Meet Joe Black: An Audaciously Absurd Trainwreck

[@someguy7842]

Total guilty pleasure movie. Bit of an odd message though, it doesnt matter if you are the literal grim reaper so long as you look like Brad Pitt.

[@JoJoJoker]

Weinstein’s fantasy on film.

[@papasmurf205]

Thats not the message. Not in the slightest. She fell in love with him because of his personality in the coffee shop.

[@someguy7842]

@@papasmurf205 and then for weeks he acted like a psycho and it didnt matter

[@MamadNobari]

Yup, that's exactly the message of the movie. The message of Barbarian (2022) for me also was that incest-inbred babies are strong as Hulk. The message of Breaking Bad was don't get cocky and leave a note somewhere so your DEA brother-in-law could find it and it leads to your drug empire crumbling. The message of Forrest Gump was that to be friends with the mentally ill, they might become a billionaire out of sheer fucking luck. The message of Se7en was to never get married when you have a dangerous job or they'll get fucked up because of your job. The message of Saving Private Ryan was fuck Matt Damon.

[@ameliacarter769]

@mamadnobari I love how petty this response is. I just laugh cried for 10 minutes. Thank you for your service. 😂😂😂

[@1BlessEdYou]

Given how many people die of anaphylaxis due to peanut allergies, I can absolutely guarantee Death knows what fucking peanut butter is.

[@MacabreStorytelling]

👆👆👆

[@outdoorolli5754]

Death is Death and no doctor. Death comes to you, when it's time for you to go. He is an expert in destiny and he can convince you in any language, that your time is over.

[@timjohnson1199]

There's a difference between knowing what it is and what it's like. Take a fish breathing under water. You know it can but wouldn't know what it's like till you were a fish.

[@BigAl53750]

As a Doctor’s son, I can tell you that the number of people who actually die of an anaphylactic reaction to peanut butter is infinitesimally small. The whole explosion of ‘allergies’ has come about through the ridiculous paranoia engendered amongst parents over the last few decades, by the tendency of medicos to present a world that is so intent on killing their babies that nobody with an ounce of sense wouldn’t want to bring any child into it. Then, these poor people are assured that if they will just obey every word spoken by the gods of health (aka; the AMA and all other medical authorities) that their children will be safe. This was the thrust of much of my late father’s outrage at how far off track the medical industry has gone in their idolisation of the Pharmaceutical Industry, which has of course, led to their outright intellectual, moral prostitution. Like most health phobias today, this whole peanut butter allergy thing has been inflated far beyond reality.

[@マシュードーラン]

@@MacabreStorytellingYou actually took a second or two to acknowledge that dumb comment 😂 and then got slapped with two counters that made the OP look like a fool

[@Jiiinxyyy]

I actually really like this movie. I can't quite figure out why, it's a strange film, and it's incredibly long, but I enjoy it all the same.

[@kari4638]

For me, I found this movie because of the score. I love it.

[@the_medievalchick]

We watched it so many times at home... I don't know why, but it was the movie we watched when we couldn't decide what to watch, and just loved it

[@kari4638]

@@the_medievalchick Whenever I can find it, I will always watch it, too. :)

[@caffinejedi]

Me too!

[@marcuswalters8093]

Girl, same. Maybe it's Pitt's pitch perfect (except for that one scene. You know the one) performance, the memorable quotes and Hopkins flipping killing it as usual, but it really worked for me too.

[@philingrouille7198]

Those two scenes: getting hit by those two cars, and Pitt doing that Jamaican accent, are just legendary.

[@keithmichael112]

Everyting gunna be iree Phil

[@funnyyoutubeclips2141]

FACTS

[@scottymacdewder5229]

IIRC it was a bus and a taxi

[@TyrellWellickEcorp]

Ikr idk how he even survived that shi

[@PanchitoLopez-su2zn]

@@TyrellWellickEcorphe literally didn’t, death explained

[@B1gCh33sy]

The peanut butter thing was one rework away from being an alright joke. If Death had finally encountered peanut butter, something that has killed who knows how many from anaphylactic shock and decided to taste it, or was even allergic and had to have the nurse love interest save him, I think it would have been perfectly passable, if not fairly entertaining. Also, of course Death knows how to speak in a Jamaican patois. Watch fuckin' Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, he speaks in it constantly.

