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Yonathan Gal
02-01-2002, 23:02
Hello.
I can usually decide straight away if I like or dislike a film, but for some reason, I really cant decide over this one, which is a bit strange. It was definitely well made, stylish and professional, and the musical score was great as well, as was the acting... I just can't decide if I like it or not, and at the risk of sounding really stupid, the ending didn't make comlete sense to me... opinions please! :) Cheers :):)
SqueakyG
02-01-2002, 23:19
Bloody hell, it was BORING!
I'm sure half an hour could have easily been shaved off the running time by having tighter editing. A 3 hour film where the characters mumble at each other very very slowly! And hardly anything happens! I want 3 hours of my life back please!
Well... I could have just turned over. And I did... for the last 40 mins, I flicked between the film and a thing on Channel 4 about entities.
...erm...
http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/meetjoeblack.html
...exactly!...
. . . :clap: . . .
mikegray
03-01-2002, 00:10
Among the most tedious cinema experiences of my life. I remember my girlfriend and I just sat there saying to each other "It must get better, surely..." while people around us walked out with increasing frequency. Awful, awful, awful.
Ten minutes of plot crammed into a three hour film.
Idle Child
03-01-2002, 00:12
i quite liked the movie.
lavish production values. good acting. great love scene.
at first i found antony hopkins talking to himself quite ludricrous.. and there are other such momments, but once you get your head around it, it's a decent film.
i agree on the pacing however. it was a tad slow.
I didn't like it very much - but it didn't help watching it stretched on a widescreen TV.
I thought the film was rather boring, and I won't be buying the DVD of this film. What rubbish.
sidebog7
03-01-2002, 00:54
The only reason I bought the DVD (the US Ultimate Edition version) was to have a copy of the much superior Frederic March film 'Death Takes a Holiday'. It's only 79 minutes but it is twice (maybe more) the film that Meet Joe Black is.
....Although it doesn't have Claire Forlani in it.;)
Idle Child
03-01-2002, 02:27
Originally posted by sidebog7
....Although it doesn't have Claire Forlani in it.;)
did she play the youngest daughter?
my word, she was crumpet. classy, ellegant, beautful. A pretty face in a hollywood movie that didn't make me naucious.
Originally posted by sidebog7
....Although it doesn't have Claire Forlani in it.
then replied to by Idle Child
.....did she play the youngest daughter?
my word, she was crumpet. classy, ellegant, beautful. A pretty face in a hollywood movie that didn't make me naucious.
Ah Claire Forlani! An English actress best known (by me anyway) for her roll in Kevin Smith's Mallrats. Also if i'm not mistaken a graduate of the "Grange Hill" school of English actors.
Alan!
richie99
03-01-2002, 07:28
I agree.
3 hours for this film was an hour too much. I gave up after one and a half.
2 stars in the Radio Times is about right.....
The problem with the film (for me anyway) is that the film was just too dragged out.
I don't mind watching a film for three hours if it is a good film, but this was poor.
If they cut about 60-70 minutes of the length, it would have been a better film.
Overlong.
hookbeak
03-01-2002, 08:59
Ah Claire Forlani! An English actress best known (by me anyway) for her roll in Kevin Smith's Mallrats. Also if i'm not mistaken a graduate of the "Grange Hill" school of English actors.
I think she was in Press Gang too.
Press Gang was great !
Jazzatola
03-01-2002, 09:07
Well, I don't care what you lot thought - I loved it! :D I saw it at the cinema twice!
I thought the storyline was good, emphasised by Thomas Newman's great score and as for the pace, I thought it suited the material to a tee.
http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gifhttp://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gifThree big thumbs up from me!
Must say i liked it too. A much better film than what i was expecting. I tend to agree on the length of the film though, a good 20-30 minutes could have been shaved off without detriment to the film in my opinion.
Each to their own... :D
DVDWotcha
03-01-2002, 11:55
It's strange, but I've watched the film about 3 times now. Don't know why but I think it's quite good, certainly more than the 2 stars in the Radio Times.
