Cinematic Excrement: Episode 119 - Indecent Proposal 

I'd let Redford do me for a million bucks and I'm not even gay.

Smeghead's angry style of reviewing feels so much more genuine than the Nostalgia Critic's.

I remember the joke at the time was asking whether women would sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars, with the answer being: why do you need the million dollars?

Redford's character didn't use protection because he's....The Natural. I'll see myself out.

2020 remake: the couple immediately sues the millionaire for 200 million.

"Scrooge McDucking it!"😂😂😂

To be fair to the movie, sort of, my folks were married at 19 and 21, and they’ve been married for 50 years. And they still like each other. But, my folks aren’t stupid or terrible like these characters are.

I stumbled across this channel and have been binging for a week. You are wonderful! Snarky, witty and your deadpan delivery is perfect.

Woody: "DON'T LIE TO ME!!" Me: "I AM ACTING!!"

At 8:44 I always interpreted that scene as David wanting to wipe off the makeup that she wore for Gage the night before. Remember when she's on Gage's boat she applies the red lipstick, wears the fancy dress he left for her and "dolls " herself up. Throughout the rest of the film especially when she's with David she really does not wear heavy makeup. So I always took that scene as David metaphorically trying to wipe any traces that remind him of Diana's night with Gage away. Also I never knew this movie won or was even nominated for razzies, lol. I used to like it a lot when it was released, but to be fair, I was also 10 years old so it wasn't hard to impress me. I loved Demi Moore as well as a kid and after seeing this movie I cut my waist long hair into a bob cut just like Demi in the film, i thought it made me look like her, but looking back at childhood pics , it was extremely unflattering on me. Oh well, lol. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I loved and still enjoy Sliver and Indecent proposal nowadays, lol. Dare I say I even prefer the plot of Sliver over that of Basic Instinct, lol. Anyway I know this is an older review but I just discovered your channel and am binging your videos, :)

Oliver Platt truly is an underrated actor! Loved him in The Three Musketeers lol

The Simpsons did this better with Artie Ziff being Marge's old flame and him wanting to see "the road not taken"

I could see the conflict of the movie working if given more characterization. For instance, if one of them was devoutly religious, feeling that marriage was a sacred bond between two people. Then, they have to choose between either betraying their beliefs or becoming bankrupt. Or if one of them had their father leave their mother for a younger woman and this situation reminds them of that trauma too much. Or if they were deeply in love and wanted to remain monogamous but hard times tested that love. But as it stands, and this is simply based on this review, there doesn't seem to be enough characterization to make this seem like much of a conflict for these characters.

_Fifty Shades of Grey: The Early Years._

I cannot believe Woody Harrelson gave up Benny and Joon for this movie.

Your warnings at the beginning leave me chuckling every time.

9:58-10:11 - He is one of the hightest-ranking people in S.H.I.E.L.D., second only to Nick Fury. He has access to super-advanced technology that is way ahead of its time.

Should be studying for my midterm. Oh wait, there’s a new episode of Cinematic Excrement? Welp, here we go again.

I can't wait for the Showgirls review. That movie's reputation has changed a lot over time

8:19 that soundtrack could have worked in a completely different genre of film, a Horror movie for example, it makes you uncomfortable and on edge at the same time.

why the bashing of Robert Redford in the opening text? Lots of women at Diem's age still find Redford attractive

Smeghead made my best of 2019 list, dude, congrats!

The conflict in the book was very much based on nationalities of the characters: husband was Israeli war veteran (in Six-Days War, if I remember correctly), rich guy was Saudi sheikh, and wife was "American blond princess" they both treated like walking talking fetish.

10 PM, two minutes after uploading...sure, why not? Liked.

Robert Redford doesn't even need to give me a million dollars to do me.

I love your cinematic excrement reviews. You are a great comedian! You had me rolling on the floor with your delivery of one liners with perfect deadpan precision(except the perfect amount of raising of eyebrows)!

Indecent Proposal received a lot of hype when it came out, but it just wasn’t a good movie. The worst part of the film I remember was there was no chemistry at all between Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson. The same was true about Demi Moore and Robert Redford. All three are great actors and each have been in some really good films but the casting choices and the premise of the film just didn’t work.

