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A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Brian Weathersby (Paul Dano) sells insanely high price mattresses in NYC. It's an indie of his life with all kinds of random quirky characters. Happy Lolly (Zooey Deschanel) is the daughter of Al (John Goodman) who purchased a mattress for $14k. He wants to adopt a Chinese baby. She's flaky. They hit it off.This is filled with great actors I love. They seem to be doing good work. I should like this, but the story is a series of meandering scenes that drives aimlessly. They crawl along without any sense of drama. It's a battle of the quirky characters, and nobody really wins in this.

A stunning performance by Paul Dano and a very believable by Zooey Deschannel. Some might say bits of this film are mundane and were not needed, but that's what makes this film a sensation, to be able to relate to these so called scenes can in fact bring you deeper into the film.However, my only criticism would be the ending, I think it leaves us wondering about too many things.Overall, this is a great film which explores the life of a salesman with a very unique life, not seen very much in many films these days, who falls in love with a customer who leads a very strange life too. The violent attacks by an unknown figure played by Zach Galifianakis make the film more mysterious and makes the viewer curious to who this figure is.All in all a fine film.

spoilers, and not only on this film. you've been warned.This was a decent film, but it certainly had it's weird and frankly, badly written moments.It's about a 28 year old matrass salesman, Brian. We know that he is 28, because his father had him when he was 52 and he's going to his father 80th birthday.He then meets this girl, a daughter of a customer.I really thought this was some book adaptation gone bad, because out of the blue, this girl wants to have sex with Brian.Also, his attacker pulls a Tyler Durden on him, which is never explained.It seems people are upset this is marketed as a rom-com. I mean, get over it, it's not the filmmakers responsibility to deal with marketing.This is a good film, with great actors, some of which are under used, like Clarke Peters and Leven Rambin, although she's kinda overrated.But the story has loose ends, and not in a good, open-ended kind of way.7/10 The Melancholic Alcoholic.

"Gigantic's" main protagonist is twenty-eight year old Brian - a morose, monosyllabic mattress salesman. Some jaded film-goers might feel they've watched Paul Dano portray Brian's charisma-free loner cousins overplaying their quirkiness in far too many Indie projects. In 'Gigantic' Brian possesses the stubborn ambition to adopt a Chinese baby - a plot contrivance which appears principally designed to distract from his stupefying dullness. Despite being single, earning little money and suffering from violent hallucinations, he considers himself good parent material, and an irresponsible adoption agency is helping him achieve his goal. The story begins when Al Lolly, an overweight businessman with chronic back problems, visits the gloomy warehouse where Brian is employed. Big Al purchases an expensive mattress and later sends his beautiful daughter to settle the bill. When she arrives, it's quickly apparent that Happy Lolly equals Brian in the quirk department. She asks him to help transport her father to a chiropractic appointment, and while they wait for Al to conclude his treatment, Happy inquires whether Brian would be interested to have sex with her. He doggedly obliges in the underground car park, and the loony lovers embark on their lukewarm love affair. The romance doesn't amount to much - almost immediately Happy expresses her quirkiness with lame attempts to escape the relationship, while Brian continues obsessing about Chinese babies. Like it or leave it - that's how love is in Indie-World.'Gigantic's' script is a strangely schizophrenic beast - the main story is the lovers' moth-eaten romance, but the sub-plots contain some offbeat black humor, providing John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander, Clarke Peters and Zooey Deschanel with the raw material to create some original characters. Somehow, mysteriously, their combined talents manage to keep 'Gigantic' afloat while Dano impersonates a sack of potatoes in the central role.