The Bucket List
“I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.” — Charles Bukowski
I’ve come to the conclusion that despite my cynicism, sarcasm and general suspicious nature, deep down I’m a sappy, schmoopie optimist.
I finally saw The Bucket List on cable tonight. I knew what it was about and how it would end. I still cried through pretty much the entire movie and was almost inconsolable at the end. I went completely over the edge by the song “Say” by John Mayer. I already love that song and hadn’t known it was from this movie.
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I read Roger Ebert’s review and don’t disagree with a single word of it. It still got me. I would love to be able to say that I’m just in a weird place right now and that’s what caused me to buy into this ridiculous movie so wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, I can’t say that because I always have been a sucker for even the most obvious and contrived movies, songs and books. Both the movie and the song are cheesy and clichéd. I love them both anyway.
When did I become so excessively sentimental?! Is it because I’m getting older? Because I’m a mom? Am I, emotionally, still a romantic, dramatic teenage girl? I don’t know the answer, and I am truly embarrassed by it! It’s silly and ridiculous, but…it’s me.
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I find myself feeling the same way as I get older… much more emotional than I used to be. I can’t speak for you specifically, but I think a lot of mine stems from the fact that I longer feel invincible (as we are prone to do when younger). I now truly understand what it is to have loved and lost, and I know that it is bound to happen many more times in my lifetime. And that tends to make me a little weepy:)
PS I Heart John Mayer anyway. If you get the chance to ever see him live… DO IT!
Don’t be embarrassed. I recently saw the movie, too, and I liked it and kinda choked up. I used to gauge my movie choices by whether Roger Ebert gave it a thumbs up. I almost always agreed with him. I became much sappier after I had my kids–everything seems so much more important and intense because of them.
LMAO! That is fantastic…. my hubby doesn’t enjoy concerts like I do, but I did make him go see Johnny Boy with me. Needless to say– the afterglow I was feeling made him REALLY glad he went, LOL!
BTW… I was winging by to tell you that I was just browsing Netflix and saw that The Bucket List is listed as their number one comedy rental. For reals??? COMEDY???
Jess, good point. Facing our own mortality, etc. Speaking of which, I saw John Mayer last summer and almost died of alcohol poisoning. I love him too.
LOL, my hubby was hoping for the same warm afterglow but the public vomitting pretty much killed that mood.
I can see why it would be listed as a comedy, I guess. There were a lot of funny parts. I think they were trying for the whole Steel Magnolias thing where they got you crying hysterically and then lightened the mood with something hilarious but it didn’t work as well in The Bucket List.