The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fincher, 2008)
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I think since Fight Club, for whatever reason, his films have had this subtle dreamlike quality to the visuals. Maybe it's the type of camera he's using or the post work on the visuals but they've looked a bit...off. Maybe the visuals look soft, or to what I'm calling soft, giving me this dreamlike visual form that Fincher gives out.
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I think Fincher is going more for a lack of "Fincher-Style" lately. All his films have a dark palette, but beyond Se7en and Fight Club, there haven't really been any wretched and decrepit environments that seem to scream "Fincher-Style." He seems to get more classy and confident as each film passes. It's that restraint that really impresses me.
Then again, his last few films didn't really need cameras swooping upside down and inside out while characters have sex.
Then again, his last few films didn't really need cameras swooping upside down and inside out while characters have sex.
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I'm confident when Fincher joins up with Pitt, they've ended up being my favorite movies - Se7en and Fight Club.
Its pretty high on the Oscar charts already - I'm looking at it for Best Picture and Best Actor. Heres a good comparison chart:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_...rs-319273.html
Its pretty high on the Oscar charts already - I'm looking at it for Best Picture and Best Actor. Heres a good comparison chart:
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_...rs-319273.html
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I went from mild intrigue to fervent impatience with this film. The newer trailer is dynamite, and I'm finally coming around to the idea that it could be a major awards contender. Since The Wrestler, The Road, and The Soloist got pushed back, this is pretty much the only film I'm really looking forward to that I can likely see before the year is out.
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I went from mild intrigue to fervent impatience with this film. The newer trailer is dynamite, and I'm finally coming around to the idea that it could be a major awards contender. Since The Wrestler, The Road, and The Soloist got pushed back, this is pretty much the only film I'm really looking forward to that I can likely see before the year is out.
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The Road was. The Wrestler is still set for a late December released in Limited, afaik, thats how it was always set (It will open on December 31st for Oscar purposes, wider release on Jan 16th). Something tells me those internet savvy, unethical you-know-whos will be seeing The Wrestler before the rest of us. (I'm talking about film critics, of course...)
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Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat is scoring the film.
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Brief early industry review emailed to Variety:
It's magic realism propelled by extraordinary filmmaking technology but it's not remotely what I'd call cold. It creates a world of oddities and wonderful, off-kilter characters but the whole piece is anchored by a decades long relationship that gets strained, frayed, breaks and rebuilds into something profound and moving.
The achievement is big and bold and ambitious and life-affirming, but the sentimentality is always toughened by the continual sense of loss and deep sadness at the transitory nature of the human condition. If it sounds like an art movie, it absolutely is, but it's a four quadrant art film!
The achievement is big and bold and ambitious and life-affirming, but the sentimentality is always toughened by the continual sense of loss and deep sadness at the transitory nature of the human condition. If it sounds like an art movie, it absolutely is, but it's a four quadrant art film!
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Despite not liking Brad Pitt at all, & always feeling he is very overrated as an actor, I find myself more & more looking foward to this movie. Helps that Blanchet & Swinton are my two favorite actresses. I have a feeling that if the story really works in this movie, this could be a modern classic & have really good legs at the box office.
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Variety review:
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" represents a richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling. This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion. An example of the most advanced technology placed entirely at the service of story and character, this significant change-of-pace from director David Fincher poses some daunting marketing challenges, even with Brad Pitt atop the cast. Strong critical support will be needed to swell interest in this absorbing, even moving, but emotionally cool film, which is simultaneously accessible and distinctive enough to catch on with a large public if luck and the zeitgeist are with it.
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I think Fincher is going more for a lack of "Fincher-Style" lately. All his films have a dark palette, but beyond Se7en and Fight Club, there haven't really been any wretched and decrepit environments that seem to scream "Fincher-Style." He seems to get more classy and confident as each film passes. It's that restraint that really impresses me.
Then again, his last few films didn't really need cameras swooping upside down and inside out while characters have sex.
Then again, his last few films didn't really need cameras swooping upside down and inside out while characters have sex.
The best of his darker films IMO.