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Media Credit: impawards.com "The movie didn't make it on the raters list, does it make it on to yours?"

Epert and Roper gave this movie one star. Boston Globe and even Entertainment Weekly gave it a C. So why should you read a review written by a freshman? I'll tell you why, because I'm just another viewer like you.

Honestly, I hate reading reviews from actual critics. These guys get paid to watch these movies but they have seen so many movies by now that every movie is the same to them. They forget sometimes what a movie should be, but I still enjoy watching movies and I know most movies are cliché now a days but hey, you try coming up with a blockbuster movie.

Rob Reiner comes out with one of his best films ever. The Bucket List definitely did not kick the bucket. This is one of the top movies of the year and yes I know, the year has just started. So you get two old guys, Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) who works as a mechanic and has sacrificed a lot to support his family, and Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) who is the CEO of a hospital and looks out for number one.

These two find out that they have cancer and they both end up in the same hospital room. Two complete strangers that are completely opposite, no way they get a long right? Oh, wait, this is a movie, so of course they get along. It did take some time before they became friends, but what friendship doesn't take time.

You have a mechanic who knew every answer to any jeopardy question and a CEO who wanted his own room since he's only looking out for himself. It definitely takes time to build their friendship. They argued, they vented, they played cards together. Through sharing the same illness, they connect and realize that they don't have much time to live so what do they do? That's right, they make a "Bucket List."

How and why do they decide this? Well, Carter's philosophy professor once told his students to compose a "bucket list" of all the things they wanted to accomplish, attain, and experience before they kicked the bucket.

For Carter, life got in the way, living with responsibilities and eventually, his lost dreams. Carter decides to remake this list that he never got to finish.

Meanwhile, Edward was always caught up in his own life making money, making a franchise; he just never saw the deeper meaning to life. After these two realize the missed opportunities in life, they decide to go on a little adventure. So these two complete strangers now find themselves sharing the life they never had.

On one sheet of paper holds the happiness to their lives. They experience such wonders as the Taj Mahal to the Serengeti in Tanzania, fine restaurants to tattoo parlors, driver seat of a classic car to (what is on everyone's list) the open door of a plane 15,000 feet off the ground.

But this movie wouldn't be cliché without the serious talk atop a pyramid about life, I mean that's something I do everyday.

There are other smaller things on the list such as "kiss the most beautiful girl" and "help a stranger" but the one that is crossed off the list last, is "witness something majestically."

Majestically, now that's just not a word you hear every day but this movie is majestically. Sure it's a little dumb for two dying guys to jump out of a plane and travel around the world but the meaning of this movie was very far from dumb. It's not about two old guys trying to find happiness in life (well it is) but my point is, it's about how we all should live our life.

Life's questions are so hard to answer, the answers we find are so hard to comprehend, but the friendship that they build throughout the movie, isn't unrealistic at all. Go laugh, go cry, and go have a good time, because hey, life's too short to not live your own.

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