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'Meek's Cutoff' is the strangest movie I've seen in decades

This story of 3 small families heading to Oregon in 1845 via the Oregon Trail, which, apparently, was not yet a recognisable trail, is so slow in so many spots that it's boring. While I love small movies about people and their plights, this one tells us nothing about its characters, to the point that I didn't care if they EVER found the Columbia River.

The country they're in is so boring--high desert with dried grass and bushes--that a BIG DEAL in the story was finding a tree...yes, a single tree.

The excellent director John Sayles' 1999 movie 'Limbo' had no conventional ending to the story and indeed left us in limbo, but that was a fine movie compared with 'Meek's...'.

Not recommended.


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Topic - 'Meek's Cutoff' is the strangest movie I've seen in decades - jeffreybehr 11:51:59 05/29/11 (10)

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