Therefore he made a wish, at this Zoltar machine, that he wanted to be big. He went to this carnival and he couldn't get on the ride because he was too small. What I felt didn't work was how Josh got to be big in the first place. Susan is fed up with the whole stuffy executive types and Josh, who behaves pretty much like a man-child, who plays around isn't afraid to get silly, is appealing to Susan. At the very least, the romance between Josh and Susan, for 80s rom-com standards, feels more believable than, say, the romance between the leads in Mannequin. It's a whole coming-of-age story, that's for damn sure. I get the whole idea, Susan has no idea that Josh was a 13-year-old boy stuck in a 31-year-old man's body (Hanks' age at the time of this film's release). And not to mention the fact that, to this day, the romance between Susan and Josh just feels so fucking odd and, honestly, kinda wrong.
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It's certainly a good movie to watch, even to this day, but I think its impact has sort of lessened the more time has passed. Part of me feels that this is just another one of those movies that time has played its wicked game on. But this movie was released the first day of 1988 and I was born in February, so there you go. If I'm being honest, this is one of those movies that I probably would have enjoyed more closer to when it was released. It's certainly a good movie, but is it a very good movie? I don't know, I'll come to that determination as I write out this review. Anyway, I finally got the chance to watch this in one sitting and I don't know what I think of this. And when I watch a movie, I like to watch it as it was intended or, at the very least, since several directors have released their preferred cuts of their films on DVD, as it was when it first came out in theaters. Not a big fan of watching movies on cable TV, unless it's an HBO-type channel, simply cause of the fact that they're edited down and commercials.
Much like a lot of these classic 80s movies, or many movies for that matter, I remember catching glimpses of it here and there on TV, but I never actually sat down and watched it for good. But I digress, I don't really remember seeing Big in its entirety. He's obviously still done comedies here and there, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail and The Ladykillers come to mind, but, other than the latter, none of those films really compare to his 80s output, at least in terms of the manic comedic performances he gave in, say, The Money Pit (which was a great performance). This is probably a result of the fact that, outside of a few films, Hanks has pretty much stuck to more dramatic roles since he made the transition to serious actor in the 90s. I don't think he really gets enough credit for being a truly tremendous comedic actor. Seriously though, I do love me some Tom Hanks. You're, basically, the worst person on earth. If you disagree with me, you are DB Cooper, the Zodiac killer and a yellow terrorist communist who works for ISIS. That's just the way it is, as this is fact, it's not a matter of opinion or up to debate. Tom Hanks is a fucking national treasure.
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