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Originally Posted by blaise
It's a famous movie because it was basically a disaster.
I'm not saying you're wrong to like it, but you should read the history of its making. It's pretty interesting.
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It isn't just the making of Heaven's Gate that is fascinating, but also the whole United Artists story. The only independent studio, originally run by artists, then by a parent company that stayed mostly out of the creative process. After the financial disaster, UA was sold to a studio, effectively ending independent movies having wide distribution in 1980. Orion tried to do something similar, and was related by having ex-UA studio heads, but struggled by 1990 or so. Independent film had to reinvent itself leading to the independent boom of the 90s.
That was wildly simplified, but if you are interested in the history of the film business, the pre-MGM United Artists chapter is very interesting.