, Michael Cimino’s Western epic that turns 40 on Nov. 19, earned a place in Hollywood infamy for bankrupting United Artists and bringing the curtain down on the auteur era of the 1970s. But the truth is,said the film — about the 1892 Johnson County War, in which wealthy Wyoming cattle owners slaughtered immigrant homesteaders — had"explosive force" and was"richly textured and visually compelling." ButAfter it screened for critics in New York on Nov.
"I always suspected that maybe the movie got talked about too much beforehand," says Christopher Walken, who was 36 when he played a ranch enforcer inThe Deer Hunter.The reviews were so bad that Cimino, at the encouragement of UA, decided to pull it from theaters just hours before its Nov. 20 opening.
But it had a great soundtrack.
I actually watched it in theaters on its trimmed down release and thought it was way too slow
I am old enough to remember this film was a disaster in Hollywood.
Not before I sat thru the whole thing! RenoNevada
It was an obscenely costly bomb
What was it about?
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