A Dramatic Masterpiece, but is it Cinema?

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2011)

I have seen this movie at least 5 times, none in a theatre. Since the movie is mostly dark I decided to see it in BluRay. It is still dark, but a bit more detailed on a BDP-83 and Kuro TV. Cinema is the "Art of Movement", "Theatre is the Art of words", someone qualified wrote. Masters of Cinema never forgot this. Even Stanley Kubrick in "Barry Lyndon" a slow paced film, never forgot that. His scenes are individually kind of slow, but there are so many, your forget it's slow.
Michael Cimino is not a Cinema man. He takes 3 hours to tell a story, when at most 2 was enough. I can see that David Lean, a great master, faced an identical problem with "Doctor Jivago" a slow-paced novel,like most Russian Romantic and post-Romantic literature. He managed to escape and made a cinematic version. Michael Cimino is slow, his films are boring. What makes this film watchable are just the Great male Actors and Meryl Streep.