Joe vs The Volcano - Joe Quits

[shock6906]

I'm here because I was expressing my disdain of the wretched fluorescent bulbs in our office to my cellmate. He said I reminded him of Joe, and he sent me this scene this afternoon.

[Domzdream]

Great film this. So telling.

[dessert57]

Great, under-rated movie, just a pity about the over the top ending (though I didn't mind too much), but the first 2/3 of it are very very good...this was when Tom Hanks was still actually good :)

[ritter89]

I think it's great that they gave Hanks a mullet at the start of the film. Next time you watch this movie, look out for the repeating zigzag shape (it's intentional): the entrance path to Joe's job at the start of the film, the lightning bolt in the middle and the footpath to the Volcano at the end are all patterned on the exact same shape

[ritter89]

"I'm a flibbertigibbet"

[campbellkid58]

I really want to quit my job and I keep thinkng of this WONDERFUL SCENE! Thank you so much for posting this. I thought I'd check to see if this scene was on YT and I'm so glad it is. I could watch this over and over again!

[moegulley]

Joe has been my fav movie since I first saw it. I'm bipolar so I've struggled with a brain cloud for the past 25 years...I love this scene....the last two jobs I've quit I've wanted to use the line....Marty/Bill, you look like a piece of shit stuffed into a cheap suit...but I've refrained. Thanks for posting this.

[RdHolland]

@moegulley No problem! I hope you find the right job for you!

[LunarU4EA]

I don't know who gives the more powerful performance. Tom Hanks as Joe, or Meg Ryan as three characters so completely separate, indepedent, and different!!!! I love all of Tom Hanks movies, but this is still the best!!

[stoopidmonkeyful]

Saw "Joe" in theatres opening weekend back in March 1990.......classic ever since!

[chrisconwaypeters]

tom hanks is canadian

[Yolysings]

Love this movie! I so relate to his reaction to flourescent lights! Yeah, it may save you some pennies in electricity, but you'd soon have to pay for blood transfusion back into your eyeballs!

[TheJASM4collection]

I just saw this movie in my cinematography class and I love it. Tom Hanks is always a great actor. Meg Ryan was cute as DeDe, funny as Angelica, and gorgeous as Patricia. This is officially one of my favorite movies of all time.

[365to173repubsPWNED]

"yeah ok." two words every man loves to hear from a woman

[Icepacalapse]

Mandated phaseout of incandescent bulbs brought me here.

[RdHolland]

@Icepacalapse ha ha ha!

[asupriz]

The next time someone asks what's the matter with me I'm gonna say "brain cloud".

[TheJASM4collection]

@asupriz me too lmao

[TopTellyFan]

I love this film and this scene, but can you try and correct the ratio a bit? It's a 2.35:1 film squashed into a 4:3 frame. I know you can get it to a 16:9 image by adding yt:stretch=16:9 into your tags, but it'd be a start.

[mmrsoft]

This actually is one of my favorite films of all time. I find it funny that Hanks and Ryan wished they never did it. It's brilliant!

[vetdetta]

That is the lamp of my dreams. Do they even make 'em like that anymore? I've never even come close to finding it. His only escape from that hellhole was the hula girl and her glorious tropical imagery. This movie was great, but the lamp, the lamp is epic.

[BobBX542]

I remember watching this back in the day and dreading that I might end up in this situation, and lo and behold, I am currently working in a concrete cell, with no windows, and a buzzing fluorescent bulb. God kill me.

[BobBX542]

@BobBX542 Oh shit, and I just realized after watching that I clear just over $300 a week after taxes. Why can't I have been diagnosed with the brain cloud??

[smecking]

@BobBX542 You're not alone .I too am stuck in a job i hate, making a little over 300 a week. The only thing preserving my sanity is the fact that i'm thankfully not stuck behind a desk and get to go out and catch a smoke now and then.Sadly, i have been relying on chemical assistance to help the hours pass as painlessly as possible. To you and anyone else trapped like this, i'm willing to pool whatever resources i have with those of anyone interested to buy a huge boat and sail around the world.

[killemall22]

@smecking how big of a boat and how soon are you leaving?

