You can turn off my morphine drip now. I'm numb from boredom.

Rating: 5/10 (1 January 2009)

Bad way to frame a film -- at the bedside of an elderly woman who's dying and on morphine drip. There's a scene where Benjamin is working on a tug boat, and the boat lets go a blast of its horn which sounds like a fart. Cut to the bedside, and the daughter asks her mother: "Did you say something, Mom?" Not the best editing I've seen this year.
The tinkly music that cushioned every scene was unbearable. After an hour of this stuff I walked. Just the prospect of, what?, an hour and a half more of Brad Pitt left to come was just too bleak. This is one of the "best films of 2008". Oh well, I know it's been a terrible year for films, so that's no surprise.