This will be a more perfunctory post than I’d like; I’m currently sitting in Manuel’s, Atlanta’s premier left-wing watering hole, to watch some of the first presidential debate. But the call of a new HD trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was one I couldn’t ignore.
Like a lot of you, I’ve fallen prey to worry about this film. I didn’t see the reel that was shown at Telluride, but between that footage, several script reviews and reports of conflict between Fincher and Paramount, Benjamin Button has become the poster child for big, troubled films in ’08. (Hounddog remains the standard-bearer for small, troubled films.)
But this trailer, while not as ethereally beautiful as the first, does nothing to dampen my enthusiasm. I love Pitt’s voice as the youthful, aged Benjamin, I’m taken with Tilda Swinton apparently playing a woman who isn’t a stone cold bitch, and I can’t be more enthralled with the look of the film. My expectations remain tempered, but my hopes are running high. Watch this one and try to stay cynical. I dare you.
The trailer is available in all the new-fangled formats at Apple.
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dare accepted…it still looks like dried donkey shit…what a waste of fincher's talent (hello, companion-piece-to-panic room! Thank you for wasting fincher's talent and two hours of my time!)
Well, at least we know the film will look good. And to the poster above: Who wasted Finchers talent? Its not like Fincher was forced to do the movie or something.
i wasnt being literal, you moron…unless panic room can actually force someone to spend their time making it…in that case, i take back the above post and make panic room my favorite movie of all time
how did you waste 2 hours of your time watching a trailer that is maybe a couple of minutes long? and 'dried donkey shit'? the movie looks interesting and different. cool site, keep up the good work.
I hear the studio's shiting the bricks the size of goddamn watermelon's because this movie's got turkey written all over it. Fucking shame. Fight club and zodiac bomb. Some of fincher's best work. But shit like the panic room makes mint. Well, if this one tanks as hard as zodiac, I'm sure finchy boy could do Panic room 2: A toilet too far.
After the astoundingly fucking perfect ZODIAC, anything Fincher does should immediately have all of our attention. I'm going to try to ignore the bad buzz on this one and go with the trailers, which thus far have been pretty damn enthralling.
As a side note, I didn't miss these talkbacks AT ALL. I'm not much for message boards, but at least they inspire lively debate and thoughtful discussions (especially the CHUD boards). But the anonymity granted by comments sections that don't require a registered username allows, if not promotes, dumbass commentary and sub-human behavior. Of course, that's not the case with ALL posters, but there are far too many comments that feel more at home on AICN than CHUD.
Hey, Scott GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE BITCH.
Also I am doing your wife 🙂
So glad the talkbacks have returned. Sure missed intelligent commentary like this.
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