The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Me, Cal and Tom went and saw the Curious Case of Benjamin Button the other day and i was pleasantly surprised.
The fact that it actually held my attention the whole time(nearly 3 hours long) was quite amazing.
I am now officially a fan of Brad Pitt, but the one problem with his acting in this movie was that i don't think he showed enough emotion. It didnt go deep enough into that side of it, so instead of being a fantastic movie, it was only great.
I feel the director might have blown it a bit, as storyline's this original don't come round very often, but although it looked good, i kept thinking that it was just a pretty standard way of telling the story.
Even though it was sad, but also humorous, it did not captivate my emotions, just skimming the surface rather, of mild amusement. This was not to say that i did not enjoy it, becuase i definatley did.
But i left thinking what could have been though.
Imagine a plot like that, with a better screenplay, and some powerful acting like Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight, and hey presto! It would have been a 5/5

instead its a 3.5/5

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"The curious case of Benjamin Button" is a brilliantly filmed tale of a man born a baby, but with all the looks and disadvantages of an old man in his 80's! He ages backwards! curious in its self. Well worth making a film about! Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett lead the cast in spectacular form! story begins with daisy (Blanchett) as an old woman mere minutes away from death, her daughter (Caroline) stumbles upon a diary the Benjamin wrote for her mum when he was travelling the world! as Caroline reads the story travels back in time to when Benjamin was born, as he grows up as an old man and all the things he discovers as he grows young and not old! he gains hair, loses wrinkles and in his youth, pimples! he meets his life's love daisy at a party where his real father discarded him! his foster mother Queenie is a hilarious woman who cooks and takes care of the aged with her husband. They r most lovable characters and is a good environment for Ben to grow young in! along with his foster parents Benjamin has a lot of company in the other aged people coming and going, they tell him stories, teach him to play the piano and set his first 17 years firmly as a place he can call home!

Benjamin finds friends in the big wide world, lovers, and even manages to fight in the 2ND world war, but only on a tug boat salvaging damaged war ships. always in contact with daisy he learns to live a life of his own and to not be afraid to go after what he wants!
daisy eventually ends up in a car accident which creates a shift between them, that are later remedied in their late thirties and mid forties and fifties. They r married (unofficially) for over 30 years until Ben becomes more of a hindrance then a husband and he decides to leave his daughter in daisy's care as he becomes younger and younger!
eventually becoming a small boy with Alzheimer's who is mischievous and childish and looks like a young child but who has lived a life of a man in his late 70's. fortunately daisy meets up with him in her old age and takes care of him till the last moment of his life as a little baby in her arms!

thoroughly enjoyable movie! sad, funny, romantic, action filled and all the while a brilliant drama one for the many ages ahead to watch!

"The curious case of Benjamin Button" rated: 4/5

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