View Full Version : WTF happened to the director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate?
thepaulo
08-02-2008, 12:52 AM
http://tv.msn.com/tv/galleryfeature/where-are-they-now/?photoidx=12
It looks like he turned into Steven Cojocaru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cojocaru
patsopinion
08-02-2008, 01:44 AM
man i stink
i really thought Scorsese did deer hunter
(ps deer hunter i dont think is as great as everyone remembers it being)
TheMojoPin
08-02-2008, 08:38 AM
I think everyone rejecting HG broke him and what little he's done since has been shit.
I'm curious to see the original 4-hour cut of HG. The released version is nowhere near as bad as people want it to be and actually is pretty great at times, and those who have seen the original cut have almost always raved about it.
It's funny...most of the huge flops aren't nearly as bad as people claim they are. Waterworld is pretty silly, but it's a perfectly watchable, quality action film, and the giant set pieces ad action scenes are a welcome chage in the face of CGI taking over everything. Ishtar? Not bad at all. I think it's pretty damn funny.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 08:56 AM
(ps deer hunter i dont think is as great as everyone remembers it being)
You godda be kiddin me. Let's refresh your recollection:
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sailor
08-02-2008, 09:02 AM
http://tv.msn.com/tv/galleryfeature/where-are-they-now/?photoidx=12
It looks like he turned into Steven Cojocaru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cojocaru
he looked like eric idle in the older pic.
patsopinion
08-02-2008, 10:43 AM
You godda be kiddin me. Let's refresh your recollection:
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it really doesnt do anything for me
yea its well acted but it is def no masterpiece
i wouldnt put it up against no country for old men
or even fullmetal jacket
fucking a- platoon was a better movie
TheMojoPin
08-02-2008, 11:17 AM
it really doesnt do anything for me
Fair enough.
yea its well acted but it is def no masterpiece
Madness.
Walken alone makes this movie something special.
Sue_Bender
08-02-2008, 11:56 AM
man i stink
i really thought Scorsese did deer hunter
(ps deer hunter i dont think is as great as everyone remembers it being)
I watched again recently and I thought it was still a tremendous film.
However, I forgot that the first hour or so (the wedding/going away party) moved so incredibly slow. Obviously, it let us get to know the characters and developed a back story before putting them in the horrific war situations.
Anyway, any movie with John Cazale is worth watching (he only made five or so).
I remember hearing that they shot the scenes with him first because he was dying of Cancer. He died before the film's release.
thepaulo
08-02-2008, 12:36 PM
The Deer Hunter is in my top five all-time faves.....
Saw Heaven's Gate on that infamous first day of release....and found it pretty fucking awesome though clearly self-indulgent.....a must to be seen on a big screen with first rate sound.
Gerald
08-02-2008, 04:54 PM
Heaven's Gate isn't THAT bad. Not nearly as wretched as its infamous reputation suggests. After his DH triumph Cimino just surrounded himself with too many obsequious yes men who didn't have the balls to rein him in for his follow-up. The film is ambitious to a fault.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 09:03 PM
Madness.
Walken alone makes this movie something special.
Especially once you realize he had the Coolidge family watch up his ass the whole time.
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 09:19 PM
To me, the long, lazy, pre-war act of The Deerhunter makes the movie. It's beautiful.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 09:20 PM
To me, the long, lazy, pre-war act of The Deerhunter makes the movie. It's beautiful.
Youre just too good to be true.
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 09:58 PM
Youre just too good to be true.
Ew. I'm not gay.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 10:12 PM
Ew. I'm not gay.
Can't take my eyes off of you.
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 10:26 PM
Can't take my eyes off of you.
You aren't a background investigator, are you?
tele7
08-02-2008, 10:32 PM
he looked like eric idle in the older pic.
and he looks like he should be dating Liza Minelli in the new pic
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 10:36 PM
You aren't a background investigator, are you?
