A little long!
Added 11/7/2009
Loved this movie, especially Brad Pitt's part. ran a little long with some slow scenes, i think they could have shortened it a bit. although i do not regret purchasing.
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poor quality
Added 11/7/2009
The item arrived in a timely fashion. The first 45 minutes played very well with good picture quality, but after the 45 minutes the DVD begin to freeze then showed video artifacts on the screen eventually the DVD just froze and would not play. I removed the DVD and cleaned it very thoroughly and played it again, but the results were the same. contacted the seller and requested a refund and they provided a full refund. Very unhappy and the DVD has no useful purpose. It is not playable.
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Trying to be too much, with too little.
Added 10/26/2009
Felt like a Forest Gump type of movie, without the humor or compelling storyline. The movie encapsulates every sense of the word dull, and while an interesting concept, the overdrawn length of the movie coupled with a daily regret I now have for loosing 3 hours of my life while watching this forces me to hand it a 2 star rating. There are movies made so you don't have to think, and movies made to provoke thought and discourse. This movie promotes a drab, dry in between that leaves you wondering what else might have been accomplished during the time it took to watch the movie.
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Bored to tears!
Added 10/24/2009
I am sorry Brad Pitt, but this was wholy dissapointing. I guess if you look at the acting, I woudl say it was a good movie, but when you look at everything, it just bored. The story was interesting and worth-while, BUT there was no climax and no excitement. I guess nto every movie needs a giagntic fireworks and bombs climax, but really? I felt like I was watchign a doctor try to revive a dead patient....it just wasn't happening. All in all this movie realllllly failed to impress me.
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Riveting
Added 10/20/2009
This is a long, slow movie, but it is quite astonishing.
At first, there is a little smugness at the general concept: a man is born old and grows younger with time.
But the movie quickly transcends its gimmick-premise, and becomes by turns tragic, and touching, and illuminating, and funny, and amazing, and quietly wonderful.
Brad Pitt's quiet performance is a perfect counterpoint to Cate Blanchett's hyper frenzy. You can see how these two attract each other. You can also see how Button (Pitt) would be attracted to the unfulfilled, still-waiting, always-wanting-to-conquer-the-Channel character played by Tilda Swinton.
He himself is also waiting, for something neither he nor anyone else can envision.
And so the movie works subtly to give a powerful sensation of what it feels like to be alive: things happening that are profound, moving, silly, heartbreaking, wonderful, sad, ordinary, unexpected, shocking--all coming into your life, and then moving away like a ship on the horizon.
The fact that the two principal characters' life-arcs are opposite--Blanchett getting older and more sedate, Pitt getting younger and more lively--and can only meet for a touching, tragic moment, is both terribly romantic and exactly right.
This is the way things work. Nothing lasts.
But, as the lightning-victim says, every day things come along that make it wonderful to be alive.
A profound, interesting, very unusual movie.
It is also quite tricky. There are subtle, and sometimes not-so-subtle, hints of reincarnation (the hummingbird). But, very satisfyingly, the whole plot is shifted forward in time and ends with the cataclysm of Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans, destroying, or seeming to destroy, this entire cycle of death-and-rebirth.
Powerful, puzzling, sublime.
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A little long!
Added 11/7/2009
Loved this movie, especially Brad Pitt's part. ran a little long with some slow scenes, i think they could have shortened it a bit. although i do not regret purchasing.
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poor quality
Added 11/7/2009
The item arrived in a timely fashion. The first 45 minutes played very well with good picture quality, but after the 45 minutes the DVD begin to freeze then showed video artifacts on the screen eventually the DVD just froze and would not play. I removed the DVD and cleaned it very thoroughly and played it again, but the results were the same. contacted the seller and requested a refund and they provided a full refund. Very unhappy and the DVD has no useful purpose. It is not playable.
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Trying to be too much, with too little.
Added 10/26/2009
Felt like a Forest Gump type of movie, without the humor or compelling storyline. The movie encapsulates every sense of the word dull, and while an interesting concept, the overdrawn length of the movie coupled with a daily regret I now have for loosing 3 hours of my life while watching this forces me to hand it a 2 star rating. There are movies made so you don't have to think, and movies made to provoke thought and discourse. This movie promotes a drab, dry in between that leaves you wondering what else might have been accomplished during the time it took to watch the movie.
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