David Fincher

el böthy wrote: Without a doubt it´s Eric Roth´s cliches, which he already used in Forrest Gump, the down part of the movie. The humminbird, the easy tear-jerking scenes... luckily mr Fincher knew how to turn some of those things down a bit. In fact I find it funny how somebody like Roth (who is way too emotional and sentimental) worked with Fincher (who is seen as a cold, purely technical director) but if this movie had been made by, lets say Zemekis or Spielberg, then it would have suffered a LOT...

I agree wholeheartedly (though I wish people would stop giving Spielberg crap for making happy movies). As a matter of fact I really liked Ben Button and I think FIncher crafted a moving visual elegy to Fitzgerald's Jazz Age, and there are some particularly moving scenes here and there. But those damn hospital scenes. God, that's a half hour of my life I'll never get back. Redundant, useless, and often insulting (Katrina? Really?), it just killed the momentum for me, especially on a second vewing. I was willing to overlook it when I frist saw it, but when I went again to get a definitive opinion on the film those scenes took so much away..