I think that the whole illicit affair was what adults loved about this movie back in the day, and the fact that the sex scenes were mostly uncensored, as for teenagers, Demi Moore being partially nude. I need to say more?

So this is the movie parodied by the Simpsons episode ''Half-decent Proposal''?

If you were alive and conscious of the media surroundings this film, you would know that it got a lot of hype in the daytime talk shows. The “would you take that indecent proposal” was asked in a lot of water cooler chats. So basically they all watched the movie to be able to talk about it in the office.

Naked Demi Moore, hype, had a lot of power back than.

This is one of those special movies that was already bad on its release but thanks to values dissonance has become EVEN WORSE.

Is there any genre of movie that has aged worse and become dated more quickly than the "90s Erotic Thriller?"

I remember when a Hey Arnold spoof this with the episode Curly's Girl.

“Old wrinkly” Robert Redford? Uh.. Robert Redford is Robert Redford.

That Mad about You clip was Great. The best line reading of Great that I’ve ever heard!

I can't believe you went the entire review without once making a HONEYMOON IN VEGAS comparison.

YES, I absolutely adore Oliver Platt and he's way too underrated.

I completely agree about Oliver Platt. He's fucking amazing and is never given enough credit.

You were 12 in 1993, meaning you were born in 1981

The Man has done it again! Well done Broski and Happy Holidays you little woogie!

If a cartoon from 1996 parodies this with coat stain blackmail and the premise is so stupid that you think they made it up on their own, your movie is hilariously bad.

I saw this opening weekend, and the only other person in the theater was Ashton Kutcher.

I've been watching your videos for about 5 years now, and I swear, you haven't aged at all.

Robert Redford at the age he was in “indecent proposal “ I would’ve done it for free but a million doesn’t hurt.. Woody Harrelson in it is so immature. I would’ve left him for Robert Redford! ewe Robert Redford..whatever :p

This came out the day before my birthday, thank you cinematic excrement!

This is like 50 shades of grey but christian's played straight up as the psycho he really is, but it's still a bad movie. How do you even do that. edit: never mind they're playing it the other way.

The movie has its share of faults, but its goal is to get you thinking about the concepts of infidelity, prostitution, self worth, insecurity, greed and love. Would it bother me if my partner cheated on me "for a good cause," do people have their price and what is it, does sex for money leave an emotional impact on the participants, can one night stand ruin a relationship even when at first the couple thinks it's not a big deal, should a person sell "their honor" to help their partner and should the partner even let them do it, etc. If you don't care about any of that, this movie is a boring moralistic claptrap, but if you do, then it's a very interesting psychosexual melodrama that's completely in the realm of possible. Also, Redford wants Demi BECAUSE she's in a relationship. He's inserting dominance by proving that even a married woman can be bought like a prostitute. It's an underrated movie, frankly.

the concept is so laughable they even spoofed it in Kingpin, which starred my boy Woody Harrelson

Been waiting for this one for a long time.

Thanks for the vid. Always great!

If my calculations are correct, Sean is gonna review Showgirls by early next year...can't wait to see how he tackles that movie. It'll be more entertaining that the movie that happened

God damn it Sean, you woke me up. Good stuff though!

Dammit I was just about to go to bed for work tomorrow. Still a step up from Sean uploading in the middle of the night

Yes this film is ludicrous. But if I may give you a little insight from a healthy, heterosexual woman, Robert Redford was GORGEOUS in this film. Creepy maybe. Old? Old-ish. But BEAUTIFUL!!

Is it weird to say that the only reason I know this movie was because of that one episode from Friends when Monica yelled at Phoebe for messing up her haircut and was listing some of the movies Demi Moore has been in such as this one and Ghost when trying to explain the type of hairstyle she wanted? She wanted Demi Moore's hairstyle but Phoebe thought that she said Dudley Moore.