I watched it last night and foudn it a nicely made film but there was no need for it to be three hours. I liked it but the ending made no snese whatsoever.
Originally posted by utero
I watched it last night and foudn it a nicely made film but there was no need for it to be three hours. I liked it but the ending made no snese whatsoever.
your ending makes no sense whatsoever.
Finally watched the second half yesterday (saw the first 90mins on Sky twice) and it's only redeeming feature was Claire in that lovely dress at her father's party!
The film started slow, and never really got going.
Thought at the end she might have at least gone to see if her father was dead or alive rather than wasting time chatting badly to Mr. Wooden himself.
I quite liked it. I thought the set dressing was excellent as too was the lighting (though not even Edinburgh had fireworks like that), and the score. Brad's dark roots were distracting :rolleyes: .
But I kinda got lost at the end. Did Claire know that Brad was Death? I know she sussed at the very end that the Brad she had been fooling around with during the majority film was not the same one that she first met and had coffee and who finally returned in the last scene. Especially as a medic, why didn't she run off to find her Dad???? Bit of a shame having such a long film with such pacing to rush it at the end. Wonder if the studio cut some scenes/lines?
I enjoyed it so much I put it on my wishlist.
welshmatt
03-01-2002, 21:53
Originally posted by hookbeak
I think she was in Press Gang too.
Press Gang was great !
Wasnt she in Police Academy 7 : Mission to Moscow? Surely her best ever role!!:D
It was the 1st DVD I bought and a pile of *****. Although I'm glad Numpty liked the set dressing!!!
It did have a nice message tho - it doesn't matter if the guy has no personality or soul - if he looks like Brad Pitt then go fo it, gal!
Lot of *****!
Idle Child
03-01-2002, 22:57
Originally posted by Numpty
Brad's dark roots were distracting :rolleyes: .
and he looked very "plastic" in those close-ups.
Originally posted by Numpty
But I kinda got lost at the end. Did Claire know that Brad was Death? I know she sussed at the very end that the Brad she had been fooling around with during the majority film was not the same one that she first met and had coffee and who finally returned in the last scene. Especially as a medic, why didn't she run off to find her Dad???? Bit of a shame having such a long film with such pacing to rush it at the end. Wonder if the studio cut some scenes/lines? [/B]
yeah, i was thinking the same. i mean..
why didn't doesn't she go and see what's happened to her father? alright, it may futile if she realises Brad is Death, but you know, pay some last respects gal! dont just walk off with "new" brad?!
oh and
when Brad gets it at the beginning, with that bone crunching double impact.. that WAS a shocker!!! didn't see that coming as from what i heard about the movie a while back, i knew he a was Death, but i thought he was death from the outset.
:eek: didn't see see that coming!
Absolute twaddle. Overblown, syrupy piffle masquerading as smart melodrama. **** poor and certainly one of the worst movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
Tell me, what's to like ??
deftone666
04-01-2002, 07:16
Originally posted by GK
Absolute twaddle. Overblown, syrupy piffle masquerading as smart melodrama. **** poor and certainly one of the worst movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
Tell me, what's to like ??
No idea but I really must start using "syrupy piffle" more in conversations about films!! Top stuff!! :D
Originally posted by McD
Although I'm glad Numpty liked the set dressing!!!
:p :D
davey1970
05-01-2002, 23:11
the one good bit:
where anthony hopkins says if he tells his dinner guests who brad pitt is they may not want to stay for afters :-)
bad bit (one of many though) - brad pitts "rasta" or whatever it was supposed to be accent in the hospital, which i am sure occasionally turned slightly irish.
also, every now and again, in an effort to look like life was new to him, he almost walked like a robot, and that was some of his worst acting i've seen (he has been v good in some things).
also, the end seemed to go on forever, and i couldnt help thinking when the woman met the "real" brad pitt character at the end, and he had no memory of how he got there, that her dad was dead on the floor on the other side of the bridge???
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