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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a review by TomTitle: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Year: 2008 Director: David Fincher Rating: FSK-12 Length: 166 Min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: Dolby Digital TrueHD, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital Surround, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1, Thai: Dolby Digital 5.1, Turkish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Other, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish Stars: Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Plot: '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 backward. Directed by David Fincher (Zodiac, Fight Club) and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as the time-crossed soul mates Benjamin and Daisy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic, time-traveler's adventure into the joys of life, the sadness of death and a love that endures beyond time. Awards:
Extras: Commentary Featurettes Photo Gallery Scene Access Trailers My Thoughts: Nice enough movie. Though it lacks a certain something. It is an interesting concept, but sadly the story just moves along at its leisurely pace without any highlight to speak of.And I am not happy about the choice the main character made at the end. It felt like he was leaving Daisy to have live his "youth" without having the burden of a family. Of course his reasoning is, that she wouldn't have to live with a guy who gets younger and younger. But in the end, he was missing the years he could have easily helped raising their daughter, but was back in her life when she needed to take care of him in his "old" age. Rating: (From Tom's Random Reviews on September 12th, 2009) Ghostbusters , a review by Dragonfire
(From Dragonfire's 2010 Horror Marathon on October 3rd, 2010) The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ DoenaWhat's the show about? At some point in the future the computer system Skynet will become self-aware and start a nuclear assault on mankind. Only a few people survive this holocaust and fight against Skynet and its machines (e.g. the Terminators). The leader of that resistance is John Connor. But that is then, this is now. Now John Connor is a teenage boy who tries to survive attacks before the war has even started. At his side fight his mother, Sarah, and the reprogrammed Terminator called Cameron and together they try to destroy Skynet before it's activated. What happened before? The series takes place two years after the second movie and ignores the third one. It also shifts the time-table forward, making Terminator 2: Judgement Day take place in 1997. "Pilot" It's 1999 and Sarah and John Connor have once again moved to a new town. They live under the alias "Reese" but that's a fatal mistake since that's the name of John's birth-father and the Terminator called Cromartie finds them this way. Luckily for John one of his new classmates, a beautiful young girl named Cameron is also a machine and he protects him. But they have to flee and it's not a matter of where but of when. Cameron initiates a time travel and they find themselves in the year 2007, four years before Judgement Day. My Opinion I began to watch this show open-minded. I was never too invested in the Terminator saga, so a series that ignored a movie was not a problem for me. And I also liked all the major actors from both seasons (after which it was cancelled). But there were some plot issues I couldn't cope with. There was no time travel logic at all - i.e. even less than in the movies. People and Terminators travelled from the future whenever they wanted, no biggie. Still, at some point I seem to have accepted this because I didn't notice it that much in the second season. But the second season had this unsatisfactory three-dots-arc I didn't care for and in the end the only thing that wanted to make me watch a third season was the cliffhanger. But that's not enough. (From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 16th, 2009) |