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New Movie: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any mans life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time. Anyone else interested in this project? Anyone know the F. Scott Fitzgerald story? Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I want to see this movie. It looks like it might be a tough watch though seeing Cate Blanchett's character age normally while Brad gets younger. Very sad.
Cool idea with the reverse type on the Brad Pitt poster. | |
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sextonseven said: I want to see this movie. It looks like it might be a tough watch though seeing Cate Blanchett's character age normally while Brad gets younger. Very sad.
Cool idea with the reverse type on the Brad Pitt poster. Can you imagine that? If they met at the same age, with each year they'd be two years further apart in age. That's awful! 
I'd never heard of the Fitzgerald story, but I think that premise is really intriguing. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Lammastide said: sextonseven said: I want to see this movie. It looks like it might be a tough watch though seeing Cate Blanchett's character age normally while Brad gets younger. Very sad.
Cool idea with the reverse type on the Brad Pitt poster. Can you imagine that? If they met at the same age, with each year they'd be two years further apart in age. That's awful!
I'd never heard of the Fitzgerald story, but I think that premise is really intriguing. I think I read once the movie being described as something like two people aging in different directions trying to meet somewhere in the middle. I never heard of the original story either. | |
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sextonseven said: I want to see this movie. It looks like it might be a tough watch though seeing Cate Blanchett's character age normally while Brad gets younger. Very sad.
Cool idea with the reverse type on the Brad Pitt poster.  i agree. i saw the poster when i went to go see Quantum Of Solace last weekend. | |
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I just wanted to say it was a very enjoyable movie, and I didn't check my watch until 2 hours into it, and never wanted to leave the theatre until the very end.
I have the attention span of about 80 minutes (I blame CDs). | |
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We saw this last night - I enjoyed it which kinda surprized me because I am not a Pitt fan at all  | |
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Here's one reviewer who's familiar with the original story and none too happy with the movie:
(full text at http://www.weta.org/authorauthor/?p=177) Every adaptation tells its own story, and every adaptation is, well, adapted. It’s not the original, and often it veers sharply away from the original’s plot.
But I sharply dislike adaptations that veer this far from the original’s spirit. Read Fitzgerald’s wonderful story, and you’ll get humor, irony, satire, and a keen sense of human folly. Watch the adaptation, and what do you get? Hmmmmm, what a surprise, given that it’s written by Eric Roth, the screenwriter behind Forrest Gump. You get sentimentality, an unreliable narrator who is a Witness to History, and a lot of scenery. I'm not rushing out to see this movie, but I might rent it sometime. | |
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Do they show him being born? That's one vagina that will NEVER recover.
Does he get smaller and smaller until he turns into an Oscar statue at the end of the credits? Studies have shown the ass crack of the average Prince fan to be abnormally large. This explains the ease and frequency of their panties bunching up in it. |
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moderatorI really want to see this soon! I heard that its a really good mix of a good story, awesome acting and realistic special effects If you will, so will I | |
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Mach said: We saw this last night - I enjoyed it which kinda surprized me because I am not a Pitt fan at all
You liked a movie? 
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Mars23 said: Do they show him being born? That's one vagina that will NEVER recover.
Does he get smaller and smaller until he turns into an Oscar statue at the end of the credits? Ha-ha, no, BB was born regular baby-size not big old man-size. | |
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sextonseven said: Mars23 said: Do they show him being born? That's one vagina that will NEVER recover.
Does he get smaller and smaller until he turns into an Oscar statue at the end of the credits? Ha-ha, no, BB was born regular baby-size not big old man-size. Isn't he born with an old man's face?  If you will, so will I | |
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thekidsgirl said: sextonseven said: Ha-ha, no, BB was born regular baby-size not big old man-size. Isn't he born with an old man's face? Yes, he was born an old baby. | |
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sextonseven said: thekidsgirl said: Isn't he born with an old man's face? Yes, he was born an old baby. did you see it? was it good? If you will, so will I | |
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sextonseven said: thekidsgirl said: Isn't he born with an old man's face? Yes, he was born an old baby. the old babies one of my band name ideas  | |
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thekidsgirl said: sextonseven said: Yes, he was born an old baby. did you see it? was it good? Not yet. There are a million movies I want to see right now: Benjamin Button Che Doubt Gran Torino Milk The Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire Waltz With Bashir Wendy And Lucy The Wrestler And The Spirit 'cos Scarlett Johansson is in it.  | |
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What about that ...Pounds one? I think that's the Tom Cruise one. | |
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Cinnie said: What about that ...Pounds one? I think that's the Tom Cruise one.
I don't want to go anywhere near Seven Pounds or Valkyrie. Especially Valkyrie. Cruise doesn't even try to do a German accent. Ridiculous. | |
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sextonseven said: Benjamin Button Che Doubt Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Wendy And Lucy The Wrestler And The Spirit 'cos Scarlett Johansson is in it. I really need to see these too...I was reading reviews of them in the paper and all sounded good. Frank Miller wrote and directed The Spirit so it should definitely be visually delightful If you will, so will I | |
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Cinnie said: What about that ...Pounds one? I think that's the Tom Cruise one.
Will Smith is in Seven Pounds and I read that it was sappy-crappy  If you will, so will I | |
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I cannot stand Brad Pitt. He has this weird "acting" voice in every movie I've seen him in. It's so annoying!
The movie seems kind of strange. I might see it on DVD. I may have to get drunk first though. | |
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I loved the movie. --»You're my favourite moment, you're my Saturday... | |
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sextonseven said: Cinnie said: What about that ...Pounds one? I think that's the Tom Cruise one.
I don't want to go anywhere near Seven Pounds or Valkyrie. Especially Valkyrie. Cruise doesn't even try to do a German accent. Ridiculous. I thought that was weird too! | |
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thekidsgirl said: Cinnie said: What about that ...Pounds one? I think that's the Tom Cruise one.
Will Smith is in Seven Pounds and I read that it was sappy-crappy Well every Will Smith movie has some cheese on it  | |
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Cinnie said: thekidsgirl said: Will Smith is in Seven Pounds and I read that it was sappy-crappy Well every Will Smith movie has some cheese on it Truer words have never been spoken! He is so annoying in everything If you will, so will I | |
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By the way, I saw previews for all of these movies before the same movie, which is why I have the titles and casts and plots all mixed up
And they all said "DECEMBER" at the end, and I was just like DAMN these are all out now? | |
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Cinnie said: By the way, I saw previews for all of these movies before the same movie, which is why I have the titles and casts and plots all mixed up
And they all said "DECEMBER" at the end, and I was just like DAMN these are all out now? It's the Oscar rush. | |
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Just got back from seeing it. Other than it being a bit long, I loved this movie.  | |
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