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#1

Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:07pm

I was talking to my friend about this movie, and how great it was. I personally liked it because it had Ewan, Jessica Lange, Billy Crudup AND Albert Finney in it. Plus I've seen many Tim Burton movies and enjoyed them. Eccentricly weird, but very good.


But you know those Chinese or Vietnamese twins? Were they Siamese or not? I've seen the movie loads of times since I own it and all, and I always get weridly confused!
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#3

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:12pm

They are clearly not conjoined twins. In the 'real' world (during the funeral) you first see them what appears to be together, and then one of them walks away. Later you see them again, each in a different group of people.

One of my favorite movies.
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#5

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:29pm

Ed Wood was Tim Burton one? How did I not know that?

Okay thank you all.


The way I see it, you can't go wrong if you have Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, and Albert Finney in a movie. Throw in Billy Crudup and you're good to go!
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re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:39pm

"Albert Finney is so amazing."


He really REALLY is!


Thernadier, you didn't like DeVito's part?
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#12

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:38pm

The point of the movie is that the father told all those tall tales and exaggerated many things. In the father's tall tales, the twins were Siamese, because that made the tale more exciting. But at the funeral, the son realizes that it was just another exaggeration.
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#13

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 4:14pm

what a wonderful movie, i loved it
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#14

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 4:25pm

Did the father really exaggerate, or did the son's young mind envision it? The father said he met a giant. In the son's mind, the giant was 20 feet tall. In real life, he was almost 8 feet tall.

The father said he met a pair of Asian twin singers who were "inseparable - joined at the hip" . He could have been talking figuratively, and in the little boy's mind, they bacme "Siamese Twins".
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re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:35pm

Was I the only one disappointed in this film? I was really looking forward to it, but I found it lacking in emotional levels. It was just too sweet and cutesy. Like Sleepy Hollow, I thought it was a bit one-note. I got tired of the cutesy stories and was waiting for the conflict, but it never seemed to surface.

*SPOILERS*

My father told tall tales. They were cute, but were they true? He's dead and I see he was loved and there was a little truth in his tales so now I love him. The end.

That's about all I got out of it.

And Sleepy Hollow was about fog. Otherwise, I love Burton's films. I liked Planet of the Apes much more than either of those.
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#18

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:22pm

I believe the exaggerations were in the father's mind. I think that Jessica Lange has a line that mentions it.

MisterMatt, I was disappointed in the film as well. More specifically, I don't think Billy Crudup can act.
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#21

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:44am

I loved Steve Buscemi "The Poet" and the town of Spectre, It was creepy and intriguing, as well as the concept that he arrived too early...
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#22

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:19am

"Was I the only one disappointed in this film?"

No, I was disappointed by it too. It struck me as more of a tour of Tim Burton's imagination than a well-paced film with scenes that were essential to the resolution, whatever that was...

Updated On: 7/3/05 at 02:19 AM

#23

re: Big Fish...the perfect movie...but I have a question

Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:23am

I'm sure there are reactions all over the scale. I, for one, thought it was wonderful.

And just for the record, I thought his PLANET OF THE APES was so bad as to be offensive.

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