People Magazine: NY Times is Bogus

Brad what you’re saying is very UNCOOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCU9jQ65u0

Thank Guli was looking for it all over.He was in London last year Nov.

http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE4AO0N420081125
Reuters picked up HOllywood Reporter Review

“Button” stitches intimate drama of love, loss
By Kirk Honeycutt

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The fantasy element in F. Scott Fitgerald’s 1922 short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” in which a man ages backward, does not begin to suggest the urgent drama and romantic fatalism that director David Fincher and writers Eric Roth and Robin Swicord have so strikingly brought to the screen in the movie version.

Fitzgerald’s story is little more than a plot gimmick. Yet the film transforms this gimmick into an epic tale that contemplates the wonders of life — of birth and death and, most of all, love.

Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date, this Paramount/Warner Bros. co-production should connect with a large audience. Strong boxoffice should ensue after its Christmas Day release via Paramount.

Pitt’s Benjamin is a touching and poignant figure, a person often lost within his own life but with a comic spirit that allows him to accept his backward fate. Blanchett illuminates the screen with beauty and intelligence, making Benjamin’s pursuit of Daisy a quest for life as much as one for love. As the adoptive mother, Henson embodies the essence of a good woman who derives her strength from God and her instincts from common sense.

Fincher’s direction is sure-handed over the 166-minute running time, which never feels long or pretentious. The film takes Donald Graham Burt’s brilliant period design in stride, never overemphasizing it or lingering on an artifact. Claudio Miranda’s cinematography wonderfully marries a palette of subdued earthen colors with the necessary CGI and other visual effects that place one in a magical past.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/35015164.html
More Changeling ties.

‘Changeling’ Movie Has Ties to Marion Mystery
By Josh Hinkle, Anchor/Reporter
By Becky Ogann

MARION - An 80-year-old mystery that started in Marion is finally coming to the surface, thanks to a hit movie. Clint Eastwood’s new film, “Changeling,” drags up the strange disappearance of a local boy and his ties to huge hoax in California.

The movie deals with one of the biggest cases of the 1920s. Nine-year-old Walter Collins disappeared from his Los Angeles home, only to have police there replace him with another boy a few months later. The real Walter Collins never re-surfaced, most likely the victim of a children’s serial killer from that era. TV9 tracked down someone who knew his impostor, a boy who traveled 18-hundred miles from Marion to assume a new identity.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996415.html?categoryId=13&cs=1

Hmmm Australia a big budget film not expected to open big big. I bet trolls will not be spamming BP and AJ threads about this movie, if it does not open big.

Despite the economic crisis, the box office has been up substantially the past two weeks. Hollywood hopes that trend continues through the holidays. None of the Thanksgiving bows are expected to score mega-openings, as “Twilight” and “Quantum” did, but rather do solid business.

“Australia,” directed by Baz Luhrmann, is appealing primarily to older women, according to tracking. Sweeping epic could put Fox back in the awards game.

Both “Australia” and Paramount’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which opens Christmas Day, are big studio pics with Oscar aspirations. In recent years, it’s generally specialty pics that hog the kudos limelight.”Australia” isn’t expected to score a big opening. For the five days, box office observers expect “Australia” to gross in the mid to high teens.

http://www.makeitrightnola.org

Good Morning all and Happy Tuesday. Have a great day and make it a MIR day. The MIR project is a great tax deduction and eco friendly items make for great Christmas gifts. Who knows, you might even be on Queen Oprah with your pink MIR bag. Have a great day and Peace to all.

SHITZY, STFU already.

#860 QQ @ 11/25/2008 at 8:32 am …Why do you bother to change your name DJ?You have to be the dumbest troll stalking Angelina/Brad hands down.Do you even have a life outside wishing for this couple to break-up?Only losers with NO LIFE obsess over “blind items” and that is the truth.Here it is the Hoilday season and you are getting off on blind items.Says alot about your life doesn’t it?

Thanks BDJ for the new articles!

Cliniqua, where did you get the real quote?

Please so the new rumor is Angie was cheating on set of what movie!

STFU, Brad was all over the set of the changeling! He does not play that when it comes to Angie. Hell he probably got her pregnant right on set…hint…hint haters!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brad Pitt As ‘Gollum’ Meets Redford | ‘Reader’ Author Will Support Film | Jackman: Houdini on Broadway

Brad Pitt As ‘Gollum’ Meets Redford

How do you make an instant classic? Can you replicate “Forrest Gump” or at least the feel of it? Will a great trailer ignite enough Oscar buzz to overcome a merely good film’s realities?

These are the questions posed by “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which I saw yesterday afternoon and comes out on Christmas Day. David Fincher, known for movies like “Seven” and “Fight Club,” –each also starring Brad Pitt— was given the task of making a lump-in-your throat, cry like a baby film with Pitt as a man who ages backwards. Since people rarely well up during a Fincher movie for sentimental reasons they put “Forrest Gump” screenwriter Eric Roth on the project as protection.