[@davehandelman2832]

Agreed. They should have somehow worked it in

[@outdoorolli5754]

Death is Death and no doctor. Death comes to you, when it's time for you to go - no matter if the medical reason was an anaphylactic shock or not. Death is an expert in destiny and he can convince you in any language at any time, that your time is over.

[@mosalacommodore6993]

​@@davehandelman2832 this movie came out before Grim adventures so it wouldn't really make much sense to reference something that hadn't happened yet. But I will say that's a hilarious connection I never made before.

[@davehandelman2832]

@@mosalacommodore6993 ha, no no. I LOVE the accent. I'm taking about the Peanut butter!

[@stevem2323]

I adore this movie and consider it to be a masterpiece. In fact, with passing years it becomes better and better.

[@ryanpowell5900]

Most of the comments come from a perspective that they personally know death and his domain. To me that is ignorance that they project on to the character of death

[@davehandelman2832]

It's sooooo romantic!

[@diegon5152]

It’s a wild shot in the dark movie, I loved every minute of it, it has a made at home feel to it. A nostalgic feeling…

[@TSDT]

I have an oddly bittersweet memory of this film in my early teens. My uncle was visiting with what much later turned out to be his husband, and we had a family movie night courtesy of the New Releases at our local Blockbuster. Tbh, what I remembered even more than the infamous car scene was the fact that, yeah, this romantic dramedy came on two VHSes like Titanic and didn't even have the excuse of being a historical film to justify it. Also was when I first heard the phrase "death and taxes" funnily enough. Nonetheless, I remember actually enjoying it even as a terminally nerdy kid and looking up online reviews on MRQE to make sense of it. What makes it bittersweet is that this same uncle passed away a few years ago. I loved the hell out of him and for that, Meet Joe frickin' Black, its two VHSes and Brad Pitt getting smacked around by cars will be forever associated with Tio Lalo. So it goes.

[@krumblemumble8628]

That's amazing ☺️ Thanks for sharing you story, friend. It almost sounds like a movie plot of its own!

[@maggiemcfly5267]

Well, it is a long a*s movie, I think it's longer than Titanic, that's why it came in 2 VHS tapes. I don't think I've ever watched the whole thing though, it's just that everytime I catch on tv I think "goddamn this movie is long" 😂 I do remember it being the favorite movie of an old ex best friend and I never understood why

[@BP-vr3rt]

So your uncle is married to a dude? Tell him he needs Jesus and walk away from that sinful lifestyle that leads to eternal darness and despair.

[@222056]

My brother and I saw this movie when we were a lot younger on late night tv, while we were trying to bake Christmas cookies at 3 am. We saw the scene of Brad Pitt getting absolutely obliterated and watched another hour or so of it thinking that some more insane action like that would happen, but the cookies were done and we fell asleep before we could make it to the end. Weirdly my dad was sleeping beside us with a toothpick in his mouth shoving it into his palm to the point of bleeding while he slept, and then he uttered the phrase "pucker up bitch" while still sleeping. This is a very core memory for me.

[@salomeyul]

I love this❤

[@Laarye]

6:40 I believe the reason for him speaking just like the woman, was so they would be talking to each other as equals. When people understand that death isn't an enemy to us, but a natural part of life, then it should be that when our time comes and we accept it, then Death should be a friend we can converse with rather than a villain we scream at and run from. So to us the audience, it may seem out of place, but if you were that woman, then him speaking just like you, makes it so you understand him perfectly.

[@garysturgess6757]

Plus, Macabre's counter example happens! I was born in Edinburgh, was raised in Australia by a Scots Mum, and my normal accent is more or less 'cultured Aussie'. But if I've just watched Billy Connolly, or I'm around Glaswegians, I absolutely adopt a thick brogue. It just seems more comfortable to me to do that.

[@MacabreStorytelling]

Eh but that is going from similar dialects, not nearly as extreme as in the film.

