Curious Button

mshollie and I saw the film version of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" yesterday. We enjoyed it-- a well done work of cinema.

We went to a matinee at the Prytania-- unusually for a weekday matinee, the theater was filled up. Of course it was the day after Christmas, and 2nd day of a film with lots of local content.

Very good and extensive use of New Orleans settings. I recognized many New Orleans locations-- and was amazed at one shot of a 1920s street scene that use part of one corner and a couple buildings elsewhere in town cut & pasted together with period auto traffic going by to make a new seemless cityscape. The special effects were impressive without deliberately calling attention to themselves, and the cinematography just beautiful. Hey, any film that has Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and a 1932 Packard limousine is going be damn good looking :-)