“What about this film was so enticing?” He says over images of Demi Moore in her absolute prime (although weirdly, maybe just because she stands out more among all the ugliness, I’ve always thought her absolute most beautiful appearance on film was in the weird, weird Dan Akroyd vehicle “Nothing But Trouble”)

The soundtrack with Sade also helped it alot..

3:43 A 1993 movie with 1958 land prices for the beachfront lot with the unfinished house on it.

I saw that movie and I loved it, hated Redford’s character. The man was evil and deserved no sympathy or pity not even with that sappy story he tells Moore’s character. I also read the book and I can tell you this: the billionaire is even more evil. I’ll wait to see a comment if they want spoilers

I love your reviews Sean! Since I haven't seen any growth in subs sometimes i feared that you would stop making videos! But I'm glad you haven't. I will pray to the youtube gods to send suba your way haha! Thank for keeping up the good work! Ps: yes! "Mad about you". I loved that show

“Hollywood’s lack of originality is nothing new folks.” Well, I guess it’d have to be, wouldn’t it? Lol, good to be back seeing your vids, Smeghead.

This is a very misunderstood movie that went over people's heads, even at the time. It is a married woman's romantic fantasy about escaping your humdrum poor life and being swept away by a rich man who thinks you are the most gorgeous woman in the world and cannot help himself but pursue her, which she considers but then goes back to her husband. It is the kind of thing a lot of women trapped in poverty with a man she married might fantasize about. Her husband was an idiot, they bought a house they could not afford and gambled as that was the only thing he could come up with. She was about to be homeless and is tied to her husband's bad decisions. So this megarich handsome older guy shows up and is sooo infatuated he would pay a million dollars just for one night! A woman would feel so validated with her beauty and think "hey, I still have it despite being married!". The rich guy goes all out and wines and dines her and he is never a jerk (despite paying for her, it is like loving a call girl you paid for, like Pretty Woman), but in the end, she just loooves her hubby too much! Because of the competition by this rich, powerful guy, after being jealous, he pulls himself together and realizes how much he loves her. It is a movie about a thought a woman like her, in her situation, might have for a moment as a fantasy to escape her circumstances. And I get you may not like Robert Redford, but back in the day, even in his mid-50's, he was considered a very good looking guy. No woman who watched this thought he was "old and wrinkly", he was considered by many even in the early 1990's to still be quite a handsome man that a woman who was 30 (which was her age at the time) would not find even remotely unattractive. It wasn't like she was 18. People thought it was about Redford's character being creepy (like this reviewer did, 30 years later) but it was actually intended to be the exact opposite of that.

To answer your question I think Gage just has a thing for married women. I know some people just have a married people fetish. It’s not that uncommon.

May be his kink is married women.

Man...the early 90's was a whacky time for film...LOL!

Indecent Proposal: A Steamy Drama that redefines the word Stupid and Hateful.

The early 90s was a very different cultural and moral atmosphere than today. Just think about the fact that we went 12 years under Reagan and Bush, and the internet was just barely beginning to exist in the form we now know. Just as we look at content banned in hyper-conservative countries today with confusion as to how this could be scandalous, there were enough people who were that moralistic and that sheltered for this to be considered naughty and taboo and thrilling. Also, while the editing and score may be crap, the clips you show demonstrate that it is at least very well shot in that early 90s way.

The money-strewn nude scene wouldn't have been helping the movie be such a success if there were the Internet back then. We've got Google Images.

It IS a moral quandary if you and your husband are in love. If either of you isn't or doesn't respect the other, it's an easy decision.

Great job dude

Lots of people marry young and do fine. Just because you wouldn't like the idea doesn't mean it is "wrong" or against "common sense" (common to whom anyway?). Obviously it wont work for many but that is the case with everything in life.

Can u fix the host episode or is it a lost cause

I have to admit that Cop and a Half is actually a guilty pleasure for me

"Blood-sucking Lawyer"? Nice reference to one of the better films from '93, Sean. XD

The senator joke made me laugh out loud.

8:18 - Can't believe Oscar winner John Barry composed this score. Oh and a more appropriate title for this movie would be "Lifetime Movie of the Week: Bizarro World Edition". Also, "Woody Harrelson buys a hippo from Billy Connelly" sounds like the start of a weird acid trip.

