The mostly true story of a young writer/director/producer (Johnny Depp) with a burning passion to create great cinema . So what if he's making the worst films ever?
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As much as I love 8½, this is the greatest film about filmmaking ever! Unironically it is a masterpiece. The perfect integration of style and substance, using all the great visual tropes of a B-movie to tell an inspiring story about outcasts coming together to have fun and create something regardless of what the world thinks about them or their work. This is one of the rare films that I watched a second time immediately after the first. From that moment on it has been my second favorite film of all time (right after Pulp Fiction). I wish Tim Burton still made movies like this. Honestly, Big Fish feels like the last film he actually gave a damn about. Someone needs to take away all his computers and budgets and force him to use good old fashioned passion and ingenuity the way Eddy did, because at least when he made shit, you could tell that he was making an effort!
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