You gotta love TNT late night. Though, as I’m thoroughly enjoying Last Holiday (with Queen Latifah), the irony is not lost on me when the corner splash ad announces The Bucket List scheduled for Tuesday at 9 EST.
Um. …is there something I don’t know? Both of these movies are fabulous, feel-good flicks about seizing the day …when facing a terminal disease or condition. Ok. So, you’re terminal. You know you’re going to die. What would you do with your remaining time and money?
Produce Laugh-Out-Loud, Wish-I-Could-Do-That movies that we all watch over and over again late at night on TNT. J
Even my favorite movie reference to Carpe Diem (seize the day) comes from Dead Poets Society, which sounds gloomy enough considering the hundreds-years-old dead British Romantics featured as the inspiration to feel, experience, then act. Uh, yeah. That “act” in response to feelings and experiences was suicide. Ugggh!!! No, no, no, no. It’s Carpe Diem (seize the day)…not END the day! Ugh! BUT…even this movie, with all its terminal climax, STILL makes us remember to feel, experience, and act.
So, by all the power vested in late night cable tv, I shall seize my last holiday and fill my bucket and assume that all the terminal references are just a reminder…and not a warning. 😉
How about you, front porch pickers? What are your favorite making-the-most-of-life movies? What bucket list items or remaining days plans would you make? Skydiving? Spending every nickel you have? Big party? Fly off to your happy place (and NOT take a cell phone)?