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re: How good is Big Fish, man?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 1:13 pm to BOSCEAUX
Posted on 6/13/24 at 1:13 pm to BOSCEAUX
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This movie got me good. Absolutely love it. I’ve never seen Big Fish but if it’s comparable to About Time it’s now on my must view list.
It's a little different of a hit than About Time, but all in the same father/son vein though. BF is more cartoonish, if that makes sense, but in a good Tim Burton way and not a bad one.
Seriously, watch it soon and report back in here. I'd love to hear what a first-time watcher thinks of it these days.
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Posted on 6/13/24 at 2:07 pm to Roaad
Amazing movie... brings out the waterworks for sure.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 3:16 pm to BOSCEAUX
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This movie got me good. Absolutely love it. I’ve never seen Big Fish but if it’s comparable to About Time it’s now on my must view list.
i'll say that it's a movie that deals with a father and son's love very very well and they both have a hint of supernatural, but the comparisons stop there.
I love them both, but Big Fish appeals to me a bit more. About Time is a father who decided to be the best father and husband possible given endless opportunities. Big Fish is a father who did everything he could to get back to the love of his life and then kinda living his own adventure out while trying to be a decent father and husband. But it was about him making his way in the world, first and foremost.
my dad and i are not close. absolutely love that man and owe him infinitely for instilling good character and moral fiber in me, but he was the main character in his own story for my entire childhood and into his grandfatherhood. he'd be at every game, play, debate meet i ever did, but never once (or very rarely) said good job or asked me any questions about my activities if that makes sense.
About Time is a movie for sons and fathers with great relationships. Big Fish is for sons and fathers with complicated relationships.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 11:57 pm to Stonehenge
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Big Fish was filmed at locations near where I live. Wetumpka, Prattville, Millbrook. I would take my youngest daughter to the sets and watch the filming. Went to Sinclair‘s for dinner one evening and Tim Burton and Steve Buscemi where at the table next to ours
I've been to Jackson Lake Island where the Spectre set is located. You could make a day trip seeing the set, Jasmine Hill Gardens, the "Big Fish House" and the meteorite crater.
Posted on 6/14/24 at 8:43 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
always felt alison lohman was underrated.
Posted on 6/14/24 at 12:40 pm to Roaad
The grass so green
Skies so blue
Spectre is really great!
Skies so blue
Spectre is really great!
Posted on 6/14/24 at 1:56 pm to Roaad
one of the most perfectly cast movies of all time.
This post was edited on 6/14/24 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 6/14/24 at 3:27 pm to RoyalAir
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It's Burton's best movie
Posted on 6/14/24 at 3:56 pm to CocomoLSU
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About Time
I sat down with my wife one night to watch what I thought was a romcom, but the movie hit me with a left-hook and damn near broke me near the end. I was a puddle of goo.
I need to give Big Fish another try. I watched it when I was much younger and much more immature (though don't take that to mean I am now mature).
Posted on 6/14/24 at 3:59 pm to Roaad
I watched it in theaters with my dad. His dad had just passed a few weeks prior 
Posted on 6/14/24 at 8:50 pm to Roaad
Love this one and About Time for the dad feels.
Posted on 6/15/24 at 12:51 pm to Roaad
It’s one of those movies I love but never remember to include it in a “favorite movies” list.
The play is fantastic also.
The play is fantastic also.
Posted on 6/15/24 at 1:44 pm to Roaad
Lost my dad in 98 when I was 19. Even in 2003, it was still fresh. Still movie hurt.
I am not a big Tim Burton fan. Most of his work, especially the films staring Depp, are over-stylized nonsense, very much style over substance. This, along with movies like Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice, are exceptions.
I am not a big Tim Burton fan. Most of his work, especially the films staring Depp, are over-stylized nonsense, very much style over substance. This, along with movies like Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice, are exceptions.
Posted on 6/15/24 at 1:44 pm to BhamTigah
One of my favorite movie theater experiences. Saw this movie in college stoned with a group of friends, at a stage of life where I mostly just wanted to watch movies like gladiator and the hangover.
Walked out just awestruck.
And as I sit here now with 3 young kids of my own and an aging father of 80 who fought in Vietnam and married his dream girl, this movie now just makes me cry.
I love telling stories to my kids. I’m really good at it. I’m probably better at telling bedtime stories to kids than anything else I do. They are mostly true stories. Or at least start off mostly true stories.
Walked out just awestruck.
And as I sit here now with 3 young kids of my own and an aging father of 80 who fought in Vietnam and married his dream girl, this movie now just makes me cry.
I love telling stories to my kids. I’m really good at it. I’m probably better at telling bedtime stories to kids than anything else I do. They are mostly true stories. Or at least start off mostly true stories.
Posted on 6/15/24 at 1:49 pm to Stonehenge
The college scenes are in Auburn.
Posted on 6/16/24 at 2:36 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
Oh yes!
Posted on 6/16/24 at 4:13 am to 3nOut
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my dad and i are not close. absolutely love that man and owe him infinitely for instilling good character and moral fiber in me, but he was the main character in his own story for my entire childhood and into his grandfatherhood. he'd be at every game, play, debate meet i ever did, but never once (or very rarely) said good job or asked me any questions about my activities if that makes sense.
I didnt know my brother posts on this website too.
Posted on 6/16/24 at 5:20 am to Roaad
One of my favorites. I love somewhat "a slice of life" movies, told from a man's perspective. Beautiful Girls, Lost in Translation.
Posted on 6/16/24 at 11:06 am to Roaad
I half-watched big fish while waiting in the jury pool room many years ago, and it gradually drew me in.
I was struck by how the writer must have been influenced by a group of books we read as kids called the jack tales.
They were a collection of old Appalachian folk tales, always based around a character named Jack, who set out to make his fortune.
Stories were always borderline Fantastical with giants, monsters, witches, beautiful women, treasure, and opportunities for Grand Adventure.
Such things that a boy would have heard from his father at bedtime.
Finding out it was all true at the end was a nice twist, and tying in the fatherhood angle caught me off guard. Awesome
I was struck by how the writer must have been influenced by a group of books we read as kids called the jack tales.
They were a collection of old Appalachian folk tales, always based around a character named Jack, who set out to make his fortune.
Stories were always borderline Fantastical with giants, monsters, witches, beautiful women, treasure, and opportunities for Grand Adventure.
Such things that a boy would have heard from his father at bedtime.
Finding out it was all true at the end was a nice twist, and tying in the fatherhood angle caught me off guard. Awesome
This post was edited on 6/16/24 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 6/18/24 at 2:29 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:We did this last night. Both loved it. Even after reading this thread, I was not prepared.
I sat down with my wife one night to watch what I thought was a romcom
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