Horizon Chapter 1.
While it didn’t feel too long, it could’ve easily been trimmed. It is great storytelling, but no great film. And for the subject matter I would have preferred cinemascope format. The score is generic, awful. Looking forward to part two but I do understand why some folks felt it was more like a blown up TV show. Speaking of which, the comparison with the excellent 1883 is understandable, but Horizon is not that good.
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I much prefer the shorter 145-minute theatrical edit.
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I like the theatrical version as well. I watched the director’s cut the first time around and the added hour made it drag on.
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Yeah, the director’s cut feels more like a workprint to me. There’s definitely a few extended scenes I would have kept in the shorter version but overall, the pacing is so much better. I still find it strange that hardly anyone appreciates the shorter cut.
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Maybe because of what it did to United Artists, haha
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I thought the shorter version had a much better pace as well. Much more coherent as far as a story. By the end I actually wanted it to keep going. A little longer at least.
I don’t think it helped Heaven’s Gate in the long run that the film shares the same name as the UFO 
cult that committed suicide en masse in the late-'90s.
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I watched this again lash night, an excellent film indeed!
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rewatched “For a Few DOllars More”
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Last night, and courtesy of the 'Powerhouse Indicator; Bluray, I watched Walter Hill’s amazing 1993 homage to the ‘Geronimo Campaign’…
Featuring jaw-dropping cinematography, a beautiful and fitting score by Ry Cooder, and wonderful acting performances from Jason Patrick, Matt Damon, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, and real-life Cherokee, Wes Studi (Last of the Mohicans), who was perfectly cast as the proud, stoic title character.
A truly though-provoking, epic of the Old West, that encapsulates the danger, the unpredictability, and the courage needed to survive in such a quickly-changing, menacing environment, where time is literally running out for an ancient way of life - all due to the swiftly-advancing approach of bureaucratic ‘progress’, and decisions decreed by officials with no understanding of the Indian plight, and the natural instinct to defend their land.
The Indicator Bluray is packed to the gills with special features, including an informative audio commentary, behind the scenes stills, a Kim Newman featurette, interviews with Walter Hill, Wes Studi, and Ry Cooder, and a 1912 short silent film called ‘Geronimo’s Last Raid’.
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Sounds like an upgrade from my old DVD is worthwhile
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I once read a review of Silverado which was titled The Mild Bunch …
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‘Mild Bunch’ or not…I applaud the Director, Lawrence Kasdan, for ‘Silverado’, who whole-heartedly wanted to invigorate the Western for a then modern/family audience, in 1985.
It aired on BBC TV, Christmas Day, 1988, and I fell in love with it. Good guys vs bad guys…
Is it cliched? Yes, of course it is. Every Western scene that we ever wanted is in this film…Stampedes, camp-fires, hoe-downs, gun-fights, white hats vs black hats, betrayal, comradeship, good guys get the f…k beaten out of them, gamblers…this heart-felt homage to cactus, lead, and whiskey has it all.
Is it predictable? Yes. But in a good way, a comfortable way…
Is it bloody good fun? In my humble opinion…a resounding yes.
So, mild or not, ‘Silverado’ doesn’t exactly lend itself to any deeply felt or psychological, mind-blowing discussions about the pros and cons of a Western film; and it doesn’t need to be dissected by film scholars.
It is what it is…
For me, it is pure and sheer escapism…and I love it. To me, it’s a feel-good film, where good triumphs over evil.
And, sometimes, that’s the ‘simplistic’ kind of tale that we all need in our lives…
As for the below clip from the film…anyone who hasn’t seen the film yet, turn away.
As already mentioned, it’s predictable, mild, cliched, but ultimately a fantastic homage to the Western genre…and that’s all it was intended to be.
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Well, it was a positive review.
Silverado was of course a different approach to the genre than the typical 70s pessimistic western. A much better film than the mediocre Pale Rider, both released in the same year.
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I’m with you on that one…most definitely. 
Wasn’t ‘Pale Rider’ known as ‘High Shanes Drifter’?
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Ha, ha, that’s a pretty good one …
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I have finally watched Cut-Throats Nine. German Blu-Ray.
Only about 20 years after I started watching Spaghettis, this has been on my to-watch-list all the time.
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Best movie ever made. I have the Code Red blu-ray, but I hope for a better release someday by a better boutique label
One After Another - German DVD
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