I love the way Simon deliberately winds Mark up in every review they do together :) They make an awesome pair, keep the reviews coming chaps :)
@thisisnotbeckett43214 жыл бұрын
7 years...
@thisisnotbeckett43214 жыл бұрын
i was 5 when you said this
@huzistiglitz51224 жыл бұрын
Here for the review. Stayed because of the duo
@Tomatito19814 жыл бұрын
ThisIsNotBeckett haha I was 32
@SIGNIFYING_NOTHING10 жыл бұрын
Review is worth it for the sake of hearing Mark Kermode's Southern accent.
@lionofjudah67538 жыл бұрын
ikr
@katiemiaana8 жыл бұрын
She dances hither, thither and yon lol!
@Altaranalt11 жыл бұрын
Wow, I absolutely loved every second of this movie. Guess taste differ.
@CashelOConnolly5 жыл бұрын
Hello from 2019 I really liked Benjamin Button too,Kermode is wrong it’s better than Forrest Gump
@myousickoflife4 жыл бұрын
@@CashelOConnolly 2020 here to tell you this movie will never be good
@CashelOConnolly4 жыл бұрын
Wade B 2020 here,I’m telling you it’s great imo ,your opinion is different that’s fine. No one should ever argue over something as trivial as movies. I HATE all Star Wars films others like them,O.K Stay healthy,happy and never hate Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
@qusigh3 жыл бұрын
@@cl759 how much r we talking
@adolflenin49732 жыл бұрын
@@qusigh He is irish
@kokomanationАй бұрын
It was a really good film and very well directed with superb cinematography.The thing that didn’t make sense was that if you have such a condition you usually go to a doctor to see what is going on
@universallogin129011 жыл бұрын
Kermode's hair reminds me of David Lynch.
@ThierryLoa16 жыл бұрын
My favourite sequence in the film was when he was in his teen age and traveling the world as a backpacker. In that seq, he speaks about the human condition, life and change. It'd been nice to hear more about his inner thoughts as he experiences life differently.
@captain0723415 жыл бұрын
Don't always agree with him, but when he is right, he is right. He absolutely right about this pretentious dribble.
@MrAkashvj9610 жыл бұрын
This is actually a very good review.
@davidlean10609 жыл бұрын
Fincher's main strength is he makes great looking films and he always uses interesting lighting and camera work, so his films are compelling, but they are technically compelling. I have always enjoyed watching his films for that reason, even if I have serious doubts as to whether he actually has anything to say about the world. He's one of the great visualists but is he an artist? I'm not sure yet I'm sorry to say.
@MsHyperviolet11 жыл бұрын
that was such a great review, hilarious and spot on.
@simontrebel879 жыл бұрын
It's a whole bunch ah Hooey!
@kubakonrad3 жыл бұрын
This must be my favorite Kermore review to date - and I’ve seem plenty.
@Dani-th6cl9 жыл бұрын
LOL There was a whole complicated sequence about how seemingly unrelated events leading up to her taxi cab accident (e.g. taxi driver stopping for coffee, shoe lace breaking, someone forgetting to set her alarm clock, etc.). But Mark is right, she has nobody to blame but herself. When you dance all over the place without even looking, that's pretty much an accident waiting to happen.
@Starzagal8 жыл бұрын
Danielle Stormborn oh god it was so dull I forgot that bit completely
@Lundy.Fastnet.Irish_Sea6 жыл бұрын
It was one of the most beautiful scenes tbh. It was done in the point of view of Button interpreting what happens to Daisy. You don't have to agree to Button's reasoning but it shows how he sees things, and how he wishes that things go differently. You have to remember Button loves Daisy and it makes sense that he refuses to see it as Daisy's fault.
@TheConciseStatement12 жыл бұрын
The news girl had the Julia Ormond role in that review insofar as she got to say, "Oh yeah."
@Texus812 жыл бұрын
LOL I felt exactly the same way about this movie. I honestly couldn't figure out why everyone loved it so much, I think it's Fincher's worst film. That part about Cate Blanchett dancing was priceless!!
