'Meet Joe Black' (1998) is having a strange rebirth on Twitter

Who remembers this masterpiece of a death scene?
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Apropos of absolutely nothing, a lot of people are discussing the 1998 drama Meet Joe Black on Twitter today.

The deeply strange film, which stars Brad Pitt as Joe Black and also Death, did not receive particularly good nor particularly bad reviews in its day. It is, however, remembered for being extremely long. Two VHS tapes!

Comedian Rose O'Shea brought the movie back into our appear collective consciousness on Thursday when she tweeted a clip from a truly unbelievable scene. Here's what goes down: Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani bid farewell to each other after their meet-cute, then steal alternating glances back at each other as they walk in opposite directions for a surprisingly long time. Lovely, right? Then Brad Pitt gets hit by a car. Then his body ricochets off some more cars. It is incredible.

"This is the most bonkers one minute of a movie that I have ever seen," O'Shea wrote.

The last few seconds of the clip, in which Brad Pitt's lifeless body bounces from car to car like a fish in a suit, should have become a famous GIF the moment GIFs were invented. Thankfully, the internet is now making up for lost time by tweeting it incessantly -- by itself, set to music, alongside commentary about how they actually remember the movie Meet Joe Black (1998) and don't understand why other people don't remember it. It's everywhere!

As a fun side effect, another (actually, the only other) notable scene from the movie is also making a resurgence. In this scene, Brad Pitt speaks patois to an old woman at a hospital.

We will let you decide which movie moment is weirder.

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Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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