*** - It is claimed that this David Fincher film was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when in reality I think we all know that it is based on the incoherent ramblings of Karl Pilkington. Brad Pitt stars as a guy who is born as an old man and lives his life backwards until he dies at the age of zero. At center stage is his romance with an ultra-slutty ballet dancer (Cate Blanchett), which is both creepy and difficult to fathom, but the film has its entertaining bits and is, in some ways, fairly inspirational. Be that as it may, it was close to 3 hours long and apparently cost $160 million to make, which sounds awfully high for a movie that doesn’t have huge explosions, giant robots or blue cat-monkey things in it. There is a strange Hurricane Katrina-related subplot, the purpose of which I have yet to figure out.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*** - It is claimed that this David Fincher film was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, when in reality I think we all know that it is based on the incoherent ramblings of Karl Pilkington. Brad Pitt stars as a guy who is born as an old man and lives his life backwards until he dies at the age of zero. At center stage is his romance with an ultra-slutty ballet dancer (Cate Blanchett), which is both creepy and difficult to fathom, but the film has its entertaining bits and is, in some ways, fairly inspirational. Be that as it may, it was close to 3 hours long and apparently cost $160 million to make, which sounds awfully high for a movie that doesn’t have huge explosions, giant robots or blue cat-monkey things in it. There is a strange Hurricane Katrina-related subplot, the purpose of which I have yet to figure out.
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