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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
May 19, 2009 By
I reviewed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Blu-Ray for Paramount Home Entertainment, it's available in stores today. If you haven't seen it and plan to, I just want to warn you, this movie is LONG. 165 minutes, and it takes a long time to really get going. Brad Pitt plays a man who is born in the body of an old man (but the size of a baby), and then ages backwards. Cate Blanchett is Daisy, who Benjamin meets when she is a young girl, and then as he grows up but gets younger, she grows up and gets older. Thanks to unbelievable makeup and visual effects, it's easy to tell where each of them is in their aging process. Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benjamin Button spans the decades from pre-War 1918 into the 21st century, and is set in New Orleans. Directed by David Fincher (Fight Club), Benjamin Button was nominated for 13 Academy awards in February, and won Achievement in Makeup, Visual Effects, and Art Direction. The Blu-Ray release is a Two-Disc Special Edition … [Read more...]
Thoughts about stuff
May 18, 2009 By
I came across a blog called The Path Less Pedaled and it got me thinking. It's the blog of devoted cyclists Russ and Laura, who are paring down their lives to the items they can carry on their bicycles, and setting off across the country to look for other people living life in a unique way. Before they can set off on their dream journey however, they first need to figure out what to do with all of their stuff. They didn't just want to throw everything away, they wanted to find homes for as many of their possessions as possible. Which meant figuring out who, exactly, could use things like 16 mix tapes and 12 pairs of men's shoes, and how to get their items to those people. Russ and Laura are creative people in their work-he's a eco-friendly bicycling photographer, she's an art jewelry maker-and I'm finding it fascinating to read about them. And it's also making me look around my house and think, why exactly do I have all this STUFF? Take, for example, Kaitlyn's room. Every … [Read more...]
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