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What a Big FAT Waste of Time!


My God this was bad. Brendan Fraser plays a 500 lb beluga whale who sits at home jerking off to gay porn, and refusing to get health insurance even though his best friend takes his blood pressure and advises "You should go to the ER right now."

I usually would feel sympathy for a character like this, but its obvious Fraser's campaign people just wanted him to win the Oscar for best actor. Over the MORE BRILLIANT Austin Butler in Elvis. The latter, who put so much effort and engagement into becoming the most famous rock n roll legend of all time, will now loser to Fraser- who says his favorite book is Moby Dick. And has an annoying daughter.

Some of the other things that made no sense: he's a school teacher, but on Zoom he keeps his profile black. So you're big as fuck dude, who cares? You should OWN who you are and stop hiding it. Actually I take that back. BRO UR A FUCKING MONSTER!!! U just broke my fucking email with how heavy your ass cheeks just sat in your computer chair. And there's no way in hell you have over $100K to give to your daughter, if all you do is make part time computer money teaching about "The Whales of August." Or whatever he was doing.

Do yourself a favor. Go to your local aquarium if you want to see some similar performances to Fraser's work here.

FINAL GRADE: F FOR FATTTTTTTTTTTT

PS- Fraser demands the Bible guy tell him "Im Disgusting! SAY IT!" He does. I mean, what exactly was the point? Oh being honest. The ex wife is also terrible (Samantha Morton gives the only believable performance in the movie).

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Note- Movie reviewers to avoid >jasonmovieguy82

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Just looking for the ignore button!

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The tragedy of Fraser roots in his self-contradiction.

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HOW DARE YOU!!! the media said the movie is amazing becuase....umm....reasons. come on ...just trust the media. a guy trying to jerk of to gay porn , but cant is amazing and BRAVE! SO BRAVE give him the oscar or you just didnt get it.

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Triggered by a 2 minutes scene?

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not triggered. BORED!

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When you put it like that... lol


I did find it engaging though, if a bit claustrophobic and manipulative.

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That was amusing.

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... if you are 13 and spend all day on 4chan

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So to summarize.

If an actors character is a healthy energetic music icon, or any other kind of upbeat talented person, they deserve an award for best actor, but if their character is ugly, obese, repulsive, or masturbates to gay porn, or is disgusting in other ways, no acting awards for them!

Check!

Guess you missed the part where Elvis died of a drug overdose and became obese, and Fraser’s character wasn’t the whale from the title.

Real perceptive review there.

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Elvis became obese, then he died.

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Fat Elvis died while sitting on the toilet.

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Did you mean an ENORMOUS waste of time?

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You sound mad. 🤷‍♂️

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