Viewed at our local theatre.
We liked it contrary to about half the people that reviewed it and some regular folks we talked to about it.
Brad Pitt gets the accolades here from the general reviewing popluation, but Cate Blanchett rules. She was stunning to look upon and achieved her usual high level of actressing. She pulled off some very real looking ballet moves too, I must add. Faune Chambers, who I've never heard of before this, played the black housekeeper that raises Benjamin after finding him on the doorstep. She did an excellent job. I just IMDB'd her and cannot believe what a babe she is - she was not looking like that in the movie, I can tell you.
The script, based upon the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, was intriguing enough to keep us engaged for it's lengthy 166 minutes. We were not bored. We liked the characters and wanted to see what happened to them. If there was anything I would have changed about it, it would be the switching between the hospital scenes where Cate Blanchett, as a dying, aged woman, reveals through her diary read by her daughter, the story of Benjamin Button. There were too many instances of the hospital/past story switches. Despite this, it was a good movie at which to while away a cold, snowy afternoon at the matinee with snacks we snuck in with us in my extra large leather Fossil handbag. (What can I say, we are on a limited budget....)
Brad Pitt gets the accolades here from the general reviewing popluation, but Cate Blanchett rules. She was stunning to look upon and achieved her usual high level of actressing. She pulled off some very real looking ballet moves too, I must add. Faune Chambers, who I've never heard of before this, played the black housekeeper that raises Benjamin after finding him on the doorstep. She did an excellent job. I just IMDB'd her and cannot believe what a babe she is - she was not looking like that in the movie, I can tell you.
The script, based upon the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, was intriguing enough to keep us engaged for it's lengthy 166 minutes. We were not bored. We liked the characters and wanted to see what happened to them. If there was anything I would have changed about it, it would be the switching between the hospital scenes where Cate Blanchett, as a dying, aged woman, reveals through her diary read by her daughter, the story of Benjamin Button. There were too many instances of the hospital/past story switches. Despite this, it was a good movie at which to while away a cold, snowy afternoon at the matinee with snacks we snuck in with us in my extra large leather Fossil handbag. (What can I say, we are on a limited budget....)
Rating for:
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
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