There are folks out there who are claiming classic status for HEAVEN'S GATE and REVOLUTION {sorry, that aint gonna happen!}
Fools!
bruce
I don't know about Revolution, but it's been happening with Heaven's Gate for quite a while now. Yes, it continues to have no small number of detractors, but it's also had no small amount of critical reappraisal in recent (and not-so-recent) years. As far as I can tell, it's not really all that far behind Blade Runner in slowly gaining new respectability after being dismissed by critics upon its initial release, though it'll surely never go quite as far along that route as that movie has. But there is a significant and vociferous contingent of admirers and defenders for it now.
British label Entertainment One has officially announced that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of director William Friedkin's film Sorcerer (1977) with a new Collector's Edition. The release will be available for purchase on November 6th. ...
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There are folks out there who are claiming classic status for HEAVEN'S GATE and REVOLUTION {sorry, that aint gonna happen!}
Fools!
bruce
I don't know about Revolution, but it's been happening with Heaven's Gate for quite a while now. Yes, it continues to have no small number of detractors, but it's also had no small amount of critical reappraisal in recent (and not-so-recent) years. As far as I can tell, it's not really all that far behind Blade Runner in slowly gaining new respectability after being dismissed by critics upon its initial release, though it'll surely never go quite as far along that route as that movie has. But there is a significant and vociferous contingent of admirers and defenders for it now.
Classic has become a term so loosely thrown around in the last twenty years that it's nearly lost all meaning other than that of something old.
Is it a classic? Not in the sense of Citizen Kane or The African Queen, but perhaps like Heaven’s Gate as others have mentioned in being a big letdown. When you have to publish new lobby posters with a disclaimer, you may have goofed on the film title. I really enjoy the movie. The visuals are bracing and really put you there in the jungle and the trucks. But when you really don’t care that much for nor identify with any of the characters in the film, you look for fulfillment elsewhere so you root for the … the trucks? Roy Scheider did well and was believable, but had Friedkin gotten Steve McQueen instead maybe it would have turned out better. I know it wasn’t an uplifting film, but having watched it recently it looked like Scheider’s misery was real and not just in character. I still remember the impression I got when I first saw the movie poster. Wasn’t it obvious the impression it would give folks? They had to have known that lots of moviegoers would be disappointed, expecting an actual sorcerer to be involved and the title not to be the namesake of a truck.
