That's a spot-on article on Cusack.
Except it ignores everything before Say Anything. Bloody late-comers thinking they get the John Cusack mystique.
t /grumble
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-t - Jul 29, 2005 5:42:37 am PDT #6218 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Vonnie K - Jul 29, 2005 5:45:51 am PDT #6219 of 10002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I liked him quite a bit on Sure Thing and Better Off Dead, but I gotta admit he didn't really make me go WOW until Say Anything. Although... the characters he played in those earlier movies did have similar traits to Llyod Dobler.
Nutty - Jul 29, 2005 5:53:28 am PDT #6220 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
John Cusack made me go WOW when I realized that he did Eight Men Out, Say Anything, and The Grifters in rapid succession, at the age of 21. Dude wanted to stop playing teenagers, and he pulled it off, and I had no idea he was that young in either of the non-teenager roles.
-t - Jul 29, 2005 5:54:10 am PDT #6221 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Really? I thought Say Anything was just another John Cusack movie after watching The Sure Thing and Better off Dead seventy gajillion times, and even seeking out Hot Pursuit and One Crazy Summer because, John Cusack! But perhaps my bemusement over him playing a college student when I was in High School and a High School student when I was in college colors my opinion too much.
(eta: And I can see why he'd keep coming back to the tried and true romantic comedies after the lack of recognition for Eight Men and Grifters )
erikaj - Jul 29, 2005 6:04:17 am PDT #6222 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe once you make out with your movie mom, it's a fork in the road.
Lyra Jane - Jul 29, 2005 6:24:19 am PDT #6223 of 10002
Up with the sun
I can see why he'd keep coming back to the tried and true romantic comedies after the lack of recognition for Eight Men and Grifters
I think "The Grifters" is still a movie people talk about (thought maybe more for Bening and Huston than for him), and it got a bunch of Oscar and other nominations that year.
He's always made movies that weren't romantic comedies; his last two movies before "Must Love Dogs" were "Runaway Jury" and "Identity," and it looks like his next movie is a thriller with Billy Bob Thornton. It's just that the romantic comedies are the ones people remember, which he probably sees as both a blessing and a curse.
erikaj - Jul 29, 2005 6:27:49 am PDT #6224 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Nutty - Jul 29, 2005 6:31:44 am PDT #6225 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
once you make out with your movie mom
If you must be used to wipe the floor with, best the person doing the wiping be Anjelica Huston, you know?
Lee - Jul 29, 2005 6:33:21 am PDT #6226 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So Lloyd Dobbler ruined other men for John Cusack too?
-t - Jul 29, 2005 6:37:31 am PDT #6227 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
He's always made movies that weren't romantic comedies
I meant he keep making them in between other things. Which just makes sense, gotta do what makes money. But when The Grifters came out there was a lot of talk about how this was a breakout role that would put him into position to move away from the rom-coms and that didn't really happen.