Brad Dourif, Christopher Walken, Geoffrey Lewis
One of Hollywood's most infamous big-budget bombs, this sprawling Western recounts the true story of Wyoming's Johnson County War. When wealthy cattlemen use brutal tactics to drive immigrant settlers...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001
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Flixster Reviews (217)
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December 31, 2008Aside from some questionable looking treatment of animals and a sad lead actress choice, I can't quite understand why this film did not do better. It's gangbusters! I've seen way shorter films that seemed a hell of a lot longer, I kid you not.
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December 31, 2008There's one thing I can't forgive to Michael Cimino, it's his uncontrollable persistence of stretching things with no reason, in the end that was what condemned him to ostracism. This film was cursed as the one who took legendary studio united artists to bankruptcy and was also ...( read more)
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December 8, 2007This will always be remembered for the money it cost and the money it lost, killing United Artists in the process, but it's a beautiful, wonderful, epic movie; a fitting end to the last great decade of Hollywood film-making, the Seventies. I would rather wallow in this than sit t...( read more)
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September 24, 2007Very flawed, but nowhere near as horrible as you may have heard.
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August 27, 2009This is not a film. This is a legend. Look at the cast; all of them are also legendry.
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June 7, 2009There is an ever growing opinion nowadays, that this legendary self-indulgent flop is some sort of misunderstood or flawed masterpiece... I don't see it, I think this a terrible, terrible, terrible film, though it's worth a look in small doses for it's glaring train wreck-like fl...( read more)
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March 27, 2009A great job by the whole cast! This is not a movie for children, as there is much violence, murder, and sex. This should have been a documentary! It was done with honesty and did not disappoint by covering up what really happened when immigrants came to America to live their d...( read more)
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March 18, 2009Une mise en scène brillante, des acteurs de talents, une histoire originale...mais un peu de longueurs.
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December 6, 2008There's goes my Saturday. Wow! This guy had three editors and it was still this long? I really loved parts of it. I think that Kristoferson, Bridges, Huppert, and Walken do a great job, but, fuck this guy loves shooting parties. The thing is that if you cut out a lot of this, you...( read more)
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March 5, 2007This movie was too damn long!!! Michael Cimino went from a good damn action flick
"Thunderbolt and Lightning" to one of the grandest epics ever to come out of the 1970's
"The Deer Hunter"(which won 5 Oscars including Best Picture of 1978),and from there went from epics to one of the worst Westerns ever made! Even at a ridicious running time of over 223 minutes,it shows.
Its no Lawrence Of Arabia but pathetic,damn that's gotta hurt after what he did over at United Artists(this was the film that put the once great studio into bankruptcy)
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