Comments on: FILM REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the Audience That Loves This Kind of Crap

By: Hesham

Hesham — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:12:20 +0000

i disagree with you this movie is great actually the kind in which puts you in a mood that you hard to get out of it maybe the rhythm of the movie is a bit slow but this film is a master piece

By: Jihan

Jihan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:50:02 +0000

this film has a spiritual thinking side like that one Abraham Hicks adopted . Please think deep enough to understand .

By: Evoline

Evoline — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:42:29 +0000

I make myself sick my mom eats tooth paste from a toilet bowl

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:20:09 +0000

A terrible movie. Pretentious is the word for it. So much attention paid to cgi, costumes, makeup, and sound. So little attention paid to story (it is SLOW), dialogue (folksy, simplistic one-liners), and especially characterization. The characters here are either cardboard or caricatures. And the framing device emerged as an annoying sub-plot that halted the movie’s meager narrative momentum (ironic because it gave birth to the “main” plot). The sound quality was terrible; halfway through I put the subtitles on (literally). But the movie’s greatest shortcoming is its lack of maturity. Not only does it have a movie-ish look to it (we never forget that we’re watching an expensive Hollywood spectacle that will end with rolling credits and ponderous music), but the entire enterprise lacks a feeling of maturity. It’s as if the movie was made by people who had read about life and human nature, but never experience them directly. Save yourself from this movie; take those several hours and watch instead Twelve Angry Men and To Have and Have Not. And then dream about the past.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:11:22 +0000

Not harsh enough. This movie, like the titular dwarf baby, should have been aborted. The romance made me hate love. The magical negroes made me hate blacks. The sailors made me hate the working class. The ooh-ing and aah-ing of females in the theater when Brad Pitt emerged fully handsome made me hate women. The entire thing made me hate America and myself for participating in the spectacle. All in all the film’s almost perversely brilliant in a feel-bad, reverse psychology kind of way. Maybe that was the intention?

By: GoldenNuggetsDeals

GoldenNuggetsDeals — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:12:39 +0000

a review a bit harsh Eileen.

By: Jack Sanderson

Jack Sanderson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:29:06 +0000

The original short story was not an attempt at humor at all. It was a cynical piece that said that a 50 year old man should not be considered too old for a 20 year old woman because she will probably age faster than he does and they will be equals in a few years.

The film had to be more political correct. Witness how the 60 year old Ben told the 20 year old Daisy that she should “date men who look her own age” but the 15 year old Ben dutifully had sex with the 65 year old Daisy many years later. The film shows how feminism is trying to establish a reverse age difference relationship regime over human nature.

Sure, I liked the film more than the short story because love won the day in the film and the story was just soulless and heartless in the end.

By: Raphael Semmes

Raphael Semmes — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:59:17 +0000

The only good part of the entire movie was the tugboat shooting at a submarine.

By: coffee

coffee — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:17:31 +0000

it was a little weird to see an old version of Brad Pitt’s face pasted onto a kid’s body, but i guess that’s why they call it a “curious case”

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By: John

John — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:50:08 +0000

To be fair, a race riot complete with lynching with Button as one of the black-hating good ol’ boys would have turned the fucking movie on it’s head and made it an indictment of the autofellating schmaltzy Americana it actually turned out to be.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:55:24 +0000

I think Carpenter is upset there weren’t more 60s race mob lynching scenes (with guns).

By: Carpenter

Carpenter — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:50:50 +0000

I suppose that during all that time, Benjamin Button never once holds a weapon? Unless he fought in WWII of course, The One Exception To All Liberal Rules. But going out hunting? Keeping a gun in the home for self-protection? Why, that’s just not something you did in the 1920s, 1930s or 1940s if you were one of the good guys!

But what does a Good Guy in that dark pre-hippies era do? He “deals with the issues of racism” of course, like I read in a starry-lit review. Of course. Write about the 1950s and your hero will never own a gun, but he will of course cry for puppy-eyed Blacks who are attacked by howling racists. A must, it is!

By: Baltimoron

Baltimoron — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:40:47 +0000

Has Eileen Jones ever written a positive movie review?

Not that I’m suggesting she start with “Benjamin Button.” If any movie deserves to be covered in the sort of bile in which Jones specializes, it’s certainly this one.

I’m just wondering if Eileen has it in her to actually *like* a movie. If not, is it masochism that motivates her to continue reviewing films? And if that’s the case, can I holla at a mommy?

By: berlinbear

berlinbear — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:27 +0000

Das Stimmt. What an awful film. To think David “Fight Club” Fincher was responsible. The old baby was actually the best part, and if the special effects department had any balls at all, at the end of the film Mr. Button would have died as an adult-sized baby, whatever that looks like.