Kicking the Cucumber
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Kicking it Old School.
by
Jon Dunmore © 18 Sep 2008.
Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson go on a green screen tour of the world.
In Irving Stone's novel about Freud, Passions of the Mind, there's a line about, "...a time in a man's life when he stops trying to live and starts trying not to die."
This movie is about turning those tables. And I guess its impact will only be felt when your social security kicks in...
Carter (Freeman) finds himself sharing a hospital room with Edward (Nicholson), who also happens to own the hospital. Carter feels he is on the downhill slide, so makes out a "bucket list" - a list of inane things he plans to do before he kicks the bucket.
Edward poo-poos the list, but somehow gets sucked into making it a joint effort. Carter knows the list is impossible to fulfill - he's just a lowly mechanic with outlandish dreams - but Edward, being a hospital billionaire, tells him "money is no object," and off they go, special effects flying hither and thither.
Rob Reiner phones in the directorial job. And on the DVD commentary, the snide writer (Justin Zackman) tells us that everyone should make AND FULFILL a Bucket List - only saying so because he has absolutely nothing intelligent to say about his ludicrous movie.
Geez, I wish *I* could meet a billionaire dying in a bed next to mine and fulfill MY bucket list.
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman go deep into The Method by pretending to be two really old guys gasping on the threshold of Death's door...oh, right...
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