I threw out two free tickets to see Benjamin Button...

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wammer369

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A few weeks ago, I won two free tickets to see Benjamin Button at my local theatre.

It was a prize I never sought.:D

I have never liked Brad Pitt's acting, and the film about an old man growing young seemed to me a bit stupid. In fact a lot stupid.

Anyway, I tried giving the tickets away and no one else fancied the movie either.:D

So I binned them.:p
 
Fascinating. Please - give us more exciting news about your life over the coming weeks...

BTW - you didn't actually need the free Sky Pass tickets to get in and see Benjamin Button two weeks before it was formally released. At the Cineworld in Sheffield you could just walk in, nobody was collecting tickets or anything. Still a good movie though. The next Sky Preview movie should be named soon.
 
Thank you for your review on a film you have never seen, really insightful.
ReminRAB me of kiRAB saying they won't eat veg because they don't like it, even though they have never tried it.
 
I've seen it described as being portentous. And I agree.
It was practically pleading "Can I have an Oscar please, I've ticked all the formula boxes of what an Oscar winning film should be".

Lots of moments where it pauses as though we're supposed to stop and think that this is a thoughtful bit so it definitely must have a deep meaning significance to it, even if it's nothing that significant in reality.
It was constantly signposting little bits like this as though it was designed to be an Oscar winner by the numbers.
I think a lot of people got wise to this because it's a film making technique which we are overly familiar with now.
 
Oh, thanks. :D

The tickets were won on a local radio 'mystery voice' competition, so I had no choice of my prize.:cry:

The voice, in case you'd like to know, was Michael Aspel's.:D
 
No, portentous....

Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe: "Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity" (Herman Melville).

Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.

ominously significant or indicative: a portentous defeat.

of momentous or ominous significance; "such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville; "a prodigious vision"

ominously prophetic [syn: fateful]

puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=portentous
 
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