Recent Magical Movies
My girlfriend and I have watched a lot of movie lately, some together, some I’ve watched by myself. Some were magical, some average, but mostly decent at the very minimum.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (#61 on IMDb) was freaking phenomenal. So beautiful. That and Slumdog Millionaire (#46 on IMDb) are my two favorite movies this year. Just wanted to make that clear since I recently said that only Slumdog was my favorite of 2008, but that was before I had a chance to watch TCCoBB and I figured that it was too late for another movie to be as good as that.
Other movies I’ve bought and enjoyed recently, both by Tim Burton: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The latter I watched for the very first time with my girlfriend and we both enjoyed it immensely! In fact, we loved it.
Then there’s the classics like Dumb & Dumber and Forrest Gump.
The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio was heartbreaking. That guy can sure act! One of our favorite movies to watch together is Catch Me If You Can. On that note we’ve also bought What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, which I’ve always wanted to watch.
Yes Man (Jim Carrey) was so good we wanted to watch it twice at the cinema. And we did. That leads me to The Truman Show, which should get here soon.
Then there’s Memento, which I’ve only watched once a few years ago.
So many movies…
The Curious Case of A Trailer
This Christmas The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will hit theatres and it’s something I’m starting to really look forward to.
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins “Benjamin Button,” adapted from the classic 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. We follow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button,” is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places he bumps into along the way, the loves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
At first I thought it sounded too weird, but the trailer kinda sold me. At the very least it will be something refreshing, something new.
The movie is based on a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You can read the whole thing if you want to.