John Cusack's best movie

The original title was "Grocer Point Blank"

HS what?! I can't believe YOU DON'T. >:(

This is, quite frankly, shocking and upsetting.

love the convenience store shootout scene in GPB

aw i'm sorry E! it creeps me out tbh.

by the criteria outlined in the op 'identity' best movie on the list 'the thin red line' or maybe 'being john malkovich'

gotta admit tho that:

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Con Air
Grosse Pointe Blank

is a p impressive single year run

aw i'm sorry E! it creeps me out tbh.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Creeps you out? How?!

Midnight in The Garden is surprisingly good.

i don't really even like john cusack anymore but he is super-good in high fidelity.

xp i think it's that cameron crowe yay codependency thing that gets me

Eastwood took a giant crap on the book. The drag queen was the best thing in it. Also: it's when I started to hate Kevin Spacey.

like when john mahoney asks him what he wants to do with his life and he's like, "i want to BE with your DAUGHTER" is that supposed to be cute?

I'm going to have to go w/ GPB, barely eking out the Savage Steve Holland axis of Better Off Dead/One Crazy Summer & just over SA, BJM & HF - so no big surprises there, tho I do have to give a shoutout to TAPEHEADS &, absurd tho the film as a whole is, JC freaking the fuck out over the entire duration of 1408 is also worthy of mention.

It's his delivery: he's sincere yet I hear the self-mockery too.

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Oh jeez HA - it is a sweet movie and loyd is nice and was my pretend boyfriend when I was teenager and he gave her his heart and she gave him a pen and DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND DAMMIT! ;) I haven't seen it in years but never really got a creepy codependency vibe from it but that's interesting and I'll keep that in mind next time I catch it on tv.

like when john mahoney asks him what he wants to do with his life and he's like, "i want to BE with your DAUGHTER" is that supposed to be cute?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:10 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yes!

well i could be overreacting i think the fact that jerry maguire happened later caused me to view earlier crowe movies suspiciously. though i love singles. also, i hate fun.

I think you may be over thinking that one a little too much.

awwwww

u do not

<3

Jerry Maguire is a horrible movie tho

John Cusack is immune to you guys' psychobabble ;)

Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich

altho I almost gave the sympathy vote to Roadside Prophets, cuz he is awesome in that (also only onscreen for like 2 minutes tho)

never understood the love for Grosse Point Blank tbh. lot of good work from this guy tho, obviously

i have seen so many of these goddamn movies. one of my sisters was obsessed with john cusack growing up and we had to see everything multiple times. this might help account for my feelings about say anything.

like has anyone else seen tapeheads more than once? probably not.

um...

1408 is underrated. Properly creepy.

It used to bug me that Ione Skye was such a void in Say Anything when she's supposed to be this mind-blowing valedictorian genius, but the truth is that if they'd gotten an actress that really came off super-intelligent and challenging (like if Lili Tayor played the part) the movie would have lost a big slice of its fanbase - women who just wanna watch John Cusack be mr. dream supportive boyfriend. Its cult would probably be more like Dogfight's.

lol Dan <3

oh wait, I'm thinking of Airheads

nvrmind

being john malkovich was the biggest overrated piece of shit movie.

ha my sister was telling me they did a years later commentary track for say anything and crowe said incredibly complimentary things to mahoney and cusack about their work, and then any time ione was onscreen he was like, "you're so pretty!"

JOHN CUSACK Y

tbh lots of valedictorians are voids.

the ones that get to join think tanks out of college?

sorry out of HIGH SCHOOL?

Ione Skye is p annoying in that movie tbh.

also, no sure thing on that earlier poll, so this one is very necessary

it's a thinktank for hairdressers.

that's part of the creepiness of the movie to me...it's like john cusack has just invented a person in his mind, which you do when you have an unrequited long-distance crush, but then the movie treats that crush like this exalted thing

yeah if i was lloyd i would have gotten rid of ione

yeah it is weird, but for boys who do that and ladies who (at least think) they'd enjoy the attention (and since Ione is blank its easy to just push her out of the way of his gaze), SA is the UR-movie

I've seen Tapeheads more times than any other Cusack movie - probably more than all the others put together. What can I say? Ninja bitches.

it also helps that the supporting cast is so terrific in Say, so its still pretty watchable once your past the blind crushage stage of life

Plus Eliot Gould and Barbara Streisand's lovechild is in it!

Crowe isn't a good writer of women. Look at Renee Zellweger in JM: she's a composite of several irreconcilable qualities. She's tough, cute, an imbecile, the mother of a horrible whelp, a careerist. It's like Crowe thinks these things that cancel each other out make for a three-dimensional woman.

the mother of a horrible whelp

lol

I'm sorry but he was pretty damn cute in that movie.

I was all like, Where's Gotcha?, because I think of that one with One Crazy Summer and The Sure Thing. But it turns out not to be Cusack, though imagine if they'd dyed his hair blonde and blow-dried it for this.

http://www.porraman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/gotcha-poster.jpg

I'm a sucker for small kids in glasses who say stupid things though so.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jerry-maguire-kid.jpg

^^^ ugh. Would aim SCUC missile at his face.

"You must have done some naughty shit there, Bart! There's a contract out on your life. I should know, I was hired to kill you. But I'm not going to do it. It's either because I'm in love with your daughter, or I have a newfound respect for life."

"That punk is either in love with that guy's daughter, or he has a newfound respect for life!"

I used to have such a thing for John Cusack. But in my opinion GPB is where he started coasting. I'd have said High Fidelity, but upon looking at his filmography, there's not a lot of there there.

Love & Mercy is probably my favorite of his since Grosse Point Blank

it’s not for everyone but i just love his portrayal of wilson, i like how he stops short of doing an impression but somehow still physically carrying and/or suggesting all of the turmoil

that was a good'un, yes, and I saw it during the throes of my BB obsession

Yeah he was good in that movie.

Anyone seen Grand Piano? I found it in a list of underrated thrillers and saw it had Cusack and Elijah Wood and was written by Damien Chazelle - surprised I'd never heard of it, with those names. It's a decent enough high-concept thriller but Cusack doesn't make much of an impression. Elijah commits much better to the ridiculous concept