Grosse Point Blank

Cafe Society
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I quite liked Identity.

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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.

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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
Fat Man and Little Boy
Eight Men Out

I never saw Chicago Cab is it worth seeing?

jim

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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.