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There are slow movies, slooooooooooow movies, and then there's Meet Joe Black (James Berardinelli's review in ReelViews). This is going to be a rant about the movie which you should not read, if you like Meet Joe Black. On one hand, Meet Joe Black is a hardly bearable, melodramatic tearjerker (believe me, I know what I'm talking about, I had to watch it three times, and it got worse every single time I've seen it), but on the other hand, there are frighteningly many resemblances with Death and the Maiden, too. Seeing this, I could only either ignore or confront them. As soon as I had decided to use Joe Black in my storyline, I hadn't even seen it yet. All I knew was one single scene, which was the first meeting between Hopkins and Pitt early in the movie, which I thought was crappy enough to slash it in my cartoon. First of all, there's the basic plot - Death incarnate developing an emotional bond to a mortal being. Bearing all this in mind, I still do it - I still go on about that movie. I don't like it. It's at least 1 1/2 hours too long, it's badly acted, badly directed, badly written and most of all, it's the most awful KITSCH I have seen for a long time. And I do enjoy a certain amount of Kitsch. |