i have just recently see heaven gate . after i watch this 3 hr 40 min epic western that not a western and i read the book by steven bach . after consider all event and the movie itself and i still think this movie be a complete waste of time . i believe that when someone tell you to watch it and they be and in fact and try to bore you to death . if for some reason you can enjoy this self indulgent over thought truely bad movie and i have to ask why . though this isn not a reason to hate it and it be historically way off . it pretend to be about a situation that happen in wyoming call the johnson county war . simply and the cattle barrons of the time want to kill all cattle thief and claim they be all immagrants . you find that you simply do not care about these people and hope they all get kill because at least then and something would happen . everybody in the movie talk about thing that happen and and it be never show . after you sit though this giant waste of time you wonder how someone could actually make a 4 hr epic in which nothing happen . oh and by the way the johnson county war be not a war and it never happen . the johnson county war and in fact and be call that because it almost happen and in actual fact and 2 people die . i can not warn you enough off this movie . however and if youre like me the and the idea of watch a movie that ruin career and put united artist on the for sale lot and sound like an interesting case to study and then by all mean and watch this terrible and narsisistic and movie with no sub text and and a lot of photography . ( which be lovely sometimes ) .