Never feels like this movie is 3 hours long
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Meet Joe Black
True_Love — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 08:25 AM)
Every time I watch this movie, it never feels like 3 hours. It's a slow-paced movie and yet never boring and I can watch it again and again. I don't know how to explain it. What a wonderful movie all around music, acting, writing powerful.
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dcobbimdb — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 01:33 AM)
Well it sure felt 3 hours to me I liked it and have only seen it once before years ago. It's unique, and mainly because it's when Brad Pitt was in hist prime and he and Anthony owned pretty much every minute of it. So 3 "noticeable" hours but well spent IMHO
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akg96-1 — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 02:48 AM)
I've never seen such a SLOW movie! How slow?? 3 hours long? NO, it was FOUR HOURS LONG!!! Yes, four hours thanks to American TV service providers like Time Warner Cable. Sucks the excitement right out of it by taking the viewer out of the movie way to often & way too long. Yes, 60 minutes of commercials! Shame on the right to earn a profit with FREE enterprise - makes capitalism look greedy & heartless, plus corrupt & out of control. Why it would take a movie or romance addict to watch through all that non-sense advertising that we're told is the same volume at the show itself. If this is not lies, then what is it? Disingenuous, insincere, dishonest, untruthful, false, deceitful, duplicitous, lying, mendacious; hypocritical. Makes Americans look terrible, like liars
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Melton1 — 3 weeks ago(March 07, 2026 07:35 AM)
Very true. The pacing is flawless. You just slip into the story like comfortable slippers, and, not unlike a David Lynch film, the questions and pregnant pauses have a hypnotic effect.
The sumptuous visuals and music also cast a spell, and 3 hours later you’re almost sad it’s all over.
Thank god Martin Brest had final cut, the studio would have been frothing to butcher this masterpiece down to the typical 2 hours for a 90’s movie.
Unlike the recent Mission Impossible films - bloated because they started shooting without a script and tried to ‘save’ the gigantic mess in the edit - Meet Joe Black actually has narrative flow.