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Big Fish, a masterpiece from Tim Burton. Anyone agree? email this discussion to a friend?

myLot reputation of 96/100. sophisticated_boy (533)   ranked 220 out of 11,424 in watching movies6 months ago

I know many people overlooked this movie because it is not a high profile or grandeur movie from Tim Burton. But this movie is exactly Tim Burton talent, a show that mix imagination and fantasy in life with a heartbreaking story. It told us a story of a son that came back to his family to look for his dying father. Their relationship strained cause his father always telling a story that fascinates people about his experience when he was young when he was a child but growing up, he was so fed up with all his stories and believe all those stories were a lie, even accuse his father that he cannot differ which one is reality and which one is illusion. The audience was taken to different places and exotic locations around the world, where young dad (played by Ewan McGregor) travel from China to a somewhere unknown village, met bizarre people and events, while at home his lover (and later on at the story become his wife) waiting for him coming back to his home. It is such an affectionate movie of people's life, a son and father (played by Albert Finney in older years) relationship and full of imagination, I wonder how those weird ideas of his life experience came from:) My favorite scene is when Albert Finner and his wife ( I think it was Jessica Lange) hug each other in the bathtub, it is a really touching and tearjerker moment in the movie. I really recommend this movie for you, go rent (or download) it now! Satisfaction guaranteed!

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 91/100. megumiart (3640)   ranked 381 out of 11,424 in watching movies   6 months ago

I LOVE Big Fish. I also love pretty much all of Tim Burton's other movies. Big Fish is such a good, good movie! xD

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2. kotee2 (43)   ranked 3,600 out of 11,424 in watching movies   6 months ago

I liked this movie a lot when I first saw it like 4 years ago. It's not like other Burton films. It isn't dark or ironic, all the opposite. I felt it like a heartwarming and a touching story about family and love told as a fairytale.

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3. myLot reputation of 84/100. v4vikas (1439)   ranked 1,805 out of 11,424 in watching movies   6 months ago

My favorite movies directed by Tim Burton are Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow.Ed Wood is a tribute to B movies in the 50's and Sleepy Hollow is a tribute to the horror films of Hammer.In Big fish,Burton uses his original style,at the same time dark and innocent.But,the result is a good but not great movie that,by my point of view,it could have been a little better.The best thing I can say about this movie is that it has a lot of imagination.But now,I'll mention the weak things I found on this movie:the characters' emotions are not very deep.For the other sight,Burton seems more interested on showing all the imagination the film has that in telling a good story.The film feels a little cold and without the sense of humor that films like Beetlejuice or Pee-Wee's adventure had.Big fish is not a bad movie;I have to say it kept me fun and interested but I feel it could have been a little better.


myLot reputation of 96/100. sophisticated_boy (533)   ranked 220 out of 11,424 in watching movies  5 months ago

Hmm, maybe because it tells the audience a more intimate and personal story which is about journey of a human and about relationship of a family, that's why maybe it's not as humourous as the other movie. But I still found the movie has a lot of humor because its exaggerated wild fantasy of the cahracter experience. I like Sleepy Hollow, but I just think it is a standard horror movie. Ed Wood is indeed one of his masterpiece. Another sample is Edward Scissorhands. I think he and Johnny Depp is creating a great collaboration, maybe that's why this two keep teaming for a movie

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4. myLot reputation of 96/100. abbypringles (841)   ranked 4,588 out of 11,424 in watching movies   5 months ago

two thumbs up for this film! ewan did a masterful job and it's one of the best films i've ever seen, no doubt!:)

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