Merry Christmas one and all. As my Christmas present to you dear readers I have decided to lament the meaning of life and death with Benjamin Button, and to conspire to kill Adolf Hitler with Count Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (that is his full name). Let's start with Benjamin Button. I sat through 2 hours and 48 minutes, or shall I say mesmerised for 2 hours and 48 minutes of beautiful yet epic film making by David Fincher (the director of Fight Club and Seven). By the time it was over I truly feel I learned something about my own life. Not many movies released this year moved me in the way Benjamin Button had. This is defiantly the saddest movie I saw this year. The decision Benjamin makes toward the end of the movie is one of the hardest decisions I think a person could make. He had to face the fact that he was going to continue growing younger while the love of his life grew younger. It is a choice you can see coming from early on in the film, yet still when the time comes for Benjamin to make that decision you realise how terrible his situation is. All this is told beautifully in the screenplay by Eric Roth (the writer of Forrest Gump, yet this movie is better). Benjamin Button is one of the best movies I've scene this year. Valkyrie is a very serious tale about one of 15 plots to kill Hitler. The cinematography of this movie is phenomenal. The acting is alright, but the standout performance was by David Bamber who very subtly plays Hitler. Also, Terence Stamp who was in a million movies this year (Yes Man, Get Smart, and Wanted, I lied he was only in 4 but that still is alot). I haven't much more to say about this movie except that it was very averagely executed and seemed rather depressing.
Benjamin Button - 4 out of 4
Valkyrie - 3 out of 4
-Zach
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Valkyrie was good, but not great, but Benjamin Button was fantastic, and may just be my favorite film of the year.
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