Highly Overrated But Still Good

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

BIG EYES is yet another example of Tim Burton as a modern-day director: lazy, stuck in the past, and not seeming to make much effort at all when it comes to memorable moments. This film features vanilla direction that'll remind you of a typical TV movie of the 1990s. The real-life story is about a married couple who took the American art world by storm in the 1950s and 1960s by their paintings of children with huge, expression-filled eyes, but their marriage hid a dark secret: for a decade the wife had been doing the painting and the husband taking all the credit. For me, the real interest in the story comes from the media fall-out and the subsequent court case, but this is all crammed into the last half an hour and there's a lot of water-treading before that point. Christoph Waltz is reliably good as a different type of bad guy but Amy Adams fails to convince and is unsympathetic as the lead; she feels like she's self-consciously acting, that's all.

I haven't seen the movie, since I'm familiar with Keane's story. The BBC had a piece on it ca. 2015. Recently a friend, a fellow Witness of Jehovah, saw it and said the portrayal of our Bible work was quite accurate. This is unusual in popular media.I offer this for any who are interested in an introduction to our 'strange deeds and unusual work'. Isa 28:21, NWTWe should all remember that Hollywood's claim "based on a true story" may mean only that the words 'a', 'and', and 'the' are found in both the original and the screenplay. :-)

Loosely based on a "real" story, the plot is about Margaret, a divorced mother and the painter of kitsch big-eyed children, reproduced on countless every-day items that infested the markets some decades ago. For many years Margaret allowed her second husband, Walter Keane, to claim authorship for her work, while she churned out one canvas after the other and lied to everybody.I am not a Burton's fan and I watched this at home, because it did not seem worth of a cinema outing. I also find those kiddies'paintings very kitsch and did not care much about the author, therefore my expectations were low. Turns out, not low enough.Amy Adams is a good actress, but even she cannot make a sympathetic character out of a woman who - allegedly - lied to her own daughter for years and secretly painted hundreds of canvas of creepy kids to please her hubby. How did she do that? Apparently Margaret's studio was a locked room and her daughter did not found that weird….Christoph Waltz is unfortunately in full sociopath-Hans Landa mood, therefore unbearable. I never liked him much and I positively detested this interpretation. The courtroom scene is hard to bear. It was not Johnny Depp playing weirdo yet again in a Burton movie, but that did not improve the plot.I am not sure what would constitute a spoiler for this, since the plot is so bad and the movie irrelevant. However, I will not disclose the "surprise ending", even if you can find out what happened with a simple search.

Big Eyes: a must see movie for all female fighters because it could happen, if it didn't happen already and also because its a true story. It starts with a love bound created between Margaret and Keane two amateur painters, an unconditional love. They started to help each other to succeed as professional painters but after a while Keane found out that her talent overcome his so he started to focus on selling her work with his own name on it. When she started to feel that he is not helping her but he is helping only himself she went for advice but she came back with nothing and continued on painting with the name of her husband. Finally a critic appears played by one of the greatest British actors Terence Stamp to change her course of her life forever to give herself a chance for redemption, to take her own advice rather than others and to stop thinking about Keane and because he is weak he threatens to kill her so she ran away and with the help of her daughter which acted through the whole movie as a wake-up call, finally Margaret stand against Keane and at the end her talent proved him wrong in-front of everyone. On a second thought this movie is not only for female fighters, its also for anyone who thinks that talent could be stolen cause it could be borrowed but never stolen. Big Eyed people will somehow try to kill your talent but not for long cause your talent will find a way to prevail. One important thing in this movie there is a lot of Oscar nominations and winners from cast and crew.