KMC Forums - Big Fish/Last Samuri

I saw Big Fish today, it was good. I'd call it a cross between Forest Gump and Holes, with a Tim Burton touch. Every Tim Burton movie has a 'freak' and a 'bully'. Oddly enough, this film does not center around the 'freak' as did all of Burton's Past films, and I'm not implying that it centers around the 'bully'. Basically, Ewan McGreggor plays Forest Gump and is only in the movie during flashbacks, which means he's basically in every scene (obviously the movie deals a lot with flashbacks). Then the Older version of Ewan McGreggor, who is dying, is visited by his son, Billy Cruddup, and the hot French wife. The son hates his dad's repetitive telling of tall tales that he grew up hearing from his dad, never getting to really know who his dad truly was. One tale he hated in particular was about when the dad caught the biggest fish in the lake the day his son was born. The movie is charming and bittersweet, sad at times. This one came from the Edward Scissorhands side of Burton, not his Batman/Planet of the Apes side. Danny Elfman did the score, I never noticed any typicalities in Elfman's score. The previews I saw used music out of Edward Scissorhands, but that wasn't the case for this one. Overall, a good movie. Right after, I snuck into The Last Samuri and that kicked major ass!