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2017-09-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Director of Hollywood Bomb Blames Americans Rejecting ‘Science’ for Flop

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 ...That 'howl' of yours cost Paramount 33 million bucks, Darren.

Remember Mike Cimino? Made a little movie called Heaven's Gate?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-26 05:45|| 2017-09-26 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Heaven's Gate was one of the top 10 flops of all time. The following captures the essence of the money: . When all was said and done, critics despised the film, and the fans didn’t come out to see it either. As Vincent Canby of The New York Times put it, the film, “fails so completely that you might suspect Mr. Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of ‘The Deer Hunter,’ and the Devil has just come around to collect.”

Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-26 09:50|| 2017-09-26 09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Correction: "essence of the movie" not money.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-26 09:51|| 2017-09-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

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