The Curiously Boring Case of Benjamin Button

Rating: 3/10 (28 December 2008)

Is there a reason why everybody is praising this movie so much? Definitely Brad Pitt's worst film to date. Benjamin Button attempts to be deep and meaningful, but falls unbelievably short. The film is way to slow and wayyyy to long. I found myself looking at my watch repeatedly throughout the film. Once the film starts and he is an old child, you begin to realize that you now must wait 3 hours for him to grow "old" and die.True, the film is beautiful looking, but beyond that, it is painfully boring. The movie doesn't ever pick up until about the last 20 minutes or so, and in a 3 hour film that's a death sentence. The love story was pointless and never even explained. How does a young girl fall in love with an elderly looking kid? Nobody knows, and it is never explained or discussed. The lighting, CGI, and effects were all beautifully done, but the story was so insanely pointless. The movie could have been shortened immensely, even cut in half. This is a movie that the critics will love, and few others will claim it's beautiful and moving, when really it's just another piece of crap pushing to be meaningful. And i agree with many of the posts, don't even compare it to Forrest Gump. They are in no way similar.