Pretty Good

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I saw this film for the first time,and two nights later I woke with the memory of the answer to the mystery behind the Homeless mans' attacks.In the film Brian was said to be 15 years younger than his brothers, that He was a child that was born late in his parents marriage. After killing the homeless attacking man Brian turns to the two witnesses,as he's holding a bloody knife in his hand,and says,as they're backing away,that this has been going on a long time,or words to that effect.In my dream it became clear that the homeless man was a bastard son,who was never recognized by Brians'father, who then watched Brian be raised in his place. His attacks are from hatred and jealousy. Brian ironically wants to bring new blood into the family by adopting an baby. Of course, none of this was in the film,but neither was any other explanation,so it's just as valid as a possible suggested solution.As to the point of why Happy was so upset by Brains adopting a child,I saw this as a feeble attempt to keep to the standard boy meets girl, boy loses girl,boy wins girl back, rom/com plotting, and I didn't buy it for a minute. This isn't a great film but it's pleasant and interesting enough to watch once every few years or so.

I had no prior knowledge of this movie, I decided to watch it because of Paul Dano - he is definitely in my Top10 actors list and I do not know a movie with him in the lead which is bad or boring (and I have seen most of them with his participation). Of course, the plot is sometimes absurd and the characters are strange, behaving often in a peculiar manner, but still - I giggled a lot, although it is no real comedy (background is dramatic, at times tragic), but the characters are well elaborated and convincing. And the cast is even and great - especially Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman - but all the others provide strong and versatile performances. Well, if you are fond of movies with a difference where important topics are handled through twisted events - then Gigantic is a must-see!

Is there a such thing as a negative number here? This movie sucked! Why is there no zero here? They want me to write 10 lines about this crappy movie. Okay then. Sucks Sucks Sucks, how's that? Had possibilities, but they got lost. The attacker/s never explained. After killing the attacker, life just goes on. This movie does not speak well of any adoption agency. Only Sharon Stone's "The Quick and The Dead" sucked any worse. Keep the 98 minutes of your life from being wasted. I can't get the time I wasted on this movie back. Anymore than the time I am wasting trying to get ten lines to say about this movie. Is anybody wealthy enough to pay $14k for a mattress.Grynne

Sometimes a movie comes along that makes the worst movie I've ever seen previously seem to have been not so bad. Gigantic is one of those movies. Lousy acting, lousy dialog, lousy plot, stupid throughout, with no rhyme, or reason. I've heard that if we were to put a hundred monkeys in a room full of typewriters, that they would eventually produce a screen play. Too bad that the folks behind this piece of dung did not use more monkeys. While it is obvious that the current crowd in the film-making business are attempting to excel in garbage and foist if off on the general public as art, it is equally obvious that nobody with half a brain can find even one redeeming quality in this movie... (Except for those who produced it who have sold it to the rental for big bucks and will receive praises from other film-making idiots who think that praising garbage is the thing to do. th vomiting in the film pretty much describes my feelings about Gigantic! Aaarrgghhh!!!