His name is Joe......Joe blackSunday, May 08, 2005
Meet Joe Black is as refreshing as a drought of cold water. Its a beautiful romance without getting stale and leaving the watcher unbemused.
Brad Pitt is man whose body is taken by death in order to view life as a human, and finds love and acceptence instead of the fear and dread he has known his whole life. A love that he is reluctent to give up, but knows can never be fully fulfilled.
Anthony Hopkins plays the man who death picks to be his guide, the more he keeps the uncaring death interested, the more time he gains on his life, one that is rapidly shortening. Claire Forlani is the woman that Joe falls in love with, although she is blind to who he really is, she loves him for who she thinks he is and why.
Its a move celerbrating life and death, and the connecting line that seperates us from both, what is true love and the unselfish lengths it will go to if it is indeed true.
Meet Joe Black is so much more than a film about Romance, instead, it is a beautifully told fable about what how one's mans desires can shape the future of those surrounding him.
EXCELLENT MOVIE/Guaranteed to shed a tear!!!Sunday, April 10, 2005
Definitely a GREAT movie, Meet Joe Black, brings to the screen the encounter of a dying man with Death, with the latter offering to delay the inevitable in exchange for human experiences and pleasures.
Meet Joe Black is a film about human relations, hope and second chances, but most importantly about trust, love, integrity, and inner strength.
Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Claire Forlani and the rest of the cast have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are extraordinary to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)!
The plot, the setting, the dialogues, and the music, are all WONDERFUL!
Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection!
In conclusion, it is one of those films that gets you and keeps you thinking long after it's over.
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High Praise for March - not PittWednesday, March 30, 2005
The primary reason to buy this DVD set is NOT for "Meet Joe Black" (a forgetable, dry movie), but for the amazing "Death Takes a Holiday" from 1934. For some idiotic reason this is the only way you can buy it - pinned to Brad Pitt's coattail. Frederic March was one of the greatest actors in the history of film, and his performance here is moving and fascinating. Anderson's screenplay gives him a lot of difficult material to interpret. Overall, a brilliant, thought-provoking film. It should stand alone and not have to share space with "Joe Black."
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Meet JOE BoringTuesday, March 08, 2005
Martin brest has been known for doing mindless action or soap opera movies, Rank this with the latter as the plot is lifted from Days of Our lives, seeing Brad Pitt perform hopeless vague dialoge, a sloppy love story, and poor Anthony Hopkins having to work with a bad script and a cast of wasted two actor no talents. Critics loved this movie, I think they were payed money by the studio for this drek.
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5 Star MagicTuesday, February 22, 2005
I can't tell you how much this film moves me. Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins are pure magic together. I also loved them together in "Legends of the Fall". This has the most beautiful sound track with it - in fact I am using much of the track for a school play we are doing of "Our Town". I could watch this over and over. Many funny parts, like, "death and taxes? did you say, Death and taxes? You have to watch this to see the irony in this line. There is a love scene, so not suitable for kids.