#172: Big Little Guys, Pt. 1 - Big (1988)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The new SHAZAM, about a 14-year-old kid granted the power of becoming a grown-up superhero, openly acknowledges the debt it owes to Penny Marshall’s 1988 breakthrough BIG, which made a potent comic fantasy out of what adolescents imagine adulthood to be. In this first half of our pairing of the two films, we wrestle with BIG's age-shifted central relationship and marvel over how stars Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins manage to find some real sweetness within an uncomfortable romantic scenario, which leads us to consider how the horrors lurking beneath the comedic premise reveal themselves with age, and whether the film works despite that. Plus, some feedback inspired by our recent episodes on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS and US, and a response to some criticism of our recent string of superhero pairings. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BIG, SHAZAM, or anything else film-related by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Works Cited: • ’Big’ Is Secretly a Horror Movie, by Shea Serrano (TheRinger.com) • ‘Big’ Review, by Keith Phipps (TheDissolve.com) • Robert De Niro and the origin of “The Face,” by Scott Tobias (TheDissolve.com) Outro music: Nelly, “Country Grammar” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.6	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:19.2	Down time can be just fine
0:20.8	bangers from the 90s
0:22.9	tea break
0:24.0	lunch break
0:25.0	maybe listen to the outbreak
0:26.7	sometimes it's not time for some
0:28.7	tombola right
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0:31.7	chilling with a book time
0:33.4	or time to visit your nan time
0:35.5	go on play some other time.
0:37.9	Put your phone down.
0:39.1	Tombollah.
0:39.9	Open for fun.
0:41.6	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.
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