Benjamin Button....thought it was an instant top 10 movie ever.
Was amazed by some of the extraordinarily pretentious things the critics wrote about it.
Borderline life changing
So I take it you enjoyed Forest Gump Benjamin Button?
I watched Twilight New Moon with my gf late last night. I don't know when Vampires became whiny little emotional girls that can't be killed by silver or stakes, but I am not a fan.
Also, I don't know what being a werewolf has to do with never wearing a shirt, but apparently it's a big deal. I've heard they're considering casting Mike "The Situation" for the next movie, but current legal restrictions prohibit him from coming within 100 yards of minors.
I actually don't really see the comparison between Forest and Ben. The only similarity is that they both have something unusual that makes like harder for them and the film is about their life. Does that mean every film about a person's life where the people don't have disabilities is plagiarized from each other?
Also Forest was unaware of much going on around him, whereas Ben was aware early on.
Further Forest kept ending up at important times and places randomly and enjoyed tremendous success not of his own doing really, and not so for Ben.
I just don't see the comparison at all.
My girlfriend said the same thing. Allow me to elaborate:
1) Both stories revolve around a girl that "just isn't right, right now" for the protagonist. Ben and whoever 'meet in the middle', then tragically drift apart. Forest and Juh-Juh-Juh-Jennayyyyyyy keep having these 'almost' moments...and finally tragically only get together at the end. Just like Bennie Boy and whats her name need the perfect time but tragically must inevitably part.
2) In a lot of ways I disagree about Benjamin's awareness level. He really seems to "float" through life, much like Forest did. Now he didn't win no ping pong tournies or meet dick nixon or go to vietnam...but he just kind of floats along. He gets a job on a ship because he went to a shipyard. He impetuously went to war and was one of the few survivors on a salvage vessel. He keeps having opportunities thrust upon him, and he keeps taking advantage of them.
Further Forest kept ending up at important times and places randomly and enjoyed tremendous success not of his own doing really, and not so for Ben.
He was given a fortune and a button factory. He luckily survived an attack by a fully armed sub or something (I forget)...and he was given the task of taking his shipmate's money home, kind of like Bubba's promise.
Also, he dated a famous ballerina.
The only similarity is that they both have something unusual that makes like harder for them and the film is about their life. Does that mean every film about a person's life where the people don't have disabilities is plagiarized from each other?
I understand your implication there and honestly when I made the comparison between the two movies in my head the fact that they both were shall we say 'abnormal' was not even the largest common denominator.
I would say instead that it is more the was both characters are completely at peace with life. Both Benjamin and Forest just are. Benjamin never curses himself as a child (when he appears old), or laments the fate he will endure when he's elderly (when he looks young). Forest is never angry that he's a bit dim. He can't socially comprehend anything, and he knows he's not smart, but he never cries about it. They both simply get on with it, and go where life leads them. And chase a girl. One girl. THat they can never truly 'have'..they may only enjoy a short time with her, then part.
You seem to imply that I look at the movie as alike because it's about two disabled protagonists. I would say that their disabilities do allow them a certain separation from society, so both men can act as fantastic storytellers, mostly because of their own one step removal from events that happen right under their nose. But that to me is not the biggest commonality between the two. The commonality is both characters' peace with life as it is, and their acceptance of where it leads them. They forgive those who wrong them, and embrace nearly everyone.
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