janmanuel2 I can't believe the high scores for this movie. It was on my cable channel and had high 90's on two review scores so I recorded it. The narrator has the most annoying voice and accent and her voice does not project to the audience at all. The old man who worked for the farmer was the best actor. The photography was beautiful. Everything else was mediocre at best. It just dragged along to an abysmal ending. I cannot believe people are comparing this to movies like Casa Blanca. This is just average. The whole premise could have been developed into a great movie. I guess I don't like this director's style.

juneebuggy 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

merelyaninnuendo 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.

hughman55 I want to set the record straight about this film score. But first I want to join my fellow detractors of the grossly overrated film in agreeing that the characters and story line are anemic and undeveloped; and the voice over atrocious. At first I couldn't understand a word of it. I'd rewind and listen again only to discover that not only was it annoying, but it was also uninteresting and meaningless.Now, for all the fellow detractors who cared as little for this tedious film as I did but acknowledged its breathtaking cinematography and beautiful score, you may want to reconsider your praise of the music. The music is beautiful, and one of the best things about this awful film, but it's not original. And it is not film music. It is, note for note, from a classical piece composed in 1886, by Camille Saint Seans, called "Carnival of the Animals". What you're hearing over and over again throughout this whole three hour film (oh, that's right, it's only 94 minutes) is the 'Aquarium' movement. You will also be familiar with this same composition as the 'Swan' movement is used in the ballet solo, "The Dying Swan"; made famous by Anna Pavlova and every other great ballerina over the last 100 years who strapped on a pair of pointe shoes to croak under a spotlight. So, the music in this film truly beautiful. But no thanks to anyone living in 1978 or now.