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Watch: Meet Joe Black 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – William Parrish (Sir Anthony Hopkins), media tycoon, loving father, and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black (Brad Pitt) has arrived. His intention was to take William with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and William’s beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she’s flirting..
Plot: When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a “vacation” among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish’s daily agenda and falls in love with the man’s daughter. Yet when Black’s holiday is over, so is Parrish’s life.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 243,032
	44% | RottenTomatoes
	43/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 4130 Popularity: 34.229 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Minimalist Masterpiece
Somewhere in the netherworld between being a “remake” and merely “inspired by” Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday, Meet Joe Black is the story of Death personified. Death takes over the body of Brad Pitt’s unnamed character, later donned “Joe Black” by William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). Although the motivation isn’t specified but implied in this film, Death wishes to experience the life he normally takes away–he wants to see what it’s like to be human. He chooses Parrish to be his guide because Parrish is a hugely successful media mogul who has conviction, strong “moral fiber” and insight on life. Compounding the situation, Parrish’s daughter, Susan (Claire Forlani), is a woman whom Brad Pitt’s unnamed character met in a coffee shop that morning and had an instant mutual attraction with. Black sticks close by William’s side through much of the film, creating difficult situations at a time when Parrish’s company is trying to deal with a financially attractive but ethically unsavory takeover bid, and he also puts the boil to somewhat strained familial relationships.

First, a word of warning. This is a very long film (3 hours), and it tends to be very slowly paced. If you are averse to either, or if you do not like any of the three principals—Pitt, Hopkins and Forlani–I’d advise you to avoid the film.

For me, I never think that a film’s length is a problem in itself. As long as the film works, I’d be happy with it lasting 4, 5, even 12 hours or more–heck, I even gladly sat through Gettysburg (1993) in the theater. There have been films I’ve thought were too long (such as Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, 1962), but it’s contextual, not related to actual running time.

Helmer Martin Brest directs with a lot of deliberation. Lines of dialogue and responses are stretched out to “infinity and taken to the depth of forever”. The camera gives us lots of lingering gazes. There is little to no “action” in the film. Much of it is similar to David Lynch’s famed pregnant pauses. Some people hate that style. I love it (although I love other styles, too–I like variety), and for me, the pacing makes this film seem much shorter than its actual running time. It’s the complete opposite of the pacing of, say, Medallion (2003), which is interesting given that both films feature Forlani. It’s also interesting to note that Brest’s career seems to match the pacing of Meet Joe Black. He’s taken 2, 4, 5 and 6 years between films. Obviously, Brest is not in a rush.

If you watch Meet Joe Black immediately after watching Death Takes a Holiday, as I did this time around, a few things might strike you as odd and slightly negative at first. The principal difference that had this initial effect on me was the change in the primary romantic relationship–between Joe and Susan (and between Prince Sirki (Frederic March) and Grazia (Evelyn Venable) in the original). In the original, it’s ambiguous whether Grazia doesn’t recognize Sirki for what he really is all along. She at least never meets him as Sirki rather than Death-as-Sirki. It creates interesting philosophical scenarios about humankind’s conception and fear of death; Grazia, who is a bit aloof all along, may be embracing death rather than fearing it, not as something negative, but more metaphysically, as inherent in the idea of life.

In Meet Joe Black, Susan falls for Pitt as another character first. It removes all of the philosophical points about one’s attitude towards death (with the exception of William, who is the only one who knows the truth, even in the end, and who implicitly goes through vacillating feelings about death). However, despite my initial hesitation on the change, I tried to remember my commitment to judge each film on its own terms rather than its relation to other works, and I realized that the relationship set up here is interesting for another reason–it explores public identity in relationships and the tensions that arise through dynamicism of that public identity. That’s a theme throughout the film, not just in its romantic relationships.