[@Puerco-Potter]

Yeah, I always interpret it as that. Death knows all languages, and can speak to people in the language/dialect they understand best. What I got was that the woman didn't understand American English that good, so death did it for her. Death is equal to everyone, and the dialect is what is normal for this woman, what is true English for her, so death speak in the exact way he should to comunicate the best. If I die and death speak to me in a texan accent and use colloquialisms I don't understand I would be really weirded out. It would imply that death is American, and not universal, not tailor made for every single person.

[@the_17th_dragon32]

@@MacabreStorytelling but if you recognize that it’s a distinct language, doesn’t it make sense that he would speak it to her?

[@todayiglowup4286]

that makes sense actually. a chinese person would not understand if death spoke english. since death is omnipotent, he would probably be able to switch to any language

[@Necroxion]

It's kind of heartwarming that people can hate both Wonder Woman and Joe Black for porking using other peoples' bodies

[@MacabreStorytelling]

💓

[@Necroxion]

Although now that I think about it, these two might have contributed to/strengthened the redpill delusion of women being okay with SA if the guy is hot/they do it themselves

[@LembeckIsStaying]

@@Necroxion Girls loving badboys was waaaayyyyyy before stuff guys say on the internet. Hell, before the internet itself.

[@Grimjr7]

@@Necroxion you are incorrect about so many things in this comment.

[@broghad8241]

Wonder Woman?

[@sivula17]

What bothered me was that Hopkins' body would just be chilling on the lawn for the staff to find the next morning or something 😂

[@marreco6347]

This is basically why I love 90's Hollywood: millions of dollars, top cast for a movie that nobody would watch. When else could you get movies like Titus or Darkman?

[@MacabreStorytelling]

Titus lol

[@maggiemcfly5267]

Titus was a fever dream for me 😂

[@timjohnson1199]

You calling me "nobody"?

[@madmike3974]

90s really put all their points in music lol

[@MistyTheFangirlyLady]

Me: Heh, I might check this out for dated 90s lols. Mac: This movie is 3 HOURS LONG. Me: Wait, hold up-

[@JoJoJoker]

It’s a great movie…we watch 9 hour TV shows so who cares about run time?

[@gregorymeyer1798]

This is actually one of my favorite films. It could be I just connected with it because I watched it at a specific time in my life, but I really enjoyed this and have watched several dozen times over the years. Maybe the stellar acting (Hopkins being my favorite actor, and Pitt taking on a seriously difficult role, playing Death which isn't exactly a normal role, and all the other supporting players also bringing their A game). But everything from the music to the visuals/cinematography I found engaging and fun. For anyone who hasn't seen it, I'd suggest watching it and doing so with a clear head... Not thinking about what anyone else has said about it.

[@jakek1735]

"Wouldn't the guy's body have been brought to the morgue? Did it just disappear?" I like to imagine that Death took over the guy's body at the exact second after he died. So immediately after being hit by the cars, he just got right back up (as Death now, unbeknownst to the bystanders around him) and was like "I'm okay! I'm okay!" and then just walked away as everyone stared in bewilderment.

[@timjohnson1199]

That sounds about right

[@alfredafriyieasiedu]

Makes sense

[@boagski]

It went to the hospital didn’t it? And that’s how the Jamaican lady recognised him, she had seen him while dead.

[@timz7548]

and then didn't question that he woke up on the other side of the bridge next to her now dead Dad. Nothing to see here!

[@DannyD-lr5yg]

@@boagskiNo I think she could recognize Death himself, not the man who died and became embodied by death. She recognized the essence beyond his exterior, like how some very perceptive people just “get a bad feeling” about an upstanding person who ends up being a creep. She could sense it because she probably grew up steeped in a culture that was very aware of spiritual/spirit things, and was maybe even a practitioner herself. That’s how I’ve always interpreted that scene, at least.

[@mrturtletail3945]

This movie looks like the cinematic equivalent of those dollar store romance novels your Grandma reads every night.

[@AlexDracoulis]

This was an excellent take. Watching.this move was bizarre. I've never been more bored but simultaneously fascinated with any movie before. It's like spectacularly well produced crap.

[@sifatshams1113]

This movie has been on my watchlist for at least the past 10 years because of how insane the premise is despite knowing it would probably suck. I honestly wish Hollywood would completely lose it's mind more often.

[@osmanyousif7849]

Hasn’t it already?

