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“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Every once in a while comes a film that garners nominations across the board from acting and directing to visual style and effects. This year’s Oscar juggernaut may be “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which will be released Christmas Day. Adapted from a short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the film follows the unique and challenging life of Benjamin Button. Button, played by Brad Pitt, is born in his 80s and ages backwards. The fact that his life runs in the complete opposite direction of all those around him creates unimaginable challenges for Button. The use of computer-generated imaging to handle Button’s uncharacteristic appearances may bring Oscar recognition along with the acting, writing and art direction.

Love Brad and Angelina! This movie looks great. Can’t wait to see it. Our family has a tradition of going to the movies on Christmas day and this is the one we chose.

Brad Pitt + David Fincher + Cate Blanchett = masterpiece

…ahahahahahhahah…I have seen valkyrie(sp) trailers on tv and it does seem interesting for a movie about hitler and the ss…I don’t know about inglorious though a year later…hahhahahahhah

…and I don’t about snorrah, the pissy a ss old mutant baby-man…hahahahahhahahahhaahahah

…I don’t know about snorrah…

Thanks for the stills. I am looking forward to seeing the movie. BP is a very talented actor and humanatrain. The entire cast of Benjamin Button is stellar and the technology should be amazing.

#38—-ROTFLMAO—-many thanks for your usual stupidity and for the good laughs!!!!
I love it…the trolls are in so much agony for so long they don’t know what to attack! They tried everything under the sun for FOUR fcuking years and yet Brad and and Angie are happier than ever with SIX gorgeous kids and great carreres….sooo let’s see how much more can the JP’s can add too their agony…Ohhhhh..wait the RC’s and awards ceremonies are coming up…that will be fun to watch as they go ballistic :lol: :lol: :lol:

This is the best movie of this year. Brad and Cate each gives outstanding performance.

# 11 [☆I n F a m o u s☆] @ 11/25/2008 at 3:15 pm

bomb..

bb - will make about $20 opening weekend. lmbao

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Gee, inFuggy, I directed my e-mail at Shitzy yesterday, but apparently I need to repeat it for you ignorant ass as well…

Here’s another CCOBB review from a Variety critic. I think the one posted this morning was

Todd McCarthy. This one is Anne Thompson.

TROLLS - PLEASE NOTE THE LAST PARAGRAPH, SHITZY. DON’T SAY YOU WEREN’T TOLD IN ADVANCE THAT CCOBB ISN’T EXPECTED TO HAVE A $100MIL WEEKEND OR DOMESTIC TOTAL. THIS IS A REALLY, REALLY EXPENSIVE ART FILM. IT’S NOT WILL SMITH FIGHTING ALIENS OR BATMAN OR JAMES BOND. SO
CHECK YOUR USUAL BULLSHIT AT THE DOOR ON DECEMBER 25 AND DON’T BRING IT ON THE THREAD OR ELSE SANTA IS GOING TO COME TAKE BACK THE LUMP OF COAL HE’S GOING TO LEAVE YOU!

http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/11/the-curious-cas.html

I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Saturday (following the aborted Thursday screening), and have been trying to sort it out ever since.

David Fincher and screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) have delivered an historic achievement, a masterful piece of cinema, and a moving treatise on death, loss, loneliness and love. As the movie proceeds, and Brad Pitt as Button ages backwards, we know where he is headed: it’s where we are all going. But he feels he has to go there by himself, without his loved ones. And nobody wants to die alone. (Here is Todd McCarthy’s review.)

So when the movie reaches its climax, it is extraordinarily moving (although some find the movie cold and dispassionate). It may pack a more powerful punch the older you are and the more people you have lost. In that case it will score with the Academy, who will also recognize the skillful filmmaking on display.

The movie marks a seismic shift in terms of what is possible in moviemaking. What Fincher and his team have done is no small technological feat. Button starts off as a CG-aged baby, moves through CG-altered older Pitt faces superimposed on small bodies, and then proceeds to the “real” Pitt wearing makeup and then getting younger and younger. Thus the film’s central performance is in great part a visual effect. (Blanchett is also made younger digitally, but aged with makeup.) That accounts in part for the movie’s high cost (well above $150 million) but is also its primary limitation.

Thus, while I admire the film’s amazing accomplishment–it’s hard to imagine that anyone but the digitally sophisticated Fincher, who has become adept at “painting” his digital canvases, could have pulled this off–the movie is not entirely satisfying. But given what it is, it’s hard to imagine it being done done any better. The actors are superb, especially Pitt and Cate Blanchett, who should earn Oscar noms. What’s missing has partly to do with the limitations of the technology. Button reminds me of Peter Sellers as Chauncey Gardner in Being There. He’s oddly passive and restrained, zen-like as he floats through all the decades, watching, listening, learning. He narrates the tale via his diary, along with his dying love Blanchett. We see him engaging with people, but he never says much. We see him from the outside; we never get under his skin, and we never learn the fruits of his wisdom. He stays much the same.

Still, the movie is sadly beautiful, of a piece, as impeccably wrought as its ornate clock that runs counterclockwise. Do Paramount and Warner Bros. have a prayer of making their money back? This movie needs all the help it can get, from anyone who loves movies and wants the studios to take more risky bets like this one.

Jill @ 11/25/2008 at 3:50 pm

Famous #11 @ 11/25/2008 at 3:25 pm
Are you a teenager?
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He sounds like one, but he’s actually a 50 year old perv with a hard-on for Suri Cruise.
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I though fug famous is gay, has a hard-on tiny dwarf tom. So he has a hard-on suri cruise too. What a perv.

I am very excited about this movie. Brad and Angie’s movies got Oscar buzz. I hope they both get Oscar noms. Can’t wait for the movie and awards.

“Go shave your hands”

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