The Bucket List and Into the Wild.

Remember the trailer for December 2007's The Bucket List? Guess what. You just saw the entire movie.

Director Rob Reiner does an excellent job of making every scene from the trailer a little longer, and tossing in one or two lines here and there so that the movie can be feature length. I wanted to enjoy it, but knowing that the two main characters only had months to live just made every scene horribly depressing. I never knew there was such a thing as a feel-bad movie. By the end, I had nearly lost the will to live.

September 2007's Into the Wild is about a guy who takes off to explore the world and live the fuck out of his life. Kinda like the two guys in Bucket List, except less materialistic and infinitely more authentic. The guy in Into the Wild is out of his mind, but I still identified with him more as a real person. Into the Wild is also much better in all the technical respects of making a movie.

If you realize your own mortality and decide to write a bucket list... well, you can put "Into the Wild" on it... just keep "The Bucket List" off it.

Cheers,
Diego