[@sifatshams1113]

@@osmanyousif7849 What? Every movie is safer and blander than ever these days. The only insane premise I can think of in a recent mainstream movie is Collateral Damage.

[@osmanyousif7849]

@@sifatshams1113 , I was being sarcastic. Seeing how Hollywood is making all the ideas which turn out to suck, because they need to throw in their politics and woke BS, that's what I meant that Hollywood is already insane.

[@izzycak7700]

It is a fricking beautiful Epos. Watch it

[@chonchjohnch]

I enjoyed it well enough. And honestly, her being attracted to Death isn’t unrealistic. He acts like a lost puppy and he’s attractive

[@smileychips7448]

I think I like the idea of the OG film ending better. At least the girl chose to be with Death as opposed to Death setting her up with the body he was renting. I get it’s Brad Pitt, but what if the guy knew what peanut butter was? Where’s the charm in that?

[@the_medievalchick]

Sorry, man, you just didn't get the movie...

[@thomasffrench3639]

“A cross between Dr Manhattan and Forest Gump” Say no more, I’m watching this movie. That sounds amazing. I don’t care if it is bad

[@pistaalkohol]

I like Neil Gaiman's interpretation of this story in Death High Cost of Living. In the Sandman universe Death takes a holiday every 100 years, this comic tells the story of her most recent one, where she spent it with a suicidal boy named Sexton.

[@CARATMom]

I “ rented” this movie years ago-I never got past the ending:At the end of the movie I kept thinking about the father. Like he dies and his daughter just walks off with a stranger.

[@titohornbuckle6604]

THANK YOU,I've searched for this comment on 4 different MJB videos!I just stumbled on watching it just now,never watched itb4. Horrible ending makes the whole movie cancel itself.

[@garetjax19]

Two scenes I liked in this are 1:The end of the peanut butter scene, when Joe is leaving the kitchen and as he turns left, in profile, Brad makes a goofy expression. 2:When 'Joe' first appears to Bill in his house The great use of light and the distorting effects of the frosted glass. It gives a great transformative quality.

[@MacabreStorytelling]

The first scene in the library between Bill and Death is kino

[@AC-fv7kt]

It's long, wierd, awkward yet it somehow grows on you and it's actually a pretty good movie.

[@shermikeman]

"What is peanut butter?" Like you haven't taken your share of those that have died from peanut allergies, ya goon.

[@TimedRevolver]

Knowing what about peanut butter is one thing. Seeing and tasting is another. Until now he didn't really have the means to taste anything. He was just a bit of cosmic consciousness faffing about. No taste buds/.

[@book1182]

This is a very uncomfortable version of hades and Persephone

[@SnakeWasRight]

Death would have taken so many people from peanut allergies, of course he knows what peanut butter is

[@Necroxion]

11:17 I prefer the older version, because at least the lady here was allowed to make her own choice instead of being forced to watch as the one who she porked leave her forever And is also kinda smart for knowing he was death all along, instead of just pure boner bait

[@3rdperson2]

I love this movie! But you're on point. This is the first analysis of this movie i've ever watched. Watching you point out these obvious inconsistencies is kinda mind boggling because i never really noticed them or cared to, and i've seen this movie a bunch of times. I think the movie is "aireee". You were hilarious in this vid man. I couldn't stop laughing. Great work as usual.

[@bethanythatsme]

I have a tendency to let my suspension of disbelief run rampant while watching movies & then add in that my neurodiverse brain doesn't retain details... What I'm trying to say is that I adore you're breakdown of how absolutely absurd this film is. What fun 🖤

[@EJD339]

I also really enjoyed this movie but it’s one of those films if people criticize, I can’t really defend it.

[@izzycak7700]

I really don’t know how someone could have not liked this movie. It is one of my all time favourites and I have to cry like 5 to 10 times per watch ❤ also the most beautiful monologues of Bill Parish 😢

[@dreye3215]

Doesn't peanut butter kill heaps of people? He should know about it.

[@JoJoJoker]

Man, I really like this movie. Haven’t seen it in years but it’s a forgotten Brad Pitt gem. The score is amazing; it may seem slow to many viewers but it’s one Hell of a ride. Plus that .gif of Brad Pitt getting hit by a car :-)

[@MrShaclakclak]

Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, and Brad Pitt, have amazing eyes and thats why this film exists. This movie is dumb

[@bannedmann4469]

Oh wow, original Wonder Woman 1984.

