anyone else bored from this movie?

Me! I DVR all movies that I watch. If the movie is good, I usually watch it one sitting. If the movie is okay, I usually watch it in two or three sittings. After three sittings, I was only about half way through this movie, then I went on to watch two other movies, then I decided, what the heck and I erased "Big Fish" without finishing it. I have made the decision that from now on, if Tim Burton's name is on the movie, I'm not watching it no matter how high Leonard Maltin or IMBd rates it.

to me, this was boring because nothing substantial happened in this movie. it was just one fantasy after another and none of them had any substantial impact on the plot

I liked the first 10 minutes, then fast forwarded the DVD and watched just the scenes where he meets his wife, and the 'real' parts, with Albert Finney & his son/family.
The 'tale' parts were too dull & didn't seem like part of the story, more like a whimsical filler.
I like some of Tim Burton's films, but not this one.

And Billy Crudup is a pretty poor actor in this film...until the end. Then he redeems himself.
So does the film. It has a great, quite sad, but great ending.



"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

I thought it was an alright film in the end but I did get a bit bored while I was watching it. I ended up stopping half way through and carrying on the next day because I got bored. But it was a good ending.

That just means the movie is just not for you. Stop trying.
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Can see why. It's boring like you can't imagine.

By the time I was half way through this movie, I was begging for the end credits to come on.

I get the morale. I get the idea. I understand that some of you appreciate the drama between the main characters and what it's really about. And I can appreciate that too.

But for the story teller to make me sit through hours and hours of independent little story lines, which each of them I found incredibly dull, corny and unrealistic, I thought it was pretty much the worst story telling I had seen in a long time.

For me, personally, it was Tim Burton's worst.

**Spoilers**


I agree. Honestly, I like watching animated films and fairy tales; the beauty of these films is that they are 'ageless'. 'Big Fish', however, seems like a tearjerker + fairy tale for 'grown-ups' rolled into a oddly-shaped formulaic parcel; the key word being 'formulaic'.

Take the story presented on Will's wedding night, for example. I will leave out its corny details and stupid analogies to spare the agony/cringing. Ed narrates how he caught a fish on the day of his son's birth and his conclusion is that in order to catch an 'uncatchable' woman you need to offer her a wedding ring. Obviously he was referring to his own wife, because he then toasts to her and they embrace. I don't know how any sane person could draw such a conclusion from that story based on what he said, but more importantly, the story had nothing to do with Will. What Will then said to Ed sums it up fairly succinctly: "For one night, one night in your entire life, the universe does not revolve around Edward Bloom. How can you not understand that?"


Aside from antics like soaking in the bathtub because he was 'drying out', it's almost like Ed's goal was to immortalize himself through his stories, rather than to entertain his son, which is nothing but plain ol' vanity. In fact, at the end of the film, this was the very explanation offered for his behaviour - that he wanted his weird stories to live on. An odd movie.