The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I mentioned I went out to see The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button last night in my post from earlier, but didn't really give my thoughts on it because I felt the film deserves it's own post.

My friends (Jay and Wassy) went to see it over Christmas and they really enjoyed it, so I wanted to make sure I caught it in the theater as well. I prefer seeing movies in the theater with other people…Wassy wanted to see it again (Jay isn't big on seeing movies twice) so we went last night. Aside from the 300 degree heating going on in the theater itself, the movie was really good.

It's the story of a man who was born an old man and ages backwards, becoming younger as the movie progresses and everyone around him gets older. I don't want to spoil anything specific about the plot beyond that, so I'm not going to go into any more details.

If this movie doesn't win an Oscar, I'm going to be really surprised. It's very good all around. Great performances by the lead roles, especially Brad Pitt as Bejimin who completly sells the unlikely situation of a man aging backwards. The cinematography is excellent as well and really deserves to be seen on the big screen. I was also impressed by the fact that, yes…this is a film with a message to deliver, but it doesn't beat you over the head with it. It makes you think without trying too hard at it and it's really deep. I feel I've only scratched the surface of what is in there in my single viewing and I'm looking forward to hearing the commentary track on the DVD release (hopefully there will be a commentary).

The movie is long (runs about 3 hours with trailers and stuff factored in) but I never really felt that it was too long.

Highly recommended. 

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