F Scott Fitzgerald Strikes Again

Lots of people are hating the movie, The Strange Case of Benjamin Button. That's mainly because it was written eons ago by F Scott Fitzgerald and nobody has ever been able to transfer so much as a paragraph of his writing from the printed page to celluloid. Fitzgerald is, in my opinion, the greatest of the pre Depression American writers (including Hemingway), and the only truth teller of the Jazz Age. His talent can only be called delicate, so fragile that it simply could not last. His most famous work, The Great Gatsby, has as a lead character a woman he fails to describe so that any who read this book cannot possibly picture Daisy other than as a an arrogant ghost. Fitzgerald was a totally unique talent and in Button the uniqueness cannot possibly fit the screen. Read the Short Story but don't go to the movie, because the focus is on a boy who is born 75 years old and gets younger each and every year til he reaches zero and dies. Fitzgerald was original sin and his writing will live for a few hundred years more.
Late add: My teen children and their friends all loved it, so who knows?