It's even more absurd when, as I already mentioned, the furries in the movie, that they poke fun of naturally, wear more believable costumes than Maynard's. The only reason anyone would enjoy this movie is if they can pretend that all of these people, even seeing Bigfoot up close, would be so stupid enough to not notice that it's a mask. Even the furries in the movie wear more believable outfits than the one Maynard was wearing and yet everyone in town bought Maynard's Bigfoot. It's clearly a guy wearing a fucking gorilla mask. He's not 20-30 feet away from people, he's not even 10 feet away from them and these people still think it's a real Bigfoot. Maynard, as Bigfoot, literally goes up to people's houses to wave at them. The movie is absurd in that, after the first Bigfoot appearance, and the town becomes a media and tourist sensation, the sights keep happening. So that makes the whole climax where the town apologizes to Maynard for turning their backs on him (after it's revealed that he's been Bigfoot all along) when he really needed them unsatisfactory. While I get the whole wanting to make Maynard the glue that holds the town together, he's not in the movie enough to get a real sense of what he means to the town. The fact of the matter is that this movie really isn't even that long for it to be the things it wants to be effectively. But then the movie also wants to be this quirky comedy about this arrogant monster finding filming his crappy tv show and being exposed for the fraud that he is when the real search for Bigfoot is underway. I think perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that it wants to tell a heartwarming tale of Maynard Greiger, who's done his best to help the people of his town, that's fallen on hard times recently, by dressing up as Bigfoot and causing a sensation that's bringing tourists to his struggling town and business on top of media attention. When I tell you that Shannon's scenes, in my opinion, don't comprise for than 50% of all of the movie, please believe me, because it's the truth. He lets the 'Australian' monster finder guy take over the proceedings and he, quite frankly, disappears for a good chunk of the movie. And I say theoretically, because after the whole mess with the Bigfoot sightings start happening, Shannon essentially becomes a secondary character in his own movie. This movie, theoretically, he's the lead character. Shannon has done some comedy, like Let's Go To Jail, for example. And I've always wanted to see him do some comedy. I love Ian McShane, Judy Greer, Ron Pearlman, Tom Lennon and Christina Hendricks, but I don't think any of them, individually, could have gotten me to see this movie if it wasn't for Shannon. But the selling point to me was Michael Shannon, that's it, simple as that. The film has a really talented cast, full of actors that I really like. First things first, only reason I watched this movie is because of Michael Shannon. I just mean in that I don't really know what to make of this movie and the events that transpired within. And I don't mean weird in the sense that Yorgos Lanthimos films are weird.
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