Benjamin Button

[mik3cap]

I have no interest in seeing this baby boomer oriented nostalgia trip... BUT, I am curious about one thing: Benjamin Button, from the trailers, is born as an old, wrinkly, baby-sized old man. Okay, fine. Does he then just keep getting younger and younger and then just turn into a baby-sized baby? Because that is just dumb. He should really end his life as a MAN-SIZED BABY. And man, that would be creepy as fuck-all. He could get a little smaller and bent and stuff like old people do because of gravity... but his features would get all tiny and baby-like and he'd lose his hair, and his hands could get all stubby fingered and his limbs lose muscle and his skin gets all supple and stuff. But he just dies as an alien looking drooling baby-man. CREEPY.

Gah, why would anybody want to see such a weird-ass film??

Comments

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Yeah see, my science-y side gets all rankled by that. People don't really shrink like that, ever. Unless you cut bits off them.

[kitteridge.livejournal.com]

Yeeeees .... but people aren't born old and then age forward. It's more fantasy than sci-fi, I 'spect :D

That said, my grandma was 5'2" all her life until osteoperosis squeezed her spine and she died at 4'8".....

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

My fantasies need to be logically consistent, darn it!