Big Eyes (2014) SPOILERS

I really liked the story, especially considering that I'm a painter and it was based on true events. It's crazy what happens to this couple.

However, the acting was just okay. The two leads, Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, should have been better. Amy's character was portrayed as extremely naïve and at times completely ignorant. Christoph Waltz's character was just what you'd expect of a Christoph Waltz character. Christoph Waltz has almost become a cliché of himself. I can't look at or listen to Waltz without imagining Saturday Night Live's Taren Killam's impersonation, which means that I no longer can take seriously Christoph Waltz's acting. That's unfortunate because I really want to like Christoph Waltz

Taren Killam's Christoph Waltz Impersonation

SPOILERS AND PLOT HOLES:

Early in the film, Christoph Waltz's character walks into a fine art gallery to ask the owner to consider representing him. The owner, Jason Schwartzman (excellent in his role), ridicules Waltz's art. Waltz then tells the gallery owner to look at his wife's paintings.

Therefore, the gallery owner should have known the entire time that Waltz wasn't the actual painter of the big eyed girls.

Why didn't the gallery owner report the fraud to the media when Waltz opened a gallery directly across the street and began stealing art clients? Did he simply forget what Waltz had told him?

What about Amy Adam's ex-husband? He must've known that the paintings weren't done by Waltz. What about her daughter? The movie makes it seem like the daughter wasn't aware until she was older. How is that possible? The mother had been painting her daughter with big eyes long before she met Waltz in San Francisco.

Otherwise, it was a crazy story.