But someone already made the perfect Oregon Trail movie, and it’s not Oregon Trail.
It’s Meek’s Cutoff.
They hire a man, Stephen Meek, who claims to know the trail well.
When the party appears to get lost and runs short of water, tensions rise.
Meek’s Cutoff is a slow movie, arguably too slow.
Little happens in it.
They just need water.
And they don’t have it.
And they keep going.
And they still don’t have it.
It’s a movie that features no villain, and a singular cause.
We are Here, we need to make it to There.
All that stands in the way is the In Between.
It will be more vibrant, faster paced, with a greater degree of mass appeal.
It will also, for reasons I still don’t understand, feature musical numbers.
It may even prove to be a better film than Meek’s Cutoff.
It’s slow, it’s boring, it’s dangerous.
You don’t understand it, but you keep going anyway.
But you oughta see it through.
With everything in you, you’re gonna wanna see it through.
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