The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

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modage

#120
March 19, 2009, 03:04:45 PM


fanmade. but wouldn't that be more up their alley?
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

Stefen

#121
March 19, 2009, 03:12:51 PM
Maybe it's not final artwork. It's just the poster splashed onto a cover. Criterion has standards and something called integrity.
Falling in love is the greatest joy in life. Followed closely by sneaking into a gated community late at night and firing a gun into the air.

Gold Trumpet

#122
March 19, 2009, 03:31:08 PM
Quote from: SiliasRuby on March 19, 2009, 01:56:58 PM
What about the blu-ray GT?

As far as I know, Criterion is releasing it on Blu Ray, too.

I don't mind the cover because I know David Fincher isn't big on cover art the way other filmmakers are. But, it could be just cardboard art to the real DVD art. The Royal Tennebaums DVD had a cardboard cover on top of the real design work. It was there so buyers would recognize the film when buying it.

Sleepless

#123
March 20, 2009, 11:38:01 AM
Quote from: Stefen on March 19, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
I think it's good. Isn't it big movies like Armageddon and The Rock that keep Criterion afloat financially so they can release other smaller movies?

But those are good films.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

Gold Trumpet

#124
March 20, 2009, 11:45:27 AM
Quote from: Sleepless on March 20, 2009, 11:38:01 AM
Quote from: Stefen on March 19, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
I think it's good. Isn't it big movies like Armageddon and The Rock that keep Criterion afloat financially so they can release other smaller movies?

But those are good films.

What really keeps Criterion afloat is a dedicated following and the importance their collection has to institutions so libraries and univerisities send away for them.

But, Sleepless, not to sound brash, but really?

Stefen

#125
March 20, 2009, 12:01:39 PM
Quote from: Sleepless on March 20, 2009, 11:38:01 AM
Quote from: Stefen on March 19, 2009, 02:00:25 PM
I think it's good. Isn't it big movies like Armageddon and The Rock that keep Criterion afloat financially so they can release other smaller movies?

But those are good films.

I wouldn't say good. They're certainly fun (especially The Rock) but I wouldn't ever consider either a good film.
Falling in love is the greatest joy in life. Followed closely by sneaking into a gated community late at night and firing a gun into the air.

Sleepless

#126
March 23, 2009, 08:25:38 AM
Okay, I really like Armageddon. Maybe "good" is too strong, if you wanted to get down to the nittier-grittier aspects of the film-making. But yeah, they're fun, certainly. I would much rather watch one of those than BB again. In fact I'd rather have my toenails pulled out than watch BB again.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.

Pas

#127
March 23, 2009, 08:30:15 PM
aww the Rock is really fun I LOVED LOVED it as a kid... but Armageddon even my 12 y-o self was bored

MacGuffin

#128
April 11, 2009, 11:17:15 PM
Hollywood to Bollywood: Spare 'Benjamin Button'

Advertisements placed by Warner Brothers warned Bollywood film producers not to proceed with a planned Hindi remake of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Agence France-Presse reported. Last month The Times of India reported that the Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai would star in a film called "Action Replay," about a man who ages in reverse. The plot appears to mirror "Benjamin Button," the David Fincher film that starred Brad Pitt as a man who is born elderly and dies as a baby; that movie was produced by Warner Brothers and Paramount. In the advertisements, which appeared in The Times of India and local trade publications on Monday, a New Delhi law firm representing Warner Brothers said it would pursue legal action against any film made "either in English or Hindi or other language, having a similar script, screenplay or story line or character sketches or interplay of characters or sequence of events" to "Benjamin Button," according to Agence France-Presse.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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MacGuffin

#129
May 07, 2009, 03:26:58 PM
Already my vote for Best DVD for next year's xixax awards. The three hour doc is superb. Looks and sounds incredible.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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The Perineum Falcon

#130
May 08, 2009, 10:36:07 AM
Here's a video essay on Button by Matt Zoller Seitz, the same guy who did the Wes Anderson essay Mod posted:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/present-tense-20090508#
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.

cinemanarchist

#131
May 16, 2009, 07:13:08 PM
That documentary is astounding and by the end of it I really thought I could go back and like the movie, but that script is still garbage and Fincher was still the wrong guy for the film.
My assholeness knows no bounds.

Ghostboy

#132
May 17, 2009, 02:01:20 AM
Quote from: cinemanarchist on May 16, 2009, 07:13:08 PM
That documentary is astounding and by the end of it I really thought I could go back and like the movie, but that script is still garbage and Fincher was still the wrong guy for the film.

Ha ha, I felt the same way.
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