Big Eyes (2014)

Tim Burton the director that directed the movies Frankenweenie, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd (which is my favourite movie of all time), and other Burton masterpieces has hit yet another home run, this time with a movie about an artist who paints big eyed people and the artist's husband who sells the paintings, the film is about people who fraud paintings to earn fame for themselves, it is about people who want to make themselves be in the spotlight and when they are not they feel like they're not special and this makes them aggressive, the film ultimately is about selfish people who want all the fame for themselves, Tim Burton's new home run did not go into the crowd, it soared over the stadium, went over the parking lot, then started falling nicely into the country park and landed into the country park pond with a nice splash, Big Eyes is that good, and way better than every other movie that is currently in your nearest multiplex (I'm looking at you "Unbroken"), Big Eyes not only cements itself as the best film of 2014, but it is also further proof that Tim Burton is the BEST filmmaker in the film industry, the things I have to say about Big Eyes are these, firstly the acting is pitch perfect, Amy Adams really shines as Margaret Keane as she is the one who is suffering the most in this film, from the opening shot of the film the audience is automatically shown that Margaret Keane is the tortured soul as she is running away from her husband with her daughter "Jane", she later meets Walter Keane who she marries, I have to say that throughout this entire movie the performance that stands out the most is Christoph Waltz's performance as Walter Keane, Walter Keane is a really nasty person yet you kind of care for him because you can understand why he wants to have the spotlight to himself as his previous artworks have not been successful at all and then all of a sudden when he's selling his wife's paintings to art companies he all of sudden start's getting the attention, and then he feels that he likes this attention and he wants it all to himself, I like it when Walter Keane refers to Margaret as a princess because throughout this entire movie she begins to become the damsel in distress once again, and that right there brings us onto the next thing that I need to talk about and that is the brilliant screenwriting, the dialogue in this movie is well written and well executed by the cast, the dialogue makes perfect sense unlike in Inside Llewyn Davis where all of the dialogue was completely crass, disgusting, vulgar and made completely no sense at all, Big Eyes' dialogue is the complete opposite to Inside Llewyn Davis' dialogue, it makes sense, it's charming, it's quite nice, and it's actually brilliant, thirdly Danny Elfman's music is absolutely outstanding just like in Burton's previous works, Danny Elfman is at his best when he is working with Tim Burton, the music that Danny Elfman conducts for Tim Burton just begins to start singing in tune with the movie from the very beginning of the film, Danny Elfman's music just fits with every single Tim Burton movie including this one, also the way Danny Elfman does his music in this movie is kind of like the music you would find in a caper movie and to be honest with you I thought it fitted perfectly with this movie, the next thing I want to talk about is Colleen Atwood as she has done the costumes the majority of Tim Burton's movies and I have to say that once again she has perfected her craft, the costumes look absolutely amazing just like in Burton's previous works, the costumes fit perfectly well with the 1950's style yet you can kind of see Colleen Atwood's style in the clothing, if anything the clothing is closely related to the 2012 film "Dark Shadows" (which is also directed by Tim Burton), where the clothing kind of had the same style as Big Eyes' clothing even though "Dark Shadows" was set in the 1970's, but none the less Big Eyes' clothing looks absolutely amazing just like in every other Tim Burton movie, also the film goes at a very fast pace, the film overall is 106 minutes long which is actually about around the same run time as Inside Llewyn Davis (which is 105 minutes long) but Inside Llewyn Davis plods at a very slow pace which actually made that movie feel like it was 150 minutes long and it was boring none the less, Big Eyes goes at such a fast pace that it only feels like it is 85 minutes long, the film is so enjoyable that the time just flies by as you sit through a film that you actually don't want to end, I also like the Margaret Keane cameo that is hidden in the film at some point in the film, it fits quite well unlike the Hugh Jackman cameo in "Night at the Museum 3" which I just thought was placed there because Shawn Levy (the director of "Night at the Museum 3") worked with Hugh Jackman before on "Real Steel" (which is a 2011 movie directed by Shawn Levy), the Margaret Keane cameo in Big Eyes is the complete opposite to the Hugh Jackman cameo in "Night at the Museum 3", the Margaret Keane cameo is relevant to the movie as she is the actual person who was in the actual events which the movie is based on and the cameo fits perfectly good in the movie, the scenery in the movie looks awesome when you can see all of the big eyed paintings in shopping malls and in art galleries like the Keane gallery, every you look in the movie you can see the big eyed paintings, you can see the big eyed paintings on tables, walls, as posters for the Keane art gallery, and any other place you can think of, that said this also leads onto another positive for the movie and that is the scenery is relevant and consistent with the movie's topic, which is great because it gets people thinking about the movie's topic and sets in the audience in the correct mood that the movie wants you to be in, there was one thing in the movie though that really made me feel distraught and sad, and that bit was when the end credits started rolling... as it meant the movie ended, I didn't want the movie to end because overall Burton's latest outing is the brilliant time you want whenever you want to watch a masterpiece, Big Eyes has perfectly executed performances from both Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, and brilliant performances from the entire cast, it has a brilliant screenplay created by intelligent screenwriters (Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski), it has been adapted to screen brilliantly and leaves you thinking about the movie from the moment the movie starts all the way until you get home after seeing it, in fact I'm still thinking about the movie now and it's been like weeks since I've seen this movie, it has brilliant music by Danny Elfman which instantly begins to sing in tune with the movie from the very beginning of the movie all the way through to the very end, Colleen Atwood's costumes look fantastic and fits perfectly with the 1950's style but it never lets you forget that Colleen Atwood got these costumes as the costumes look familiar to Colleen Atwood's previous costumes which is great, the film goes at a really fast pace and you never get bored whilst watching this movie as the movie is so enjoyable that time just seems to fly past you as you watch this movie, the Margaret Keane cameo is relevant to the film's topic and the cameo fits in the film perfectly well, the scenery of the big eyed paintings is relevant and consistently seen in the movie which is fantastic as what Tim Burton is best at doing is looking at every scale of the movie and fitting in every single detail which is one of the reasons why I love Burton so much, and I forgot to say that I absolutely love all of Burton's quirkiness in this movie just like I do in all of Burton's movies, it is really funny and absolutely beautiful as it fits perfectly well in this movie and in every other Tim Burton movie, I didn't want Big Eyes to end because Big Eyes... is... absolutely... WITHOUT A QUESTION... THE BEST FILM I HAVE SEEN IN 2014!, it puts Inside Llewyn Davis into the graveyard where it belongs and it makes the wait for "Alice: through the looking glass" and "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" a lot harder for me, Big Eyes was the movie I anticipated the most in 2014, yep the year in which films like "Guardians of the Galaxy", "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", and "Godzilla" are released, I didn't anticipate those movies as much as I did for Big Eyes and boy was it worth it, this movie is worth every penny you pay to go and see it, and I will give Burton's new masterpiece Big Eyes a 10 out of 10, with the "Best film of 2014" title from me, YOU NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE IMMEDIATELY!, and it is rated 12A by the BBFC so that means everyone can go and see this movie, so there is NO EXCUSE to not going to see this movie!