Dead Man Movie
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No one can survive becoming a legend.
Dead Man is the story of a young man's journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named "Nobody," who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody's help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.
| Johnny Depp | William Blake |
| Billy Bob Thornton | |
| Gary Farmer | Nobody |
| Michael Wincott | Conway Twill |
| Lance Henriksen | Cole Wilson |
| Mili Avital | Thel Russell |
| Iggy Pop | |
| Crispin Glover | Train Fireman |
| Gibby Haynes | Man with Gun in Alley |
| Richard Boes | Man with Wrench |
| George Duckworth | Man at End of Street |
| John Hurt | John Scholfield |
| John North | Mr. Olafsen |
| Robert Mitchum | John Dickinson |
| Peter Schrum | Drunk |
| Gabriel Byrne | Charlie Dickinson |
| Eugene Byrd | Johnny 'The Kid' Pickett |
| Jim Jarmusch |
7.70 out of 10 (31418 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Finding Meaning In The Obscure
posted on 19 Jul 2009Well maybe I'm just a Philistine but I certainly have to dissent from all the rave reviews this film has gotten. It happens I like my westerns traditional, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Delmar Daves, Burt Kennedy, those guys make westerns. Jim Jarmusch makes weird.So does Johnny Depp who I salute for having the artistic courage to play an incredible variety of roles. I love what he did in Edward Scissorhands, Nick of Time, and in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. But he came up short in playing William Blake, the guy who is not the famous English poet.This William Blake travels west spending every dime he has on a promise of a job keeping books for a metal works company owned by Robert Mitchum. When he arrives late, he's told the job is filled. He casually drifts into a relationship with a woman and wouldn't you know it, she's the gal pal of Gabriel Byrne, Mitchum's son. Byrne comes in guns blazing and catches Depp and his woman en flagrato. He shoots the woman and Depp shoots him in self defense.No matter, Mitchum's the big he bull of the area and a bounty goes on Depp's head. In the words of that immortal 20th Century philosopher Joe Louis, he can run but he can't hide. Not even with the help of a new found Indian friend in Gary Farmer.A lot of reviewers extracted meaning from obscure things in this film which wanders rather aimlessly with Depp's fugitive status. I extracted nothing, but boredom.But Dead Man might be your cup of tea, it certainly isn't mine.
Strangely hypnotic, poetic and disturbing...
posted on 07 Jul 2009A very bold and uncompromising movie. Filmed in black and white with a doomed ending, eerie symbolism and mysterious messages a-plenty, it is clearly not your average piece of cinema. It is very weird, and almost nonsensical in parts, but I love this movie. I love Johnny Depp's left-of-centre movie choices, and this is certainly that.For some reason, I love the opening scene between Depp and the extremely under-used Crispin Glover. It makes very little sense, but it sets the tone for the rest of the movie perfectly. Glover's delivery of the line "I wouldn't trust no words written on no piece of paper by no Dickinson from the town of Machine' is eerily prophetic and even disturbing.A different western with wonderful performances from the strangest group of actors assembled together in recent memory. Recommended for film buffs that are not afraid to make their own conclusions, and don't need to have everything spoon-fed to them.
Dead man takes its time, but it gets there
posted on 29 May 2009If you're looking for a modern film noir western, and frankly who isn't, Dead Man will be exactly what you're looking for. Shot lovingly on black & white, this deep and meaningful period drama/comedy/film noir/western/road movie is a slow look at old clichés. This movie like all of Jarmusch's doesn't run up and hit you on the head. If there is something important said quietly, it won't be repeated ad nauseam through the rest of the movie. Cinema can still be a subtle art, and this movie proves it. The photography as always in Jarmusch's films, was exceptional as was Depp's character arc, and if you look closely enough, you can see a bit of that Depp Bravado in there as well. This is not a movie for fans of Pirates of the Caribbean, this is for lovers of independent cinema. When I think of the classic westerns of the modern era, and frankly there aren't many Unforgiven and The Tracker are two, this will surely have to be mentioned.
