100 things 'The Bucket List' taught us (not serious stuff)

11) the egyptian pyrimads are not majestic compared to Carter's mountain.

12) Edward does not believe in 20,000 volunteers.

13) Edward's second wife did not like being called "the sequel".

14) Edward feels like he's falling.

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(just watched the movie again and i learned another thing...)

Carter really is sick because he knows a lot of stuff.

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20) if you stand atop a pyramid, the horizon looks superfake.
21) if you really, really love a certain car, you best treat it like *beep* so it ends up terribly battered.
22) if you're a mechanic, your children will end up with posh professions like tax clerk, engineer and violinist.

First of all you are missing 90 more things.....my comments are under yours...



1) When coffe is taken from animals' poop it gets more expensive
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I guess that is a good point but for me all coffee sucks no matter where it comes from
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2) Cancer patients want to climb the Himalayas

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No, they just want to live what life they have left to the fullest
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3) Apparently Morgan Freeman attracts young sexy women at bars

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She was paid by Edward....not attracted by Carter
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4) The coolest thing of being rich while having cancer is that you get to use those cool "periscoperical" glasses

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Those are the ugliest glasses on the planet
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5) Jack Nicholson can't shoot a gun

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Jack Nicholson can shoot just fine...he just can't remain standing when he does
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6) Morgan Freeman has had freckles for as long as he can remember

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He has moles...not freckles
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7) Jack Nicholson wants to be in an orgy with Morgan Freeman

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Now that is a little too scary for me to even think about
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8) The doctors were just toying with Nicholson when they told him he was going to die soon. He lived to be 81 for Christ sake!

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The doctors are not in charge of who dies when....they really don't know anything beyond what they can actually see with their own eyes
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9) Nicholson didn't have a lot of money to travel around the world, but he had some cool special effects

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Edward was loaded...but he did wear some really ugly clothes...like the sweater at the beginning...hideous
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10) Morgan Freeman buys dresses for cars. He was a very innovative mechanic.

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Where in the movie did it say he bought a dress for a car? Edward asked him "Are you gonna drive it or buy it a dress?"
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Initially the comedic stance of these kinda of threads was more or less mocking the folks who believe that fictions should be taken as claims about the actual world. The idea was "Let's pretend that the film is meant to teach us what the actual world is like, so that we can generalize that if a character was like such and such (or "facts" in the film's world are like such and such, etc.) then that's true of people of that type in the actual world".

So for example, we could say that The Bucket List teaches us that if you've got a lot of money, chances are that your cancer will go into spontaneous remission, or that the most fun thing to do with your dream car when you finally get it is to smash it up a bit, or that the ideal thing to do with your remains is to cremate them and place them in a Chock Full O'Nuts can, etc.

. . . but it seems like at least half of these threads that I've seen lately have listed either particulars about, say, the film characters as those film characters (for example, "Edward Cole owns hospitals" . . . "At Edward Cole's hospitals, nobobdy gets a room to themselves--NO EXCEPTIONS!"), which doesn't seem funny and seems pointless to me, or they're taken as an excuse to bitch about the film (for example, "Rob Reiner can no longer direct"), which also doesn't seem funny to me.

Which isn't to say that no one in the thread is doing the first idea, but a lot of people don't seem to get it any longer.


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93) When an movie totally lacks main titles, and the title of the movie is not shown with the other credits anywhere on the end titles, the producers of that movie cannot have much faith in their product.