Joe Versus the Volcano
Directed by John Patrick Shanley
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan
Grade C+
My friends
are compiling a list of movies I should have seen by this point in my life.
They represent some serious gaps in my movie-watching experience. Their efforts
to catch me up on pop culture of old began when they found out I haven’t seen A
Christmas Story, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and many other classic
Christmas movies. So now, in an effort to catch me up on pop culture of old, I
get monthly movie assignments.
Joe Versus
the Volcano is on Katy’s list of top movies of all time. This movie came out in
1990 and perhaps I would have enjoyed it more at the time, but I found myself
suffering from a lack of a willing suspension of disbelief. There are many
astonishing scenes in the movie, including the very mysterious Brain Cloud that
sends the Tom Hanks character on his life-changing voyage. I was unable to go
along on the far-fetched journey and found myself constantly questioning the
plot and wondering if there is anyone out there willing to believe the
massively fictitious story line. The story was told in such a way that the
viewers are expected to believe in things that are not near plausible.
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