Some are born to endless night ..
posted on 26 May 2009Despite being mortally wounded around half an hour in, accountant William Blake is in many ways already a 'dead man' at the beginning of the film - during a bizarre train ride (to HELL ! as Crispin Glover's intense Train Fireman explains it) that gets wilder the further it goes west, William Blake reveals that his parents are both dead and that he'd once had a fiancé, but she'd 'changed her mind'. Upon arriving in the rathole town of Machine (where people engaging in oral sex on the streets barely raises an eyebrow)it's further revealed that Blake is penniless after spending the last of his inheritance travelling to this wretched place in hope of taking up a new position as the Dickinson Metals accountant ... the job however, has already been filled. Alone and bereft, a stranger in a strange place, Blake befriends an ex-prostitute who promptly seduces him. The romantic interlude is interrupted when an ex lover of the woman's enters the room and interupts the coitus ... gunplay eventually ensues, the woman and her old flame are killed and Blake is shot in the heart ... he flees on a stolen horse and heads into the forest. William Blake awakes in the forest and discovers an Indian man (actor Gary Farmer) attending to his bullet wound - but the bullet cannot be removed ... Once the Indian man (who goes by the name 'Nobody' in preference to the derisive name those in his village had given him) finds out that the wounded white man he has found goes by the name of 'William Blake', fate intervenes on both mens lives. Nobody believes Blake to be the reincarnation of the famous poet/painter of the same name, whom Nobody feels a special affinity with for reasons which are later revealed ..It becomes apparent that in many ways Nobody is also a 'dead man' - he later tells William Blake that his mixed-blood is not looked upon with 'respect' by his people. Nobody goes on to tell Blake of his capture by white men as a child, men who had caged him and exhibited him around America - Nobody's enslavement had eventually taken him all the way across the ocean to Europe, where he was eventually forced to attend the white man's schools.Upon escaping his captors and making the great journey home to his people, he found himself labelled a liar and a big mouth by his fellow villagers ('he who talks loud, say nothing !') - and he finishes his story by telling William Blake that he is 'alone to wander the Earth' Nobody also explains that during captivity in Europe he had discovered the poetry of William Blake, and that the words had 'spoken to him', inspiring him to escape his imprisonment. Nobody believes that William Blake *the accountant from Cleveland* must now embrace his destiny as a 'killer of white men', and Nobody's people with violence in the same way that the words of William Blake the poet had given Nobody courage and strength ...As William Blake begins to play out the role fate has given him, he seems to become more alive and vital, despite his deteriorating physical state ... Director Jim Jarmusch has given us a poetic, visually stunning film with much subtlety and spirituality - the Western genre is subverted as the 'hero' is drawn into the world of the native American Indian's and in the process becomes a post-civil-war hero for the oppressed Indians : with his Indian guide Nobody helping him realise his destiny, William Blake's sacrifice ultimately serves as a Legend that gives the Indian villagers some hope that they may be able resist/co-exist with the white settlers.superb performances all round (Alfred Molina's cameo is great, Billy Bob Thornton's hilarious ..), an amazing soundtrack almost on par with Ry Cooder's 'Paris, Texas' masterpiece, and above all a thought-provoking and beautifully presented story from masterful director Jarmusch ...
stupid white men
posted on 26 May 2009"Dead Man" is not like any western that you've seen before. It's not a glorification of pioneers traveling out west, and it's not a direct indictment of our treatment of the Indians. Granted, it portrays the Old West as a pretty ugly place, but the movie almost seems to treat it as a parallel universe. Johnny Depp plays William Blake, who gets hired to be an accountant for a metal company in a town called Machine in 1876. When he arrives in town - after using up all his money - he learns from the corporate CEO (Robert Mitchum) that they've hired someone else. With nowhere to go, Blake hooks up with a woman, only to have her hubby walk in on them and kill her and wound him. Blake kills the guy and has to flee, since it turns out that this guy is the corporate CEO's son (and the CEO is more concerned that Blake stole a horse than that his son got murdered). Out in the open, Blake meets up with an Indian named Nobody (Gary Farmer), who calls him "stupid white man". That's when the movie really starts to seem metaphysical.I thought that this movie was OK, although it's definitely not for everyone. It almost seems to have as its main strength a giant cast: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Billy Bob Thornton, and a whole bunch of other people. You might want to check it out, although mind you, you may find it very strange.
Could have been a masterpiece.
posted on 17 May 2009Deadman could have been an excellent movie. The major and possibly the only flaw in the entire movie was the casting of the role of 'Nobody'. Why couldn't Gary Farmer have lost 50 lbs before he starred opposite Johnny Depp... he was way too much overweight to be a begging, exhiled native American. That made all scenes including him unbelievable. It's a good movie but it could have been excellent.Johnny Depp as always played his role most excellently, even though he had fewer lines than any other movie i've seen him in. I hate it when movies have huge potential to be a classic and ruin it by not carefully casting the roles. And that's my 2 cents.
