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By Matthew Odam
| Thursday, February 19, 2009, 01:30 PM
Although it is up for quite a few Academy Awards this weekend, there seems to be quite a bit of backlash to the old-Hollywood whimsy and nostalgia of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Beyond the cinematic gimmicks and self-indulgent length of the film, there are also the disturbing corralaries between “Button” and “Forrest Gump.” (A friend of mine, dismayed at my lack of “research,” wrote angrily, or is it high-and-mightily, to inform me that Eric Roth had been the screenwriter for both “Button” and “Gump,” a point my “sarcastic article” failed to mention. Although I feel like this fact makes it even more shocking and sad that the two movies had such similarities, my friend seemed to think it excused Roth or made me a lazy idiot. Or both. I agree with neither.)
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By L
February 20, 2009 10:09 AM | Link to this
Funny, but Forrest is from Alabama, not Louisiana.
By A True Texas Gal
February 20, 2009 10:16 AM | Link to this
That’s funny!
By Sam
February 22, 2009 8:19 PM | Link to this
I’d like to sank the academy.
By Sam
February 22, 2009 8:21 PM | Link to this
Also, and the Oscar goes to not Australia.