The Worst Film Ever

Just perfect...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Quite a lovely film, a great American life film. But it's hard to really fall in love with it.

Yes, very beautiful but holy hell was this boring. I think the director forgot about a decent story and just threw a jumpy plot together to fill the spaces between each gorgeous shot. Zero character development, bad fight scenes, no love scenes and about an hour dedicated to the harvester, harvesting wheat, bugs on the wheat, hands running through the wheat, sunset on the wheat or playing in the wheat. The story (as it were) follows a young Richard Gere as a migrant farm worker on a Texas farm in 1916. Posing as brother and sister he travels with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) from Chicago to Texas where they land a job on a rich mans what farm. Life is hard, the hours gruelling but (Sam Shepard) the boss has taken a liking to his sister/girlfriend. When Gere overhears the doctor telling the boss man that he may only have a year to live he convinces his girlfriend/sister to marry the boss so they can claim his fortune. The whole movie is narrated by a young boy... or girl, not sure who this is meant to be actually but it's so the viewer can understand what the hell is going on between each frame of cinemagraphic beauty

Days Of HeavenThe cinematography as always is stunning in a metaphorical tone that communicates to audience about the fueled intense exoticism that is explored in here. Terrence Malick's; the writer-director, keeps it simple on paper but takes out his big guns while executing (it surpasses the script) which is mesmerizing and thought provoking at the same time. On performance level, Richard Gere has done some decent work but other than that it seems like it wasn't Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard's forte. Days Of Heaven is weak on offering fresh or concrete material and performance, but still works like a charm due to the deep ideology and anatomy of human nature in all aspects of its time with different perspective.

I'm sorry, I'm so-so sorry but as the title suggested I'm pointing this down to my younger age, I didn't enjoy Days of Heaven and I found it a challenge to keep invested in. I understand that it is a beautiful, well crafted film, almost poetic in a way, but it wasn't properly speaking to me on an individual level, no sir. Maybe one day, when I'm considerably older I will revisit Days of Heaven and get an altogether different more positive experience, but until then...Richard Gere is a quality actor and I've always admired him, his performance as young farm boy Bill was top notch, making me understand now why he secured bigger and better roles as his career advanced..., the same can be said about Brooke Adams, just a shame that she didn't find the same levels of success that her co-star did. Visually the film was fine, the whole cinematography, right down to the simplest piece of mise-en-scene, was perfect, almost anal..., overly simple, giving the best impression of what the rural Texan panhandle must have been like in the 1900's, when the final frontier was still just about a thing.Technically the film was excellent, hence it's high rating on the website, sadly my overall experience was poor and the enjoyment levels weren't there, hence my much lower score.