Meet Joe Black


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By David on Monday, November 16, 1998 - 05:39 am:

    Claire Forlani is very cute!


By David on Monday, November 16, 1998 - 05:39 am:

    i didn't really like the movie too much though...


By R.C. on Monday, January 11, 1999 - 01:03 am:

    Saw it last weekend. Not very compelling atall. Tony Hopkins was quite good/but he never disappoints. Claire Forlani was just another pretty face. Anyone cd have played her role. But Brad was so annoying w/that weird delivery! Seems to me that after thousands of years of observing humans/he wd know how to talk like one/& not like he just landed from Jupiter! And he truly did not need to be so impressed by a little thing like peanut butter -- not w/all the great food & wine that was served in that house. Seemed like he got off on that even more than the sex

    I never saw the original 1940-whatever film version. But I remember being very moved as a kid by the t.v. movie version from the '70's - "Death Takes a Holiday" w/ Monte Markham & Yvette Mimeux (sp?). I thought the plot wd've been similar to that/but it wasn't. And for me/ that was a plot hole the size of the Brooklyn Bridge: If Death is off-duty in human form/then no one on the planet shd expire until he slips off his mortal garb & gets back to business. That what was cool abt the t.v. movie -- after Death's 1st day or so on Earth/it was all over the news that suddenly/nobody was dying anywhere in the world. (Which was one of the things that tipped Y.M. to M.M.'s real identity.)

    Martin Brest is a good director/but there was no reason on earth for this flick to go on for nearly 3 hrs. Plus/it wd seem to me that the personality change btwn when Claire Forlani 1st met Brad in the diner & the way he behaved once Death had assumed his body wd've been a turn-off/ rather than have her throwing herself at him an hour into the movie. Death clearly didn't remember their previous conversation over coffee. Which you figure he must have been observing/since that guy managed to get himself hit by a car as soon as he left the place. (That old Jamaican woman knew Death was standing right in front of her as soon as she saw him -- human form or no. But of course/the only Black person w/a scene w/Brad Pit in the whole movie had to be a character w/special knowledge of the supernatural/since Jamaicans are all such superstitious people. Right?)

    But the love scene was lovley... It took soooo
    deliciously long for her to undress him. And she looked appropriately nervous-&-awestruck all at once. It was nice to see a woman undressing such a beautiful man/for a change.

    But for a film abt Death learning what it means to be human/it barely skimmed the surface.

    R.C. gives it a C+.



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By BLAKESNAKE on Thursday, April 6, 2000 - 05:27 am:

    When he got hit by the cars I kept rewinding it and watching it- I could'nt stop.... It makes me laugh visualizing it in my head- I'm watching tomarrow just so I can laugh at that part. That's the best part of the movie.


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