Pitt has often been criticized for his performance here, but in my opinion, it’s perfect for the character(s)–just as good in its own way as March’s turn as Sirki in the original. Once Pitt as Death takes over “Joe Black’s” body, he _must_ change his persona in the way he does. He’s supposed to be a supernatural being who normally relates to the world in a completely different way, but now he’s suddenly made corporeal. He doesn’t know what to do as a human. As an entity, he’s not daft, lacking power or unknowledgeable about many things, but he’s incredibly naïve and awkward as a thing of flesh. He’s not used to relating to the world in that way. He’s not used to making facial expressions. He’s never tasted food, and so on. The change he undergoes in the beginning and end of the film is amazing and shows just how skilled Pitt is.

Hopkins and Forlani are of course no slouches, either. Hopkins’ ability to go from understated and elegant to manic is put to good use; the role seems tailor-made for him. Forlani, who has a very unusual but intriguingly beautiful face that always looks a bit pouty, gets to pout even more, creating a bizarrely complex but effective character. The rest of the primary cast is just as good. The end result is a strangely dysfunctional family with a lot of depth.

While I can see people preferring Death Takes a Holiday to this film, for me, Meet Joe Black is slightly better. It’s much more epic, of course, and that scope, plus the incredible score by Thomas Newman, pushes its emotional effectiveness up a notch. But make sure you do not miss either film. Both are excellent and unusual.

A powerful movie about not taking life for granted
It’s easy to wake up every day and see what is wrong with your life. Everyone has their vices and their shortcomings. Whether you are a billionaire with a perfect spouse, a cottage, a beach house, nice cars and wonderful parents or if you are a single parent struggling to get by on measly paycheck, we can all find something that is wrong with life. Such is human nature. But what can we do to remedy that situation. What can we do to try and ensure that our life gets better? And is it all really that bad? Meet Joe Black is a movie that asks us to look at ourselves and realize that this life is a gift and one that perhaps is taken for granted a little too much. Meet Joe Black asks us to ask ourselves: is it really all that bad?

Anthony Hopkins plays Bill. Bill is a very successful business man but it is his time. We all have to die one day, it is a part of life. And this is Bill’s time. But before he goes, the Grim Reaper pays him a visit and offers him time. That is all. Just time. And in exchange Bill will show Death what it is like to be alive. A bit of an oxymoron for sure but true nonetheless. And what happens when Death starts to learn about what makes our life so precious is really something that has to be seen. Because what we take for granted, he sees as innocent and pure and magical. For instance, peanut butter. Joe Black tastes it and decides that it is the most amazing food that he has ever had in his short existence. And when people are eating their caviar at dinner, he refrains and has more peanut butter. This scene is one of the purest and most honest scenes in the film. Not for what is on the outside, but what it means, what it wants us to see. To me this scene is the microcosm of what the film and what life should be about.

Life is a gift. There are so many wonderful things that we have as human beings that we seem to forget what they are. We are so consumed with other things that at the time seem important but when you look at them closely they are trivial and it’s the little things in life that bring us so much joy. Like peanut butter, aka tossing the ball around with your kids, aka. being lazy in the shade with your Collie. The point is that life is serious enough and it isn’t until others are gone that we fully comprehend that.

Brad Pitt is perfect, absolutely perfect as Joe Black. He conveys the innocent wonder and pure joy of discovering human elements like the aforementioned peanut butter and more serious issues like falling in love.

Meet Joe Black has been criticized for its length but like all movies that are three hours plus, there is a reason for that. And that is because it has something to say. Something important to say. Meet Joe Black wants us to look at this film and then look at our lives and realize that there is a lot to live for. You just have to get through all the mist and cloudiness and you’ll find it again. There is an innocence about how this movie feels and it is such a wonderful picture. It makes you feel good. Good to be in love ( if you are ) good to want to be in love ( if you are not already) and good to be alive.

See this film. It will make you glad that you did. I know I was and my life doesn’t seem so bad right now even though there are many things that I could complain about like…… Ah hell, what’s the point. Life can only get better. Meet Joe Black helped me see that.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 58 min (178 min), 2 hr 9 min (129 min) (edited TV)
Budget 90000000
Revenue 142940100
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director Martin Brest
Writer Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade
Actors Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 4,920 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process VistaVision (special effects), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm