The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)'s comments - page 2

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akuma587

@morningdew

People make the comparisons because the same screenwriter wrote both of them. And I agree with you that the movies are different on so many levels it is hard to compare them beyond a wide angle view of the films. Tonally, the films are incredibly different for one. Visually, they are completely different as well.

The main similarity is the theme that you have two people in life who sort of miss each other because of circumstances beyond their control. But even in that respect, both of the stories take it in a very different direction. Not even the war plots in the movies are really at all that similar. The charting pf people's lives against some aspect of American history is done in a ton of films as well. Sunset Boulevard would be a good example, as would Across the Universe, or with non-American history The Pianist and The Lives of Others.

13 years ago

O-Critic

actually it's nothing like Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump somehow became involved with different periods of the late twentieth century that were crucial to pop culture, such as the Vietnam War, protests, running craze, etc. Benjamin Button grew up during certain parts of early twentieth century but wasn't too involved. The love interests were different and had different motivations. Just because a character goes through a large amount of time with some reflection of the periods doesn't mean it's like Forrest Gump. If anything, Forrest Gump is about how a person can do so much with the little that he has. Benjamin Button is about how life is defined by moments, not time or age.

13 years 1 month ago

Scratch47

Beats the pants off of Slumdog Millionaire, though not great. Great CG though.

13 years 7 months ago

viper_najem

Good. But still miles better than that over-hyped Bollywood cliché Slumdog...

14 years 3 months ago

akuma587

Robbed at the Academy Awards last year by the inferior Slumdog Millionaire.

14 years 4 months ago

Siskoid

It's a David Fincher film and one that really takes its time, though I can't say I was ever bored or restless, even as it hit the 2h45 mark. It's a much more lyrical film than Fincher fans might be used to, and there's plenty of interesting aesthetic choices to keep the alert viewer engaged. The storm cloud/lightning leitmotif alone is enough to make me watch again some time.

7 years 5 months ago

jessetx86

Stupid!

10 years 11 months ago

Joker of Gotham

It´s impossible not to like the character of Benjamin Button, my favorite line was what the captain said about the sex life of benjamin, beautiful end
4/5

11 years 5 months ago