I wouldn't have been dis-appointed to pay full price,,,
posted on 05 May 2009I've scanned/read thru the comments on this movie before posting my own. They (the comments/reviews) are too eloquent and sophisticated. First, my perspective. I like westerns. I was up early one morning getting my stuff ready to go out, the tv was one, this came on cable, tv, I had never heard of it, didn't know the director's work. As the beginning played, I didn't know what was happening or really paying attention to anything that might have been significant. But it became more riveting to me, and I ended up being late because I wanted to see it through. This is a pretty good movie. Not everyone's taste though. It's symbolic, slyly amusing, historical and there are details that have to be paid attention to. Speaking of which, I have to comment on the comments by "Air-head", uh, "Air-man", oh, Aiman is it? Well, opinions to all those in existence.But --- "So you keep watching, bored out of your skull. Trying to anticipate a moment when suddenly the movie might surprise you and make sense of the hours of meaningless footage. That perhaps the film-maker is up to something clever and innovative" ---.Huh?!? Well okay, my wife dis-likes westerns and finds them particularly boring too. I can understand that part. But "meaning-less footage"? Well okay, if you're not american, than "old west" based movies might seem meaning-less. But then, life is life all over the globe. And you don't have to be american to glimpse evidense of "ethnic dis-placement", ravaging of natural re-sources and the like.I rate it better than "Josey Wales" and right up there with "Clearcut".
The long awaited reviewing of a movie I've often trashed
posted on 02 May 2009I'm only somewhat happy to say that it's nowhere near as bad as I remembered it – I rated it a dismal 2/10 after just one viewing. Since I first saw it, probably around a decade ago, I've educated myself in both Westerns and Jarmusch, and I can judge it better being more familiar with its referents. My judgment now: still not very good. To be fair, I can't say that I'm the biggest Jarmusch fan. I've seen most of his movies now, and the only one that works for me on any large level is his most recent, Broken Flowers. That film just blows me away. Other than that, I did like Mystery Train. All of the other films I've seen of his, which include Coffee and Cigarettes, Down by Law, Stranger Than Paradise and Dead Man itself, work for me up to a point. After that point, they just bug me. My specific complaint about Dead Man is that it seems to want to be profound, or at least people think it is (the lead comment on IMDb right now begins: "A profoundly spiritual film speaking to our true human nature in a world of illusion"), but it also wants to be a goofy / weird comedy. That goofiness is fun at times, but definitely kills any apparent profundity. And, dammit, how can anyone take it the least bit seriously with that damn fat Indian? I hate the character of Nobody, and hate Gary Farmer's performance. If it weren't for him, I think I'd like the film. I like a lot about it. First and foremost, the cinematography is outstanding. I also love the quirky costume design. And the supporting performances are fun. I personally don't think Jarmusch is trying to be profound at all. I think the goofiness was more of his intention. In that case, it would have been better if it had been trimmed a bit. This is his longest film, I think, and, even besides Nobody, it overstays its welcome. While I don't hate it anymore, this is certainly my least favorite of Jarmusch's films.
Mind Altering
posted on 29 Apr 2009Whosoever that saw this movie must agree that this is truly something else right here. Me, personally think that Mr. Depp is truly one of the best actors out there. He's been doing his thing since the 80's without compromising or not daring to risk his 'status' to play in an ordinary indie flick. Of course I was totally amazed at the storyline in this movie and therefore I can understand why certain simpletons can't appreciate nor understand such a work of art. I can honestly say that this one truly blew me away....FAR away. From beginning to end this movie surprises and never disappoints. That is why this movie is going into my Johnny Depp top 3 list along with his other classics. This movie received the highest praise because it is truly worth nothing less than a 10. Excellent!!!
