Comedy: Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)

So here's the deal with this movie: I'd never heard of it, and it had Harold from "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" in it. I guess that's about all I can say.

The movie had an awesome premise: Bickford Schmeckler lives in the basement of a house at college, where he sits most of the time formulating "cool ideas." These ideas supposedly merge all different types of philosophies and realities into one deep "cool idea." How deep? So deep the people who read them have "braingasms." Bickford keeps all of these ideas in a book, which gets stolen one night during a party at the house he lives in.

What follows is a movie that could have been much better. They never get into any of the "cool ideas" in the book, but I guess that really wasn't the point. The whole movie is how Bickford (played by Patrick Fugit) chases down the stolen book, which was stolen by the ecstasy taking/pot headed/slutty/totally unattainable artist chick. Everyone who reads "The Book" has a life changing experience, which Bickford never expected.

I can go either way with this one. It certainly wasn't as good as it could have been, but it wasn't horrible. I was able to sit through it and giggle at certain spots. The only extra is about how the Writer/Director of this movie, Scott Lew, was diagnosed with ALS. It does seem like this movie wasn't taken to it's full potential, and I can't help but believe that it was rushed due to Lew's terminal illness.

ahhhhh, it was okay