You'd be like heaven to touch.
jauble
08-02-2008, 10:54 PM
For some reason I see CTC pointing and laughing at chig crying in the corner...maybe its because I met him.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 10:55 PM
For some reason I see CTC pointing and laughing at chig crying in the corner...maybe its because I met him.
He's offline now. Soooo.......
I wanna hold you so much.
jauble
08-02-2008, 10:56 PM
He's offline now. Soooo.......
I wanna hold you so much.
well I was getting lonely
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 10:58 PM
At long last love has arrived!
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:01 PM
At long last love has arrived!
I can ship out tomorrow but what is your professional advice on my collection of hooker heads and photos of people with their eyes and mouths cut out?
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:01 PM
oooo double post...you can tell I'm smitten
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 11:03 PM
Well, I thank God I'm alive...
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 11:04 PM
Offline? My heart is broken.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 11:06 PM
Youre (both) just too good to be true.
Cant take my eyes off of (either one of) you.
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:08 PM
Youre (both) just too good to be true.
Cant take my eyes off of (either one of) you.
dont make me boil your pet rabbit
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 11:08 PM
I was first.
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:10 PM
I was first.
and that why you have to go....err I mean I got you a flight on the Hindenburg. First class.
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 11:15 PM
and that why you have to go....err I mean I got you a flight on the Hindenburg. First class.
"No Ticket."
http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/lastcrusade_noticket.jpg
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 11:18 PM
and that why you have to go....err I mean I got you a flight on the Hindenburg. First class.
Well, you're payload on the Enola GAY.
Ooooh, so faced.
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:19 PM
Well, you're payload on the Enola GAY.
Ooooh, so faced.
Well it was named after the pilots mother...I just didnt know you could fly a plane
counter face
Chigworthy
08-02-2008, 11:28 PM
Well it was named after the pilots mother...I just didnt know you could fly a plane
counter face
Speaking of named after, you were the inspiration for fat man AND little boy.
Omfg, omg. Stop me, please.
jauble
08-02-2008, 11:30 PM
Speaking of named after, you were the inspiration for fat man AND little boy.
Omfg, omg. Stop me, please.
dude its weird that you know that your mother called her dildo fat man
self depricating face
ChrisTheCop
08-02-2008, 11:30 PM
Speaking of named after, you were the inspiration for fat man AND little boy.
Omfg, omg. Stop me, please.
Lemme try...
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jauble
08-02-2008, 11:35 PM
Oh CTC, you know me too well. Bearded men or a clean top...will it ever stop?
fezident
08-03-2008, 04:41 AM
I think everyone rejecting HG broke him and what little he's done since has been shit.
I'm curious to see the original 4-hour cut of HG. The released version is nowhere near as bad as people want it to be and actually is pretty great at times, and those who have seen the original cut have almost always raved about it.
It's funny...most of the huge flops aren't nearly as bad as people claim they are. Waterworld is pretty silly, but it's a perfectly watchable, quality action film, and the giant set pieces ad action scenes are a welcome chage in the face of CGI taking over everything. Ishtar? Not bad at all. I think it's pretty damn funny.
Words.
iscream22
08-04-2008, 04:00 AM
it really doesnt do anything for me
yea its well acted but it is def no masterpiece
i wouldnt put it up against no country for old men
or even fullmetal jacket
fucking a- platoon was a better movie
NO WAY! The Deer Hunter is directed by Michael Camino and it is a classic. Sure it takes a little while to get going, but then again don't most good stories.
No Country For Old Men is overrated as for Coen Brothers movies I think The Big Lebowski and Fargo blow No Country for Old Men out of the water. And Full Metal Jacket is pretty good but no Deer Hunter, and Platoon was only a couple of cool scenes and the rest seemed like a typical boring war movie.
If you are going to compare Deer Hunter to something I'd hold it up to Apocalypse Now (which is the best damn war movie ever). :clap:
realmenhatelife
08-27-2008, 04:51 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/gallery/images/340/zaphod2.jpg
He looks like Zaphod Beeblebrox' second head.
