# Grosse Point Blank **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717 "2005-11-06T00:57:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/41 "2005-11-07T16:56:27Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > That would be ConAir. I liked Con Air! If I told you about a movie starring Nicholas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Ving Rhames, and Steve Buscemi, you’d think “Wow, that might be a really terrific movie!” But it just happens to be a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action movie, and one of the better ones at that. You won’t like it if you don’t like big kick-splode action movies, but it isn’t BAD by any means, weighed against other movies of that genre. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/42 "2005-11-07T17:06:22Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > That would be ConAir. I am also in the I liked **ConAir**. He was excellent in it and I thought the movie worked well. I am not big on the newer “actions flicks” but this movie was really fun. Great cast too. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/43 "2005-11-07T17:22:20Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > I > My favorite part is the fight scene in the high school. This still ranks #1 as my favorite fight scene in a movie. I’m not sure why. Maybe because it looks so real for some reason and the guys are actaully trying to kill eachother rather than fight eachother. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/44 "2005-11-07T18:06:54Z")
I saw _Grosse Point Blank_ in one of the more commercial (and generally crappy) theaters in my area. But my area is the San Francisco Bay Area, so we tend to get a better selection of movies even in our non-arthouse theaters. SF Chronicle movie reviwer and professional dumbass Mick LeSalle named GSB one of the worst movies of the year when it came out. Let’s all hiss at him in hipster dislike. _Sssssssssssssss!_ ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/45 "2005-11-07T18:19:56Z")
I quite liked [Identity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/). ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/46 "2005-11-07T18:43:28Z")
My vote would be “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Bad movie. Great book, but the movie took the slow moving lyrical quality of the book a little too seriously. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/47 "2005-11-07T18:51:24Z")
> [@Tinker Grey](#): > > I quite liked [Identity](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/). Another very good movie. I thought both he and Liotta were exceptional in this. My Favorites by him are still his older movies. [Better off Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088794/) [Fat Man and Little Boy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097336/) [Eight Men Out](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095082/) I never saw Chicago Cab is it worth seeing? jim ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717/48 "2005-11-07T18:57:56Z")
My favorite Cusack movies are what I consider the “trilogy”: Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank, and High Fidelity. I have “fanwanked” an explanation to tie them all together into the same continuity, if you discount the fact that Cusack’s characters all have different names. I once dazzled a girl by explaining how after Lloyd Dobler’s relationship with Diane Court didn’t work out, he became a mercenary and an assassin, quit the life after protecting a former flame and her father, and became a bitter slacker who owned his own hip record store. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grosse-point-blank/329717.md?page=2)