Salaway Gennaro
21Jan12
You're annoyed by it's simplicity? Fincher has said he makes 'films' and also makes 'movies'. His 'movies' are made for the pleasure of the audience.
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Pedro Eira
19May12
the essence of the film is based only on the eternal desire of human beings. when we are small, we want to achieve more rapidly the end (I always said. "I wish I could be eighteen years") ... but will as time passes, we want to delay as much as possible, the end - we want to be under eighteen. and I think Fincher wants to show us that!
Laura Hilton-Smith
15May12
Long and overly melodramatic in parts but still moving and heartfelt. As a fan of F.Scott Fitzgerald I look forward to reading the short story and seeing how it compares.
James Kang
20Feb12
Hopefully the biggest piece of shit David Fincher ever makes. Benjamin appears to be Fincher's most boring protagonist. He has no personality to speak of. The movie makes you wait an absurdly long time to reveal that Julia Ormond is Benjamin's daughter, which was obvious from her first scene. The love story between geriatric Benjamin and 7-year-old Daisy is disgusting, even knowing Benjamin was mentally a child.
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angiebasuki
26Jan12
When it comes to love, whether you're an old man and a little girl, a couple of 40 years old lovers, an old lady and a young man, or even a granny and a baby boy, it exists if he/she is the one. Just like it's tagline "Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments" My favorite part is Button's monologue (and of course the scene) about destiny (the morning on Daisy's accident). Super! Fincher!
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Carlos Allencar
18Jan12
It's sad to see David Fincher stumbling in several narrative cliches can irritate during projection. Certainly not the kind of product you could imagine adapting it, but no doubt he could have done better. The story itself is powerful and provides an opportunity to raise much higher flights. Often the characters are portrayed in idealized form and limited. But it is not completely flawed: no doubt there are many good moments and sincere. There are technical quality and a very capable cast. The story itself is engaging and moving.
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Arsaib
22Dec11
"Few films in the history of cinema have more fully exemplified Cocteau's maxim about the medium itself embodying death at work than this digitally mediated end-of-year entertainment, which finally reveals itself as a cinematic song of inevitability. Technology is not used to efface time, but to illuminate it. Benjamin Button may have its roots in the fantastic, but the finished work has stronger ties to previous contemplations of time's passing like The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), albeit with a crucial difference. Unlike the heroes of the Welles and Powell films, Benjamin does not rail against the flow of time because he is not born with the illusion that he exists within a magic circle that can never be broken. Benjamin is born different, and therefore alone. [...] At its deepest level, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a film about the solitude of difference." —Kent Jones
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Neil Bahadur
18Dec11
Gets an extra star for the fantastic opening. Otherwise, not Fincher's finest hour.
Adam Hodgkins
13Nov11
What's the point? The not very curious Fincher here is seduced by look of Pitt. What could be a curious examination of maturity and the effect of physicality instead elects to support film's ability to recreate physical age at will.
Harry Rossi
14Sep11
After viewing this for a 3rd time I've finally decided to "fan" it. I had a much more interesting experience watching it this time than previously. Although I do think the film loses some of its whimsey around 2/3 in, I still think there are parts of it that are absolutely magical.
liesbet vanessche
28Jul11
There were really good parts in this movie and I liked the story, but it was way too long and slow. Boring at some points. I expected a bit better. good make up!
Bill Thompson
28Jul11
A lot of pretty visuals and words that have no meaning because of the empty characters. Cate Blanchett is downright bad as Daisy, and the lack of chemistry between the leads is troubling. Nowhere near worthy of the acclaim it has received.
TakaAwesome
20Apr11
Back when this came out/when I first saw this, it was probably the most disappointed I'd been by a movie in a long time. I had such high hopes and expectations, and with a concept full of potential.... man this could've been so much more. Still enjoyable, but a true missed opportunity.
aeraspais
10Apr11
When David Fincher looks back on this ten years from now, I hope he thinks, "I may have directed a film emotionally flat and unworthy of being an adaption of a F. Scott short but at least I made Brad Pitt look better than he had in years!"
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Drew Gregory
14Mar11
While this film may be the very definition of "flawed" I think it does have a lot going for it and is much better than most people think. It would have been light years better without the Katrina framing device and the last part with him as a baby.
Kian Ross
16Feb11
The biggest problem that I have with this film, is how it treated gender roles. Every time Brad Pitt sleeps around or leaves his family, it's presented as if he's living life to the fullest. When Cate Blanchett does the same thing she is fighting against true love.
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Marianne Sarkis
16Jan11
The film is loosely based on the original F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. It was still well acted, and the story was compelling, despite dragging on in many places.
