Pop Culture Curmudgeon

The Creepiest Thing I've Seen in a Long Time: Benjamin Button

I was completely unprepared for the creepy trailer for Brad Pitt’s new movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, about a man who ages backward. Our intrepid hero, played by Brad and some other actors, begins as an old man and, I guess, ends much younger, as a baby perhaps.

The makeup looks extremely plastic and weird. And, of course, I immediately go to the logistics: how can someone be born as an old man? How does that pregnancy work? This is not the sort of thing I need to see first thing in the morning.

Read a glowing review from Reuters. And view the trailer.

Edited to add: I’m not alone, but apparently I’m a bit behind in my assessment. The evidence:

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Looks Creepy!
Another Creepy Look at Benjamin Button
Brad Pitt meets Fitzgerald in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’

And he is born aged but small. Whew!