#19: Big Fish

Let's start off by saying you can tell a Tim Burton film right from the beginning. Tim Burton has a mind of his own that all makes us wonder, what made him think of that or to even decide to do something like that in the film. In Big Fish, director Tim Burton creates places of pure happiness and places that are dark and gloomy. Big Fish is truly an inspiring story about an All-American man, who has the greatest adventure stories, with life and love within it. Ewan McGregor plays the main character but the movie plays in flashbacks, where it really shows an inspiring story on his part. Let me tell you, it's somewhat sad, but it also may be one of the most happy-go-lucky movies I've seen in a while. The whole concept and the premise of the movie was extraordinary. From the characters, to the scenery, to the plot and to the directing, it's honestly a movie everyone needs to see. I'm not saying everyone will love it but most people would grin and giggle or laugh (if you want to be manly about it) after many scenes. Me personally, I honestly thought it had a great start to finish. Great movie, another reason why we know Tim Burton's a hot commodity for a director.

Overall Rating: 9.0/10

- Josh

The Beginning

I'm Taylor Dobbs, a journalism student at Northeastern University with a love for the movies. Josh and I were randomly assigned as roommates in the fall semester of 2010. We quickly figured out that movies were a shared passion of ours. In the first few weeks of school, we watched so many movies together that the idea hatched to try to watch 365 movies in a year. Good movies, bad movies, old movies, new movies. Whatever it is, we want to see it. Obviously, we're trying to lean towards good movies - what we consider to be good, anyways. Between us, we've already got hundreds of movies under our belts, but we'd both like to expand that number. As a general rule, we will try to watch movies that at least one of us has never seen before. The occasional film (read: favorites of both of ours) will be one that we've both seen. Enjoy.

I'm Josh Berg, same as Taylor, I am also a die hard movie goer. I figured that this idea could lead to other people getting out and watching these movies. Whether it's a comedy, drama, thriller, horror, action, mystery, romance, documentary or whatever else that you love, we will give you our best and most honest opinions of all the movies. All in all, we love movies and this is a new beginning to an old tradition. Thank you and hopefully we can make this a fun ride for everyone. Oh yeah and by the way "Rule Number 9: If this is your first night at Beantown's 365, you have to read."