The Departed was really, truly terrible, and it won the Oscar for best picture. Go figure.

Excuse me, but what the hell is Roger Friedman doing saying anything about the movies?
And Fox "News"?
He's a celebrity ambulance chaser and, like an emotional sentinel, always on guard against anything that might lead anyone to have a feeling, or stray from the group think.
Again, what's he doing on HuffPost?

This reviewer is clearly a myopic idiot. The movie has nothing to do with vomit and incontinance. It's one scene. Get over it. Cancer is real and so are the things depicted in this film. There's nothing wrong with showing that.

The film is about two men: one white, one black, one rich, one poor. The only thing they have in common is a long list of unfinished business.

They leave the hospital together and set out to accomplish their goals in the time they have left: having fun, mending family relationships, skydiving, etc.

It's about two people who meet by chance and come together toward a common goal, and end up learning to love and value life, it's opportunities, and each other.

Rob Reiner at his best!

The trailer looks phenomenal and I can't wait to see this film!

One has the feeling if the reality was sex, war, violence in society or abuse, the reviewer would applaud the film. Show the reality of a cancer patient's life, and one commits the cardinal sin of film. Grow up, Roger!

It's true that Rob Reiner's made some movie bombs, but so have directors even more distinguished than him (recently Robert Redford).

Reiner's movie's potential success is not about him--it's more about the preferred tastes of our proletariat movie-going masses (the ones really responsible for boffo opening-weekend grosses).

Because the movie features a "a sequence that shows the two men going back and forth to the bathroom, throwing up, incontinent, hallucinating, feverish from chemo, etc.," my prediction is that is has great box office potential.

Im basing that on the to-date $200-million plus gross of the lame, predictable homo-baiting John Travolta-Tim Allen blockbuster, "The Wild Hogs," which came out last March.

In reply to those who insist Rob Reiner has never made a bad film. Did you see 'Alex & Emma' or 'North'?

I WANT TO SEE IT, ONE PERSON MAY LOVE WHAT I HATE AND VICE VERSA!

Any film with Morgan Freeman, Samual L. Jackson or Will Smith in it is going to be a bad film. So people should know to skip it. As for Jack Nicholson, he used to be a good actor. Now it's time for him to retire and count his millions.

You can't condemn a work by citing its subject matter, which you don't like. This review wouldn't pass muster in a 9th grade English class. What's it doing here?

I hereby declare war on AGEISM in this youth-besotted culture. From now on, when I see someone portraying old people as listless, boring, smelly, and sexless, I'm going to stand up and start yelling:

AGEIST PROPAGANDA!

Racism and ageism and sexism are part of the same impulse: to feel like you're better than someone else. These attitudes should not be tolerated any more. When they creep up, stand up and scream as loud as you can.

Shame on Reiner, but shame also on the actors, who are successful enough to turn down garbage like this potraying elderly people as dying (and not very interesting) animals.

Why is Roger Friedman's review being reported as if it is the be-all, end-all? "The Bucket List" was just named one of the year's 10 best films by The National Board of Review. Why no mention of that?

all of these comments prove one very intersting and powerfully insightful point...people have differing tastes in movies, thankyou everyone for making such a difficult point easily understandable.

Other than The Sure Thing (which launched Daphne Zuniga's career but she was absolutely horrible in it), Reiner hasn't made a bad film yet. The reviewer sounds like a youngish person who can't bear to think of the harsh realities of getting old. The trailer that I saw emphasized the idea of getting out the hospital room and living as much as one can before death arrives. As strong as these actors are, scene chewing is no big deal because that's why they were cast.
My wife and I, both in our 40s, can't wait to see it.

Rob Reiner has never made a good movie in his life.

Find a cure for cancer or learn how to prevent it and movies like this won't be made?

I guess no one expects to get sick or old?