The Bucket List

I will admit, I did hesitate to watch this movie given all the hype and publicity. I finally broke down and rented it and I'm so glad I did.
I've read some other reviews and agree with some of them.
But, what I got out of this movie goes a lot deeper.
This movie speaks to me of the ties in human nature. The ties to family, to our work, our identity, our ideals, our religion and even to strangers. There are countless ties that bind us each and every moment of every day. How tight the tie is depends on the moment, the situation, other who are present.
In this movie, the main characters loosen their ties and focus on themselves. They set out to accomplish things they wish they had done in their life....before their death.
This movie also shows how reaching a dream isn't done alone. Whether we think about it or not, we do not live alone in this world. However, how much consideration do we often have toward each other? Even those who are 'invisible' to us most of the time?
I can't begin to tell you how deep you can go with the thoughts provoked in this movie. But I will tell you this. If you see only one movie to shake the cobwebs out of your brain and make you aware of 'Life'... this should be it.
Cudos to Rob Reiner and all that went into this movie. Definiely a classic.

MY name is Lim, Dr. Michael Lim and I am The Travelling Gourmet. I saw this movie sitting in Business Class on an Emirates flight to DUBAI. The flight was smooth, the food was fabulous, the flight stewardesses were courteous and good looking. However, the icing on the cake that made the flight perfect was this movie. It is a movie about death, for we all die once we are born. I calculated once how many minutes a person has if he or she lives for 100 years. It is not a lot if you make the calculation yourself.
The story is simple. Morgan Freeman has a list of what you want to do before 'you kick the bucket', hence the title: The Bucket List. Jack Nicholson, one of my favourite actors, just like Emirates is one of may favourite airlines, is superb in his wise cracking role of a man who has just months to live. He has the money to make Morgan Freeman's hypothetical 'bucket list' a reality. He says at one point, 'Money, that's all I got'
So the two buddies go and do all the things they wanted to do but never did and for them as for all of us, time really is running out.
I used to parachute and the parachuting scene is hilarious and it really looks like Jack did the tandem jump, unless CGI is so good nowadays that it can fool me. The movie insurance premium on Jack must have been huge.
They race fast cars like pro drivers and Jack even tries to set up Morgan with a beautiful, intelligent fille de joie, but Morgan, good guy that he is, politely declines. That shows there are those who still keep to their principles, no matter what. Something I always admire in a person.
Morgan's wife is enraged that he is spending his last hours with a new found friend instead of with his family.
Jack's performance is outstanding as it was to in 'Something's gotta give'. He is physically ugly but boy, he sure can act! And his charisma and screen presence c'est formidable!!!
See this movie and laugh and maybe, just maybe, make your own bucket list to do. Time and tide wait for no man.
Seize the day, baby! ENJOY! (:-)

This is one of those movies that the public enjoys much more than the professional movie watching people. Roger Ebert, for example, delivers a heated diatribe on the liberties taken in Bucket List, particularly with respect to the realities of having cancer, a subject the esteemed critic has experienced first-hand. Ebert's anger, however, seems more connected with his own personal trauma than he acknowledges. I, for one, don't hold movies up to that kind of litmus test. It's more about how much the film gets inside you, makes you feel, engages you and keeps you watching for more as the story unfolds. Reiner's film does all those things here, at least for me. While it is admittedly formulaic to pit the wise, quiet, gentle and all-giving soul (Freeman) against the narcissistic, shallow, in-your-face, yet ultimately loveable character which Nicholson can pretty much phone in by this time, at the end of the day, IT WORKS. Good drama often involves the tempering of opposites and The Bucket List is no expection. We watch with satisfaction as these two extremely different men move toward their expected and imminent deaths, willing to break out of their lives as they've lived them so far, each allowing change to occur through the influence of the other. Much of it is just fun, Hollywoodish entertainment, but there is depth there as well. When I got up from watching this movie, I was aware of it having gotten inside me; I felt an openness and gratitude for my own life and those in it. And whereas I certainly can't credit The Bucket List for the having the ability to evoke that response in everyone who watches it, I do recommend it as entertainment, a few laughs and the occasional kleenex. Maybe it will even move you.

This is one of the best movies I have seen in years. I dont know anyone who wouldn't enjoy it.

Awesome movie. I work in Hospice; the whole staff enjoyed the movie.
AAAA++++