if they make movies in the afterlife

@dorkyedwin

8 жыл бұрын

me too man

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

Now that's a religious discussion that should be discussed

@dorkyedwin

8 жыл бұрын

you know something I should watch year of the dragon

@BugVlogs

7 жыл бұрын

the Crazy Movie Lover Dude, I love your profile pic! "Sorcerer" is such an underrated film.

Hahaha, Cimino looks like Jon Lovitz. I love this movie. The restoration is perfect even if the movie is inherently duh.

Rest in piece John Hurt. I forgot he was in Crystal Skull

What's that song playing during the intro?

@Ultrabalor

8 жыл бұрын

+Nathaniel Levesque The same one used in the opening credits of "Heaven's Gate."

@joaomatoso6939

8 жыл бұрын

if you want the name for the track, it's called sweet breeze

Christopher Walken is beautiful

@ShadowSonic2

2 жыл бұрын

He was a real pretty boy.

I can't get Blip to play the Bat Pussy review, and it's one of the rare ones not on youtube. Please, load it. :3

So how long is the version you saw? The 5 hour 25 minute Workprint (unlikely, given that was made studio execs only) The 3 hour 39 minute Theatrical release ( The 2 hour 29 minute edited cut Or the 3 hour 36 minute final cut from 2012?

@adamzanzie

6 жыл бұрын

It's definitely not the 2 hour 29-minute version, which, as far as I'm aware, has never been released to home video.

You have shoes on in this review?!

@SpeedyEric1

8 жыл бұрын

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE!

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

HE'S A SKRULL!!!

@MrGMoney1944

8 жыл бұрын

Jake Bryant OH great time for the 6th Secret War,

I get the feeling there aren't going to be any follow-up episodes to this one. I'm not sure why.

I appreciate the "Jesus Was a Capricorn" reference. After all, that's Kris's main trade, and always will be.

This was released on my birthday last year...neat.

This movie is an acquired taste!

@nataliep.9047

Жыл бұрын

Sorry. I will never acquire a taste for cultural Marxism.

I don't know how I sat through this film. There were only two good things about it; Vilmos Zsigmond's stunning cinematography (though I didn't see its full beauty, because the version I saw was MGM's DVD release), and the impressive production design. Just seeing clips of this film makes me cringe.

@nicholasjanke3476

Жыл бұрын

This is my all time favourite western! Yes the film has problems but I really like it. I liked Legend of the Lone Ranger too.

MEN WERE MEN and women were locked in study hall...the way it should be.

Brad wtf happened to your phone?

What was the budget of this slow moving leviathan

Brad, did you watch the Criterion Blu-ray, or did you watch the standard DVD version?

@Nestalgba92023

5 жыл бұрын

Criterion DVD?

What I always wondered about was how is it that Jim and his future wife were attending the same school, but never noticed each other till the last day?

Finally saw the movie last night. Actually really liked it although I can acknowledge that there is a lot wrong with it.

"It'll be the end of Michael Cimino's career, and good riddance!"--Roger Ebert after seeing Heaven's Gate

@adamzanzie

6 жыл бұрын

Ebert never said any such thing. He was a fan of The Deer Hunter.

best movie ever made

Love this 3 part review! Any chance of a DVD release?

@dukespubber741

9 жыл бұрын

Considering he doesn't own the rights to the movie, I doubt it.

@SpeedyEric1

9 жыл бұрын

Mary Barker Well, Brad HAS released DVDs of his show. The first has all the episodes of his Public Domain Month, and the 2nd is subtitled "Nudies, Rudies, and Crudies."

@starwarsnerd100

9 жыл бұрын

SpeedyEric1 Exactly "public domain month". It's fine for him to make DVDs of public domain reviews, but if it's a copyrighted work that becomes a legal grey area. IDK about "Nudies, Rudies, and Crudies", either those ones were also public domain, or obscure enough that he had little to worry about.

@3:30 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, very very fright...foot... Hmm.

Micheal ciminos career would never recover after the disaster that was heaven's gate.

@nicholasjanke3476

Жыл бұрын

I really like this film! But yeah Cimino was probably a little nuts (refusing to shoot all day untill a cloud formation occurred, expensive irrigation to make the grass greener, making the actors do 52 takes,) but it's my favourite western.

It's literally 5 hours and 25 minutes.

Ishtar or Waterworld next?

@cartmanrlsusall

9 жыл бұрын

Ishtar is torture by crap,Waterworld was actually ok don't know why it gets so much hate.

@DaolunofShiji

8 жыл бұрын

+cartmanrlsusall Brad actually likes Ishtar a lot.

@cartmanrlsusall

8 жыл бұрын

uhhhh braaad,, that kid is so weird,seriously ishtar?

@DaolunofShiji

8 жыл бұрын

cartmanrlsusall He mentioned actually liking it in one of the Midnight Screenings I believe. I can't recall which one though.

@cartmanrlsusall

8 жыл бұрын

That's okay to disagree on some things,I'm still a snob follower,he is on point a lot of times

Like this film tbh

The double behooves us guy was a Comnad sgt major

You are absolutely right this film was an utter disaster and people like Richard Brody who try and revive it are nutty. Its a very bad movie and CImino never knew what he was doing.

I just finished watching this movie. I've seen it 3 times now in the last 40 years. I don't really think it's all that bad. Skip through the boring parts and it seems fine.

Sarah s awesome!

hey, what's wrong with "Don't Stop Believin'"??

@HughAverageHomoMan

6 жыл бұрын

Everything.

this guy is a riot,a laugh a minute......

2:55 I want to take a nap now...

I slept through this. The only other movie I slept through was Titanic twice. I have seen Titanic all the way through, and it is a technical masterpiece still boring as shit

I now know 130,000 Illinois cities and towns, thanks to Brad.

Wait, Kris Kristofferson was young once?

Find the five hour cut shown for about 10 minutes in France in 1981 or don't bother. This movie is a masterpiece. The complaints about missing motivation and character are founded in the fact that they're all in the 90 plus minutes hacked out to bring the thing down to a mere three hours.

@thoomolong

8 жыл бұрын

A "mere" 3 hour movie? Dude....

@ProjectFlashlight612

8 жыл бұрын

+Tim Terrell Yeah. If it takes five hours to tell a story right, take five hours. Split it into two 150 minute movies, like they ought to have done with Cleopatra.

This movie came up when looking into the animated film, Rock and Rule, an another over budget passion project; Rob Kirkpatrick, an assistant editor on the project, blamed it for MGM basically burying their movie by refusing to promote it. Interesting to see how this movie bomb affected the industry as a whole.

Goodbye Michael Cimino!

@jakebryant3445

8 жыл бұрын

He's making films up there and yelling at God to get out of the shot.

i don't know about the other two but definitely kill the journey song.

am i the only one who thinks a better title for this movie would be death list