The Bucket List November 30, 2008
Posted by ghostof82 in : Film General , add a commentNow this kind of Hollywood pap really makes my blood boil. Now, I don’t mind ‘feel good’ movies, or heartwarming tales of friendship. Field Of Dreams is one of my favourite movies. But when Hollywood packages films as being serious films about a serious subject -and you don’t get much more serious than two strangers dying of cancer- and it turns out to be the Pretty Woman of Terminal Cancer movies, then I just got to scream foul.
It’s just typical of Hollywood. First we have to suspend disbelief to accept Morgan Freeman as a working-class mechanic (the guy played GOD a few years ago for crying out loud) and then the guy also suffering from terminal cancer in the bed next to him turns out to be, gosh, a multi-billionaire. Well yeah this stuff happens all the time. Credulity reaches breaking point and snaps. There’s a serious drama somewhere of two old men finding friendship and helping each other deal with mortality, loss and regret… but this film ain’t it. They go jetting across the world, climb a pyramid, race cars, go sky-diving… yeah sure this is just two ordinary guys dying of cancer. Is this film supposed to teach us anything? It’s your usual Hollywood vacuous myth-making posing as a serious attempt at a difficult subject and I think its in bad taste and is standard modern manipulative garbage. And it’s a waste of two great actors.
No I didn’t like it.