The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie detailing the life of a boy who ages backwards, told from the perspective of his diary/last will. Benjamin was born a shriveled, wrinkled baby, almost demonic. At the age of seven, on the outside, Benjamin was a crippled man in his late 80s. Yet he still exuded the innocence of a child. Slowly Benjamin ages backwards, gaining new life so to speak; he gradually goes from a wheelchair bound man to a spry one. He lives in an elderly home run by his adoptive mother, queeny. Benjamin meets the grandaughter of one of the residents of the home, a seven-year-old ballerina, Daisy Fuller. Their lives would constantly intersect as Daisy and Benjamin made their respective ways through life, aging in different directions.

Benjamin Button deserves the highest accolades of the movie world. I would compare it to movies like The Dark Knight, Titanic, and Forrest Gump. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett had fantastic chemistry and truly brought the film to life. The dramatic symbolism and various stages of life in the movie were really riveting. I usually do not like long, dramatic movies, but despite The Curious Case being almost 3 Hours, I didn't lose interest for a minute. The life story was seemlessly woven together with an easy to follow format, being told like a story book with various digressions into a small other storyline (The story is being told from New Orleans in 2005, before a major event). The special effects in this picture were also astounding. The wizened man-child really looked like Brad Pitt, and it was very interesting seeing him truly age backwards.

I would give this movie five stars, and I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to waste their money seeing something else.

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As a first time reviewer, hopefully this is alright. Hopefully my background info in the movie plot didn't contain any spoilers :x If I did accidentally add something spoiler-ish, please tell me and I'll remove it.

edit also I know the movie poster's letters are backwards, I think it's supposed to be like that

You've got me hooked Jimbo, I want to see the movie now! Definitely looks interesting if you rate it up there with Forrest Gump (one of my favorite movies).

That was I great movie, however I did not no anything about it before I went in besides that it was a guy aging backwards. I was expecting a comedy actually lol.

Ties for The Dark Night for my favorite movie of 2008.

I saw the movie about 2 days after it came out, truly a great movie. I would compare it to Big Fish, in the way the movie seems just so magical, although Big Fish is far more fictitious than Benjamin Button. Anyways it may be long, but it didnt seem too long, and the ending was awesome.

So, basically go out and see this movie.


EDIT: Just saw the movie a second time because some friends wanted to see it, still just as good although I did notice the length this time. Although I didn't notice anything more than I did the first time around it was nice to see it again.

Movie was really something else. Really a great movie. The only thing I didn't like about it, but it makes sense thematically, I just thought it was too cruel of an ending.

And there actually is comic relief in this movie, whoever thought of the way they added it was a genius.

I really do hate how commercials just show the stupid or funny parts of the movie to get the "average uneducated american" to come see the move, and then the movie comes out to be spectacular. great movie and i would definately watch it again.

Young Queeny was
really

a peice of ass i would see it again just for her

Comparisons to Big Fish are spot on, it has the same atmospheric charm and they are both based on telling a story. Great movie - not quite as good as Big Fish in my opinion, but still excellent.

Good to see these reviews, I'm taking my girlfriend to see it this weekend.

I havent seen it yet but, yeah, after reading this, I probably will, thanks Jimbo!

GREAT MOVIE!!! Actually does rank up with Dark Knight. O.o

Was plesantly suprised. I think I liked it better than she did, lol.

i saw this movie today, and i thought it was outstanding. like a modern day Forrest Gump movie almost. highly recommended!

edit: and yeah, i thought of Big Fish too o_o but this movie was better i believe... a bit more close to home emotionally

Definitely resembles Big Fish very much without being too fictitious. The ending could have been less....depressing. But I really did enjoy it and I highly recommend it.

I'm glad to see everyone enjoyed this as much as I did. I thought it'd be cool to note this received 13 Oscar nominations, only one off from the all-time high.

It received nominations because this year had a terrible crop of movies. There definitely seems to be a real lack of creativity left in the industry. This is a simple feel-good plot, but that is all it takes to make the Oscar committees happy.

CaptKirby did you see the movie ?_? I didn't feel like it was a normal feel-good plot at all, there were a hell of a lot sad points :/ But you're entitled to your opinion.

I also felt like there weren't many good movies this year either (The Reader...), but I think Button was a diamond in the rough.