Jun 12 2008'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' Trailer
As much as it's hard to endorse a movie based on an idea from famed idiot Karl Pilkington--that humans should be born around age 80 and age backwards--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is apparently also based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (famous author!), is directed by David Fincher (famous director!), stars Brad Pitt (famous husband!), and looks pretty epic from this new trailer, so I'm going to give it a tentative thumbs up. But to be honest, if someone is going to make any film idea from Karl Pilkington, it should be his Clive Warren/Rebecca De Mornay psychological thriller. There's far more potential there.
Reader Comments
1. Snoodle - June 12, 2008 3:38 PM
Saw this in front of Indiana Jones :) Looks interesting at least!
2. Jonny D - June 12, 2008 4:09 PM
And yet another original movie. That's 2 in one day. Is Hollywood trying to make my head explode? Very nice to see some NEW movies coming out rather than all this crappy remake stuff.
3. emily - June 12, 2008 4:11 PM
I always felt Karl's Space 2006 idea of putting a giant mirror on the moon so we wouldn't have to leave Earth to see it from outer space would make a good movie. His related theory that aliens are the same as the Chinese but with bigger heads can, of course, be included.
4. mgroves - June 12, 2008 4:26 PM
Wait, so, he's born as a decrepit old man and dies as a baby? Or is it, he's born as a baby, ages to an old man, and then goes back to a baby?
5. NG! - June 12, 2008 4:59 PM
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6. Dracula Jones - June 12, 2008 5:05 PM
I could eat a knob at night.
7. Mr.Anderson - June 12, 2008 5:23 PM
Awesome...one of those rare movies that you know will stay with you for a long time.
8. Megan - June 12, 2008 5:54 PM
At first, I thought that was a picture of Gollum.
9. The Fried Piper - June 12, 2008 5:58 PM
This was also the way Orkans aged, if you'll kindly remember your Mork And Mindy facts.
10. LennyM - June 12, 2008 6:38 PM
Aging backwards isn't that original. In The Once and Future King, Merlin ages backwards in the same fashion. This still looks like a good movie.
11. Tara - June 12, 2008 8:15 PM
Mork and Mindy anyone? or perhaps a variation of Jack with Robin Williams (ages 7 times faster than everyone else)...not that original
12. proteon - June 12, 2008 8:16 PM
Just one of those strange "articles" that draws 10 comments that seem to be written by the Exact Same Pretentious Twat or ESPT for short. Movie looks good though.
13. what tha - June 12, 2008 9:59 PM
#11, i'm pretty sure fitzgerald's 1922 benjamin button was written well before mork and mindy and jack.
14. Jerod Cykoski - June 13, 2008 9:49 AM
FIRST!
15. 80's TV shows - June 13, 2008 10:07 AM
Wasnt' that the whole premise of Mork of Mork and Mindy TV show fame?
they hatched out of eggs as old people, but with childlike minds and then aged backwards.
lame, lame, lame.
They didn't think we'd notice eh?
16. Ian - June 13, 2008 12:51 PM
Dummy, its from a story written years before television!
You know, Why dont you all go to Hollywood and come up with some movies.
You can all make better movies I am sure
Was the tagline to this movie "An Original film by....?
I dont think so.
Everyone is a critic, but no one does anything about it.
blah blah Hollywood sucks........complaining about the unoriginality of Hollywood is veeeerrrry original.
17. Karl Dilkington - June 13, 2008 1:53 PM
Needs more monkeys innit
18. Connor - June 14, 2008 2:59 AM
Last two times Fincher and Pitt teamed up they made my two favorite movies.
To say the least, I'm pretty pumped.
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20. Metal Gear Solid Movie - June 16, 2008 3:37 PM
Well, actually, it is very original, since it was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald sometime in the 1940's. So he beat Robin Williams to the punch. So sad!
21. Mr.Anderson - June 16, 2008 7:29 PM
#12 You're posting here aren't you? Hypocrite....
Anyways...I know someone has invented the concept of aging backwards far longer than just 100 or even 200 years ago. Nonetheless....it was never made into a full blown movie that talks about the life of that person, now was it?
That's why one can safely assume this will be an awesome movie.
22. Richard Huffman - June 16, 2008 11:42 PM
"Clive Warren"!!! I heard that podcast for the first time yesterday... that's the funniest God-Damned thing ever. I will never see a Clive Owen film again with thinking of that bald-headed morn Pilkington.
23. J - June 17, 2008 4:08 AM
Fucking stoked for this.
I love Fincher, he has made a majority of my favorite films.
The only problem with this story, logically speaking, is at what age is he born?
What is the beginning/ending age of a human?
You can't define that.
I know its 80 in the story, but it doesn't seem to work out realistically.
24. Kat - June 19, 2008 5:51 AM
Anyone here ever heard of T.H. White's "The Once and Future King"? You know, the classic fantasy novel? No? Well illiteracy always makes old ideas seem new.
25. Brian - June 25, 2008 1:16 PM
I dislike it when some people downplay the intelligence of others because they haven't read (insert name of really good book here).
There are so many good books out there, and so many different kinds of readers who like to read in a certain genre. No, most of us haven't read "The Once and Future King", despite the nice promo it got in X-Men. But I bet we've read many others. Or perhaps we haven't read many others. Let's not play the intellectual equivalent of "Mine's Bigger Than Yours"...
26. guate6 - June 25, 2008 3:10 PM
Looks good.
27. AD - June 26, 2008 9:31 PM
Karl Pilkington? What the hell?
Why is he being associated with this project?
I get the feeling I missed something, like how some dude born in the 1972s can influence a short story written in 1922.
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