'Curious Case of Forrest Gump'

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And so the "Button" backlash gathers steam.

We'd already described the 13-time Oscar nominee "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" as super "Gump"-y -- while others have less charitably called it bloated, maudlin and overwrought -- but when you put it this way, well, the similarities in the video above are tough to ignore.

It does come from the same screenwriter, Eric Roth, who won an Oscar for the "Gump" adapted screenplay. He just got nominated, with Robin Swicord, for "Button."

Is "Button's" uncanny resemblance to '94 best picture winner "Gump" a good or bad thing, Oscar wise? Discuss.

Comments

[Steve]

Gump is the most overrated shoulda-been-Hallmark-hall-of-fame movie ever.
Something tells me Button is second in line.

Slumdog or Doubt should win.