Double Takes.

As Adam pointed out, the screenwriter of Forrest Gump, Eric Roth, wrote the screenplay for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And in both, a character abruptly changes the subject of the dialogue by exclaiming their need to pee. While Gump's two and a half hour running time isn't as egregious as Button's three hours in terms of having to hold it in, Roth needs to be a little more sympathetic.

And this doesn't even get into the fact that the two movies are very similar in other respects.

In other news, I watched Newsies. Why you ask? Because for the past two Halloweens, I've dressed up as a newsie (newsy?), and I figured I should at some point see the inspiration for my adorableness each October 31st. Other than having Vinnie from Doogie Howser and Justin from Party of Five when they were knee high to a button, the movie is sort of terrible.

Something I noted, though, is that some of the theme in the score is reminiscent of (read: exactly the same as) Beauty and the Beast, which came out just a year before it. The composer for both? The awesome Alan Mencken.