'Benjamin Button' is great, for a totally unoriginal piece of trash

There's nothing like a pointed viral video to torpedo a multi-Oscar-nominated film.
  Just as the Academy was bestowing 13 nominations on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Thursday, a video was going around comparing that film to Forrest Gump, the 1994 Best Picture winner, which had the same writer, Eric Roth. The video, which compares footage from each movie, makes a pretty good case for Button's unoriginality. In each film, the lead character is raised in Louisiana by a single mother, overcomes a disability and learns to walk, meets the true love of his life when he's a child but sees her move away to the big city, becomes a war hero, finds his girl (but she's not ready), returns home to his mother, spends time on a boat in the Gulf with a drunk, "befriends a weird black dude," and gets cryptic advice from his mother ("Life is a box of chocolates," "You never know what's coming").
  The video also points out that both tell the "touching story of a man-child told through flashbacks with a thick New Orleans voiceover," only with Button there's "no AIDS." See the video while you can. As of this morning, Button's distributor, Paramount Pictures, was busy trying to the "Curious Case of Forrest Gump" down. If you see one bitchy viral video this year, see this one.

—Posted by Todd Wasserman