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Benjamin Button
De_El:
The Wrestler, with its grainy, documentarian camerawork and Milk, with its sundrenched '70s color quality and seamless blending of archival footage and the film's own, are both far more "artsy" than the heavy-as-a-walrus-and-just-as-smelly visual metaphors of Benjamin Button.
Dimmukane:
That's more along the lines of what I was talking about (I still tend to think it's a little more offbeat than that, but it's so subjective that there's no point arguing about it). I'm just saying that every movie that gets nominated for best picture is not artsy by default.
KvP:
--- Quote from: Be My Head on 12 Jan 2009, 14:44 ---My impression of this movie (when I saw the trailer on television) was that it was supposed to be "sophisticated" for the sake of being sophisticated and supposed to appeal to people who like "artsy movies" but don't really.
Basically, looked boring as fuck and I probably won't watch it.
--- End quote ---
The word you are looking for is "middlebrow".
God, is this movie middlebrow.
TheDozarian:
I really thought the movie was pretty good... I'm a sci-fi guy... and I thought it was really good. I didn't know about the screenplay writer... but I did think there were similarities while I watched it. The acting was excellent. The story was as well...
If you can't sit still for 3 hours and watch something that requires a little bit of thought and attention, it's definitely worth the time spent to see it...
TheFuriousWombat:
A friend of mine whose opinion I trust in nearly all matters walked out of this part way through. That's all I had to hear. Brad Pitt tends to be immensely bland and the last thing I need is Brad Pitt as a ancient looking 7 year old, much less as plain old Brad Pitt. I've never really liked Fincher. I thought Fight Club and Se7en were both fairly weak, not nearly as impressive as their cult following led me to believe. Another Fincher/Pitt collaboration simply doesn't appeal to me. Fincher doesn't seem to get impressive performances from Pitt, something that, while apparently difficult, has been done by others. Long story short, I'll be skipping this one gladly.
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