Benjamin Button = a crappy remake of Big Steve's "Golden Years"

[Taverner]

Anyone watch that show? It was a primetime mini-series about a guy who ages, well, backwards...

Same idea, but much better execution. More action too...



Oh and YES I'M STILL PISSED AT THE NETWORK FOR CANCELLING THE SHOW ON EP 7, LEAVING US WITHOUT AN ENDING ON A CLIFFHANGER!!!!

[sarge43]

1. Didn't see Golden Years, but F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the short story

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 1921, so looks like King did some boosting, too.

[Taverner]

3. Well...true...grumble...

And I seem to remember some old Greek tale about a man who does the same...

[sarge43]

6. Here's the original story.

http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/

Reminds me of Kafka's Metamorphosis, how people would react to an anomaly. Wouldn't be surprised if Fitzgerald had read it and thought, "Let's see what I can do with that."

[cemaphonic]

9. There's also Martin Amis' "Time's Arrow"

In which a disembodied intelligence lives it's life backwards in a Nazi concentration camp commandant.

[KamaAina]

2. Yes, but was the show set in New Orleans?

:P

Factoids: 1) No New Orleans movie has ever won Best Picture, not even "A Streetcar Named Desire", which was aced out by "An American In Paris".

2) The New Orleans* premiere of "Benjamin Button" was actually held at a 'plex in suburban Elmwood. There are only two movie theatres remaining in New Orleans proper, one of which is a small single-screen affair Uptown. The other, in a shopping and hotel complex at the edge of the French Quarter, would have seemed ideal to me. :eyes:

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. I thought the idea came from Merlin

Regardless, it's more Forrest Gump than anything.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new.php?id=11824

[sarge43]

10. That's Hollywood. Always ready to serve up something farm fresh .... again.

Thanks ETD.

[EastTennesseeDem]

12. Really though...the writer PLAGIARIZED HIS OWN MOVIE

:wtf:

[sarge43]

13. Maybe he forgot all about Gump.

Most of us have or at least would like to.

[Initech]

14. Bullshit that this movie got 13 nominations and Dark Knight didnt get best picture.

:hide:

[LaraMN]

5. I was recently forced to watch Benjamin Button.

His crush on the young what's-her-face was disturbing.
I know he wasn't *really* supposed to be old, but I don't care, it was still disturbing.

The only movie I have been forced to watch that I disliked more in the last year was that utter piece of crap "August Rush".
:puke:

[tigereye]

15. it's good, but not as good as a lot of other movies that came out this X-mas

season. I thought Doubt was much better.


I liked when they were hiding under the table playing, the writer did an interesting job of playing with people's expectations..



The end was sad...

[Initech]

7. I saw a clip on Youtube the other day...

Where they played clips of "Benjamin Button" along side clips from "Forrest Gump" and - get this - it was almost the exact same fuckin' movie! I need to find that clip.

[EastTennesseeDem]

8. Heh...just look up a couple posts.

[Dinger]

11. I Thought It Sucked Too (nt)