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Fincher Filmed The Wrong Backwards-Aging Story

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Killa_Charlie
12/23/08

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I just want to see what he looks like when he's like 70 years old. Is he like a giant perfectly perfectly proportioned baby or what?
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Polybius
12/23/08

@Killa_Charlie: He's an old man... see the first shot.
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twDarkflame
12/23/08

@Polybius: Hu? So he starts old gets younger and then gets old again?
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Charlie Jane Anders
12/23/08

@twDarkflame: Nope, when he's 70 he looks like a child. He shrinks down.
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Smeagol92055
12/23/08

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I saw it the other night, and I loved it; it was fantastic, and there's a hilarious running gag throughout the film.
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Charlie Jane Anders
12/23/08

@Smeagol92055: I'm posting my review of it tomorrow... I really didn't like it, but I'm going to bend over backwards to avoid upsetting the people who did. And yes, the running gag is awesome.
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Dunny0
12/23/08

@Charlie Jane Anders: Wait... This isn't the review? Is this some sort of pre-review warm up?

Either way, great read. Now I'm a bit concerned about seeing the movie...
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Charlie Jane Anders
12/23/08

@Dunny0, Team T/A: I have a bit more to say about the movie, actually. Like Pitt's performance, and the way it seemed to be an ode to deadbeat dads in general.
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foolish-rain
12/23/08

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Wile the Greer story does sound good, I think The Time Traveler's Wife is a really clever and sensitive treatment of this subject. Niffenegger's use of random time jumps gives the book a rich and complex texture. That said, I'll probably skip a Time Traveler's Wife movie, since I think the book is unfilmable.

As an aside: Why is it always the men who are backward aging travellers, not their patient girlfriends/wives?
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Rasselas
12/23/08

@foolish-rain: Movie studios think audiences hate and fear older women?
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Rasselas
12/23/08

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In the movie, Daisy never thinks Benjamin's a dirty old man, and she always recognizes him. What's more, she somehow manages to see through his appearance to his true age at every point in the story.

Tough to sell tickets to a movie without explosions or an idealized love story.
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