@4Mr.Crowley29 жыл бұрын
Another character who lived life backwards was/is the character of Merlin in The Once and Future King -- he has memories of the horrors of WWI for example when teaching young Arthur about chivalry and warfare. I am surprised Kermode didn't mention this but instead mentioned Mork...
@questionitall30536 жыл бұрын
Perfect review of this film- spot on!
@BrotherJosephus16 жыл бұрын
I have been encouraged to watch 'Benjamin Button' as part of my scriptwriting module, see how it turns a short story into a three-ish hour film.
@suzukix5owner11 жыл бұрын
Ben Button is one of my all time best films.
@MFAM-Joseph Жыл бұрын
I looked this movie so much, the way they illustrate his life and people around him throughout his life and their struggles, talents, hopes, wants, and their intimate natures of who they are deep down and how that is all interconnected between everyone’s lives, not to mention Benjamin himself who has the most uniquely insightful introspective view on the world shaped by all of his experiences that are unlike anyone else’s yet doesn’t know how to convey them to the people around him. It’s a story that has given me a better understanding and view point on my life. The only problem I had with this movie, and countless other movies and tv shows, is how they portray the Louisiana accent. As someone who grew up in Louisiana and lived in New Orleans for a time, Louisiana accents are nowhere close to the southern bell accents of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia that is so commonly known. A Cajun/Creole accent is distinctly unique due to the ancestral and cultural differences of Louisiana compared to its other southern counter parts
@PowerSpirit506 жыл бұрын
I think it was the only movie where I cried a bit.
@51yourtimeisup14 жыл бұрын
he really hates films that say "hey... you know... where all a bit... arn't we?"
@chriscarolan87424 жыл бұрын
I finally saw this tonight courtesy of Prime, and agree with Mark. It is a long watch that continually alludes to the idea a colossally profound point is about to be made and it's on it's way. However, not only does the point ultimately fail to materialise, but it's like they had no real plan for the final act where he reaches adolescence and finally childhood. You are therefore left feeling bereft of any strong assertion from the filmmaker and this ultimately descends into nothing more than a sad reminder of the genuine finite nature of our existence. It's pretty for sure and you can see that care was given in production, but it doesn't remotely deliver on that running time as value for your time (especially when reminded life is finite!)
@fejugaism3 жыл бұрын
Such a poor movie. I rarely agree with Mark, but here he is 100% right. This movie has no point, no character development, no nothing. It's not boring, it's just pointless.
@amalmavani16 жыл бұрын
completely spot on review - i saw ben button before seeing this and as i listened to kermode i realised that i thought exactly as he did while in the cinema. slumdog better win the director/film awards at the oscars this film is shocking!
@TheFordy9512 жыл бұрын
It was Karl Pilkington's idea!!!
@zaksmith18274 жыл бұрын
This is a great comment
@richardsmith31217 жыл бұрын
Just been watching a few of his reviews (well lost really). Here he is on amazing form. Hilarious. I liked the movie though.
@richardsmith31217 жыл бұрын
Lots not lost
@binstig14 жыл бұрын
@tyruk Just because he wasnt afraid to stand out and say what he liked about it doesnt make him a bad critic. He also likes many films which I would myself regard as some of the greatest of all time (ie Pan's Labyrinth, Mary Poppins etc)
@Gnomeslair16 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, that was hilarious. Especially that dancing bit...
@JosephDoody111 жыл бұрын
...apart from Woody Allen, Nicholas Winding Refn, Leos Carax, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, William Friedkin, Tomas Alfredson, Sam Raini, Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo del Toro, Werner Herzog, Clint Eastwood, Julian Schnabel, Xavier Beauvois...
@agentblackacid14 жыл бұрын
I love Mark's reviews and even when I disagree although the point he makes about Benjamin's life story doesn't make sense "Where is he going? Why is he going there and when he gets there is there actually going to be any point in it?" Erm.... isn't that just like life? Do any of us really have the answer to those questions about our own lives? So why should a film about someone's life be any different & make sense? "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon
@amyclarke416 жыл бұрын
interesting 🤣
@jondawg12311 жыл бұрын
I know your comment was posted over a year ago, but I'd just like to point out: the reason that dance scene was included in the end was because Danny Boyle wanted to stay true to tradition of Indian films, which always (or almost always) end with dancing like that. I thought it was dumb too until I found that out.