[smecking]

@killemall22 As large as our combined liquidated assets will permit. I'm thinking a yacht suitable for twenty. The more the merrier or... some cliche. We set sail as soon as we all agree that working for a paycheck is slow suicide and taking our chances on the open seas, come what may, will be far more rewarding. This sounds like romantic fluff, but dare me to do something and you'll be amazed. You in?

[killemall22]

@smecking well its only suicide if you hate what you do, ne? but i'm more than willing to fish for food for a living...

[smecking]

@killemall22 True. But how many people end up in their dream job? Of course, impulsiveness with no regard to consequences could be just as detrimental. But feeling alive is so much better than just trying to live. I'll see you at the marina.

[RdHolland]

@BobBX542 - Oh my god, I'm sorry.

[infinateregress]

@BobBX542 Dude, get the fuck out of there, get on a bike, get off when you find the right place. Grow your own vegatables, build your own house.

[BobBX542]

@infinateregress I would, but my crappy job has given me no such skills to do any of that. Except ride a bike, which technically I learned long before I started working here.

[infinateregress]

@BobBX542 LEARN THEM YOURSELF. I don't mean to sound patronising Bob, but you desperately need to LIVE YOUR LIFE. Look, do you want to do that shit untill you retire, be old for a while then DIE?! SAVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL UNIQUE SACRED HUMAN BEING SELF.

[BobBX542]

@infinateregress You know, I appreciate what you're trying to say/do, but I think we're venturing a little too far into filthy-no-good-dirty hippy territory, so while I am serious about my job situation, it's not really as bad as I let on. So, thanks anyway granola.

[killemall22]

@BobBX542 ditto, let's get out

[BobBX542]

@killemall22 according to infinateregress, all we have to do is ride a bike, grow vegetables, stop showering, live in a commune, talk to mother earth, and hug a tree, and we'll be groovy maaaaaan (I might have made up those last few ones, but then again, I probably didn't).

[killemall22]

@BobBX542 well i'm down for biking and growing my own veggies, but communes only work 1 out 15 times and i need my daily dose of sauna. but there's got to be another way to get out of the rut

[dwetick]

@BobBX542 Don't worry, incandescents will still be around for asthetic purposes...many lamp designers dis-like the cold light of flourescents and LED's. The same amount of light that a 60 watt incandescent bulb puts out can be matched with a 15 watt LED. Its all about power usage.

Cheers, Doc W.

[PushyMonk]

Upon first glance this movie looks like a dark comedy. It is one of the most interesting Metaphor pieces I have seen. The corporate machine and what it does to the human spirit is so current! All us "Average Joe" types have to say we are dead aleady so don't play it safe in The NWO System of Debt Slavery and break free to create you own dream.

[TheEdoB]

I think of this scene every time I have to tell my 1-year-old son Jo not to touch something.

[maz594]

I like when he says i always wondered what would happen if i did that, and the fact that he is a nice guy! I love when he responds to the remark that he will be easily replaced, and we all wish we could leave like joe! Big-al

[skootaboy1978]

I like how he holds the tiki lamp out like a crucifix to keep his boss at a safe distance :-)

[ninayoyoyo]

I knew this clip was gonna be up, and put up by a genius like you.

[fargene]

Man I remember seeing this movie on hbo back in 1990. It is still as good today as it was then!

[RdHolland]

@fargene right on!

[colleenky]

Aw, you cut off the best line. DeDe: "Wow, what a change!" ;-)

[RdHolland]

@colleenky YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT! damn.

[lapsang2]

-How about a dinner tonight?

-Yeah, okay.

[11Beirut22]

I love this scene. Joe is beginning his journey towards truly feeling alive!!!

[MJ4evermore]

'wow!! what a chagement!!" this is absolutely one of the best parts of the movie..i felt good when he quit....omg tom hanks is my favourite actor:)) love him!!

[BDMYERS]

Great movie. So funny, so imaginative, so tragic.

[TheFbirocks]

Superficial people don't see the depth of this movie. Increadibly powerful in a hilarious way!

[jwshrieky]

Great scene...

"Suck suck suck suck..." Love it.!

[AmySam87]

thanks for posting!!! this is exactly what i needed!

[redheadedrockaholic]

One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies!

