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A Verrrrrrrrry Early Review Of Bald Jack Nicholson And Morgan Freeman In THE BUCKET LIST!
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Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I find myself rooting for Rob Reiner to make a good film again. I don’t even need “best movie ever” or “best movie of the year,” either. I just want a good solid Rob Reiner movie I can enjoy. Reiner had one of the best runs of any comedy director at the start of his career, but when he ran of the rails, it was pretty much as ugly as ugly gets.
So is THE BUCKET LIST a return to form? It’s got a good cast, and it’s intriguing. Can’t wait for a trailer for this one soon.
Hi Harry & Co. Long time lurker, first time I've ever been within a mile of having anything to write about. I'm a GALCIT (Aeronautical Lab) grad. student at Caltech, more comfortable writing about bio-propulsion and dynamic energy conversion than reviewing movies, but would definitely include "amateur film geek" in my resume of other non-jockish pursuits.
Over a week ago I got a chance to attend my first ever fancy-pants Hollywood screening here in Pasadena. The movie was called "The Bucket List" and stars Jack
Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I've been checking AICN every day since the screening, waiting for what I felt would be the inevitable slew of reviews. But all I hear is crickets,
so I'm taking the plunge.
In the interest of full-disclosure, I have to first admit that I would not be posting this if my review were negative. Luckily, my girlie and I both agree that this is
one of the best films we've seen in a really long time.
In short, it's the story of two guys (Jack & Morgan) who are roommates in a hospital. Jack is super-rich and Morgan is a mechanic. Hoping that he recovers, Morgan writes a
"Bucket List" of all the things he wants to do with his life if he gets another chance.
They both have cancer and go through chemo only to discover on the same day that they only have a few months left to live. Morgan throws the list away, thinking it's
pointless, but Jack picks it up and starts adding to it, saying they should do it.
I won't say too much more, but the next thing you know they're skydiving, visiting the pyramids, hunting big game in Africa and riding a motorcycle down the Great Wall of
China.
The funny thing is that for a movie about dying, it's really funny. We both laughed pretty much all the way though, and she cried a whole bunch (okay, I might have cried a little). This is definitely a tear jerker and though there are parts that crush you, you're
laughing at the same time... All in all, the feeling of the film is really uplifting and hopeful.
The actors are amazing, both guys have to be shoe-ins for Oscars along with the screenplay, which seems like it was based on a novel, and no way this doesn't get nominated for Best Picture.
As far as negatives, the music (which I assume they'll change) was recognizably ripped off from a bunch of movies (Braveheart, Jerry Maguire) and the some of the
effects were clearly temporary, but once those are fixed I couldn't find anything wrong to complain about.
When we were leaving, the guys next to us were talking about Jack being bald at the Oscars for this part - which makes complete sense once you've seen it. Anyway, I really
recommend this film.
Dr. Emmett "1.21 Jigawatts" Brown
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Sounds like a good film. Both actors are nails, Reiner is a slouch but has made some good movies. I'll check it.
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Y'know, the German film with a similar story, starring Til Schweiger (Driven, The Replacement Killers, Tomb Raider 2), which is only watchable because of the guest appereance by Rutger Hauer.
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I have no idea what Reiner's directed since The Princess Bride, so I don't even associate him with any stinkers. Yet, that is. I'm sure some Talk-Backers will enlighten me on whatever crappy movies he's done since. Can't wait to see the two leads together on screen.
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yup, i bet at the end morgan dies and jack has to go on without him. and damn, why they make the WHITE guy the rich guy, and the BLACK guy the mechanic? why couldnt it be the other way around? WHY? fuckin movie studios. lets push stereotypes people! keep it up
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also, latifah just had her movie The Holiday which was pretty much exactly this, but it was just one big fat black woman.
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I do wish we could see him play Jake Gittes one more time though.
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Has it really been 15 years since Reiner made a watchable movie?
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Really. My first German movie. I skipped the Riefensthal ones.
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He looks like Jabba.
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Count me in.
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PLANT! This sounds like the schmaltzyest schmaltz ever to schmatlz the schmaltz.
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Its Oscars for everyone!!Blah Blah Blah. Dude, the only reason your girlfriend was crying was because she had to sit through this with you..
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I was thinking plant too. I'll probably see it, but what got me was the whole "she cried alot (I'll admit I cried a little too)" bit
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Jul 13, 2007 5:32:30 PM CDT
I don't know what kind of chemo these guys are getting
by thenorthlander
but 70-year-olds on chemo do not skydive.
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are smoking some of that A-Grade medicinal pot.
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Was after A Few Good Men. Both were after The Princess Bride, as was Misery and When Harry Met Sally. And North. Dear Jeebus... North... At least it was mostly all uphill after that. Then again Alone in the Dark is uphill from that.
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a while back. Hope it was rewritten alot because what I read was really really really generic crap. That being said it would have had to had a really good rewrite to get freeman and jack right...right?
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ut this sounds very sickly sweet....
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but this sounds very sickly sweet....
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But hey, glad to know you're a rocket scientist.
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That's what this reminds me of.
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Good advice.
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Maybe?
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Dammit.
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Did any body notice that at the Oscars, Jack Nicholson looked a lot like Rod Steiger?
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bleh
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Maybe that's how it ends...Jack and Morgan run into a carnivorous giraffe.
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80's movie with Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards
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Good call, AngelinasOilBoy. HAWKS was a decent little Brit movie from around the time Dalton was Bond. Another recent Hollywood remake of vaguely obscure Brit 80s material? FIREWALL.
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...only with a budget, a hype campaign and two a-list stars in place of Timothy Dalton and Anthony Edwards.
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Rob Rein-whore, you fuckt up AGAAAAAAAAAAIN!
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Rob's gotta eat!
We haven't had one of those in a while, huh? -
I'm glad someone will, because I won't be.
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This is gonna drive me crazy until I know this: what was FIREWALL derived from?
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"The actors are amazing, both guys have to be shoe-ins for Oscars along with the screenplay, which seems like it was based on a novel, and no way this doesn't get nominated for Best Picture."
whoever wrote that about this movie is either a plant or an idiot -
thank god someone else sees it.
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Apart from Kill Bill. That had a worthy list in it.
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He made some great movies,but it's time for him to do it again!
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I hope this is good, 'cause Nicholson rocks for someone who is like seventy.
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