Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Extra Credit: Big Fan

Big Fan was a big surprise. "TIED FOR FIRST PLACE" "EAGLES SUCK" I seriously thought that he was going to kill Phil from Philly at the end of the movie; I lost it when it was just paint. He plays such a great character because the whole time he seems so unstable that you don't know what he is going to do. I didn't know if he was going to move to Philly and become an Eagles fan, go sociopath and kill Phil, I didn't know if he was going to tell on the quarterback when he for some odd reason called the cop back to meet with him. It was just great.

His relationship with his family is also awesome. He only cares about the Giants and football, but his mother and siblings just don't get it. His brother wants him to sue, and he doesn't understand why he is obsessed over this quarterback. He is part of this talk radio world where he has an identity as "Paul from Staten Island" and this is the only place his fan-ship gets recognized. I would have loved to see a reaction on the radio station to his ultimate punk of Phil from Philly.

I'm going to give this movie 3.5 stars out of 5. Thats pretty good on my scale. Patton Oswalt was unbelievable.

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