This is a very good movie, IMO. Tim Burton always paints beautifully on the screen with his images, and this movie is more of the same. With great scenes, scenery, acting and such a silly and crazy storyline, this movie is wonderful.
My father was like the dad in this movie...he sure could spin a good yarn. Half the time I thought he was the most amazing person on the planet, the other half I thought he had to be full of crap. But the stories of "me and Gene and Fatty and Bean," regardless of their authenticity, kept my childhood going and I still tell some of them to my kids, like the story of the Wampus Cat.
Perhaps that is why this movie, Big Fish, affected me so much. I found it to be a very touching movie, that was incredibly entertaining to watch. I also found it similar in feel to the first movie I profiled, O Brother Where Art Thou, in the wild adventures the characters have.
This is a great movie to sit and watch, with great acting from Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney in a completely odd world. Great bit part from Steve Buscemi as well, in two different parts of the movie.
IMDB Plot Summary
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
Amazon Plot Summary
Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi.
Neither of these actually does justice to this fine film. All I know is Grass So Green, Sky So Blue, Spectre is really great.
My father was like the dad in this movie...he sure could spin a good yarn. Half the time I thought he was the most amazing person on the planet, the other half I thought he had to be full of crap. But the stories of "me and Gene and Fatty and Bean," regardless of their authenticity, kept my childhood going and I still tell some of them to my kids, like the story of the Wampus Cat.
Perhaps that is why this movie, Big Fish, affected me so much. I found it to be a very touching movie, that was incredibly entertaining to watch. I also found it similar in feel to the first movie I profiled, O Brother Where Art Thou, in the wild adventures the characters have.
This is a great movie to sit and watch, with great acting from Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney in a completely odd world. Great bit part from Steve Buscemi as well, in two different parts of the movie.
IMDB Plot Summary
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
Amazon Plot Summary
Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi.
Neither of these actually does justice to this fine film. All I know is Grass So Green, Sky So Blue, Spectre is really great.