[@scottymacdewder5229]

The greatest on screen death in the history of cinema

[@madwellt4897]

Dude this movie was awesome bro, I lowkey teared up at the end man

[@Prestidigitoreum]

I remember watching this movie on the VHS player that teachers would roll into classes when they couldn't be bothered to teach and the whole class losing their damn minds at the car accident scene. We must have rewound it for the whole remaining hour, because I had no idea what happened after that.

[@Puffausten]

i watched this film with my mother. That 8 minute long sex scene was utterly traumatizing to teenage me. Now I consider this film to be a dumb "watch with a glass of wine" movie.

[@MacabreStorytelling]

😬😬😬

[@scottjohnson9799]

So at the end Joe walks over that bridge with Anthony Hopkins, and he dies right? So that means her father's dead body is sprawled on the ground just over that bridge? And the daughter just kinda leaves it for somebody to trip over and clean up?

[@MacabreStorytelling]

😂

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

"Please indulge me, while I become increasingly unhinged" is my favorite lead in ever.

[@iplayeddsharpminor]

I only came to discover this film through my love of Thomas Newman. It didn’t help that I watched it with my fiancé at the time whose father was dying of a brain tumour. Those circumstances made it stick with me big time. But I can see why it can be perceived with absurdity.

[@johncross5339]

I really love your confusion while explaining this haahahah

[@colonelweird]

So is this where Patty Jenkins got the whole "sexual assault via body swap" thing, or is it some kind of standard trope?

[@TheDukeDante]

I remember watching this years ago, Brad Pitt eating peanut butter and talking in a rasta voice has to be the highlight of his acting career.

[@nimbylive]

I watched this in the theaters primarily due to Claire Forlani. Mall Rats was such a great movie and anything she was in I figured must be just as weird. It was wierd but not as good of course.

[@Chicago_Podcast_Authority]

This was such a chore to get through. Were it not for my wife’s presence I would’ve turned it off 30 minutes in 😩

[@mattboy2313]

The similarities between this movie and WW’84 are uncanny, to say the least.

[@michaelhegwood9977]

Imagine if they did another Discworld movie and Brad Pitt shows up.

[@Mixcoatl]

This was the first film my parents let me stay up late to watch, so I'll always love it, no matter what.

[@theresagwhite3175]

I read a book once where a journalist was invited to watch this movie by the studio head. He sat in the darkness for four hours hating every minute of it

[@kari4638]

A few days ago, I mentioned that this film's score was one of my favorite's and now I am recommended your video. Even though, it's 3 hours, I still can withstand it due to the score.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Death Takes a Holiday was also remade in 1971 on CBS starring Monte Markham.

[@chuck2469]

I really enjoyed this video

[@JubilantCherry]

This review is insufferably obtuse - a series of quibbles about DEATH MANIFESTED IN HUMAN FORM having a logically inconsistent characterization, because the reviewer knows how DEATH IN HUMAN FORM is REALLY supposed to behave. I suppose it might serve as a good example of missing the forest for the trees.

[@fairwind8676]

I think that death took his body at random. Guy died because he didn't pay attention.

[@jaybonn5973]

So Death Takes a Holiday but worse? I have actually seen Death Takes a Holiday and it's really sweet.

[@nobodyfromnowwhere7510]

I saw this as a kid and enjoyed it quite a bit. It's not amazing by any measure, but it's amusing enough.

[@michaelshafer5192]

I love this movie and have rewatched it about 10 times.

[@DKREALFEEL]

I love this movie - great idea

[@dragospahontu]

Some things could be better, but overall good.

[@Nicolas-su2lt]

Dude, I think I need a fucking psychotherapy after watching this movieXD You got me laughing the whole review. Good job!

[@ladywalda5838]

Also if body snatching bothers you how you feel about Wonderwoman being reunited with her long lost lover... in another mans body :')

[@MacabreStorytelling]

dAT WAS FUCKED UP

[@lawlietriver8869]

WW 84 really messed that up. It must have been written by people that thinks graping men is perfectly OK. At least in Meet Joe Black when Death leaves, no one left is actually guilty of SA. She had no way of knowing, and now "Joe" is the real guy so he did nothing wrong either. In WW it just ends with her creepily hanging around her grape victim.

