Benjamin Button, Benjamin Boredom morelike

I've just left the theatre out of sheer desperation. I think I may have snored at one point.

If there's already a thread about this turgid nonsense I can't find it.

fucking worst movie ever i want those 3 hours back plus punitive damages

It's every bit as mawkish and arbitrary as Forrest Gump, which as it turns out is no surprise because it's written by the same bloke.

xp oh thank christ I'm not alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote Forrest Gump???

YES

this does not look good at all

i'd definitely go see marley and me over this.

akm, my new year's resolution is to send you an email.

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote Forrest Gump???

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into a box of chocolates."

(From The Great Hershey)

:D

Had I bothered to look at the credits and see Eric Roth and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall I'd have known it'd be formulaic Hollywood US-academy-award-tailored cods.

I don't want to say much more in case I spoil it for someone but jesus.

this looks like some bullshit. I will never see it.

How does anyone ever expect good things to come from the jackass that made Fight Club and Panic Room?

Zodiac was a fluke.

enlightening

Seven & Fight Club are, of course, splendid contemporary fairytales. And Kathleen Kennedy has produced several of the best Hollywood films of the last 30 years.

Come anticipate David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

i liked panic room. I do want to see this because I basically am a fincher fanboy, but 3 hours is a big commitment.

Nice to see the Pitt-Fincher ass kicked by Brad's ex and a dog. Plus this movie looks like the intersection of A Very Long Engagement and Big Fish; i.e., shit.

it's nice that we all agree on b.o. numbers as the ultimate arbiter

i kinda want to see it just for the new orleans setting

it's nice that we all agree on b.o. numbers as the ultimate arbiter

― Dr Morbius

As if one might disagree...

It is three fucking hours long and a soporific among even the young and attentive???? OH MY FUCKING DEAR.

Is Dreamworks gonna do like it does with all the Pixars – the thing where it makes an Antz to their Bug's Life and a Fish Tale (Shark's Tale?) to their Finding Nemo – and make a hilarious romp out of Time's Arrow?

I enjoyed the movie. I went expecting very little but wanting last minute to go see a movie, any movie. I also must admit that I just like looking at Brad Pitt. I rarely find myself asking, "What're the make-up artists going to do next?" but that's a gimme with this movie and a fun game to play. My heart was actually kind of warmed by this. I am a simp. Throw your scorn upon me now.

I haven't seen it, but my dead client bought the rights decades ago and yet it stayed in the can until a few years ago when another client (quite alive!) took a second look and decided to bring it to life now. My gut feeling is that it will be acclaimed by the academy but it will just miss the mark when it comes to the public; yet had it been made a couple of decades ago, it would have been better, perceived as better by both the public and the industry.

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE4BI29G20081219
ooooooppps meant to include this link. - damn is there no way to edit our posts????!!?

borne back ceaselessly into a box of chocolates

Best thing Ned's posted this week, at least!

This is one of those films that spends it's whole runtime jumping up and and down shouting "look at me, I'm IMPORTANT" whilst saying absolutely nothing. There were no philosophical conclusions drawn from the conceit at all.

Come anticipate David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

^^ go here

i knew this was gonna be a great movie as soon as i saw that peter bradshaw gave it one star in the guardian

I actually generally agreed with that review.