[mkmwrite]

This movie was one of the strangest I've ever seen, but I actually enjoyed it. This scene was great. Gotta love Tom Hanks (But the hair... Wow xD)

[wcbombers21]

Tom Hanks should have got Oscar Nomination for this movie, he is such a great actor!

[Zeanu]

Do Not Touch.

Great movie, highly underrated... but so awesome!

[paulbiggs]

There's something about that moment with Old Man River ending; and Joe comes upon that trampled flower amongst the rocks and mud, that I've always found inspiring. The scene that follows is absolute classic. Some really great lines in this movie.

This movie never got the good reviews, but every time it's on T.V., I can't take my eyes off of it. Same thing for the Shawshank Redemption.

[RdHolland]

Agreed, when he fixes that gentle flower in the middle of the wasteland it makes me think of the power of hope.

[finch6789]

I concur with your opinion on both of these movies. Something about Joe Vs. that I just love...despite the bad reviews. However I think Shawshank got 4 stars.

[Minuteman351]

I hated this movie the first time I saw it, but each time i watched it again, it got better and better. It's a story you can only appreciate aftter a little life experience. It's like reading the Book of Proverbs or Ecclesiastes. You need some maturity to appreciate it. :)

[justinwlaurab]

Oh my god, please the rest of that song at the beginning of this clip! It kills me!

[halidefox]

I believe that would be Ray Charles singing "Old Man River". But then if you've already Googled it you prolly already know that. Or not. Whatever.

[sage007]

in it's unique simplicity it effectively & relevantly covers major life themes in a way more critically approved/pretentious or expensive films now haven't or can't..i stand by this film b/c of it's raw effect - vastly underrated & overlooked (and i'm a producer & social critic)

[Dozirulf]

I LOVE this movie.

So many articles about Hanks' career mention this movie as "one of the worst films" ever made which I think is absurd. But the truly sad thing is that Hanks HIMSELF talks down about it and acts embarrassed about having made it. That's unfortunate.

Similarly, John Cusack refers to his 80's gems like Better Off Dead as being horrible. Thats just so disappointing.

[dessert57]

that's coz most pretentious actors just want to make 'philadelphia' or 'schindler's list' and everything else is crap...shame...they need to get back to basics and understand that it's entertainment! you can't make hamlet everyday!

[Chingachgook12]

I didn't know that, but that's really sad. The movie was genius from beginning to end, and it suprises me that it's not more highly regarded.

[444333drr]

"Frank, the coffee stinks, it tastes like arsenic"

[BoondyAlBoondy]

Poor Joe doesn't feel good, he's all blotchy and lumpy, symptoms he has developed in the eight years he has worked for American Panascope, the wretched corporate "Home of the Rectal Probe." Once a courageous firefighter, Joe is now the librarian of the corporation's advertising department, supervised by one of the film's inventive kooks, Mr. Waturi (Dan Hedaya), a two-bit tyrant given to long, loud, monotonous telephone conversations

[alpharedtrot]

the best tom hanks movie ever!

[RaphKittyKat]

And afterwards he did'nt just give that flower back it's life, beauty, and dignity, in a way he became it as well. A powerfully under-rated movie. i make all my friends watch it at least once, even if it does'nt reach as deep with them as i did me. i even wrote a song in honor of it!

[RaphKittyKat]

i saw this movie a looooooong time ago , and let me just say that my life/perspectives were changed after that first veiwing. i absolutly love how that one flower has managed to grow (despite all odds) in that mundane hopeless, concrete, commercial, world, and when it was crushed by a worker drone i felt that. But later on when Joe discovers he has a "Brain Cloud", he recieves a new lease (however short) on life.

[kikikikia]

sehr gut. loved it

[sage007]

i want to reiterate; one of the most understated, under-rated & relevant movies of our time. most conditioned mainstream people won't realize the power & significance represented in this scene alone - i hope someday that they can. joe becomes free b/c he changes his State, beliefs, values & relationships w/the reality he knew. he values life, becomes independent, more powerful & attractive (making out w/didi that same night). a forever underrated classic on it's moral/symbolic/metaphoric themes

[kandinsky700]

@sage007  I just watched this movie for the first time this week. I was impressed with the symbolism, and the metaphorical journey that Joe takes. The guy who wrote this thing had some real insight. I just loved it. (And I loved your comments. I couldn't agree with you more).