[@johnnyBgoodson]

I stumbled across Midnight Run on UK TV in my teens. Fell in love with it. Seen it loads of times since. Still my favourite film. So many twists, double-crosses, amazing action sequences and great character moments. Some years later I was talked into a trip to see Meet Joe Black by some acquantances who, unbelievably, came out of the cinema saying they'd enjoyed it. Yes, glacially slow is absolutely the description, even if there had been some interesting story being developed (but there wasn't) and even if the few plot points it had weren't wholly ridiculous (but they were.) Some years later still, I became aware that the same man had directed both films and it blew my f*cking mind!

[@valerius88]

I love this movie............but when you pointed out that somehow Death is worldly enough to instantly switch to a "perfect" Jamaican accent BUT isn't worldly enough to know what peanut butter is.............yeaaaah.................

[@Disdain7133]

Ooo, a trainwreck! WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S 3 HOURS?!

[@CJB787]

I absolutely love this film.

[@robinbaxter3055]

Here's what you HAVE to review: The Book of Henry, you'll have a field day with it

[@MacabreStorytelling]

*takes notes*

[@warlordofbritannia]

oh, FUCK YES! That movie, I remember how my then-girlfriend convinced me to watch it with her, as she had already seen it and needed to share such an experience That's not actually why we broke up, btw

[@osmanyousif7849]

KZbin channel Royal Ocean Film Society did an interesting video explaining why the concept of the film failed, which is simply due to tone. And to this I agree. If the film had a more black comedy tone to it, letting us know that the character's actions are pretty insane, as well as leaving it ambiguous to what was causing Henry's friend Christina's depression, then I think the movie would have done better. Therefore, adding more into the fact that Henry's actions are wrong.

[@KaP0401]

Ohhh, so that what this movie is about after Brad Pitt got frogger'd in traffic.

[@lane6216]

Awesome. I remember going to the theater when I was a teenager and seeing this. And, hating it. And, being so annoyed I’d wasted my money. Shockingly, I completely forgot the car crash scene. I only remember the scene at the end where they walk away together. So dumb.

[@avanishdutta2658]

I'll be honest, I found roger ebert's review balanced. Although he did say the ending takes too long as joe black keeps talking in rather epigraphs while it could have been solved in one or two lines of dialogue. Still find this movie a bit interesting. An absurd but emotional one.

[@xXlegitx46Xx]

This was sooo funny, youre actually hilarious ive been just laughing out loud

[@UmikoChiyo]

Also like... if she is not 100% sure, that he was death himself.. it gets even worse. Then he clearly has two personalities in one body. And neither side knows what happened when the other one was in charge of the body. While, as you mentioned, one of them acts like a psychopath. Plus she saw him walking away with her father, returns alone with no recollection of what just happened and right behind that bridge she will find her fathers dead body?? Hmmmm wonder what just happened there?! (I just watched the movie with my mother. I think she was annoyed that I was complaining the whole time about how weird it all was xD)

[@theannouncer5538]

Late 90s brad Pitt was truly the peak of humanity

[@kenthefele113]

3:23 I like how you included the part of the scene where Anton is just staring at the Gas Station attendant awkwardly and didn't just use the part of him saying "which it is." Adds to the tone of the video.

[@joelr7208]

Your take, insight and hilarious commentary is refreshing…. Thank you

[@eddysalas3187]

What?! This movie is a classic!! Weird as it is, it's well acted, heartwarming, sweet movie... what we have now? The kissing Booth, after, and all that Wattpad pieces of crap made monthly by Netflix... No thanks...

[@shadowxps]

It’s interesting how this movie seems to keep popping up every now and again. When I was young my mom watched this movie and even bought the DVD, I suppose because it had 1990s Brad Pitt in it. Many years later my college art teacher cited the car accident scene as an example of comedic timing. I dunno where I was going with this.

