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Directed By
David Fincher
Written By:
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Cast:
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Taraji P. Henson, Faune A. Chambers, Josh Stewart, Jacob Tolano, Ted Manson, David Jensen, Eve Brent, Patrick Holland, Bianca Chiminello, Louis Herthum, Megan Brown, Wilbur Fitzgerald, Joel Bissonnette, Devyn A. Tyler, Henry Robin, Brianna Womick, Deneen Tyler, Donna DuPlantier, Geraldine Glenn, Ed Metzger, Robert Towers, Henry Pelitire, Rus Blackwell, Aliane Baquerot, Walter Delmar, Jody Thompson, Craig Sawyer, Allison Robin, Joe Fontana, Louis Dupuy, Victoria Goulet, Jason McLaughlin, Carol Dupuy, Tom Everett, Duncan Key, Raymond Lapino, Cynthia LeBlanc, Jay Oliver, Chaz Smith, David Ross Paterson, John David Smith, Michael Wozniak, Brett Beoubay, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Chandler Canterbury, Jeanne Bourgeois, Lance E. Nichols, Spencer Daniels, Dewayne Bateman, Deejay Buras, Malerie Grady, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Joshua DesRoches, Emma Degerstedt, Eric West, Charles Henry Wyson, Naima Imani Lett, Katta Hules, Myrton Running Wolf, Libby Foster, Angelina McCoy, Lauri Christi, Emily Howe, Christopher Maxwell, Cameron Cash, Taren Cunningham, Zuri Goldman, Garrett Forbes, Aaron Jennings Hartnell, Kate Donadio, Paula Gray, Mitchell Falk, Nadyia Jones, Madisen Beaty, Joeanna Sayler
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
June 17th, 2009
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What an insanely, infuriatingly slow and boring movie. This could have been a television show where people followed it rabidly like "Lost" and all those other inexplicable shows that I don't "get" the popularity of and it would have been great.... For the people who watch that kind of stuff.
As a movie, there are portions of this movie that just feel plain wrong. When he's "young" - that being when he's aged 12 years or so but still looks like a doddering old man - he falls in love with a girl about the age of 6. And having a young daughter, I don't care how charming the movie is supposed to be, I would not have been OK with that. I don't care if the people around him grew used to the situation, there is something creepy and wrong about an old baby who ages in reverse until he dies of infancy.
The fact that they carry on the romance for so long, finally meeting in their respective middles didn't move me. Watching Cate Blanchett nurse the "elderly" little kid that was Benjamin with Alzheimer's didn't move me. Perhaps I'm just cold hearted, but I fought to stay awake during this movie. I found it tedious and plain boring. Not heart warming or thought provoking or anything else that all the hype surrounding it built it up to be.
I'm not going against the grain just to do so. This has never been my nature. I genuinely disliked this movie very much. Great art direction, sure. Taraji was the best character in it, yeah. But all the acclaim that it got was plain bupkis in my honest opinion.
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 | The Alpha Craig
Jun 18, 2009 3:42 PM
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| The only thing that really separates this story from any other story that chronicles a persons life is that he ages backwords. This should have been a mini-series. |
 | Tim
Jun 19, 2009 9:05 PM
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| god Zara...couldnt agree with you more....so boring.... |
 | Suzanne
Sep 25, 2009 5:54 AM
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lmao! @ "I don't care if the people around him grew used to the situation, there is something creepy and wrong about an old baby who ages in reverse until he dies of infancy."
I didnt understand the acclaim this movie received either
and LOST roolz! |
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