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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > The Film Dump > The Proposition (Western)
 
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Apr 27, 2006

ShakeZula posted:

Saw it a while ago because I'd heard really good things, and was incredibly disappointed.

This movie felt like twenty pages of script stretched into a full-length film. I understand what the director was going for with all the long, lingering shots of the barren landscape, but he went way overboard with it. Everything just seemed to move so slowly.

There were one or two cool scenes, in particular when Guy Pearce gets a spear thrown through his chest but they were not enough to make me enjoy this movie.

The premise was intriguing, though, and I wouldn't mind seeing another movie that did it justice.

Rating: 1.5/5

I agree completely.

The film had a lot of promise with its brutal portrayal of frontier life, but is hampered by a lack of actual content. I never was able to really connect with Guy Pearce's character at all, because throughout the movie he says probably less than 10 lines total. In fact, throughout the entire movie there is a suprising lack of dialogue.

I think this movie could have benefited greatly from a running narrative from Guy Pearce's character, explaining the situation, and his thoughts, ect. Anything to fill in the long stretches of nothing-ness.

2/5

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