1/1 - Kahuna notes: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  I hope everyone survived the party scene. Me and the Kahunette had a little soirée with some shrimp and champagne. BigBear and BlueEyes hosted a bash at their place - Herbal was in attendance and most likely slept over night. Yesterday afternoon, me and the Kahunette took in 'Benjamin Button' (review below). Today we've got a load of bowl games, including the #19 Michigan State Spartans (9-3) playing #16 Georgia (9-3) in the Capital One Bowl at 1:00pm on ABC. They gonna have to turn in an A1 performance to win. Go State!  Later Kahunette is serving a bigass turkey dinner - Herbal, BigBear and BlueEyes are coming. Enjoy the day ;)
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BigKahuna Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Jason Flemyng, Taraji P. Henson and Julia Ormond. As you probably know by now, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. Having said that, let me add it's a major chick flick. When I attended with Kahunette, and looked around at the end of the movie, the theater was filled with sobbing bimbos. The movie begins with a framing device: on the eve of Hurricane Katrina, in a New Orleans hospital, the very old and dying Daisy (Blanchett) is reading the diary of Benjamin Button with her daughter Caroline (Ormond). As they read, the life story of Benjamin Button unfolds. He was born to a mother who dies immediately after giving birth to the very ugly baby. The father, Thomas Button (Flemyng), grabs the baby and then abandons it on the steps of Queenie's (Henson) 'old folks' retirement home. She takes in the baby to find it is an old man, aging backward - getting younger every year. She names the kid Benjamin (Pitt). Soon Benjamin meets the young girl Daisy who's grandmother is living at Queenie's boarding house. The story bounces around, with Benjamin and Daisy meeting and corresponding every once and a while. As the story progresses, Benjamin and Daisy eventually are roughly the same age (late 30s), when they finally get to love making and keeping a house together. That's the setup. This is just the kind of movie Hollywood likes at Oscar time. As for me, it was too damn long: 2 hours and 47 damn minutes long. Geez. They could have easily hacked and hour out of the movie and not lost a thing. Still, it was compelling, very watchable, and the aging effects and sets are fantastic. I give it 8/10.
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