@sixamsedna12 жыл бұрын
i always wondered that too. Though I'd say it's more of a 'setup' than anything else.
@ehmazin14 жыл бұрын
@agentblackacid Is he not talking about the structure of the film? No reasons given or buildup to situations
@jamchew198214 жыл бұрын
LOL "it's all the points of the compass, spectacular"
@TheElixir0078 жыл бұрын
Kermode was less serious back then... huhuhu
@llarcher45582 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I did not think it was as good as I had heard! ...thanks for explaining it! I didn't even want to think about it!💕
@notabot8358 жыл бұрын
slumdog vs benjamin button? wow, that was a really weak year for film
@notabot8358 жыл бұрын
***** that's true
@Starzagal8 жыл бұрын
doody magoob come on slumdog is much better than Benjamin button
@leonkane85706 жыл бұрын
That's the Oscars my friend, a year that included Gran Torino, The Wrestler, Happy Go Lucky, Milk, Wall E, In Bruges, Hunger, Hellboy II, Synecdoche New York, etc, not to mention foreign films
@anthonymartensen31644 жыл бұрын
@@leonkane8570 the dark knight
@arkmidis4 жыл бұрын
"If I'd been awake more, I would have laughed". Brilliant :))
@EoghanMcCarthy9007 жыл бұрын
Even tough the movie is nearly 3 hours I would recommend a second viewing as I found it getting better each time I saw it and now it really is up there for me as a classic...
@Apathesis015 жыл бұрын
How can he claim it is not original because of Mork and Mindy when the short story preceded that show by decades?
@silas1414 Жыл бұрын
I like how the other guy is gently calling out the reviewer on his cringey hyperbole
@DannyFromLA2313 жыл бұрын
@terratrema Are you serious? They mention it numerous times. Watch the movie again
@chrishiggins71662 жыл бұрын
The film maybe too long & confusing in parts, however the film’s well casted, well acted, stylish & A well directed fantasy story. (77%) (4/5 stars) (positive)
@jonny57798 ай бұрын
The clip they played is funny, it sounds like the girl said "i saw my momma kissing another man, her face was red vomit" Lol😂😂😂
@silobandnj3967 Жыл бұрын
Honestly mark is dead on right here
@MWeistra12 жыл бұрын
How wonderful! I owned a video store for a few years and this was one of the movies that many people loved but i hated (Crash - not the Cronenberg one - was another). I agree with the good doktr on this one...
@guinnesstrail67999 жыл бұрын
After Zodiac, it is Fincher's greatest film. Gets better and better with each viewing.
@yashwiniozur85819 жыл бұрын
Fincher's greatest? It's his worst to date. The Social Network, Zodiac, Se7en, Gone Girl and Fight Club are all much better.
@danieljamesmead4 жыл бұрын
This is one of those movies where I know it’s pretty shit, but I’ll still watch it every time it’s on.
@ThierryLoa16 жыл бұрын
Though I agree it could have done more to explore and show the dilemmas and consequences of a human being who ages backward on philosophical and psychological levels, the film does touch the subject to some degree.
@Nopperabou15 жыл бұрын
She actually just walked in front of the taxi.
@Cazanator60007 жыл бұрын
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is one of the best films I've ever seen, one of like 10 - 20 Films I would rate as a 10/10.
@maxinecaulfield3104 жыл бұрын
Let me guess, The Shawshank, Green Mile, Shutter Island, Memento, Pulp Fiction, Benjamin Button, Interstellar, Inception, Schindler's List, Jaws, District 9, Forrest Gump?
@ben-fe3zy3 жыл бұрын
That is one cold putdown!
@Sam-cv6un2 жыл бұрын
@@maxinecaulfield310 You know nothing about this person, and yet you attack them. Why?
