Its cadences eventually feeling like a series of punch lines, Dead Man takes a deadpan approach to its perverse violence that suggests the Coens doing Cormac McCarthy (you know, before the Coens did Cormac McCarthy).

Dull western that does shine, just not enough.

It's a good story, but I felt like it got dragged on too long. It had trouble keeping my attention during a lot of it, but it also had parts that kept me watching. Despite the highs of the interesting parts to the lows of the boring parts, it was good.

ehm... nice poem :D

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the best written, best directed, best acted and best scored movie i've seen thus far. no doubt and no second thought about it. all the characters carry stories on themselves, creating the main tale, just like the way it happens on real life. you see blake carrying his own story on his back, nobody meeting him with his own. we hear neil young tell his own lines through the guitar, and jarmusch brings it with the visuals he weaves. in the end, what's produced is the best movie i've seen so far.

Very good story and the directing is fantastic too. The only thing that I didn't like was the music. It was over used and too loud.

This extremely interesting journey of a hunted-down poet sets off in a very promising way. There's a weird conversation between the poet and a mechanic and a brief ramble in Machine, a city of ill repute. Then the poet encounters an Indian who's a fan of his and teaches him to defend himself, although there's a strong suspicion that the poet is already dead... Great photography, a unique soundtrack by Neil Young, probably Johnny Depp's best performance... Well... Jim Jarmusch's masterpiece!

Jarmusch weirdness.

The score sounded like a kid playing on a guitar for the first time. If you can get past that, its not a bad little film.

I was far too young to appreciate this film when it came out so my score is simply my memory of how I felt about it at the time. I plan to eventually see it again and re-evaluate it.

Like, life is just a series of death's head iconography, crushed melon brains, and unending fades to black, y'know?

This movie has 3 things that make it brilliant, Jim Jarmush, Johnny Depp and Neil Young. The jamming nature of Young's guitarwork accompany Depp's inevitable journey to the beyond with stark veracity. Sharp notes that cut into his dying pains, he stumbles onward through the beautiful black and white scenery bereft of hope, yet led by an Indian to a spiritual catharsis. A beautiful film.

Great music during the film, interesting dialogues, at some parts too slow,but overall - unique and worth watching.

This isn't so bad, not as bad as the Limits of Control at least. But even with the great cast and the bleak cinematography, the pacing is way the fuck off, the dialogue is atrocious and the score is almost unbearable. And please stop comparing this to Blood Meridian. They're nothing alike.