Heaven's Gate isn't THAT bad. Not nearly as wretched as its infamous reputation suggests. After his DH triumph Cimino just surrounded himself with too many obsequious yes men who didn't have the balls to rein him in for his follow-up. The film is ambitious to a fault.
Its not as bad as the reputation...its much much worse.
TheMojoPin
12-31-2008, 07:22 PM
Its not as bad as the reputation...its much much worse.
Way to bump a thread just to be really, really, really wrong.
Way to bump a thread just to be really, really, really wrong.
So you are going to justify a movie with a 5-minute scene in which a man rollerskates while playing the fiddle in the 1890's?
TheMojoPin
12-31-2008, 08:10 PM
So you are going to justify a movie with a 5-minute scene in which a man rollerskates while playing the fiddle in the 1890's?
Yes.
Yes.
Be my guest:
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IMSlacker
12-31-2008, 08:50 PM
a) That scene was only four minutes.
b) I defy you to find a better example of roller-fiddling.
a) That scene was only four minutes.
b) I defy you to find a better example of roller-fiddling.
In other words; "Yes that is one gigantic turd!"
IMSlacker
12-31-2008, 09:13 PM
I've actually never seen Heaven's Gate. Now, I must.
midwestjeff
12-31-2008, 09:16 PM
I've actually never seen Heaven's Gate. Now, I must.
Marshall Applewhite's performance is to die for....:flush:
I've actually never seen Heaven's Gate. Now, I must.
Don't worry....it'll be 220 minutes of the worst spent time of your life.
TheMojoPin
01-01-2009, 06:48 AM
Don't worry....it'll be 220 minutes of the worst spent time of your life.
I think the bleakness of the film's setting hit too close to home for epo, since he sees it every time he steps outside.
I think the bleakness of the film's setting hit too close to home for epo, since he sees it every time he steps outside.
If bleakness, you mean I watch that terrible movie and see the end of director-driven cinema before my eyes...then yes I hate that piece of shit.
TheMojoPin
01-01-2009, 09:53 AM
If bleakness, you mean I watch that terrible movie and see the end of director-driven cinema before my eyes...then yes I hate that piece of shit.
Why did you change the subject to Star Wars?
thepaulo
01-02-2009, 12:08 PM
Don't worry....it'll be 220 minutes of the worst spent time of your life.
you are wrong but....
I can understand that it is not as brilliant as Deer Hunter and it has a grand feeling of self-indulgence but.....
The ballroom dance sequence on the big screen is one of the most hypnotic and magnificent of all time and one of many scenes of opulent brillance.
TheMojoPin
01-02-2009, 03:11 PM
you are wrong but....
I can understand that it is not as brilliant as Deer Hunter and it has a grand feeling of self-indulgence but.....
The ballroom dance sequence on the big screen is one of the most hypnotic and magnificent of all time and one of many scenes of opulent brillance.
I don't typically agree with Paul-O's takes on films, but I'd love to shake his hand over this one. Well said.
man i stink
i really thought Scorsese did deer hunter
(ps deer hunter i dont think is as great as everyone remembers it being)
Its a film that has some classic scenes but it could have used a couple edits, I still think its worth it just for the scene that is posted after you did.
diddy mau!!!!!
whatever the fuck hes saying.
you are wrong but....
I can understand that it is not as brilliant as Deer Hunter and it has a grand feeling of self-indulgence but.....
The ballroom dance sequence on the big screen is one of the most hypnotic and magnificent of all time and one of many scenes of opulent brillance.
I was just reminded of what an insane statement this is.
NewYorkDragons80
04-05-2009, 12:03 AM
Waterworld is pretty silly, but it's a perfectly watchable, quality action film, and the giant set pieces ad action scenes are a welcome chage in the face of CGI taking over everything.
Not to mention the fact that contrary to popular belief, the friggin movie MADE money. Even those that hate the movie should cop to that fact.
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