God, we flagged this last night, but we didn’t realize who was releasing it! (thanks Twitter folks).
David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is coming out as a 2-disc set on the Criterion Collection, seriously?
Whoa, last time we checked Criterion was for “contemporary classics,” not flawed, molasses-moving and arduously long-winded snoozers with inconsistent effects.
But according to Reuters, it’s true. The two-disc set will come out May 5 and some will surely see this as validation for the mixed reviews/ mostly-snubbed Oscar fate of ‘Benjamin Button,’ but we’ll have to see it as sad proof that perhaps the Collection is losing its mind, or economic times are tough even for these artful DVD curators who were seemingly recession proof.
Meanwhile, check out the artwork for the disc. It’s sort of suggests Brad Pitt thinking, “whaaa, the Creeeterrrion Cohllllecsshion?” (just kidding, we just photoshopped it, but it’s fitting, no?)
The DVD for “Slumdog Millionaire,” comes out May 5 too, but Fox Searchlight is putting that out.
