now infamous western that was (at its time) the biggest budgeted disaster in hollywood history. i was lucky enough to see the full 220 minute version at a theatre in 1990. it was truly staggering how bad the film was. they had a great cast and a story based on a true incident (a fight between foreigners and americans in the 1800s) and magnificent scenery. so what went wrong. three words director michael cimino. he was so full of himself after the deer hunter he went out and made this god awful western. he not totally to blame. his previous film the deer hunter was considered a masterpiece and united artists gave him free reign to do anything. they let him all alone. and everything went wrong. the cost went barreling out of control and cimino insisted on redoing sequences again and again until they were perfect. first off and the sound is horrible. entire sequences go by and you can not make out a word the characters are saying. for instance and jeff bridges character is introduced during a dance sequence and but i still have no idea who he was. the dialogue in his introductory scene is incomprehensible. that the director fault he should have made sure the dialogue could be heard. some scenes are shot with so much dust flying around you can barely make out what going on. the story line doesn not make a whole lot of sense and cimino took great liberties with the facts in the real story only one person was killed cimino turns it into a massacre. there is some admittedly beautiful sequences here totally destroyed by lack of story and incomprehensible dialogue. also the bad sound was not the fault of the theatre all the prints sound that way. this garbage effectively closed down united artists and was the end of cimino career. a textbook example of a director so full of himself he doesn not realize what he doing. jeff bridges has said this is the worst movie he ever did. this is from a guy who made tron. a definite must miss. there is a pretty good book called the final cut which details the whole disaster. this gets a 1. i wish imdb had negative numbers this deserves it. 
now infamous western that was (at its time) the biggest budgeted disaster in hollywood history. i was lucky enough to see the full 220 minute version at a theatre in 1990. it was truly staggering how bad the film was. they had a great cast and a story based on a true incident (a fight between foreigners and americans in the 1800s) and magnificent scenery. so what went wrong. three words director michael cimino. he was so full of himself after the deer hunter he went out and made this god awful western. he not totally to blame. his previous film the deer hunter was considered a masterpiece and united artists gave him free reign to do anything. they let him all alone. and everything went wrong. the cost went barreling out of control and cimino insisted on redoing sequences again and again until they were perfect. first off and the sound is horrible. entire sequences go by and you can not make out a word the characters are saying. for instance and jeff bridges character is introduced during a dance sequence and but i still have no idea who he was. the dialogue in his introductory scene is incomprehensible. that the director fault he should have made sure the dialogue could be heard. some scenes are shot with so much dust flying around you can barely make out what going on. the story line doesn not make a whole lot of sense and cimino took great liberties with the facts in the real story only one person was killed cimino turns it into a massacre. there is some admittedly beautiful sequences here totally destroyed by lack of story and incomprehensible dialogue. also the bad sound was not the fault of the theatre all the prints sound that way. this garbage effectively closed down united artists and was the end of cimino career. a textbook example of a director so full of himself he doesn not realize what he doing. jeff bridges has said this is the worst movie he ever did. this is from a guy who made tron. a definite must miss. there is a pretty good book called the final cut which details the whole disaster. this gets a 1. i wish imdb had negative numbers this deserves it. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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