[@trippledaregaming]

At 1st I was so mesmerized by this movie coz Brad put and Anthony Hopkins's performance and the beautifully crafted tone of the movie that I forgot about obvious blunders. But my skeptical self was feeling off and hence I landed here. I'm glad people like you exist to guide us sheep away from the light.🙏

[@somedipshtinthecomments2507]

When I first got to the part where he starts speaking patois I felt like I was having a goddamn stroke. Himbo Grim Reaper hit kinda different ngl

[@Indiancricket_99_]

It's just impeccable storytelling,and brad Pitt gave one of the best rolls

[@jennief7114]

Don't care, I absolutely love this movie!

[@mrturtletail3945]

My jaw hit the floor when you pointed out it was 3 hours. Holy damn! I thought no way this was over a hour and forty five minutes. Jesus, they think they're Lord of The Rings with this crap?

[@Seven0true702]

I literally thought he was named Joe black because someone was having coffee when they asked him his name lol

[@friendlyneighborhooddm6330]

Not gonna lie, I confused this and mighty Joe Young and thought you were gonna talk about big monkes. Well done either way!

[@MacabreStorytelling]

😂😂😂

[@DeadManSinging1]

Death would definitely know what peanut butter is considering how allergic people are to it

[@AshleyPotts-o8o]

The only empty-headedness is your assessment of this cinematic gem. The very best element of your commentary is the end of your commentary.

[@constanceli5055]

Soo I never thought death took the coffee shop guy’s life. Like that guy was standing in the middle of the street with traffic going both ways and not paying attention. Even though death brought him back, I doubt he’ll be alive for long with how inattentive and clumsy he is!

[@therealestj]

I really enjoyed this movie and it was one of the first films that taught me that not every detail has to be spoon fed to you and that you, along with the rest of the audience, can read between the lines.

[@Ghostykitten]

Oh my gosh, I just realized I've seen this movie when I was younger. This brings back some weird nostalgia lol. I especially remember the scene where the guy gets hit by a car

[@jerrysstories711]

Claire Forlani should be called Claire Forlorn. She's the embodiment of "You're be so pretty if you smiled." But also, for the record, I LOVED this weird-as-hell movie.

[@slevinkelevra_2347]

:< my eng not good enough, i wanna understand what uve said uwu

[@prince_dogboy]

So you're telling me death has NEVER encountered a death involving peanut butter? Hmmm...

[@owenmccord5078]

“Imagine you’re introduced to someone with a small British accent; and you… put on a British accent while speaking to them.” Yes every single time guv-nuh!

[@teajay74]

The hospital simply rings the guy’s family and says that we would like to upgrade your son’s status from dead due to severe trauma sustained in a brutal accident to alive and well and pursuing a relationship with a new love.

[@sentar86]

The part that gets me the most is what exactly happened to bills body. Because the implication is that death walked him to the other side of the bridge where he presumably collapses. Then death turned around to walk back putting “joe” back in his body after which he and Susan proceed to walk back to the party leaving bills corpse on the ground for someone else to stumble on

[@CybrosisEvolved]

The IRS scene at the end of the movie reveals it all. Death was trolling everyone the entire time. ie - When you act like buffoon that can't offer anyone anything but you have impeccable manners the reaction you get shows exactly what type of person you are dealing with. also Pitts monologue in that scene slaps. "Should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be facing a finality beyond your comprehension, and you will not be counting days, or months, or years, but millenniums in a place with no doors." kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGKbl2hnfNmNsKM

[@Damarco4u]

You have summed up this movie perfectly. It isn’t a bad movie but it has these weird moments you talk about but worst of all, it is looooooonng! What was a 90 minute film was turned into 3 hours here! At the end, they are shown walking to a pavilion and they are shown walking across the field for the full distance. A cutaway would get this thing going. It takes them twice as long to tell the same story as the 1940s movie.

[@thomasloney612]

I actually remember a lot of people loving this movie when it was released. I just watched it for the first time, and for the most part agree with your assessment. Further inexplicable is the decision to have Hopkins not be a regular guy, but some media mogul with a giant Victorian era mansion on his own private island. Way to make the guy relatable to the average person. Yes, not only is he absurdly wealthy, but he has a loving relationship with his two daughters when in reality the guy would have worked so much through the years his daughters barely knew him, and were distant.