My Big Fat Greek Wedding a Big Fat Bust

A friend of mine seen it said it sucked so I never watched it. It never looked good to me anyway.

I haven't seen it, but thanks for the heads up. I hate wasting time watching a bad movie.

I actually liked it !!

But then I always like feel good movies where an ugly duckling turns into a swan. Makes me feel that there might still be some hope for me

Not to mention the leading guy was a hunk !!

Probable future daughter-in-law told stepson a while back 'We don't have time to be engaged!'

BFGW is what she meant.

a big fat disappointment.
i can see how a greek would enjoy it but to me it was just horrible.

y110man, You think a Greek person would like it? Maybe.

Montana, Glad to save you the time and trouble.

SealPoet, LOL.

Gautam, Feel good? Okay. But aren't there better feel-good movies? This would have gotten half a thumb up from me as a tv movie. And there are plenty of hunks in Hollywood. Not worth the price of admission. Not even worth the hour and a half I spent watching.

Big Bronx cheer.

trotal agreement. Everyso often a movie shows up that gets all kinds of spin and generates a following that its almost sacriligeous to dis it.
greek Wedding and Crouching Tiger are my 2 top movies for a'whats all the shouting about'?

I avoided it, but might catch it on digital cable with the wife. She wants to see what the hype was all about, but it seems that it is much ado about nothing. I am certain I'll hate it. I did enjoy Crouching Tiger though, but I like anything with Kung Fu in it.

I liked it. I didn't think it really had anything to do with being Greek. I've been involved with weddings from all kinds of cultures that have been like that. Families can cause all kinds of crap when it comes to weddings. It definitely makes eloping seem like the only viable choice. Hmmmm, so I guess I liked it, because it validated quite a few of my thoughts about families and weddings.

Besides - there are all those great shots of places I spend time at.

Now 'Monsoon Wedding' was a good flick...

I loved Monsoon Wedding !!! It was sooooooo typical of an Indian wedding from my community !

I dug Crouching Tiger...that's a good movie.

But nothing tops the best of all time: Weekend at Bernies II.

It was an okay light comedy which did reveal a lot about Greek culture but not a film I'd return to as the storyline was too typical. The spin-off sitcom die coming out of the starting gate indicating this was a one-trick-pony.

Gautam, I've seen 'Monsoon Wedding' twice now...love it. Also, 'feel-good' for me was 'Bend it Like Beckham', which I am certain has a whole lot more charm than that over-bloated Greek wedding thingy.

Almost anything is more charming than any kind of bloated wedding. however, the reality for a lot of us, is exposure to/ participation in, bloated weddings. i'm facing attendance/participation in 2 right now - 1 armenian/egyptian, the other portuguese/newfie. 600+ guests at each, hysterics by the mother and grandmother of the bride in both cases, already. My Big Fat Greek Wedding speaks to all of us who've survived, by our fingernails sometimes, those bloated events. If you don't laugh, you'll just have to cry ... again and again and again.

My favorite feel good movie is either "Seven," or "Kids."

Big weddings are common in India as well. Specially in my community.

My ynger bro's wedding had abt 2000 guests

thud!

I thought Greek Wedding was funny. It reminded me of my big family, and it had some cute moments. Comedies don't have to be deep. It had a bunch of popular movie themes woven into one movie:

ugly girl gets pretty
woman gains independence
separating from tradition
family
the ol' who thought she would get married
ethnic explanation/exploitation

but it was very cute, I think I identified with the main character and identified with her problems. It was very light handed humor.

I heard the sitcom was terrible. What were they thinking?

Everyone here has seen Shrek, right?