Movies Rate The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

[I Fusion I]

One of Fincher's most polarizing films, what did you think about it?

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

A long movie with a lot of worn out tropes that ultimately had nothing to say except time is cruel and death sucks.

 

[drstrangelov]

It was ambitious and at the time technically impressive, but a bit hollow ultimately and not much fun. The leads were good and kept it from being terrible, but it wasn’t great. 5/10

 

[I Am Legion]

Different, dads were excellent. But overly long and slow at times. Worth a watch bc everything else is so formula driven, it’s a nice change.

 

[RedFoxOne]

I'd argue it's one of Pitt's worst performances.

He goes through the movie like he's unsure of what his college major will be.

And I always thought Fincher's cerebral approach kills most actor's charisma, but Pitt always did well with him (Seven, Fight Club) but he just stunk in this movie. So I was kind of shocked at how limp his performance was through the whole thing.

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

Never bothered with it.

 

[Mark McMichael]

The movie was a 7 but i bump it to an 8 as it was fresh material for me.

So many movie concepts are just recycled and that was a unique spin on de-aging for me that was not just the Tom Hanks, 'Big' type aging or de-aging where the person is suddenly forced to live as another age.

 

[Fedorgasm]

This movie was garbage.

The story was dumb so it shouldn't have even been made, but once he chose the script, fincher didn't even do a good job of directing it.

Tonally it was a mess, at times feeling like he was trying to force a Forrest Gump tone, and at other times a Shawshank tone.

Not to mention the abrupt and jarring shift during that stolen sequence where she gets hit by a car. It's like he saw another movie and liked that sequence so he forced it into this film even though it didn't fit at all.

I like fincher's other work but this is not the kind of material he's good at.

He's still a great director. Live and learn.

 

[cooks1]

Liked it. Forrest Gump meets temporal anomaly.

Not as good as Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Shawshank type films, but I enjoy films like this where the story itself is almost like the main character instead of the actors.

It's a rare thing where you can watch a slow paced movie that runs 2.5-3 hours and still leave it feeling like it was not all that long.

 

[JBSchroeds]

Liked it. Forrest Gump meets temporal anomaly.

Not as good as Green Mile, Road to Perdition, Shawshank type films, but I enjoy films like this where the story itself is almost like the main character instead of the actors.

It's a rare thing where you can watch a slow paced movie that runs 2.5-3 hours and still leave it feeling like it was not all that long.

We had very different experiences. I felt like it was every second of its 2.5+ hrs. The whole thing felt so pretentious to me, like it was trying so damn hard to be cinema.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

It had Jared, son of Richard

 

[I Fusion I]

It's not perfect but far from being a bad film.

 

[dragonsfly]

I did not like this movie at all... It creeped the shxt out of me

 

[StonedLemur]

One of Fincher's most polarizing films, what did you think about it?

It's a good movie, but lacks rewatchablity.

 

[I Fusion I]

It's a good movie, but lacks rewatchablity.

I only rewatch it when I do the Fincher marathon.

 

[StonedLemur]

I only rewatch it when I do the Fincher marathon.

Gotcha

 

[CaptHANDSUP]

I really loved it when i watched it as a kid, one of my favourites haha. I can imagine id be able to see its flaws more now.

 

[mightywang1]

I hate Brad Pitt movies.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Damn, tough crowd.

I thought it was great.

My favorite part of the movie was when Pitt's character just went off in his own traveliy to India, etc.

Seemed like a cool time in his life.

I actually have it on Blu-ray

Think it's part of the criterion collection.