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How to make a small movie big.
Being anything but a big budget movie "Joe vs the volcano" with its' theatrical effects (it's like watching a stageplay at times, for example the "lost at sea"-scenario, and some of the shots of the town) -in fact it's a bit tricky to explain the movie, difficult to categorize it being some kind of a peculiar witty fablish drama. I find the soundtrack of the movie beautiful and haunting with its' fabolous main theme, but in fact I have no idea if it was intended to have that effect, giving a melancolich-feel (half sad, half dreamy). This story being as unrealistic and (as mentioned) "fablish" as it may be, well, I still can't help taking it serious based on the fact that the story is containing the deepest emotions around the tragedy of loneliness in the characters we get introduced here to. The movie is full of personality and charm. But this including also the despair (this is about a man who is lost in life) -and the lead character (Joe) first learns to appreciate his life when he is told he has only six months left to live. he becomes the young man he used to be "full of piss and vinegar" as he himself says it. He somehow wakes from a nightmarish state of mind, and to be frankly of the US. Some traumatic events working as a fireman in his past made him become a worried and hypocondriac (correct spelled?) man until this. <
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>The movie and the story being so different, gripping in its' "surrealness" -and so well acted by the entire cast is what makes it so great! <
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>As you might have realized I find it far more than being just a peculiar comedy, it takes you out of the dark and tells us there is far more to this life, this world, than the machineries of mankind, the buildings and the work. There is more to life than all this, and it's out there, and it shouldn't go to waste. The beauty of this movie lies in the dialogue between the people that meet for real, and also in the nature around them (the ocean and the stars), characteristic and amazing filming to capture all this, it's like watching a dream at times. <
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>A fantastic, and different movie-experience; One of my absolute favorites! Not like anything else I've ever seen!

A QUIRKY, BOLD, MASTERPIECE OF A MOVIE...
Some might quibble with the term "Epic" being applied to a movie that contains a fed-up sexual prostetics maker throwing himself into a volcano worhipped by partly Jewish, orange pop swilling, tropical island dwellers. So we'll leave the label fixing to more jaded hands if we must, but dammit--this is one helluva movie all the same. <
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>A string of excellent scenes does not a great movie make. Ask M. Night Shazzam-your-ham or whatever his name is. And don't mistake me--Joe Versus the Volcano has a TON of great scenes. But it has something that movies like The Village or (to delve deeper into the pre-history of "TOM HANKS"--back when he was still just "Tom Hanks") The Burbs do not: a through-line with real heart. <
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>Who can resist the opening sequence? Who could forget the luggage salesman? Who could not be moved by the scene with the moon on the ocean. <
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>More to the point, who could not love the theme that pulses through this over-looked classic: Hope? <
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>Joe Versus the Volcano has long been one of my personal favorite movies. Is it a movie for all time? Who knows? Who cares? <
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>If you haven't seen it, take a look at this movie. You will not regret it. <
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>I give Joe Versus the Volcano my full recommendation.