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From the Files of Wrongness. I've never seen Meet Joe Black (thankfully). Today I was flipping through the channels and found it. DH said, "Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
Am I wrong? This scene wasn't supposed to be hilarious, was it? I'm glad I didn't see it in the theatre. I laughed. A lot. Brad Pitt flew through the air (albeit digitially) like a muppet shot from a cannon.
Brad Pitt flew through the air (albeit digitially) like a muppet shot from a cannon.
This actually makes me want to see the movie. Or maybe just that one bit of it.
It is pretty funny. (Yes, I've seen Meet Joe Black. Sick with nothing else on cable will do that to you sometimes)
This actually makes me want to see the movie. Or maybe just that one bit of it.
It's *almost* worth sitting through the whole thing. I said, "almost."
Most boring movie I've EVER seen.
We heckled the sex scene. It was flatter than just about any I've ever seen, and given its length compared to the godawful length of the movie, makes Brad Pitt look like a short-timer in the sack. Which was funny.
Brad Pitt flew through the air like a muppet shot from a cannon.
There needs to be a whole movie about this topic.
"Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
I'd argue that a similar scene with Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion should be the winner of that title.
I saw both 9 Songs and Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit yesterday. Both enjoyable, though you could hardly imagine movies more different.
The former had a very Northern European feel to me despite being British-made. Similar feel, if somewhat darker, to the cinema verité of Italian for Beginners. And oddly the feeling of absolute reality in all its bleakness helped keep the explicit sex from seeming expoitative despite taking up a fairly large chunk of the movie. Plus, I loved the concert footage, particularly from the Franz Ferdinand performance.
I can't really say much about Wallace & Gromit that hasn't already been said, but it was a wonderfully enjoyable film.
Today I was flipping through the channels and found it. DH said, "Leave it, it's close to the moment of the funniest hit-by-a-car scene in movie history."
That's just weird, because I did the exact same thing on Sunday, only there was nobody to explain what was happening. I was channel-surfing. There was Brad Pitt. Then a car hit him. Then I laughed and laughed. Then I desperately tried to figure out what the hell I'd stumbled upon. Eventually I saw Hopkins and figured it out. And went back to surfing.
When I was over at my in-laws house on Saturday, they had a videotape of Meet Joe Black there.
I spent dinner afraid that they'd want us to watch it with them.