For a day or two now, I’ve been wanting to post the trailer for David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—a gorgeous trailer that started making the rounds this weekend, as it was attached to the new Indiana Jones. But hell: Paramount, for some reason, apparently doesn’t want anybody to see it unless they pay to see Indy; the phrase that keeps coming up on YouTube is “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Paramount Pictures Corporation,” and it looks like elsewhere on the net, Paramount’s running around and screeching and panicking and sending out cease and desists and pretty much doing everything they can to keep people from watching their advertising, which just seems stupid.

ANYWAY. The best I can find is this blurry Spanish version of the trailer, which doesn’t do the thing justice at all. (And even this will probably get pulled down soon, too.) The actual trailer’s good—as in really good, as in holy shit good—and if you can wait until Paramount puts up a decent version online, I’d advise waiting until then to check out the trailer. If you’re impatient, though, even this shitty version is enough to make Benjamin Button (which, yes, fellow creative writing majors, is indeed based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story!) look pretty promising. Er, I mean, ¡muy prometedor! Or something. Like I know. I failed Spanish because I was too busy taking goddamn poetry workshops.