Big Nothing
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.
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- Cast:
- David Schwimmer , Simon Pegg , Natascha McElhone , Jon Polito , Mimi Rogers , William Rosenfeld , Alice Eve
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Very best movie i ever watch
Best movie ever!
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
David Schwimmer stars as ordinary guy Charlie with a quirky penchant for trivial facts (not funny), and he somehow gets talked into an extortion scheme with the brash Gus who he's recently met and a tough babe named Josey. Of course the scheme goes horribly wrong, someone gets accidentally killed, and the dead bodies start piling up. Charlie's wife happens to be a cop herself (you can imagine all the hilarious situations and intense scenes that will bring up), and there are all sorts of crazy characters along the way. It's very formulaic, what could possibly go wrong? Nearly everything in the movie seems either very unrealistic or stolen from something else. It's like something you'd see on the horror channel... some direct to video movie made by people recently out of film-school. All of those little jokes that you've seen before pop up here and they're not funny here. Their idea of staging the crime scene to look like an accident was pathetic. Nearly all of the cop activity in the movie was doing something that they obviously wouldn't do (even the parts that weren't supposed to be funny). This movie's pathetic attempts at humour just left me cold. I hated all the characters apart from Josey maybe, and I hated all the "unexpected twists". You can see the jokes and "twists" a mile before they happen. The cop in charge of the investigation was a really stupid character, not funny at all. The reason I gave this movie 4 is because even though I found no real quality in it, at least it wasn't a chore to watch. I didn't feel like turning it off before the end. If you want to watch a movie like this, watch Very Bad Things. That movie shows how this is done right. After watching this movie, I actually have a new appreciation for Very Bad Things, because this shows how hard it is to make things work right and be funny and good and have twists in a movie like this.
This movie combines the conspiratorial view of Ocean's Elevent with the gory massacre of American Psycho. What at first looks as a neat, clean plot-line gets very complex, with a lot of things going way out of the ordinary. Every single scene and line in the movie is very nicely done. Hilarious but yet scary and full of violence. A real masterpiece. It is a must for the fans of the dark humor. Great thing about the movie is that it is not at all hard to watch. From the beginning to the end it keeps you watching but not intensely. You watch because you like what you're seeing. Great actors, great script, great movie! One of the few good ones from 2006!!!
Well as my summary tells, movie is really really good actually great in its genre. Its about an exteacher Charlie who gets into a criminal business with Gus an ex con and a killing ''widow'' Josie trying to squizee 200k from reverend pervert dealing with child porn or something. Of course all goes wrong starting with a murder.The movie will provide quite an amount of WTF(what the f**k) moments should make you smile (if not laugh) sometimes.But what really is disturbing is the way they showed us the ending. Have to say that ending, while in rough point was OK, was delivered bad on screen. Didn't get to know what happened to Charlies wife, and we are left thinking ''hey maybe Charlie could have survived''(highly doubtfull) but anyway this movie was a great ''waste'' of time and would deserve clear 8 if it wouldn't be for a crap ending
I watched The Big Nothing, Run Fat Boy Run and Hot Fuzz this week all with Simon Pegg as leads.Hot Fuzz was horrible and this was just a riot.It's dark...it's gruesome and it's funny - without a whole bunch of needless swearing or nonsense shooting.The cast was good, David Schwimmer was perfect as the wimpy guy. A better role than he ever had in Friends.Simon Pegg lost his accent and is pretty decent in this role.It's a trip that has an odd ending.This was also filmed in Isle Of Man, but I don't see where - as it's all exterior scenes in British Columbia.