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The New CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONS Trailer Looks Like A Trailer For A Masterwork From David Fincher!
Hey folks, Harry here - I know a few people that have seen Fincher's latest film, the crazy digital effects that you see affecting Brad Pitt's character are a very time consuming process, but that the film as it is right now... is just the most brilliant thing Fincher has ever done.
I CAN NOT WAIT! Eric Roth seems to be operating in comfortable materials, but from a much better source than Gump came from, but a magical story that is equally amazing and everywhere. This will be THE movie to watch for Awards this year!
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The Finch never disappoints.
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and this along with the Wrestler are my most anticipated movies of the fall. I'm more excited to see this than I am to see Watchmen. Just saw Fight Club again, the other day, and Fincher is just brilliant. fyi, I think Zodiac is his best work to date.
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That's all i really have to say. I will be checking this out.
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who is he? and what does he have to do with the latest david fincher film?
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"looks like a trailer for a masterwork"? Goddamn, you're a fucking idiot, what with this and NOT-EVEN-MADE-YET "Green Hornet" directed by Chow is "the greatest movie of all-time."
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But then, you knew that.
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This is a movie I would forget about constantly. "Oh, right. That's coming out."
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In a strange way, I feel like we might actually be getting into Fincher's prime from Zodiac onward. He's certainly gotten a second wind. I just like that he's trying new things on this one, but does feel like a Fincher film (and not in a Panic Room sorta way). I honestly had no interest in the premise for this film, but it looks great. Not his best work by any means, but certainly great.
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I was very disappointed when I saw this trailer yesterday and saw how unrealistic the effects looked for the younger/older Benjamin Button. I'm really hoping they just aren't finished and it will look better when released, but I'm starting to think that's what we're gonna get. What would've been so bad about just having a young actor in old makeup?
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very cool trailer
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Sounds like hyperbole to say it's the best thing Fincher's done... until you watch the trailer. The dude just keeps topping himself. I'm real excited for this one.
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...that's the best movie of the year for me. Screw the senile morons. Kubrick had a similar treatment but so what? I hope The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will finally force Academy Awards to notice and nominate accordingly for artistic merits instead of seasonal politics. Unless it's a leaden pacing that kills the momentum for the film in terms of entertaining the audience without snoozing and prompt walkouts.
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Best Picture
Best Director
Best Female in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Leading Role
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when kate blanchette and tilda swinton were both up and comers i used to get them confused with each other.. they shouldnt be in the same movie... or maybe they should.
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I mean, sorry, Brad's pretty good and all but even he can't pull off a ten-year old. To phrase it very badly.
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Unfortunately we live in an age where movies like Juno get all the praise and movies like Zodiac go over people's heads.
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Awesome to see Fincher releasing new material so soon, more awesome to see that it's not a freaking remake, sequel, reimagening, It's not even based on a book! just a good ol script didn't know those still existed on horellywood
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to see all the love for Zodiac, on the site. It's a masterwork from a brilliant director. Ok, it got snubbed by the Academies but who really cares about that shit? I know it feels good to see the films you love awarded but you know the system is stupid anyway so why bother getting mad about it? I mean, they gave the Best Picture Oscar to Crash. That right there voids the legitimacy that the Oscars possess.
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this does look pretty damn good actually.
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Don't screw me like you did with ZODIAC, you motherfuckers!
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the crowd really responded to it.
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720 my arse!
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So, he's grows up backwards. It's just another coming of age flick with a twist and masquerading as a period piece. I'm already bored.
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Just that. Wow.
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hope this movie wins everything
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- I wonder if they used reference of Robert Redford for the 'older' stuff? 'Cause Pitt sure does resemble him at times.
That "Seven" shot's eye movement is a bit funny/measured, as is the 'muscleman' shot, but considering the difficulty (this is the hardest thing you could possibly do in effects), it's pretty darn good, and already a million times better than Fincher's disturbing dry-run on those Redenbacher (is that the one?) popcorn ads! -
It's based on a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, if I recall. Do your research :)
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Has potential to be a masterpiece. I really have high hopes for this film. Whenever I have heard Fincher talk about his work I have always been struck by his "film sense". This guy understands American style film grammar better than anyone... or at least he's in good company with the likes of people like Spielberg and Scorsese.