Jim Jarmusch remakes Apocalypse Now in the Old West
posted on 20 Apr 2009Imagine if Jim Jarmusch (or Kevin Smith or the guys from South Park) re-made Apocalypse Now as a western and you have some idea of where this wild fantasy will take you. Jarmusch (who has killed before with his Night On Earth, and lesser known but superior Down By Law) continues his imaginening of world's otherwise familiar to us, now seen through a glass darkly, ironically delivering a more accurate, if disturbing, vision of ourselves through our myths.Fresh from multiple losses (his parents' death and fiancee's infidelity), Johnny Depp plays William Blake a sensitive young man from Cleveland who travels west on the promise of employment as an accountant in a mining town only to find his position taken by another. Alone and nearly broke he befriends and is befriended by a local girl who takes him home for the night. Now a classic film noir twist (appropriate to this black and white film) moves the story along to where Blake is (mortally?) wounded in a gunfight and unfairly forced to run from a charge of double murder. Temporarily safe from his pursuers, Blake passes out from the loss of blood then wakes to find himself in the charge of an indigenous mystic who calls himself Nobody (Gary Farmer). Learning he carries the name of his favorite poet, Nobody befriends the wounded white man and seeks to raise him to what Nobody believes to be his former, more realized self by setting Blake on a warrior's journey of discovery. Meanwhile, the evil industrialist Dickinson(Robert Mitchum), whose son (Gabriel Byrne) was killed in the ill-fated shooting and whose favorite pinto is lost in the Blake getaway, seeks to enlist everyone he can in the hunt for his son's killer. He begins by contracting a trio of gunmen/bounty hunters played by Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott and Eugene Byrd.What follows is a journey told through the parallel narratives of Blake and Nobody and their most formidable, if also most hilariously dysfunctional, pursuers. The best element of the film is in the gentle humor and intelligence in the story of the deepening relationship between Blake and Nobody.While audiences will be familiar with Depp and many of the supporting cast, we have seen much too little of one of the great undiscovered (in the U.S.) acting talents, Gary Farmer. To see more of this great artist check out his (lead actor) work in Powwow Highway, Henry and Verlin, Heater and the short film Two Grey Hills.The willingness of other members of the stellar supporting ensemble (including Billy Bob Thorton, Iggy Pop, Alfred Molina, and John Hurt) to inhabit small, albeit pearl perfect, cosmically bizarre characters is another key element in the success of this film. Some of the best moments from these performances are Blake's encounter with the three trappers at their overnight camp, and the relationship among of the trio of killers, especially between Cole Wilson (Henriksen) and Conway Twill (Wincott). Many times the dialogue is delivered in a nearly-inaudible manner while the characters move in and out of frame, and you may have to rewind to hear it all (be sure to catch Wincott's last couple of lines).Still, it is the blending of Robby Muller's acid-dream cinematography and Neil Young's fuzz-peddle riven score with Jarmusch's own twin contributions as writer/director that yields such a combination of high art and entertainment. This wonderful parody of the genre, and the white version of the history of the Old West, is explicated through a re-examination of the myths on which they are based. It is only the wrapping of humor that makes the recounting of squandered resources (physical and spiritual) go down so easy during the first look at this film.Dead Man is a fine work of art whose sum is even greater than its considerable individual parts. I believe it is one of the most underappreciated films of the 1990s.
Buddhism and Blake
posted on 11 Apr 2009How many westerns have you seen whose main themes are the Tibetan Buddhist concept of the Bardo and the English poet and artist William Blake? If you doubt that the film has any references to Buddhist concepts, you have missed the direct (but fleeting) textual reference. I am surprised that many people seem to think the film is about the main character (Bill Blake) dying. I suppose you could interpret it that way, but there are some very strong and direct clues. The title of the film is one. The second is Nobody's question "Did you kill the white man that killed you?". For those of you who are not familiar with the Bardo, it is an intermediate state. These states include the state between death and the next birth, between dreaming and waking, and yes, between birth and death (i.e. life).
A slow and dull film despite a talented cast
posted on 11 Apr 2009After watching this film I would have to say that I can certainly see why it never made it to the big screen. Of course if there is a reason to respect this film its because of the mostly Native cast who make it worth watching.
Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush etc. are a couple of examples of excellent Native talent in it. As a matter of fact I think that even Johnny Depp is part Native as well (I think but I'm not sure on that). But............ anyways.............. I think the main point to this film is that it was good to see Johnny Depp do some major soul searching like he did after he discovered that the job that he wanted was taken by someone else. He travelled all that way by train only to find out that the person who was supposed to interview him wasn't even there to start. As a result, someone else had to tell him that the position he sought was already filled.However........ anyways.............. this is why I gave this film a 4 out of 10.
the best movie that you haven't seen
posted on 02 Apr 2009although i'm sure there is a good amount of people that have seen it by now, i first saw this movie less than a year after it came out. this has to be one of the best made and most original films i have ever seen. we need to get the word out, this movie should be seen by ANYONE in film-making school for it's technical work, and everyone else for the sheer fact that you wont find a movie like this without it feeling forced. most indie films, especially now, feel like they try to hard to be an "indie" film. johnny depp does a very good job in his role (as always) where this jim jaramusch guy got the ideas for this film, i have no idea. and here's an original concept- the cameos aren't to fill the film with stars, they are actually excellently cast into there roles. i wont go into any detail about the plot, or explain what i think the movie means. instead, see it for yourself, make your own opinions...but i promise this: u will not be disappointed.
