Music ruins it abit

the music was the highlight for me. very surreal film, glad i watched it.

That's was one of the only things I liked about the film. The music really sets the mood and environment.

oh, the music was perfect. such a very simple theme, played with such depth and so perfectly. I believe that those who have seen the movie and do not like it, or didn't like the music, are much too rational people, or have seen it in an unaproppiate mood. that means, they have not watched and listened with the eyes and the ears of the soul, but with the mind.

I very much liked the music and the people I watched it with also commented on it after seeing just a few minutes of the movie. It's quite unique and very mood setting.

The music ruins it? what? how does it... what? Man it's one of the best scores i've ever heard, i freakin love it, the music alone makes the film that much better, it's great film as it is, and the score just adds to that, to be honest i can't imagine using anything else at any other moment. "Music ruins it" christ!

I disagree. What exactly made it compelling and provocative? The anxiety, the horror, the haunting nature of unfinished cords looses all its emotive power by the third time they're played. You end up wanting the chord progression to finish, and, by association, the movie as well. You stop paying attention to the details and the characters and just ....wait.....impatiently throughout the film for that end when you'll be able to play the original Neil Young song to your personal enjoyment. And, though it sounds marvelous in this description, it's not pulled off well in the movie. Like I said, it ends up being uncreative and repetitive and dry, instead of emotive. It ends up being such a lack of emotion, that it drags everything down with it, kinda like a mop, or a clingy girlfriend.
And, I don't think its fair to justify the music choice with some absurd rhetoric about the increase in comparative meaninglessness and degradation of human culture and human spirit throughout the film.....because, really, i think all of these subjects would have been treated better *without* the soundtrack. Nothing distracting. The film is already minimalist, so the oddly-timed, repetitive, uninspiring, and downright cheapening music could be scraped for the sake of an actual story worth raving about.

And this is from an AVID Neil Young and Jarmusch fan.
Seriously, the story's nice, and the acting is pretty interesting....WHY does the music have to suck *so* badly? I don't think I'll ever see this movie again, and I *do* feel like I've wasted my time watching it, just because of the music. -.-;

Once you pass your eighth birthday you might actually enjoy it. Not every soundtrack has Britney Spears and Good Charlotte for you kids to enjoy. Go watch Big Momma's House 5 if that's what you want.

the music??????????????I find the music both haunting and beautiful...the music is Dead man. Neil Young is spot on.???????

some are born to sweet delight some are born to endless night...