I guess they did the roulette thing because it is a reference to Casablance: The fool is loosing everything while trying to gain much needed money for the couple and the gal is willing to do everything to get them outta trouble even if is against their vows.

Ah, yes. The movie that destroyed the career of the director behind "Fatal Attraction" and "Jacob's Ladder," the latter of which is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. GOD, how this movie irks me for that alone, never mind its other numerous faults...😡

Part of that crazy musical score he played sounded like the alien vessel from Star Trek IV. Anyone else notice that?

Damnit, were going to wait till the new year for a new video!?

Something "special" eh? Maybe something to do with Bea Arthur and some Wookies? Oh wait, you already did the Star Wars Holiday Special. You've got me stumped then.

Saw 50 Shades Freed on the shelf at Target yesterday, pretty prominent "we just came out" location. Bottom dollar that's next episode.

I know a lot of guys that would take proposal, better than her cheating for free.......or Prince Andrew....

Also, I agree with you on Oliver Platt. Loved him in West Wing.

Last Action Hero was great! there I said it.

can you do SLIVER next?

A soap opera episode, expanded to a feature length movie with world famous actors.

I actually saw this movie when it was in theaters. I think the marketing just was good at sort of presenting this as "what would you do???" kind of issue, sort of encouraging people to talk about it, what would you do if you ever got put in this situation. I remember my mother interpreting it as "would you cheat on your husband for a million if on top of it you also get to bang Robert Redford????". I mean, you say it's a no brainer, but it was like what, the 90s? Where we still had plenty of moral panic topics like Bill Clinton or D&D=Satan Worship. It seems kind of dumb now, but somehow the marketing seemed to manage to turn it into a watercooler type topic. From what I remember they tried to do the same thing with the "sexual harassment by a female boss" movie also starring Demi Moore. My main memory of the movie itself was just that it was boring as fuck and there was no interesting "scandalous" chemistry between the characters either. It wasn't even fun sleazy like Showgirls. Of for motive: I just kind of always assumed that Robert Redford's character did it to fuck with people. To see whether he could buy a normal woman who wasn't a prostitute. Because just buying a prostitute would be too easy. Like it's more fun if it also potentially destroys people's lives if the husband and wife can no longer trust each other after that.

He could care less about Diana, he wants to break the man. Also it is a moral quandary, I would never let anyone sleep with my wife.

The draw to her was because she presented him with a challenge. “The dress is for sale. I’m not.”

IT'S SERIOUSLY GIVING ME WHIPLASH. ADRENALINE STARTS TO FLOW! WE'RE THRASHING ALL AROUND. ACTING LIKE A MANIAC.....

Well to be fair, this was the mid-90s, which was the age BEFORE the internet became a regular commodity, and if somebody saw a bad movie opening night, they could tweet about it on social media and tell people not to go see it. But still, No 1. for a w whole week?! And yes, kids! I can remember a time before having the internet at my disposal 24-7! I’ll leave it up to hour imaginations as to how we ever survived!

Seriously, what's with the hippo??

My parents bought their house the same year. It cost $80,000 and is in central Alabama. Did the screenwriter miss a decimal place? Or two?

Was the sound engineer's cat walking across his Casio while the soundtrack was being recorded?

I will say this, Sean, seeing this, it doesn't seem to hold up as well as it did when I was a preteen girl watching it on mum and dad's old video tape. And I looked up what won the next year. Heard of it, but hadn't seen it, so if that was a hint for it at the end, wouldn't have gotten it anyways. 😉

I remember watching this movie back in the day and mainly wondering why they cast Woody Harrelson with Demi Moore. To me, they just didn't seem to have any kind of real chemistry so I never felt any kind of loss for either of them when it ended. I do agree that Oliver Platt is massively underrated. Despite the cheesiness of the movie, I loved him in Lake Placid. :)

This and 1996’s “winner” is what made a young me fall in love with Demi Moore. I think I was jealous of Bruce Willis at the time.

Redford basically was/is the George Clooney of the 60's-80's.