@maxinecaulfield3102 жыл бұрын
@@Sam-cv6un Attack?
@Sam-cv6un2 жыл бұрын
@@maxinecaulfield310 They say they love a film you clearly don't. You respond by assuming they love a bunch of other populist favorites, which it's pretty obvious you look down on them for. It's a reductionist attitude towards an individual you've never met. Even if you were right, it's not a healthy way to engage with people.
@Sapphonouveau16 жыл бұрын
'She dances hither, she dances thither..' rlol!It's the death of narrative cinema, and she comes wearing a tutu.
@StrangerToEarth12 жыл бұрын
You don't think the Great Gatsby is ONE of the greatest novels ever written? Really?
@Cacophonaut14 жыл бұрын
@badhead actually I imagine he does talk about symbolism, just not on a more populist platform like 5live. Dude has a PhD, he will have studied concepts (such as the auteur, mis-en-scene, generic codes & conventions, intertextuality) that you would almost certainly consider "pretentious", but are in fact part of the essential toolkit for film analysis. In my experience, most people use the word "pretentious" to dismiss something they find intellectually intimidating.
@GavanDuffyAnocht12 жыл бұрын
Dude has a PhD!!! Nice
@Gaalsien15 жыл бұрын
Critics are always supposed to side with public opinion?
@wugglebee95222 жыл бұрын
Can't really blame the movie for being unoriginal since Benjamin Button was based upon a Short story that was older than Mork and Mindy, and the fact that no adaption can really be considered original by definition.
@Degjoy9 жыл бұрын
Such a good review!
@hkoenig111 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure at the beginning of this video he listed all of David Fincher's good films.
@zachsheffee84582 жыл бұрын
I love how the British don’t sugarcoat everything!!
@B1ggu514 жыл бұрын
It's a compliment I believe.
@KyleAButler9 жыл бұрын
Sound's exactly like what I imagined the film to be like, making sure I will never see it.
@hypnocilicdreams7 жыл бұрын
Really funny review by Mark, one of his best! Personally, I think they should've changed the title to The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttfuck. Everyone who paid to see it got shafted
@barbarakirk14517 жыл бұрын
He was right about Mork living life backwards too.
@yarsivad000.54 жыл бұрын
Brad's hair style broke up BradJoleana? "Enough, is Enough...get out! Had Enough of that hair!"
@Ruffleswolf15 жыл бұрын
Because he's talking about a film and not a short story?
@RideMyF15012 жыл бұрын
Pitt:miscast in that sh%$...they shoulda had a real fu%$in actor in that.
@trexguy13 жыл бұрын
It was better than Slumdog Millionaire.
@trexguy16 жыл бұрын
Oh Mr Kermode I cant disagree with you more. Out of the 5 films nominated BB is the best one! I must say that you still made me laugh. Love your show!
@tyruk14 жыл бұрын
@crusadah You're slightly off-base there, boss. He does in fact like something. Twilight. Which tells you everything you need to know about him, lol. Go figure.
@tyruk14 жыл бұрын
@TulseLuper So do I -- so do most people.
@mousehead200011 жыл бұрын
i was about to say pretty much exactly what you just said...
@ReligionOfSacrifice4 жыл бұрын
Forrest Gump (1994) comes in as my 38th favorite movie of all time, but I hated "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." My brother loved the movie, but I hated it.
@jack.1.5 жыл бұрын
Probably an unpopular opinion but I thought it was a really good film, just had a real touch and I felt like it captured life especially things like where he has dementia as a kid at the end and all the relationships. Great acting also.
@jvanness909 жыл бұрын
The effects were well handled, but it still pulled me out of the film. An example of a filming technique that was used just because they could. I have to imagine this would have looked better if they used makeup on Brad and then super imposed his face onto the other bodies. Effects are best when they are a blend of practical and digital. Even if the effects had worked properly, it's still a rubbish film. One of the few films I actually fell asleep to in the cinema.