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Its nice to know that old school classic film making is still alive in some form. There is a small group of directors that puts out consistantly quality work and Fincher is one of them. Its just too bad that Anthony Minghella died he did similarly brilliant work.
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Comign of age flick, are you fucking kidding me? The whole theme of starting out old and becoming younger and younger totally alienates you from the rest of the world. This has the potential to be really powerful stuff. And not only emotionally powerful but narratively, that is an absolutely interesting concept, so where does boredom even come into play? I see nothing but intrigue.
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Besides his immense ability as a director, I admire Fincher for being the only guy so far who has done HD right. AND he used HD to go and make what I consider the second best movie last year (and possibly in the past 10-15 years) with Zodiac. (My #1 is TWBB for anyone who cares...) He did a great interview in a podcast about how he arrived at shooting uncompressed HD straight to external drives through experimentation on commercials and that he only had to use minimal lighting. To the point where Harris Savides said to him something like, "You can practically light it and do everything yourself now, you only have me here for my opinion." I LOVE that about Fincher - he's just like Kubrick in that way. He says it certainly doesn't put him in high regard with the 200 people that normally work on a movie, but he really wants to get filmmaking down to the point where you can shoot something beautiful and tell your story without the tail wagging the dog, as can happen on a film set when things get out of control. He also is smart in realizing that a 35mm sensor is not the end-all, be-all, but rather a super 16 sized sensor where you can GET those shallow DOF shots if you need to, but you also have the ability to shoot in lower light without focus being so critical as it is with a 35mm surface area. It's kind of the opposite of the mentality of all these mini-HD productions where they think you still need the enormous apparatus, you just make up different names for the crew members. It's the mentality of a true artist, who wants to eat and breathe the film as he's making it, even to the point of holding the camera himself. It really brings filmmaking closer to other artforms, even though it will always be collaborative, HD can be used to 'cut out the fat' as they say, and that's exactly what Fincher is doing with it.I also want to say that getting into HD DVD for $150 with Amazon (and now a blu-ray/HD DVD combo player... oh well...) was worth it JUST for being able to enjoy Zodiac in high def for the past 9 months. Fucking breathtaking...
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Sep 27, 2008 4:48:41 PM CDT
Yeah, Digital will be the language of the next generation of Fil
by filmz0mbie
35mm is still 35mm, but I get the feeling people are going to start doing some really interesting things with digital.
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I could literally talk for hours about why Zodiac is so incredible. This looks to be just as good. I'm glad to see Fincher making (quality) movies much more frequently, and I hope this film gets some recognition, versus what happened with Zodiac.
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and had to be hard to fill out what was a short story into a full 2 hour movie
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As a keen fan of Fincher's work myself, I'd love to see this do extremely well, but having read in Variety it's budget (Paramount are going halves on it with Warner Bros) has spiralled to close to around 150 - 170 mill, I'd be surprised if it'll make a profit for both parties, with the heavy competition it'll have in late December.
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I found the trailer to be exceptionally moving. Yeah, I tend to get emtional, but not usually this much over a trailer. I'm looking forward to this one, especially after Burn After Reading - Pitt impressed me with that. Oh, and Cate Blanchett is genius. That doesn't hurt.
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Stop riding Pitt's Cock.
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I've lived south of the Mason-Dixon for most of my life, and I've never met ANYONE who talks like Hollywood actors think Southern people talk.
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Looks like another home run by Fincher. He is to dark drama what Pixar is to animation. Thanks Fincher for making intelligent movies that do not speak only to the lowest common knuckle-draggin denominator (I'm looking at you Michael Bay!).