Pat yourselves on the back, William Blake & Jarmusche fans
posted on 21 Mar 2009'Dead Man' has a great cast, plenty of hilarious moments, a bunch of references and symbolism with regards to the actual William Blake, and is a wholly original enterprise. Although the film starts out seemingly with the intent to tell a story in the traditional sense, a third of the way through it becomes some kind of art-house comedy/philosophy film, full of references and symbols which will be boring and meaningless to a lot of people watching it based upon its popular and positive reputation. This is fine, but be forewarned -- there is something of a select audience for the subject matter. The second half of the film has symbols, not literal characters.I found the soundtrack by Neil Young interesting at first, but by the second half of the film, Jarmusche relies on it way too much, and fills the film with empty scenes set to droning, meandering solo guitar chords. The aesthetic of the guitar sound works, but the music becomes very monotonous. Given Jarmusche's symbolic approach to old-west America, interspersed with references to Blake's own poetic reflections on the time, a much better musical choice would have been someone like John Fahey or Leo Kottke -- seasoned, well-known folk musicians long since acquainted with old American steel-string music.Johnny Depp is capable as always, and there is a wonderful supporting cast, including Crispin Glover, whose screen-time is way too short. I liked the first half of the film a great deal, but the second half left me restless and waiting for it to end.6.5
why Dead Man is a great movie? Let me tell you.
posted on 18 Mar 2009It is not good to call a movie your "favorite". Sooner or later there is another one which will shatter that title and take it over. Notwithstanding, Dead Man has been on top of my very personal list for almost 10 years now. The first time I watched this movie, I could not stop talking about it for hours. Neither the next twenty. Something really vibrated in me with this film, something that flew into my mind from that mixture of wild west metaphysics, comedy and tragedy. Dead Man touched those same places in my soul that only Bunuel's "The Death in This Garden" had touched before.Today I believe that the clue to my love for this movie is the way Jarmusch tells in it a very solid story using the camera to make it into something that is really beautiful. SPOILER WARNING: There are so many underrated scenes in the film, like the one with Blake lying next to a dead baby deer, or the peyote ceremony, but also scenes of absolute fun, like the one with the three pelletiers playing the three stoges with a shotgun. Blake and Nobody gave the world of film one of the most important lessons in friendship, even if it is based on the Lone Ranger and Toro. And then, there is also the ethereal presence of Thel Russell, lovely interpreted by an almost unknown Mili Avital, who seems like she has been doing westerns all her life. SPOILER ENDSDead Man takes you to a world where life and death are almost touching each other in a soft kiss. It is a world that you don't want to leave so soon, so you come back to it as often as you can. It is so unfortunate that Johnny Deep does not put this film on top of his curriculum, and it is also unfortunate that Jarmusch has not been yet recognized as the last true autheur of the American cinema.
to make the silence heard
posted on 15 Mar 2009I can write about the briliant play of Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer. Like others did before. But one of the most striking things to me was the beautiful sound and music by Neil Young. Sometimes his guitar sounds like a thunder storm, sometimes the absence of his play intensifies the silence. In the end, when William Blake has entered the indian deadcamp you actually seem to here how losing consciousness sounds. Superb. In the same way that the black&white film seems to intensify the the brightness and 'color' of the natural land, does the music provides the conversation with an extra layer. It cuts loose sentences, makes them stand on their own. In thes way it fragmantizes the story. I liked that a lot.
Good cinematography, mediocre plot
posted on 03 Mar 2009My first Jarmusch film, Dead Man, is a re-visionist western about wandering writer William Blake who, as well as being mistaken for the poet of the same name, becomes hunted by assassins ordered to avenge the death of an industrialists daughter. The first thing that struck me about Dead Man was its cinematography. The tonal blend of dark shades and dazzling whites make for some stunning photography, lending itself wonderfully to the dreamlike state of the scenes in the film. The shimmering hue of the black and white combines well with the short cuts that repeatedly fade to black in a style reminiscent of silent film. This technique works well in Dead Man as it helps develop the disjointed and ethereal mood of the film, adhering to the premise that Depp's character is slowly dying, a theme lying at the heart of this picture.