@terratrema13 жыл бұрын
@RedSandStudios Oh yes, you're right! I walked into this movie knowing fine well it was directed by David Fincher, starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, cost $200m of a major Hollywood studio's money, yet I was still expecting a documentary. Silly me. You really put me in my place. SERIOUSLY THOUGH, why should I be expected to emotionally interact with a movie when the whole premise of the movie, and they way the premise is handled, is unutterably stupid? Answer me. Well, go on, answer me!
@ThierryLoa16 жыл бұрын
The film isn't that bad. I enjoyed it actually. The better film I've seen coming out of mainstream Hollywood. The film captures and covers the life of the odd and unique individual, Benjamin Button, who experiences life - the world, death, love and time - differently from normal human beings.
@thecolorunknown12 жыл бұрын
Well I prefaced my 11 month old comment by saying "I think" as in...it's my opinion. I know people disagree but it just annoys me to have a comment I made almost a year ago be called ignorant when it was just a harmless opinion.
@DanielMumby15 жыл бұрын
You clearly haven't seen Titanic: The Animated Musical...
@Kick1715 жыл бұрын
oh god i think i must be the only person who liked this film and personally i dont really see anything wrong with a film being simmilar to another. Anyway its not like forest gump was the first of its kind
@ethanwashoe58686 жыл бұрын
Apparently I’m the only one that liked this film. It’s okay to make different type of films, this one didn’t try to be gritty and smart like fight club. It was meant to be light hearted and it showed a beautiful portrait of early 1900s New Orleans, one of the most interesting cities at the peak of its influence.
@Kevo2166669 жыл бұрын
Great review... I couldn't finish it I'm afraid. Not the review - the movie. :)
@glycerine13915 жыл бұрын
He's a film critic- the point is for him to give HIS opinion of films, not say what other people think about them... that would be kind of dull, don't you think, if he was like I'm not gonna be negative about this film, yknow, because it seems that the public like it. Also, some pretty crap films have been very popular eg pirates of the carribean 3, marley and me, so lots of people going to see it hardly makes it a great movie.
@bobdy998812 жыл бұрын
He did English Literature.
@steveman123611 жыл бұрын
Mark Kermode's Southern accent is the greatest thing ever.
@niallvan12 жыл бұрын
Yeah did you notice the female lead couldn't dance!
@trexguy16 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Button is the best film after Wall-E, Be Kind Rewind, and Leatherheads. Its too bad those films were not nominated.
@larma715 жыл бұрын
So is The Wrestler . . . what a shame that this movie was nominated for Best Pic but not The Wrestler!!!
@HR_GN12 жыл бұрын
Mr. Kermode, you just made my day. I'm always glad to see people calling this movie out, especially when they do it as eloquently as you.
@thecolorunknown12 жыл бұрын
Opinions can't be wrong, that's why they are called opinions and not facts. Welcome to Logic 101, I'll be your instructor for the day.
@BenPole90 Жыл бұрын
Christ, he talked like a freight train back then 😂
@a.z.p.13 жыл бұрын
"If I'd been awake more, I would have laughed." That about sums it up.
@CiprianHanga3 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this review almost as much as I have enjoyed the movie. Almost.
@larma715 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but that's a pretty uninteresting idea when drawn out for 3 hours.
@twyckoff874 жыл бұрын
God I hated this movie. I think time has proven Kermode and I right. Who ever talks about this movie?
@Lanooski9311 жыл бұрын
....okay, I LOVE this movie...but that is freaking hysterical! XD
@HpArtcraft11 жыл бұрын
Kermode loves Twilight. His opinion is not valid lol.
@hennyM59 жыл бұрын
what a terrible way to look at things. I sincerely hope that in the year since you left this comment you've changed this horrible outlook
@chanceie129 жыл бұрын
Calm down Henny , he didn't kill anyone.
@SimarilRL13 жыл бұрын
Slumdog Millonaire is one of the most over rated movies of all time, its cheesy as hell... Benjamin Button was for me a master piece.
@amyclarke416 жыл бұрын
Nicolás Ramos i disagree but i found the first half to hard to watch😣of Slumdog millionaire i cant speak 4 this reviewed film