[455Transam]

@sage007 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Capburger]

@sage007 Couldn't agree more. It was marketed as a romantic comedy and never really shook that distinction.

[plumecitron]

@sage007 I Agree, this is one of the most under-rated movies of our time! ''My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement. ''  - Joe Versus the volcano

[paperkite03]

One of the greatest scenes in film history.

[iceman030575]

I love the part where he tries to pick up the phone with the prosthetic arm and goes "hello"

[theycallmedrworm]

'I love the part where he tries to pick up the phone with the prosthetic arm and goes "hello"'

I love the part where he pats his bosses head with it!

This scene makes the whole movie for me. Second fav is the brain cloud diagnosis scene.

LOVE IT!

[docileprimate]

Thanks for posting. I wish the part with Robert Stack telling him he has a brain cloud was on youtube as well LOL.

[NiteflySA]

It is somewhere. I saw it.

[eme456]

"These lights give me a headache> If they dont give you a headache then you must be dead. So lets arange a funeral"

[aquafishsoup]

anybody laugh their ass off when he caught the fake ass shARK????

[longlists]

omg I love this movie!!! I can't believe other ppl actually know it! Thanks for posting!

[1304Josh]

such a great movie..a cult classic.

[Goddafodda]

This movie looks funny. Gotta see it.

[Akashinano]

"Mr. Waturi, you look like a bag of sh!t stuffed in a cheap suit." I always die laughing.

[leechdom]

fake hand on the phone.. "hello?" allways laugh..

[TRIPLEX300STRONG]

My fav scene of the movie. Thanks for posting, you rock.

[664006]

I worked at a place just like that place.

It had the same life force sucking atmosphere, florecent lights, grey sterile color scheme, pastey faced people, "big brother is watching" furniture, and a scuzzy, slimey boss. Going to bed a night was my only relief. I will name this place: Division Headquarters, Division Chemical, 3rd Infantry Division, Wuerzburg Germany 1992-95.

I wrote this today 5 Aug 08/19:35 hrs because I am a survivor and I was stronger than what tried to kill my brain.

[Zeanu]

Wow. Okay.

[plumecitron]

@664006 Thanks for sharing... We are stronger than what tried to kill our brain!

[lalazaf]

thanks rdholland im gonna download this right away

[halidefox]

I'm sorry to sound like a fanboy, but THANK YOU so much for posting. I used to watch this movie on Optusvision on days off of school. Truly inspirational.

[lalazaf]

N e body know what the song is at the beggining of this clip. It just gets me right there man and tom hanks is great

[RdHolland]

Yeah it's great, very soulful:

* Song Name: Ol' Man River

* Artist Name: Ray Charles

* Album: Standards

* Songwriters: Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein

* Release Date: 1998.03.03

* Label: Rhino Records

[angryseraph]

Thanks for this!! This is one of my all-time favorite movies!!

[sanpit]

i love this movie b/c an english teacher taught me some great stuff in 8th grade. some of the lessons still apply till today! i still wonder if some people just 'see' the movie, how much would they understand?

[sage007]

powerful..one of the most understated movies of today b/c of it's symbolism & themes - esp. this scene which is lost to the conformed & docile

[YparalyzerY]

DeDe (or however you spell it) how about dinner tonight... XD

[jen1jen2jen3]

This is F*&king awesome. I love love love this movie. SUCK SUCK SUCK....!!! HAHA! Tom Hanks rocks.

[lazerguided]

haha! i love this scene!

"I AM NOT ARGUING THAT WITH YOU!"

[BoobyJonn]

I am inspired!

[jackmehoffer68]

That is the BEST!!! I forgot or didn't realize this scene was so good. This whole movie is packed with symbolism which is lost on a lot of people so it didn't do so great, but I love it. Thanks for posting this vid :) "I'm not arguing that with you!"

[baltoid]

Thanks for uploading this. Great scene.

[zonesmuggla]

Amen brother.

[RdHolland]

Right on, right on.

[zonesmuggla]

Reminds me of the scene from Half Baked, F**you, F** you, F** you, you're cool, and F** you I'm out.