DCist: Out of Frame: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

monkeyrotica

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:20:12 -0500

Clearly, you haven't seen "The Bodyguard," with music by America's Favorite Dookie Bubble Crackhead, Whitney Houston! "And IIIII-EEEE-IIIIII-EEEEE-IIIIIIIIIII....want my money back."

Wizzyliz

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:07:06 -0500

Good show, monkey! Good show! And one of the worst Costner movies ever: "I am Yuri. Yuri is me."

monkeyrotica

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:45:13 -0500

Have I ever shown you my impersonation of "The Postman?" Here goes: [Kevin Costner, whining: "But...I'm just trying to deliver the mail!] There, I just saved you the hassle of getting it through Netflix. And now, ladies and gentlemen, my impersonation of "Dances With Wolves." [Kevin Costner, whining: "But...I'm just trying to be a Native American!"] A little joke, a little jest. Nothing to worry about, ladies and gentlemen. And now, the last item on our bill of fare, my impersonation of "JFK." [Kevin Costner, whining: "But...I'm just trying to find out who killed the President!"] Thank you, thank you. Tune in next week when Monkeytime Theater brings you, "The Oeuvre of Clint Eastwood: Why Did He Ever Stop Singing?"

Deep

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:50:00 -0500

Enjoy your movies, folks. Unless you're dragged to one. Do like I do when I'm dragged to a movie I don't want to see. Find something to stare at in the theater or excuse yourself (if the movie is totally unwatchable) and tell the person you are with that you'll be in the lobby.

bradzeigler

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:20:19 -0500

Didn't they steal the premise of aging backwards from "Mork & Mindy"?

Hillman

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:10:29 -0500

I quite 'The Cinema' after Military Boners III -Stand and Salute' was panned by the artistes that critique but don't create. The terrorists have won.

ist full of dollars

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:43:09 -0500

No one is going to come out in support of The Postman? I love The Postman.

cyrinaldi

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:29:18 -0500

everyone is pooping on my christmas plans. i was going to drag people to watch this, but guess i'll drag them to watch me bust my butt iceskating instead. thanks for saving me $10 and 2 hours and 48 minutes of my life. yay!!!

KrazyKat

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:54:37 -0500

I saw a pre-screening of this movie and I thought it sucked. The acting was stiff, scenes carried on and on, and there were random sub-plots that didn't have hardly any bearing on the story. I found it distracting that they never gave what year it was unless they would mention an major event in passing. The director and writer never actually read the 7 page Fitzgerald story. They just took the concept and pooped all over it. If they can't take the time to read a 7 page story, what real hope does the movie actual have? The director uses concepts that he did in "Forrest Gump", i.e. the feather, in Buttons, he uses a butterfly.

monkeyrotica

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:24:08 -0500

There's sentimental and there's maudlin. "Forrest Dump" is friggin maudlin. It's big eyed puppies and sad clowns and your dead highschool sweetheart who always lived you. And he went full tard. You never go full tard.

Ian Buckwalter

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:21:32 -0500

I don't think I know a single non-baby-boomer who likes Forrest Gump, Hungee & Matt. All films are manipulative, Demon. That's the nature of the medium. I just prefer not to come out feeling like I've been manhandled. That's my problem with Gump, with Titanic, and my problem with this: you can see the strings they're using to try to pull you one way or the other, and it's just all so clumsy. In trash cinema, I can enjoy that all day, but in a film with pretensions towards something more meaningful? What's to enjoy about that? But if you don't mind that sort of thing, you may just enjoy this movie; judging from the response, I got that fact across, so even those who are likely to disagree with me got a sense of whether or not this is a film they'd like to see. Mission accomplished.

ledroitist

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:14:41 -0500

Anyone who would gin up a lulu of a phrase like "saccharine-stained hands" kinda gives up the right to accuse a screenwriter of producing "unwieldy junk with highbrow aspirations." Sugar leaves a stain on the hands?

gmail

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:01:37 -0500

Economic Downturn: DCist outsources film reviews to freshmen Comm Arts majors of AU.

demonfafa

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:15:51 -0500

Looks like I have to disregard your entire review simply because you think movies that are sentimental and use devices to portray it (whether it be the storm in this film or the feather in Gump) are hackneyed. As a critic, you do have to enjoy movies sometimes.

matttt

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:11:53 -0500

Forest Gump is an American classic. Just because a movie makes you feel something and makes a ton of cash at the same time doesn't make it bad. Lighten up man.

hungeegirl

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:00:53 -0500

ok, titanic is bad, but forrest gump? come on, who doesn't like forrest gump?