cute as a button

Long.


Very good.


For me the defining scene is when Benjamin Button is at a hotel - and Brad
Pitt - somehow the special effects make this possible - actually looks smaller
than life.

Directed by David Fincher.
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I feel the need to say something about the only other two David Fincher movies
that I have seen - and liked.

Alien 3 - I liked this movie.  I used to own it but gave it away because it is  - well -
there are some movies that are - like P.J O'Rourke once said about Books - you
should have books around you when you read in bed that are intelligent in case
you die before you wake - and that is how I feel about some movies.  Occasionally
I go through my movies and say - do I want these movies to define me if I should
suddenly kick off - one exception is Sweeny Todd.

Zodiac - Now let me say this about Zodiac.  I've watched it several times and then got
rid of it - but I ALWAYS skipped over the killer scenes - and there is something else
in it that I wish I had never seen.  But this is a great movie folks otherwise.  And
I may never watch it again but I'm glad I saw it.

Not only was the direction great under David Fincher but special mention goes from
me to:


Jake Gyllenhaal       -     as  Robert Graysmith

Mark Ruffalo          -      as  Inspector David Toschi

Anthony Edwards   -      as  Inspector William Armstrong

and especially & always

Robert Downey Jr.  -     as  Paul Avery  he really nailed it


and of course the rest of the great cast