Intoxicating and powerful music score
posted on 03 Mar 2009I know this is a movie but I feel mostly like talking about the music score.In the world of movies there is really only a "few" gems that you can pull apart and say "this will be remembered for".Simply put, the music score in this movie is a masterpiece. If I was teaching "Soundtrack 501" in art school I would spend at least entire class on this one.First this is probably the most haunting musicsrore I have ever heard. I loved many but this is totally different, a class of it's own. You can't compare this with a "Moulin Rouge" that was sublime, it's a musical. In Dead Man I think half of the value of the movie comes from the score.It is not only Neil Young's eclectic way of playing the guitar it is also in the way they have used it along in the movie. The first 5 mins. of the movie not a word is spoken, the train is moving and you already have an idea of what's going on. Suddenly you hear that strange "noise" 1-2 seconds, the first sounds of the guitar and it stops...train keeps moving glimpse of this glimpse of thatYou know you're moving from east to west but you don't know why, then first words comes when the always creepy Glover comes in, then you learn a little more, opps another glimpse of young's guitar. Then a little later comes the intro generic and you get the full taste of the music score. I was on tape and I just had to stop and rewind to look at the whole piece again and from then on I was literally begging to hear that music as the film progessed. That was the trick you see, never overused, always in the right place, always in the right dose and tone, totally intoxicating.Some great actors can carry a film on their shoulders by themsleves, here the music score lift this movie to another level and carries it on its "shoulders". I personally found it that powerful. It think that's the word, it's a subtle, sensitive but powerful music score that fills your brain and soul whitout even whitnessing it at first.I didn't even knew at first it was Neil Young's and I remember telling myself; "but who the heck did that, who's that genius".Yes as you can see i was thrown over by it :-)But what about the movie. I liked it too. It's of course different. Some might not like the pace or simingly "simple" story. Some might even say it was "mono-tone" in both sense as it's filmed in black & white and the plot is really always moving on one level only, but again it was the intention and I believed it was well justified.Johnny Depp doesn't always need to be exuberant and here again every piece of this movie is in harmony with its unity, subtle so unless you're blind you see Depp's character changing one scene after another. Some people might need a "sign" or an obvious "cut" to tell them oh OK he's not the same anymore. Gee of course he's not the same look what just happened here.The change is so slow and subtle that he DOESN'T have to "act it" he just IS it one scene after another.Hollywood produces so much junk "cookie cutter" movie than when things are not told explicitly some get bored.It's a poetic film so if you don't like the genre then you'll probably fall into the category that couldn't stand the pace of the movie. Along with the music score the pace is what makes it good and I don't need and it doesn't have to be (even if I like) "filmed à la Tarantino" to be "good". Again stills totally in harmony here.You have to look at the totality and what the director is doing. Here it is a film that is totally congruent from start to finish and one heck of a good piece.I never rent movie as I record them when they pass on the many movie channel I have. I am usually not a "keeper" I listen and record over. This one I simply couldn't as I knew I was going to listen to it again, which I did 2 months later and enjoyed it even more. So to the MTV generation yes I'm nuts :-)
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posted on 25 Feb 2009The one thing I dislike about the movie is that anybody can go to any message board and write pointless comments like "the worst movie ever", "this is bad".Where the damn evidences that the movie is bad?! Sean Hooks constructed the whole comment out of word "bad" here, never providing at least one evidence that the movie is actually bad. He "has seen A LOT", so it means that he's virtually the best critic ever and he is the one who has a right word about the movie?Perhaps the problem is that the film is too perfect for some people. I mean how can you like it if you don't understand damn thing about the movie?ps I join everybody who thinks Dead Man is one of the greatest movies ever.
A Great Film
posted on 06 Aug 2009This has got to be one of the best and funniest westerns ever made. Johnny Depp plays William Blake, a man who goes to the town of Machine to get a job as an accountant for a metal shop. However, upon arriving, he finds that he is too late, and someone else has already filled the position. One thing leads to another, and before you know it, bounty hunters and marshals are after him! This is an often funny western with doses of heavy violence. A must see for all western movie fans, as well as fans of Johnny Depp, who's excellent in this film as well.