Curious case of a movie

I went to see Benjamin Button today and enjoyed it thoroughly. A couple of thoughts:

First, Eric Roth does a good job again with the screenplay. For those of you who don't know Roth translated Winston Groom's Forrest Gump to the big screen back in 1994. Here, Roth does a good job translating the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story although some plot elements don't match between the two mediums.

Second, the Brad Pitt-David Fincher combination makes good again. They teamed up a few years ago with the movie Seven.

And third, the stop-motion capture special effects are convincing, especially in early scenes where we see a young Pitt character (or is it old?) in childlike form.

Incredible, entertaining movie.