I saw Big Fish recently, cause it was a good night for self-indulgence. Tim Burton makes interesting things to look at, and Ewan MacGregor still turns my crank. My friend S. used the word "forced" in a positive way to describe the weird fictive visuals. Father/son drama is about as loaded as it gets: hot cipher-on-cipher action. This movie was surprising and captivating except for all the other parts where it was tiresome and predictable. Why must Tim Burton work with Danny Elfman? (In fact, couldn't we do away with Danny Elfman's music altogether?) The fiction/reality flip-floppery was fun, but not quite fun enough to outweigh the long-winded, broad-stroke, get-out-the-violins crap. For a really intense, scary, beautiful , unsentimental (and short) father son film, see Collin Zipp's artist's project at Samplesize.
That was my least liked Tim Burton Film of all time. I think I sort of got up and walked away in the middle of it. I can usually withstand most sappy things but this film reminded me of another of my least favorites of all time which is Forrest Gump.
I don't think that you are being very fair. forrest Gump was a trailblazing film. I liked it more than any other Mathew Barney Film. And i think he's one of the most important filmakers alive today.
haha! too funny!
Big Fish is the film Spalding Gray watched, with his sons, before throwing himself off the Staten Island Ferry, though I'm not sure that counts as an endorsement.
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I saw Big Fish recently, cause it was a good night for self-indulgence. Tim Burton makes interesting things to look at, and Ewan MacGregor still turns my crank. My friend S. used the word "forced" in a positive way to describe the weird fictive visuals. Father/son drama is about as loaded as it gets: hot cipher-on-cipher action. This movie was surprising and captivating except for all the other parts where it was tiresome and predictable. Why must Tim Burton work with Danny Elfman? (In fact, couldn't we do away with Danny Elfman's music altogether?) The fiction/reality flip-floppery was fun, but not quite fun enough to outweigh the long-winded, broad-stroke, get-out-the-violins crap. For a really intense, scary, beautiful , unsentimental (and short) father son film, see Collin Zipp's artist's project at Samplesize.
- sally mckay 5-20-2004 7:42 am
That was my least liked Tim Burton Film of all time. I think I sort of got up and walked away in the middle of it. I can usually withstand most sappy things but this film reminded me of another of my least favorites of all time which is Forrest Gump.
- Jennifer McMackon (guest) 5-20-2004 8:57 am
I don't think that you are being very fair. forrest Gump was a trailblazing film. I liked it more than any other Mathew Barney Film. And i think he's one of the most important filmakers alive today.
- bunnie 5-22-2004 2:00 am
haha! too funny!
- Jennifer McMackon (guest) 5-22-2004 4:13 pm
Big Fish is the film Spalding Gray watched, with his sons, before throwing himself off the Staten Island Ferry, though I'm not sure that counts as an endorsement.
- Kathleen McLean (guest) 5-24-2004 11:20 pm