479: Big Fish
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're chatting about the Tim Burton fantasy Big Fish! We talk about bummer b-plots (that really should have been more of the film), how Jessica Lange singlehandedly sells the romance, and how glad we are that this movie didn't star a de-aged Jack Nicholson (really).
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it! |
| 0:02.0 | I hate it! but I love it! |
| 0:26.0 | I hi-Baila, everybody. |
| 0:27.5 | I hi-Bail, I want to all. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to I hate it, but I love it. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Jocelyn Getty. |
| 0:30.9 | I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.3 | This week we are talking about Big Fish. |
| 0:38.9 | Yes, the 2003 Tim Burton film starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney based on a book, also had a Broadway |
| 0:45.2 | musical. Wow, I've got a lot of feelings about this movie, which surprised me because I |
| 0:50.5 | haven't thought about it since it came out. Yeah, my memory of this, |
| 1:00.0 | how I felt about this movie, I guess I kind of associated it similarly to how I felt about pay it forward when I saw it, which was like, oh, like, I'm feeling things, but I feel like |
| 1:05.9 | I've been manipulated into it. And like, if I went back, I probably wouldn't, like, enjoy this movie as much. |
| 1:12.8 | And going back, I think it's more that, like, Tim Burton loves the fantastical parts of this |
| 1:18.0 | movie and does not care about what this movie's actually supposed to be about. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.1 | And I feel like I have a lot more, like, empathy and compassion is not quite the right word, |
| 1:30.2 | but I guess understanding of this story, I like the story a little bit more than I like the movie still. |
| 1:36.8 | Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah, I hear you. |
| 1:39.3 | I think, I think, like, there aren't a lot of stories that, like, genuinely show kind of like, |
| 1:45.3 | oh, me and my dad don't really match, and we never will. |
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