Everyone's A Critic!

There has been a lot of buzz out there in the "The Bucket List" blogosphere about all the reviews that "The Bucket List" has been getting. These are all of personal worry to me because I frankly am concerned about people who don't like films like "The Bucket List". Did something happen to them as a child? Are they bad people? Its the sort of thing that makes you worry as you lay in bed alone at night, sure that a murder's knife will be thrust in your gullet any second.

So, I decided to take on one of these reviews head on. This is a review I found on IMDB, by some user named "Katattack62". At first glance, this review appears to be positive, in fact the title for the review is "Oscar Worthy". That's how it deceives you. I'll post it and put in comments.

You know that feeling when you walk out of a movie and think "God, that was just such a great film"?

Its not a feeling when you leave "The Bucket List" its an assurance of genuine fact.

It takes a lot for me to think that... especially when it's a movie about two men who have cancer...

This is when the author's real biases come into play. Why the hell does she hate cancer movies? She slowly denigrates it into some sort of lesser genre of "cancer movies".

but this movie really did it for me, as well as everyone else in the theater. I saw the movie at its first ever screening in Pasadena and it was just wonderful... even with temp music and unfinished visual effects!

How could anyone properly judge a film before the CGI is completed, especially one as CGI intensive as "The Bucket List"?

Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman were truly amazing together - it's a film about cancer, and yet

Once again, the cancer qualifier. To this person, this movie is the "Citizen Kane" of the cancer movie set, but in being a movie about cancer, its lower, trashier, and more tumor ridden.

the two were able to balance the comedy and the drama of the script in such the perfect way that the audience loved every moment of the movie. The script was quite original, which was such a breath of fresh air, and the acting couldn't have been any better.

Another subtle dig. She probably would have liked the film more if it had different actors. These two actors were acting at the very top of their ability. I bet she would have liked to see younger sexier people in two main spots, ruining the point of the film, but lessening the whole cancer angle.

I would recommend this film to anyone and everyone - as it was such a feel-good movie that made you both laugh and cry at the same time - something you don't come across too often.

Not if you're clammed up inside, being a sullen woman afraid of cancer patients.

Not only did the audience applaud the movie at the end, but EVERY single viewer who stayed to give comments agreed that the movie was "Excellent"... I can't imagine how often that happens. I'd be surprised if this movie isn't up for some Oscar or another come next year.

Here's a puzzler for you? Why didn't she name the Oscars that the film would get? Why some vague "some Oscar or another"? Its because she was just rattling this off hoping that she'd get recognized. There's no passion in this, no love for the film. Just a bunch of tired reviewer cliches and cancer bashing. Don't be fooled by empty reviews like this one. "The Bucket List" deserves reviews from reviewers with integrity. Not shills.