get into the groove.

last week was quite hectic.
but it's over. so yay!

i watched benjamin button yesterday via someone's bootleg dvd. it was good - not great. i must say i did enjoy admiring brad pitt, channeling james dean and steve mcqueen.

however, i couldn't get these comments by vulture out of my head:

So here is our problem with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Fincher delivers the old-man baby the trailer promised, but completely botches it in portraying the old-baby man that Brad Pitt should've become at the end of the movie. Benjamin Button is born an old-man baby: a wizened, 80-year-old man, stuffed into a body the size and shape of a newborn infant's. His body grows taller and larger throughout his "childhood," until, by the time he's 18 or so, his body is the size of an adult's, even though he still looks, like, 60. So it stands to reason that, as Benjamin Button approaches the end of his life, he should become a child, and then a baby, stuffed into a body the size and shape of an old man's, right?

But David Fincher blew it! Instead of continuing the special-effects magic, Fincher just casts a 12-year-old who sort of looks like Brad Pitt, and then some baby with blondish hair. Which is, of course, a total cop-out. By the movie's own logic, elderly Benjamin Button wouldn't be a baby-size baby; after all, he wasn't born an old-man-size old man! (Unlike, by the way, F. Scott Fitzgerald's original short story, in which Benjamin is freakishly born full-size, bearded, and talking.) We were totally looking forward to seeing a creepy old-baby man crawling around. Could you imagine an elderly Cate Blanchett trying to rock and cuddle a five-foot-tall baby?

confused? yeah. just a bit - but there is some sense to all the madness. but i digress. that movie sucked out enough time out of my life as it is.

on another note and before i run off to play pretend productivity - a song from the new flight of the conchords - directed by michel gondry! ahh. a pairing that just makes sense.

it aint no good / if there's too much wood / make sure you know before you go / the dancefloor is over ratio



(btw, did you catch what jemaine said? - "going to the party/sipping on bacardi" - yeeeah uh!)