DISQUS

Film School Rejects: In Regards to Your Movie, ‘Gigantic’

  • Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago
    Damn you Cole and your subtle and non-committal wordplay... was the movie any good or wasn't it?
  • b.rae · 8 months ago
    he used the word "cobb salad," dude. pretty sure the movie was a shitshow.
  • Rob_Hunter · 8 months ago
    Maybe, but Cole tosses salad around pretty liberally so it might not mean anything.
  • jackdurden · 8 months ago
    Zach Galifianakis is in this? Cool.
  • Cole_Abaius · 8 months ago
    He never talks in it. Don't be fooled.
  • Corey Atad · 8 months ago
    Saw this way back at TIFF and thought it was terrible. Probably didn't help that I saw it right after Synecdoche, New York. But it really is a terrible excuse for a movie. The only positive thing I could say about it was that John Goodman gave an excellent performance.
  • Sal Anthony · 7 months ago
    I caught Gigantic in NY over the weekend, and I have to say, your beef doesn't chime with my ginger. Maybe you smoke too many cigarettes, Cole, because your taste is funky.
  • Babsy · 3 months ago
    WOW ... great review! I could feel you.
    Anyway, is the girl pregnant with the vomiting she had or she is SICK?
  • Eric Hutchison · 3 months ago
    The plot holes are put there to MAKE YOU THINK. its a story created by you. ever think of this? Zooey Deschanel NEVER plays a movie that you fully comprehend, she is always in odd movies so do not criticize a movie because you don't have the imagination to enjoy it.
  • Name · 2 months ago
    Thank you for a great synopsis of that annoying movie.
  • Emilie · 2 months ago
    Dear Cole Abaius everything you said about this movie is true I was waiting for the moment in the film where it all just comes together and the light bulb of what the point was to come one but it never did and just was left confused about the whole thing. I must say though the best part of the whole review would have to be the P.S. made my day and totally agree with with it!
  • Jonathan Stone · 2 months ago
    Excellent review friend,

    I do give props to the actress who made the character likable even though she was very shallow and pretentious. Overall, the story seemed pasted together by kindergarten off-brand elmer's glue, the stuff that kind of sticks but not really.
  • henrybowman · 4 days ago
    You pretty much hit it all on the head. You forgot to mention that "war generation" Asner, who expects apartments to have doormen who shine your shoes and office workers to have secretaries to get their dry cleaning, has a family tradition of brewing his sons magic mushroom tea and then hiking in the woods -- not exactly "gray flannel" territory.

    (About the family reacting to the shooter, I suppose it's possible that the first bullet was an actual stray bullet, which put the idea in Brian's head that he might be shot, which he then used in his fantasy later that night.)