Cate Blanchett co-stars, and the whole thing is supposedly based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Alas, this movie has about as much to do with the Fitzgerald story as Bela Lugosi would with “Twilight.” Except for the central conceit that Benjamin ages backwards, everything else is gone in this three hour epic. You can read the whole original story right here.

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“Benjamin Button” is a lot of things: innovative, creative, technologically advanced. The trailer was so good that Oscar buzz started generating quickly. The result was almost like what happened to “Home for Purim” in the satire, “For Your Consideration.” Overnight, “Button” became the Oscar front runner.

Actually seeing it is a different story. Fincher has a lot of gadgets to play with. So Pitt’s early depiction of Benjamin, which takes up more than hour of the total three—that’s three—is a CGI process. Pitt’s head – made into that of an old man—is situated on a short, old man. The result is a synthetic character—a sort of geriatric Jar Jar Binks—matted into the movie.

But how else to do this? Benjamin is born a grotesquely wrinkled looking baby, but soon is about five-foot-five and an old man. “I’m seven years old,” he says at one birthday party. But he’s in his late 80s. You marvel at that Fincher and friends have accomplished this feat. Pitt’s head is a white haired balding orb set on top of a little person who is growing older by the hour. He’s Gollum from “Lord of the Rings” meeting Robert Redford, with a better wardrobe.

Strangely enough, there’s something very endearing about Pitt in this part of the movie. Setting aside the fact that he’s playing a CGI character, Pitt nearly succeeds in transcending the gimmick. He brings an unexpected pathos to Benjamin’s early life as he’s raised in a nursing home and watches the patients die off as he gets younger. (Almost what saves Pitt now as an actor is playing characters where his abnormal good looks aren’t a hindrance. See “Burn After Reading,” where’s he just great.)

But is it acting? Or is it a trick? The question maybe is sharpened because at the same time, thanks to Roth’s remaking of the Fitzgerald story. Fincher keeps cutting to modern times and the gifted Cate Blanchett lying in a hospital bed. Blanchett’s character is Benjamin Button’s former lover, who didn’t care that he suffered from this mysterious malady. She’s wearing the prosthetic makeup of old age too, but nothing about her has been digitized. She’s simply playing an old woman in the throes of death, and it’s very human.

All of this aging and de-aging is, by the way, set in New Orleans. Fitzgerald, for what it’s worth, had Benjamin raised by his father (the mother dies in childbirth) in Baltimore. In the movie, Benjamin is born in New Orleans. The mother dies, the father is so repulsed by a wizened looking baby that he throws him away and a local black girl (the terrific Taraji P. Henson) finds and raises him. The juxtaposed modern story is set against the imminent arrival of Hurricane Katrina. Why? Is it a metaphor? Or just because Brad Pitt is committed in real life to the rebuilding of New Orleans?

What’s easy about praising “Benjamin Button” – which will be a holiday hit, no doubt, and an awards contender— is all the technical stuff. It sure looks great, all the time. The make up department has done a bang up job. The production, the set, the lighting and costumes are all phenomenal. Two editors—Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall—have given the movie a dreamy feel that’s just right, and Alexandre Desplat’s score underpins the action with precision. There are also lovely supporting performances by Tilda Swinton, as Benjamin’s first love and Phyllis Somerville, as a tenant in the house where Benjamin grows up, as well as a very funny running gag about a man who keeps getting hit by lightning.

Just a literary note: Blanchett’s character, also invented by Roth, is named Daisy, I guess, as a wholly unnecessary nod to Fitzgerald’s most famous heroine, Daisy Buchanan. In the story, Benjamin’s fiancée is named Hildegarde Moncrief. It’s not like anyone’s going to be called Hildegarde in a 2008 movie, but still: Fitzgerald must be rolling in his grave at this point. But considering how badly he was treated in Hollywood when he arrived there in the mid-1930s, a little tweak now for the sake of box office receipts should seem like child’s play.

LOL!

Angie’s stuff has brad’s name tattood all over it in many ways one can imagine! The same goes for Brad….

SO keep hating trolls, keep the hate alive it only makes Angie more loved and more admired.

Getting groceries has never been so enlightening…..reading the Star sh..t at the check out………Poor Jen didn’t have babies because until such a time as Brad stopped rutting around and cheating, she just couldn’t bring a child into the marriage. It just keeps getting sicker. Oh my gawd, the BS Huvane can buy.

# 848 Jill @ 11/25/2008 at 3:47 am

Oh wow… anybody see this yet?

From Macleans Magazine (Canada):

Poor needy pathetic desperate Jen
How did Jennifer Aniston, once America’s Sweetheart, morph into America’s Spinster?

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Uh…yah. We made fun of it last week…