Show me a better film than Dead Man

[Misplaced_Canuck]

If you want modern westerns...

- 3:10 to Yuma

- The assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. (Even with Brad Pitt. Still a very good western).

Loved both of 'em.

M_C

 

[MeatyPortion]

my specialty

Your new avatar.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

The presence of Johnny Depp in this movie precludes it from the "best ever" classification. Mr Depp did one good movie, maybe 2.

Johnny Depp is a terrific actor. He makes average movies good, and good movies great....I spit on your opinion sir!!

 

[aerialmedical]

Johnny Depp is a terrific actor. He makes average movies good, and good movies great....I spit on your opinion sir!!

He really needs to stop with these Pirates movies...he's starting to get whored-out really bad these days....... Gotta love his role as Hunter S. Thompson though, eh???

 

[Vance71975]

utter trash

Ehhh i loved them lol

 

[Vance71975]

He really needs to stop with these Pirates movies...he's starting to get whored-out really bad these days....... Gotta love his role as Hunter S. Thompson though, eh???

I challenge you or anyone else here to pull off Capt Jack Sparrow, Whored out, not even, just a brilliantly done job that keeps selling movies.

 

[aerialmedical]

I challenge you or anyone else here to pull off Capt Jack Sparrow, Whored out, not even, just a brilliantly done job that keeps selling movies.

Hell, he's great for the roll, surely...the first 1 or 2 were good, now it's like..."alriiiiight guy"...they're sucking his role-soul dry to keep selling movies.

 

[Vance71975]

Hell, he's great for the roll, surely...the first 1 or 2 were good, now it's like..."alriiiiight guy"...they're sucking his role-soul dry to keep selling movies.

Ya but that isn't him, that is just Hollywood in general. Point and case,Nightmare on elm street, Friday the 13, etc etc etc when they get a movie that sells they run it into the ground.

 

[MeatyPortion]

This just in: Hollywood sucks the originality out of fvcking everything.

 

[arturo7]

Gotta love his role as Hunter S. Thompson though, eh???

This is one of the aforementioned two.

 

[aerialmedical]

This is one of the aforementioned two.

What's the other?...Don Juan D'Marco?....The Tourist?....Chocolat?......naaaahhh, gotta be Blow.

 

[MeatyPortion]

Donnie Brasco, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, and he's going to star in The Rum Diary.

 

[aerialmedical]

Been waiting for Rum Diary to drop...heard about that in the making probably like 3-4 years ago...guess he got too wrapped up in Pirates 8.

 

[BarberSurgeon]

I watched Dead Man a few months ago. Not bad, but not at all great IMO. I've got a film degree, so I'm no stranger to slow or out-of-the-box films, but this one failed to grab me.

As for my recommendation of a better movie -- Oldboy.

 

[GoldMiner]

I watched Dead Man a few months ago. Not bad, but not at all great IMO. I've got a film degree, so I'm no stranger to slow or out-of-the-box films, but this one failed to grab me.

As for my recommendation of a better movie -- Oldboy.

Oldboy is a much better movie.

 

[Scooterkdavis]

tree of life

 

[Cubslover]

Boondock Saints

A Road to Perdition

 

[bravos4evr]

Dead Man is in my top ten of all time ( I was a film history major in college), It's an existential Western really. Very patient, but with a purpose... I thought it was a poetic masterpiece with every shot looking like an Ansel Adams photograph..... But hey, art is subjective.

 

[JohnFrum1978]

Picked it up at WalMart based on this recommendation. Crispin Glover needs to cut back on dropping the acid.

 

[Clann]

Anything without the music of Neil Young

 

[Shooter]

What's the other?...Don Juan D'Marco?....The Tourist?....Chocolat?......naaaahhh, gotta be Blow.

Donnie Brasco, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, and he's going to star in The Rum Diary.

I used to despise Depp, until I saw him in Ed Wood and he was brilliant. He's been near the top of my list ever since. I don't like the pirate movies, first one is okay, but he is excellent in that role.

As to the original topic, which I somehow missed when first posted, I like Dead Man. I like some other Jarmusch films, like Mystery Train, more. You really do have to be in the mood for one of his films though, pacing is quite...well, let's just say, deliberate.

I enjoyed his appearance in Fishing with John!

 

[trigger]

The Big Lebowski...if you disagree the Dude will come back to bane you.

This ended the discussion.

Forever.

The only reason I'm posting is to let the mods know that this thread is done and needs to be locked and stickied.

 

[wild]

For a better Western movie, Blazing Saddles beats 'em all.

 

[arturo7]

The only reason I'm posting is to let the mods know that this thread is done and needs to be locked and stickied.

This thread can go on and on. There are hundreds, nae, thousands of movies better than Dead Man.

 

[MeatyPortion]

Lies.

 

[aggieactuary]

I think Dead Man is a great movie.

*spoiler alert*

Does everyone/anyone think he was dead from when he got shot?

 

[_JP_]

"Do you have any tobacco?"

 

[jonmohno]

Great movie, and Neil Young is rad.Dont remember it but i remember thinking it was one of the greats.

 

[TxBrew]

Down by Law

 

[McBrewskie]

very good movie. No Country for Old Men, spectacular.