What would happen if a billionaire and an auto mechanic ended up in the same hospital room? Why they’d become best friends and travel the world together, of course. The Bucket List is a great movie because of Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson-not the fairly clichéd idea of the Make A Wish Foundation. This is really a two man show, with a bit of great work by Sean Hayes as the billionaire’s long suffering personal assistant. Morgan Freeman’s character wanted to be a history professor, so he knows a lot of fairly useless information. One of the running gags in…
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Ten Films I Wish I’d Walked Out On
Since I’m not a real film reviewer, I don’t have to sit through every horrid film that comes down the line-I can pick and choose the movie I want to watch. I can avoid the really bad movies like Pluto Nash, Deuce Bigalow, and the Transformers movie. But once in a while I am fooled by Good Directors, Good Actors, and what look like Good Movies. Expecting a good movie and being shocked numb by a bad one is the Movie Studios stealing my money and time. They lied to me and made me think these were going to be…
The Producers Movie
The Original Producers starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder was a near perfect movie. It is zany, silly, over the top, and Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel were perfect as the greedy Broadway Producer and the sappy Accountant who wanted more from life-more money that is. The Producers was really a film of its time-the 1960s. It was only twenty years since the end of World War Two, for many people the Nazis were not a cartoon character in an Indian Jones movie, they were real, live monsters. So the idea of making a musical comedy about Hitler’s Third Reich…
The Illusionist-More Victorian Magic
The Illusionist had the odd luck of coming out at about the same time as The Prestige. Seems odd that two films about slightly mad magicians in top hats would hit the screens so closely. The Prestige had the good fortune to have a rare performance by David Bowie as Super Genius Nikola Telsa. I liked both of these movies, but they both left me wanting a bit more as well. In The Illusionist we have the standard-issue star-crossed lovers, a rich girl and a poor boy, who are soon forced apart. Our hero, the boy, wanders the world and…