Big Fish

wild_eyed · 02-02-2004 2:34pm #1

i saw this film last nite, really enjoyed it. it was really really nice or somthing, innocnet or somthing. what did ye people think

Mr E · 02-02-2004 2:47pm

Yeah I really liked it too.... Nice to see in the end that

the stories were mostly true and only slightly exaggerated (the twins, the giant, Spectre etc.)

. Nice feelgood movie, very funny in places (Ed's birth, the Japanese martial arts soldiers). Enjoyable while you're watching it, but not necessarily memorable.

- Dave.

Buck Owens · 02-02-2004 2:49pm

Saw it myself there last week! It was a great heartwarming, happy, nice film but not in a cheesy way. Tim burton is a genius! I loved carl the giant and the whole circus part of it!

anyone else seen it?

SheroN · 02-02-2004 2:52pm

can anyone give me a short overview as to what the film is about without spoiling it?:)

newgrange · 03-02-2004 9:17am

An old man (Albert Finney) is dying. He has always told fantastic stories about earlier in his life. His son (Billy Crudup) feels as if he has always been lied to, and as a result feels his father is a stranger to him. The son tries to piece together his father's life, from the stories he has been told.

The father's earlier life and stories are shown in flashback and the young version of the father is played by Ewan McGregor - who is very well cast - at times he does look like a young Albert Finney.

As the film goes on, we, and the son learn more about the father.

It's a nice gentle, feel-good film, I enjoyed it. It is not however, a children's film, despite it's rating. Many of the children who attended at the same time I did got bored and ran around the cinema.

Kambika · 04-02-2004 9:54am

Was a cute movie, not the best I have seen this year though.

projectmayhem · 04-02-2004 3:40pm

i haven't seen it yet but plan to... anyone who's seen it think it deserves the tag "the new wizard of oz" as critics seem to be placing on it ?

SweetBirdOfTruth · 05-02-2004 11:36am

the new wizzard of oz? no. the new forrest gump, mebbe.

Ragamuffin · 07-02-2004 10:02pm

I really liked Big Fish:D Very enchanting and kind of magical:D

ixoy · 08-02-2004 3:45am

'Twas a nice feel good movie but nothing particularly special beyond that. A bit disjointed in places but it has a heart.

DapperGent · 08-02-2004 1:13pm

I thought it was beautiful I hugely enjoyed it up til the very end.

But I thought the last fantasy sequence

where Crudup is carrying his dad around

was awful and the voiceover at the end was so bad that it almost ruined the entire film for me.

"And that's how he became immortal."

- absolutely fucking terible shit. It reeked of a studio forcing a by the numbers ending, it was completely at odds with the spirit of the film as it was up to that point.

I hate when they do that shit.

lamda · 08-02-2004 8:25pm

Oh god I really thought it was the most apaalingly cheesy film.
I was hoping to have my faith in Tim Burton restored after the disastrous Planter of the Apes but I was sorely disappointed. In trying to recapture the magic of Edward Scissorhands and the like he's become a parody of himself. It all came across at trying too hard to be quirky.
And as for the ending I disagree that it was good that there turned out to be a little truth in the stories, I think it would have cut through the sappiness of the movie if it turned out that he was making everything up.
Ugh just awful. And Ewan McGregor's accent was pretty dodgy but I suppose that's a small quibble compared to the rest of the film.