Dreadfully Boring

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

One of the best movies ever made!! just watch.. effects acting and everything is fantastic

First of all, I would like to thank IMDb for their great contribution to the film industry around the world. You can decide either you want to watch the movie before you actually go start wasting your time on a movie that was not of genre.Secondly, The Curious Case Benjamin Button. OK! This is the first time I'm writing a review on IMDb and I would like to mention here that this movie is just underrated. I think this is one of the most important movie of my life. I have never seen such a wonderful movie. Even though there are 1000s of other movies that will stole your heart but this one is really going to stole your soul only if you are an emotional person rather than practical. I had listen about that movie before. It was just a chance when I was removing some data from my friend's mobile and I saw that movie and before deleting it, I just checked it's rating on IMDb and it was 7.8 at that time. So, I thought I will give it a watch tomorrow and today I hope that my life is going to change or I will try to change myself a bit more and my conceptions about the life.In simple words, this movie teaches you what is life and what could be the purpose your life. Each individual viewer can get a unique inspiration from this movie. I don't know what I can write more about this movie but I would also like to thank the entire team of this movie to create such a marvellous gem for the film industry.I don't want to spoil by writing anything about the movie and even I don't have words to describe anything. One day, when I will have my private video library then this movie will be the first one that I would like to buy.I will give this movie 10/10 from bottom of my heart.

The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonDirected by David FincherStarring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Plot Overview: Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flickers in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer (Cate Blanchett). Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.The concept of this movie is fascinating to me. It is probably the strongest point of the movie and is easily what is most talked about. In many respects, it is a gimmick movie but it does carry a lot of weight behind it, elevating it to the status of 'movie'. For a movie that approaches the 3 hour mark, it is undeniably entertaining. I will give it credit.As far as the core story goes, this movie is actually really weak. The concept was great and it is genuinely intriguing but without that concept, the movie is exceptionally weak. It's just a boring, conventional love story. Granted, the movie is built around the concept but that doesn't excuse a pretty by-the-numbers plot. Without the gimmick of ageing backward, I have no doubt this movie would be towing the line of average/awful. I do, however, like the way they concluded the story but I think it would have been a little more poetic if they concluded it a tad bit before, age wise. I do admire the storytelling but the intersections in the modern day were just boring and incredibly uninteresting to me. It sorta reminds me of Memento due to the whole concept of telling a story(in some form) in reverse. I think Memento handled it better but they are very different films so it is kinda unfair to compare them. Brad Pitt is one of my favourite living actors. As far as I know, the man can do no wrong acting wise. And that is no different in this spectacular performance. I cannot commend him enough for this role; it is truly incredible. Button is a fascinating and interesting character, and is quirky enough to make him likable. He is appropriately weird and never overstayed his welcome for me.Cate Blanchett was pretty good in the movie as Daisy but she is far overshadowed by Pitt. As for Daisy as a character, I personally just see her as a generic love interest with no real defining qualities that set her apart. I did buy the relationship between her and Button but it was hard for me to be fully supportive when I felt nothing for her character. I am of the firm belief that David Fincher is incapable of making one of his movies look bad. Every single one of his movies is perfectly shot and edited. They all look fantastic and the atmosphere he creates is one of a kind. The effects and makeup in this movie are also exceptional and look fantastic. They really portray the changing in age for a character.I recommend this movie for the sheer spectacle, effects and performances. It definitely lacks in story but considering it is near 3 hours long, it doesn't feel like it in the slightest. I would definitely watch this movie; I'll rate this movie 8 Voldermort Babies out of 10.

A sweet sentimental tale of a man, Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, who is born in 1918 New Orleans as a diminutive and withered old man and dies in the 1970s as an infant suffering from dementia. Actually, Benjamin Button is not only Brad Pitt, but is played by Peter Badalamenti at the age of around ten, and by Robert Towers as a slightly older teen-aged Benjamin Button. The casting is marvelous. So is the makeup. It took me some time to realize that the ghostly pale, withered figure, the ancient lady wheezing out a few hoarse words and dying in the hospital bed, was Cate Blanchett.It's hard to resist the story. Benjamin Button is an appealing character, soft spoken, honest, and polite. He speaks little and acts mostly as an observer of everyday life in New Orleans, with occasional visits to Murmansk, New York, Paris, and other far-away-place with strange sounding names. It's a very Southern movie in many respects, slow, like Button himself, contrasting the quiet, colorful characters of New Orleans with the rambunctious snobbery of the New York ballet set, the sterility of Paris's hospital room, and the danger and bloodshed of Russia. But, insallah, we do not see a Mardi Gras in New Orleans, just the patient, gracious sound of a ragtime piece played on the appropriately named piano. We only hear a few notes of the ragtime and they're played simply and slowly, like the film itself. The overscore traces the plot with fairy tale harps and celeste.The performances are pretty good all around. Cate Blanchett, of course, is unforgettable -- a fine actress with the most memorable nose in today's movies. Brad Pitt, I didn't care for earlier in his career, another hunk for teens to swoon over, showing his behind as well as the rest of his jacked up body in "Troy." But I've come to appreciate his range after comparing his recedent personality here with his maniacal psychopath in "Kalifornia." Julia Ormond doesn't have much to do as the daughter of Pitt and Blanchett.It's an engaging movie -- I couldn't get away from it -- and the photography and lighting are exceptionally good but I had a problem with the plot. It's a tear jerker. The thing is laid out like an obstacle course. Brief moments of happiness, fame, success are inevitably followed by tragedy. Benjamin Button is a little like Hercule Poirot. When he's around, somebody is going to die, except that, to ratchet up the sentiment quotient, the person who dies must be someone that Button loves or has learned to respect. One by one, his family and friends disappear, usually because of some unnamed disease, as Ali McGraw did in "Love Story." Pitt is given lines that reflect his keen insight, such as, "You can curse the fates; you can go round the moon; but when the end comes you have to let go." The centerpiece of the tale is the relationship between Blanchett, who ages from a ten-year-old girl to a dying old woman, and Pitt, who ages from a sepulchral old man to a dying little baby. That particularly relationship is nicely structured. Blanchett and Pitt have their happiest moments in mid life when they are both the same age. It dampens the manipulative effect of all those unending tragedies.