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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m fairly active over on Twitter which is known as a micro-blogging social networking tool. If you’re not familiar with it, it allows people to make posts that are no more than 140 characters in length. It has started to rival even mainstream news networks. When something happens anywhere in the world, locals start to twitter about it before the news crews even get there. It’s outstanding.
Anyway, there are various ways to follow what people are chatting about and I’ve been following what people are saying about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button lately. If you take a look at the trends you’ll see that it’s mostly very positive. Sure, there are some negative words, because of course not every single person is going to love any one movie. But for the overwhelming majority, people are loving the movie.
Benjamin Button may have come in second at the box office but with the constant ongoing positive buzz with so many people recommending that others go and see it, I think it will have long-term appeal.
I still haven’t seen the movie, but I hope to see it soon. The holiday period was just far too busy for me to find time to get to a theater at any point, but maybe in the next week or so. Anyone else planning to see it soon?
Image used with permission: Newscom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blMplPRb7Zc&feature=related
angie is really a good person. she feels involved,she is interested about this job and she really wants to make something for those people, she takes it to heart.
in this video, we can see she’s a great mom: she just fold this little boy in her arms and gives him all her love… it’s beautiful but so sad in the same time…
when we see things like this, we just forget all our little problems and think “dawn, we’re lucky to live where we’re living”
i come everyday, and i’m a big fan of brad and angie lol!
i would share this video with you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt7ev1C0RX8&feature=related
sorry, I meant to say: day after day.
Sherry, I am still hoping to make it to the movies to see it. I think next weekend we will make it. You were asking for thoughts on future discussions and I would be interested in hearing everyones thoughts on why some one would go to a fan site day after and then write comments that more or less says they are not really a fan. I don’t know if I am making myself clear on this.
randi has a great discussion post on her site about “who wears the pants” , it’s really funny!
http://www.bradpittwatch.com/discussion-who-wears-the-pants/#comment-17567
Brad Pitt fans should watch a couple of trailers and/or read a couple of reviews before deciding to see it. It’s not the Fight Club, MMS, or the Ocean’s series. If they didn’t like AOJJ, they probably won’t like this.
I warn you Sherry the film is definitely not for everyone and sad to say that includes fans (although going in with a welcoming attitude helps). I found it a lovely and ethereal film heart breaking and gentle. My 20 yr old nephew (no dummy) thought it was an absolute waste of too much time.
OT: written yesterday – NOLA report (& contributing to its economy)
I’m posting from NOLA’s 1879 Lanaux Mansion in the Lanaux Suite. Brad was given a private tour of the entire property. The production company wanted to use the foyer and stairs for filming, but the owner didn’t want the walls torn up to make room for the cameras. Instead, photos were taken and they were re-created on set for CCOBB.
Friday, 1/2/09, we took our 2nd post-Katrina tour (the 1st was October 2007). We drove by and saw Project MIR (and the playground) as one of many things. Tomorrow we visit the project on our own. Will report on the whole post-Katrina/Project MIR thing separately.
That evening, caught late show of Ellis Marsalis Trio at Snug Harbor on Frenchmen Street – which is chock full of clubs playing all kinds of music, restaurants (like the excellent soul food restaurant Praline Connection which also specializes in pralines – given as xgifts), punctuated by an occasional bookstore and tattoo parlor. Catch the 8pm show at the Spotted Cat, then cross the street and catch the 10pm show at the Snug Harbor.
Pianist Ellis heads the Marsalis musical dynasty – Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis III, Delfeayo Marsalis, Mboya Kinyatta Marsalis, and Jason Marsalis. Ellis has influenced the careers of countless musicians, including Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr.,Nicholas Payton. We bought several copies of Nicholas Payton’s Dear Louis as 2008 xmas gift, and Ellis MarsalisQuartet’s An Open Letter to Thelonius as 2009 xgift. We buy them in NOLA so the tax revenue stays in NOLA and the local businesses benefit.
I saw the movie last night. It was one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. Exquisite. As a reader i felt as though I had just finished a glorious sweeping novel. Brad has become a truely fine actor, such a quiet yet powerful performance. He broke my heart serveral times, and made it sing for joy just as many.
Finally got it, click on the slide show. Really interesting. It makes you realize how hard Brad worked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/movies/awardsseason/04itzk.html
For some reason can not get the site to open up here. Found it on yuku Mega 3 site. There are great pics of Brad and how they did the faces on the different characters. Interesting pics and read.
http://www.nytimes.com/20…/awardsseason/04itzk.html
Slide show at link
Mr. Fincher’s preferred special effects company, Digital Domain in Venice, Calif., with which he had worked on music videos, commercials and feature films (including “Se7en” and “Fight Club”), had contemplated “Benjamin Button” in the 1990s, when Ron Howard was interested in directing it, and concluded it couldn’t be done. “It defied the technology of the era,” said Ed Ulbrich, the company’s executive vice president for production. “There was just no way to really pull it off.”
In a post-”Lord of the Rings” world, Digital Domain was willing to try “Benjamin Button” again, with Mr. Fincher in the director’s chair and Brad Pitt in the leading role. But Mr. Pitt had a stipulation: “Brad would only do it,” Mr. Fincher said, “if he could play the guy from grave to cradle.”
After experimenting with several approaches Digital Domain solved the problem with a combination of technologies: until Benjamin Button was old (or young) enough to be portrayed by Mr. Pitt alone, his body would be played by the character actors Robert Towers, Tom Everett and Peter Donald Badalamenti II, and their heads would be digitally replaced with Mr. Pitt’s own.
The Benjamin Button character, Mr. Fincher said, represents the combined efforts of more than 150 visual artists in service of the performance of a single actor. “There’s the visual effect of him, which is the mathematical reproduction of skin stretched over bone, being moved by muscle, in this lit environment with this many hairs,” Mr. Fincher said. But what makes the character believable, he said, was “how much you see about human behavior in this motley collection of zeroes and ones.”
http://www.nytimes.com/20…/awardsseason/04itzk.html
Click on the slide show on the left hand side. It shows how they work with Brad and CGI. Really interesting.
Have seen it twice. After reading how much work they did on this movie it is truly a masterpiece.
Mary Ann/Ligaya, I have answered your question in the “Happy 2009…” post. I have been off for almost 2 weeks.
i agree, the movie is worth recommending.
can’t wait for the RC appearances, hope they’ll win.
You guys are so lucky. Reading your comments, I am dying to see this movie! If it is ever shown here, it will not be until Feb 09 (normally 2 months behind the US).
I love both Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
But unfortunately, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, was soooooooo boring, that I found myself counting the minutes until it ended and eventually fell asleep in the cinema during the film.
It has had excellent film reviews though.
UNDER MOD:
Welcome Rachelle! Snowy, every theater should have CC!…
Pittwatchers going to see CCOBB in the theatre, this is the weekend to see it. So please see it tomorrow SUNDAY, JANUARY 4. Hubby & I are seeing it for the 2nd time tomorrow in NOLA!
Hubby, Mom & I saw it Xmas Day – loved it…
I really don’t get why some critics…
And I really don’t get those who say Brad can’t act…