Big Fan

Patton Oswalt is a loser, hardcore Giants fan who gets beat up by his favorite player. This turns his life upside down, not that there was much to turn over and sets off a series of events that fly out of control towards the end. This movie has finally convinced me that the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and all those other movie awards are simply a celebrity circle jerk that only boast about films that are supposed to be good. But they don’t do their research, they don’t watch the films, they don’t give a fuck.

Why do I say this?

Because Big Fan was fucking great. I thought since Patton Oswalt is in it, that this movie was going to be a silly comedy; boy was I wrong. This was a very serious role with some humor added. Oswalt was great and the story was very entertaining.

It was a good thing that I was the RMR reviewer for this film because a deeply rooted point of the movie has to deal with the New York Giants Vs. Philadelphia Eagles fans rivalry and we have one of each on our staff. Shogun00 bleeds Giants’ blue and Whiteface screams Eagles. Luckily, I don’t give a fuck about football, but I was born about a mile from Giants’ Stadium so…

Nevertheless, like I said before, this movie is great. And if Mickey Rourke and The Wrestler could be handed so many awards and critical acclaims then Big Fan deserves them too.

I’m going to give this movie 5 bloody steaks… I wasn’t going to go so high despite loving the movie, but then I remembered my favorite line from the film, “Maybe he’s here to see the Wu-Tang”

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