While it may be too sentimental or conscious in its machinations for many of you, I cried for two hours straight during The Tale of Benjamin Button. Two hours. It was exhausting.
I'm surprised that someone with as nuanced a view of story, character, and dialogue as you actually enjoyed this film.
I was crying, but mainly because it took too long to reveal a story that didn't really amount to anything involving characters who lacked any depth or charisma. Queenie was the only character I liked at all, and the rest just seemed so cloyingly forced, contrived, and poorly conceived that it mainly felt like torture. Beautiful torture, but not much else.
While Benjamin got younger, the audience certainly seemed to age in the endless vacuum of Forest Gump starring Brad Pitt.
Wait, sorry-- Tilda Swinton's character was also lovely. I cannot overlook her clear contribution to an otherwise unimpressive use of material. I'm sorry to be so critical, but with such a great storyline, I had hoped for more.
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Date: 2008-12-29 07:22 pm (UTC)I was crying, but mainly because it took too long to reveal a story that didn't really amount to anything involving characters who lacked any depth or charisma. Queenie was the only character I liked at all, and the rest just seemed so cloyingly forced, contrived, and poorly conceived that it mainly felt like torture. Beautiful torture, but not much else.
While Benjamin got younger, the audience certainly seemed to age in the endless vacuum of Forest Gump starring Brad Pitt.
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Date: 2008-12-29 07:48 pm (UTC)