{"id":159,"date":"2019-03-05T01:24:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T01:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=159"},"modified":"2019-03-05T21:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:58:52","slug":"035-meet-joe-black-with-bobby-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2019\/03\/05\/035-meet-joe-black-with-bobby-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"035 – Meet Joe Black (with Bobby Finger)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can anyone today compare to how red hot of an actor Brad Pitt was in the 90s? After following his Oscar nomination for Twelve Monkeys with dual failed Oscar bait (The Devil\u2019s Own and Seven Years in Tibet, for those keeping score at home), Pitt\u2019s next headlining gig was a prestige fiasco: 1998\u2032s Meet Joe Black<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Directed by a pre-Gigli<\/i> Martin Brest, a pre-Lecter redundancy Anthony Hopkins stars as a publishing billionaire visited by Death (played to full frosted tip capacity by Pitt). Audiences who left the theatre after catching a glimpse of The Phantom Menace<\/i>\u2019s hotly awaited trailer were the lucky ones, because this failed Oscar hopeful was categorically a disaster.<\/p>\n

This week, Bobby Finger joins us to dig through this very long and very strange film and its accidental slapstick car crash, weird sex scene, and outlandish fireworks display. However, a brilliant score from Thomas Newman inspires us to quiz eachother on composers with multiple nominations in the 90s. And yet all roads lead back to Freddie Prinze, Jr…<\/p>\n

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