Movie review: "Dead Man"

Last night, Gye Greene, The Lady, and myself watched Dead Man, featuring Johnny Depp. A month or two ago, GG and myself realized that all of the Johnny Depp movies we had happened to see had been of fairly high quality; perhaps we ought to go through and (somewhat) sytematically watch all of his movies.

So, we rented Dead Man. The Lady was bored, and ended up reading a magazine through most of it -- occassionally glancing up and asking "Has anything happened yet?", or making similar comments. More charitably, one could call the movie "gently-paced."

Esentially, Johnny Depp's character is an accountant that gets stranded in the Old American West (sometime in the 1800's), and becomes wanted for murder. He hides out in the wilderness, and is helped by a Native American named "Nobody."

Some violence; a fair amount of cussin'. No naked folks.


It has lovely cinematography (if you're into that sort of thing), and an unusual, yet fitting soundrack (... if you're into that sort of thing) -- solo electric guitar work by Neil Young, with lots of echo and reverb.

And the ending was rather ambiguous for my tastes. Rather "Oh. O.k."


Dead Man was a pecuilar, "artsy" movie. Worth seeing once -- but only if you're into that sort of thing.


--TG

Trading weather

In reply to the comment from Tara under my July third entry ("Happy to trade places; 106F in Texas.") -- I wish I could. Or at least, trade the weather.

The Lady received two job offers at about the same time: one was for here (Brisbane, Australia); the other was for Buffalo, New York. So, Gye Greene and myself could have easily ended up in Buffalo.

Gye Greene feels the cold even more strongly than myself.


--TG

Cold inside

It is currently 57F inside the house! (14 Celcius) This is far too cold for an indoor temperature. Granted, this is due to our keeping the front door open so the dog can "use the yard" as he wishes.

But it's still too cold. Brrr.


--TG