What story?! Best Adapted Screenplay???

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2008)

I just saw Brad Pitt stumble his way through Benjamin Button. Let me say that this movie appeals to the lowest common denominator. If you liked this movie, your not alone, my girlfriend really liked it; she's not a movie buff either. However, if you enjoy the complexity of a complete story with relatively few holes then don't see this movie. This movie has more holes than my cheese grater. Other comments on here echo my sediments. These characters motives are obscure at best. Why does Benjamin refuse Daisy after he's wanted her for so long? And why when they finally do make love is it a ridiculously quick: "Do you want to make love?" -his response: "Absolutely!" - And then they get busy just like that....? HUH?! This is just another example of Hollywood making a movie based on a 20 page story and writing it into a 3 hour movie -in which it has no more insight into the characters then the 20 page story had. It's a disgrace to make people sit through a 3 hour movie with such horrible story telling. Explain to me how a 3 hour movie written from a 20 page story is an adapted screenplay?! That's an original screenplay 'based on a short story' - wow - please listen to me Hollywood -Stop making 3 hour movies with special effects in place of real emotional dialogue and half developed characters who have completely unseen motives for more than half the movie!!! Argh! Why does Benjamin leave as soon as he finds out Daisy is pregnant??? He would still be able to be a father figure in the body of a 20 year old....and yet they give NO explanation for his decision to leave Daisy - and she just lets him go??? I thought they were in love? Quit jerking the audience around! I wasted 3 hours of my life watching a movie that left you wondering why this character did this and why that character did that...a screenwriter should know that the characters need motivation to create drama in a story. There was drama, but no motive for it. Shame on the screenwriter and director of this film. I want my money back.