# I just watched Tim Burton's "Big Eyes." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119 "2019-05-17T15:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/1 "2019-05-17T15:58:23Z")
I know, it came out five years ago and sank without a trace. Also, it covered about a 30 year period, but said it only covered ten years. (Which had to be weird for the teen-aged daughter who had to be in her 40s when the paint-off occurred…) Keane was briefly famous anew for painting a portrait of Gerald Ford, but I couldn’t find any mention of this in the movie or online; could I have imagined it? I like it when Tim Burton foregoes his freakish puppets to tell a human story (_Ed Wood_ was a big favorite of mine). Did anyone else on these boards see this? What kind of reception did it get in America? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/2 "2019-05-17T19:05:26Z")
I did see it and liked it a lot. But its run in the US was fairly short, probably because it was too downbeat a film for the Christmas season. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/3 "2019-05-17T19:11:11Z")
Yeah - I saw it and remember enjoying it, tho I can’t recall much about it now. Part of my enjoyment was due to my remembering when the paintings were omnipresent in pop culture. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/4 "2019-05-17T21:06:36Z")
There was one thing wrong about it. Christoph Waltz overacting. Awful. There’s a scene where he cross examines _himself_ in a trial. It’s like something Woody Allen would do, except worse. Of course, I must be wrong about this because he’s the great Christoph Waltz that can only be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/5 "2019-05-17T21:57:47Z")
I like that movie a lot. I agree that Waltz chews the scenery, and his American accent…isn’t. Even so, he’s always an interesting performer. Amy Adams is quite good in this, and that makes up for a lot. Besides the ‘one person grabs credit for another person’s work’ theme, there was an interesting examination of ‘work that’s respected as art, versus work that’s popular with lots of people’ that, I expect, has some personal overtones for Tim Burton. All in all, I’d recommend this movie to just about anyone. If nothing else, it’s a pleasure to look at. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/6 "2019-05-18T00:27:12Z")
It was comically one-sided, to the point that Wikipedia now lists Walter Keane’s profession as “plagiarist.” His daughter, Susan, made a [point-by-point rebuttal](https://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/the-daughter-of-big-eyes-subject-walter-keane-isnt-too-happy-about-the-tim-burton-movie/) to some of the film’s factual claims; ultimately, he really should have painted something in that courtroom. I enjoy lofty, ambitious works about bad art (_Ed Wood, Boogie Nights_) and this is certainly one more of the canon. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/7 "2019-05-18T01:24:25Z")
Just a week ago I made a FB post about Keane and her dipshit husband. Someone posted a link to this very movie. i still haven’t watched it though. Is it available on line? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/8 "2019-05-18T03:30:45Z")
We watched this not too long ago. I thought it was really well done. Would recommend. I think we saw it via Netflix, but we also have amazon prime so it might have been that instead. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-tim-burtons-big-eyes/834119/9 "2019-05-18T07:00:45Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Just a week ago I made a FB post about Keane and her dipshit husband. Someone posted a link to this very movie. i still haven’t watched it though. Is it available on line? I rented it off iTunes.