Brad Pitt: New Benjamin Button Posters!

# 448 anon @ 11/17/2008 at 11:22 am

Did you see what the guy at Awardsdaily.com said about the Revolutionary Road screening? He said there’s an embargo in place until Tuesday and people who’ve seen the movie aren’t supposed to talk about it. The same was true of the CCOBB screening last week…

http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=3952

Revolutionary Road Screening
Author: Sasha Stone 16

Nov

I wasn’t going to say anything about this because of the Tuesday embargo, but since someone else already did, I suppose I can say a bit about the screening itself, though nothing of the film. They invited the press and a lot of SAG members. There were free martinis on the way in and on the way out. There was a Q&A afterwards with some of the key cast members. There was a party with the cast afterwards that I didn’t attend. I also didn’t drink a martini because I knew I would need to be frosty watching this, one of the season’s hopefuls. Ms. Winslet and Mr. DiCaprio were charming, of course, but I dare say Michael Shannon stole the show in the Q&A. They talked about the film and took a few questions from the audience.

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LOL…someone who saw RR at the screening was NOT impressed by Leo. He looked like Charlie Brown? Really?

http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=3918#comments

Paul Outlaw
November 15th, 2008 at 9:35 pm 27

Just came back from seeing Revolutionary Road and without dropping any spoilers, I have to say that the film is a huge disappointment, primarily due to direction, screenplay and the male lead. Kate is great in almost every scene and is almost assured of a nod for this performance; unfortunately the camera does not love Leo’s face, he looks like an overgrown Charlie Brown in most scenes and he just seems wrong in the role. The dialogue is often literary without being well-written, the art direction flat. But there are three great supporting performances and the magic of Kate. But on the whole, a huge disappointment.

the times u.k is not a tabloid so if they say angelina is in london, she is in london. it is 6 pm now so i hope the media at the premiere asks angelina where brad is so she can explain that brad is working in berlin so could not be here as I KNOW what all the headlines will be tomorrow, angelina sans , solo etc etc.

neer @ 11:17——–You are so right! Angie is so brilliant, so well spoken that she puts Jennifer Anistion to shame.

Jennifer should be very well embarassed and if she had any intelligence at all would see why Brad left her for Angie.

There is noooooooo comparison whatsoever!!!!!

emerton = troll jenhag or tabloid intern

So obvious.

Why in the hell does Angie owe anyone any dam* explanation of anything?

Did Brad explain why he was solo for BAR premieres? Or for NYC screening of CCBB? Hel* no!!!

Just STFU!!!

Some posts from Awardsdaily.com about CCOBB…

Don’t bother reading the rest of the thread below. How they managed to turn a post on CCOBB into a fight about whether or not Jennifer Hudson deserved her Oscar is beyond me…

http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=3898

Site moderator, Sasha Stone…

So, Anne Thompson posted an early rave of Benjamin Button from an “industry spy.” Her commenters accused it of sounding like a studio plant. Thing is, I don’t think Thompson would post a studio plant review so it would be nice if this person would go on the record. At any rate, they say:

It’s magic realism propelled by extraordinary filmmaking technology but it’s not remotely what I’d call cold. It creates a world of oddities and wonderful, off-kilter characters but the whole piece is anchored by a decades long relationship that gets strained, frayed, breaks and rebuilds into something profound and moving.

The achievement is big and bold and ambitious and life-affirming, but the sentimentality is always toughened by the continual sense of loss and deep sadness at the transitory nature of the human condition. If it sounds like an art movie, it absolutely is, but it’s a four quadrant art film!

Meanwhile, one of her commenters caught a preview screening of the film and wrote quite a long review with a great many plot details revealed. He also attended a Q&A with Pitt et al. and reports on that event as well. It really sounds lovely, this movie, gotta say, even with PopCultureNerd’s lukewarm review. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that if you haven’t lived enough of a life to really get what it feels like to stare down the barrel of old age this film will not hit you on the levels intended. I realize this sounds disgustingly agist and perhaps condescending but give an old lady some credit. You learn things as you get older is all.

Stephen Holt
November 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am 31

I also heard almost exactly what Anne Thompson heard AND printed. Cate Blanchett and Taranji are the possible Oscar nods. Cate, I hear, has to carry the film really, without all the CGIs that are laid on Brad. The films like gangbusters evidently even though or because Brad is special-effect-ed to death.

And it was compared to “Forrest Gump”. I don’t get that. But that’s what I heard.

Off Topic

Helen Mirren does not like female interviewers

“No, it’s more that I prefer male journalists because there’s a streak of female journalism — the ******* — who are mean-spirited and nasty because you are another woman and want to make you feel crap. It’s very upsetting. I’m more careful when I’m being interviewed by a woman because, from experience as well as reading articles about other women, I know there is a little stiletto knife hidden behind the back.”

She’s laughing as she sizes me up. But she’s right. On the whole, women don’t like other women, because women are competitive with each other. She says: “In a rape case the courts in defence of a man would select as many women as they could for the jury, because women go against women. Whether in a deep-seated animalistic way, going back billions of years, or from a sense of tribal jealousy or just antagonism, I don’t know. But other women on a rape case would say she was asking for it. The only reason I can think of is that they’re sexually jealous.”

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5139605.ece

Berlin to London

a less than 2 hr flight

I was just gonna write that.

u guys are right. i just don’t want the trolls and haters to be given anything they can spin and make up stories about. sorry!!!!!!
also that and i like to see brangie together on the carpet rather than seperate.
i actually a fan of angelina and brad and if u see my previous posts u will see i am not a troll. i thought i would just up-date some u.k fans and give general updates to other fans.

emerton @ 11/17/2008 at 1:13 pm

Well well well.

You are an idiot, could not wait to rush to judgement about a premiere that is not even happening!!!!

LOL. Once again losers are losers.

# 457 DECENCY @ 11/17/2008 at 11:34 am

The critic from EW wrote WOW after screening CCOBB plus I read of couple of people with movie sites who were not as excited. I think it is going to be one of those films you have to see and decided for yourself. I just love the love that Brad and Angelina are doing different and interesting movies.

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ITA. Look at Changeling - a lot of critics didn’t like that and I thought it was excellent. Besides - critics are never going to agree 100% on anything.