I too have just recently experienced the Benjamin Button movie experience and I too was deeply moved by the themes and characters that David Fincher so eloquently introduced to his audience through the eyes of his lead character. As Adam already touched base on in his review of the movie, the theme of time, its importance and its fleetingness, was flooded throughout the entire film. This idea about being aware of the time we have on this earth and what we do with it is something I have coincidentally been recently wrestling with in my own personal life greatly so sitting through a 3 hour movie based on that idea was very inspiring and enlightening.
Brad Pitts choices in how he presented Benjamin throughout the movie were stellar at the least. Just the way he talked and reacted to the people around him was enough to make the audience think hard about every line of dialogue from either himself or the rest of the cast around him. I left the theater with feelings that haunted me the rest of the night and that is saying a lot about a film in my book. And not only did Mr. Fincher not disappoint me in the areas of story and characters, but he also pulled out all the stops in special effects and cinematography, using a lot of the old tricks we know and love him for as well as plenty of new ones.
This movie struck me as one that I don’t think most people will fully grasp or comprehend. I think on the surface most will take it as a special effects spectacle interlaced with a love story. But really its a magnificent film with an epic story that is reminiscent of movies like Forrest Gump, taking place over decades of time as it follows one mans unique walk through life. I hope that a lot of the early predictions are right and it will end up on some of the oscar rosters but even if it doesn’t I will be glad to have gotten to experience it.
Ever since the release of the original Underworld in 2003 I have been mildly obsessed with the Vampire & Lycan world that Len Wiseman created. I have been an avid vampire movie fan for a while and Underworld was, in my opinion, the epitomy of the cool vampire flick. The art direction, special effects and gruesome violence caught my eye and the story, characters and acting got me hooked. It also helps that Kate Beckinsale is one of my all-time favorite actresses. Suffice to say I enjoyed the sequel, Underworld Evolution, just as much as the first and was excited to see that a third was in the making in the form of a prequel.