For your consideration...

Whenever the name Brad Pitt comes up in your everyday conversation, be it with your friends down at the gym, your girlfriend or local milkman the one general view is that of a handsome pretty boy who the girls swoon over and the boys admire. Or at least its been that way for a long long time and with good cause mind you. But this is of course a double edged sword when it comes to the public view of him as an actor. Take my mom for example who still, when hearing the name Brad Pitt, shrugs him off (and the film in question at the time) as something will happily ignore. No doubt the average movie goer today would be aware of the films he has done in the past that clearly sets him apart from your no talent pretty boys that seem to be on the silver screen over and over again. Or at least, you'd think so, but though many a conversation I have been proven wrong over and over. People seem to remember the Oceans 11's and the Mr. and Mrs. Smith's, not thinking of the more extreme roles that showcase Mr. Pitt as a very rare breed of actor in Hollywood today.

Why am I writing about Brad Pitt? For the less informed of you out there Brad Pitt stared last year in what was easily the best movie of 2008 - The curious case of Benjamin Button. A movie that hopefully and should win him an Academy Award for best male lead if any justice is to be served. So in light of this brilliant film (lest I over praise it) I thought I'd sum up the few roles he has done in the past that makes him the phenomenal actor that he really is. For your consideration: Brad Pitt.

TWELVE MONKEYS - Jeffrey Goines



SNATCH - Mickey O'Neil




BURN AFTER READING - Chad Feldheimer




THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON - Benjamin Button