It was rather long, semi-boring, occasionally funny, and holy **** maybe one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life. I hate movies, but this was a good one. Never dragged, and got more and more interesting as it went on. Sorry, no in-depth review or plot analysis. Anybody seen it yet?

You just said it was semi-boring but it never dragged???

Yup that's what I said.

In Soviet Russia, movie hate you.

I have an obsession with Fitzgerald and his style of writing and/so I've read the short story (along with every other one of his short stories) when I was studying him in creative writing and it was pretty neat, though not my favorite (Offshore Pirate was better imo >_<). I do think it'd translate to a movie better than most of his other short stories and will probably see it not only because it's Fitzgerald but also because it looks awesome anyways. I wonder how/what they filled in to make it a full-length movie, though.

I decided against seeing this movie in favor of Valkyrie.

That sentence made my brain hurt.
Almost as much as "I hate movies"

The movie is really good. It takes place primarily in New Orleans over almost a century (WWI to about 2003). It was fascinating to see the progression of time throughout the whole story. The movie was a little reminiscent of Forrest Gump (in a good way), and the makeup was fantastic. I heard that figuring out how they could properly portray the aging of Benjamin was a big cause of the movie not being made earlier. Those of you who like to interpret and analyze films will also have fun with this one. You'll also enjoy it if you are familiar with New Orleans.

Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett both do fantastic jobs, as does the rest of the cast. Hurricane Katrina does also play a role in the movie, and getting to see the movie on opening day at a little community theater with people who had lived through the storm was a neat experience.

Everyone should definitely see it when you get the chance.

I got struck by lightning seven times!

Yeah that "sentence" does hurt. I should have read over what I typed before I submitted it. Sometimes I type up really weird stuff like that and I need to catch them.

If it were about 45 minutes shorter, it would have been very good. As it is, it was fair. The most interesting part was seeing how the makeup and CG made Bradley look older/younger, though I felt they cheated by letting him look 40ish or so for about 25 years. I think at a certain point where he "finally gets what he wants" the movie took a big turn to the boring side.

I will admit, though, I really liked the lightning guy.

Certainly one of my favorite movies of 2008. I think it had a good mix of romance, humor, SCIENCE FICTION!, and sweet accents. Worth seeing. Twice.

This deserves to be bumped.

This is one of the most fantastic movies of 2008. If you thought this movie was too long or dragged on, you are heartless. I was hanging on every moment of the film. Every character has a definite purpose, a story to tell, and tells it well. Not a single moment of the 3 hours was wasted. It was absolutely amazing.

The TRS review kind of turned me off to this movie, but that right there just sold me. I miss New Orleans.

I felt like the movie was trying to accomplish something that it was just within grasping-distance of accomplishing, but didn't.

It was still a not bad movie. I suppose I'm glad I saw it, but it felt like it was missing something. I mean, in the end it was about Benjamin's life journey, not about how or why he was aging, or focused on his personal struggles as a crippled person in youth or younger person in old age. It was more of a fictional biography.

And it didn't make sense for him to be small and old, aka a baby, when he was born, but also be small and young, aka old age, when he died. He should have been a giant man-child. But I suppose you can't have everything.

I think the movie needed a specific inner-meaning or something to feel more fulfilling. Like a specific message: "Don't beat up on old people because they have feelings too." or something else more serious.

And it dragged an extra hour.