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film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

rate it

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    Votes: 5 16.1%
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    Votes: 4 12.9%
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    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • [img]http://i.bluelight.ru/g//543/4stars.gif[/img]

    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • [img]http://i.bluelight.ru/g//543/5stars.gif[/img]

    Votes: 8 25.8%

  • Total voters
    31
lol, this thread has pwned itself.

After re-thinking my initial 5/5 score for Benjamin Button, I have to admit that there was a certain element of emotion missing from this film. I'm a big crier when it comes to really, really great movies with well done sad scenes, and the fact that I didn't have a cry-gasm once while watching Benjamin Button says something. It's still an extremely entertaining film with amazing production values all around. But it does come off as somewhat bland when it should be more emotional. It's a difficult story to get exactly right on the screen with all of the right ideas in all of the right places, to be sure, and for the most part the crew succeeded but they did not create an absolute classic - just one of the year's better films.

What many of the film's greatest critics fail to realize is that the basis is meant to be just a simple story - the meat is in the little subtleties and side-plots. The little tryst with the woman at the hotel every night was very memorably done, even though it was largely irrelevant to the story. These little elements add to the experience. It is sort of like the general criticisms of a Kubrick film - a lot of people will be pissed at anything he ever did except for Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange, and 2001 because it seemed like a waste of their time. But a big part of experiencing a film like Benjamin Button involves enjoying the acting, aesthetics and carefully crafted moments rather than focusing on the story. Simple stories like Benjamin Button allow for a lot of artistic freedom - and a lot of risk-taking.
 
Benjamin Button was the least risky film I've ever seen. Safe as houses.
 
Necessarily so - to get the budget it received for such an odd story there had to be some guarantee to producers as to its acceptability by the masses. Nevertheless, it is more risky than than other sure-fire big budget films. Calling it the least risky film you've ever seen is probably an overstatement. Nothing is safe - putting money behind a super-long, relatively odd film on the hopes that Pitt would bring it back is very risky. It could have meant bankruptcy for one or two of the backers, and loads of debt for some others. Personally, I'd rather invest twice as much in an "Ironman" than half as much in a "Benjamin Button."
 
Not that great of a film.

Snoozefest.

Age has absolutely nothing to do with it, btw.
 
good news

both the spade and the deceased are right

other good news. i'm going to do something more interesting than try to exchange with people who are not interested in others' opinions but just like to contradict for the sake of it : i'm going to stand on my balcony and count the stars
 
Vegan you seem a little bitter, is there a reason for that? Are you upset we didn't all like the blatent and obvious made for the Oscars film Benjamin Button?

Sorry that I disagree with you, I'll try better next time.

P.S.
Try watching a decent film. ;)
 
vegan i often have discussions with people who disagree with me. if i remember correctly i disagreed with TheSpade about "Funny Games". you don't have to take it so personally. then again star gazing is always fun. i was wandering up and down my street last night, smoking a joint and staring at the night sky. i think my neighbours think i was weird. anyway, you might notice that quite a few people have disagreed with you whereas no-one has agreed with you. maybe it's not a conspiracy. maybe the film really is boring.
 
i haven't finished counting the stars,

but to keep you entertained, i'd advise thespade to ask himself his own question (think about it. like, i mean, with your brain dude)

the deceased, i hadn't commented on your first posts and don't take anything personally. it's just the way you see it
(no need to comment on that. i don't care what you think/want to believe is a lie. if you want, i can be a nazi just for your dreams)

but for some reason you decided that thespade needed support
if not, you wouldn't have been part of the exchange

i have nothing against people who have different tastes than mine
(once more, believe it's a lie if you wish, i don't care. any comments will just be a waste of time. read my posting history if you actually want to know how i feel about others' tastes)
 
So we're agreed then Benjamin Button was rubbish, that is what your saying, isn't it?

Good. :)
 
love david fincher, but this movie wasa near total fail. it should have been an hour shorter, the chemistry between the twoleads was nonexistant, etc.
 
^^ if you saved a copy of my post, thank you for sending it to him

if you didn't save it, thanks for wasting my time

the role of a mod is to settle things intelligently, not to sweep everything away to get rid of what he doesn't like

(sorry if you're not involved in the paranormal disparition of my latest post)

edit : spelling
 
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4 stars. David Fincher is one of my favourite directors and didn't let me down. Great film of F.scott fitzgeralds story. Couldn't have been filmed till recently due to developments in CGI technology. Great film. But his zenith for me was Seven and zodiac. Fight Club on the outside.
 
(sorry if you're not involved in the paranormal disparition of my latest post)
no reply... i then choose the one that i find most probable
 
Can anyone think of another recent film where reviews were literally this evenly spread over the board? Usually a film like this is hit or miss depending on who you are, but there is a pretty even spread (in this poll, at least) here.
 
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