Seven, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac and now this.... Academy, it's time to recognize this great talent. Don't overlook him again. -
Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, Australia and The Dark Knight are the top contenders for the Oscars. A pity Miracle of Santa Anna is disapointing in reviews, it'd have made a nice quintet in terms of genres.
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yeah, but Zodiac only made half its budget in domestic, and made well past it's budget worldwide...by like $20 mil, not to mention big DVD sales.this one is going to make it's money back and then some in the theaters. but maybe not by a big margin. (I think it can do $150, but if it's budget really does end up at like $175, that's a stretch)but with DVD sales, it'll do fine. I still can't quite believe it's budget is that high, shooting on digital after all the effects cost goes down slightly. but I guess Fincher does shoot like 10 times as much as any other filmmaker, and for a long movie, even more so.
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Pitt wasn't born in Hollywood. He's from the midwest. And considering people these days don't sound the same (intonations, drawl or cadence) as their great great grandparents (which is the era we're talking up to more recent), I think your post is a bit redundant. Cheers.
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More like medium-big. Scary but true.
Cifra, Australia is probably only a contender fr 'technical'/art dept Oscars. It's not really about the cookie-cutter story, it's about the grand vistas. You'll see (if they ever finish the thing)... -
For another interesting post - the whole super 16 vs 35 sensor bit. That Fincher. There was a story in an animation magazine about him doing optical stuff on Twice upon a Time back in the old ILM days and how he was telling the vets what to do even then!
And what strange sort of a world is it where we get 2 movies from him in as many years? He's "Ridley Scott"-ing things up! -
..take place in the South? It's a shitty cliche.
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Absolutely stunning! God, I love me some Fincher
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Can't Wait.
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Please continue (as in this case) to make the films YOU want to see, and I'll keep showing up.
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You inspire such cheesy after-school memories...
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It's one of my favourites, and definitely my favourite by Fitzgerald (though I've only read a few of his). The strange thing is that the tone of the story--if I'm reading it correctly--is more comic, almost gently satirical. The last few paragraphs are fairly touching, though. I remember thinking, after reading it, that Fitzgerald had done something marvellous: come up with an interesting idea, and then pulled it off well. Too many writers come up with an interesting idea and do nothing with it, or just coast, thinking that the idea itself invests the story with brilliance.
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the oscar for best visual effects. Hands down.
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so its rather depressing to see the talkbacks filled with the usual negative boring nonsense. "the fx look shit" wah wah wah.
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Are you talking about some other TB? Because before your post there was only 1 "effects are shit" post, from Greenleaf. I wouldn't call that "filled". The rest of the thread has been pretty much a Fincher lovefest! Seeing as Meatbiscuit's less than articulate post is ironically "horrible and boring and dumb", you can probably strike that one too!
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Can't sleep? Watch the trailer.
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Sep 28, 2008 6:39:33 PM CDT
It looks like Fincher is finally living up to the promises...
by rbatty024
he made in his early films but failed to deliver until Zodiac. Don't get me wrong, I root for the guy, but until Zodiac his only good film was Seven, and even that film got by on style over substance.
It would also be nice for a Fitzgerald story to get the film treatment it deserves. Oh, and if you've read and liked "Benjamin Button" then I would highly recommend "A Diamond As Big As the Ritz" by Fitzgerald. It's a wonderfully strange and subversive satire. One of my favorite short stories. -
Does anyone kow what that is from?
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like the most boring movie ever. I dub thee Barsky.
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This movie looks stunning, and the premise is very intriguing. Also i think Zodiac was a brilliant film.
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and I'm really glad to see jason Flemyng getting more screentime. Even though he's a friend, he's an amazing actor.
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it's too much, no one will want to see this on Christmas.
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A brilliant idea, possibly a good moral, looks beautiful, could be Fincher's - or maybe Pitt's? - chance for an Oscar. Has all the right ingredients, and even a good opening date... It's one to watch this awards season.
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absolutely beautiful
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the music is the "Aquarium" movement of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals.
It was used in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. It's also used in a great cinematography documentary called Visions of Light.
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