John Cusack double feature

[auntiemeesh]

I watched a couple of fun movies tonight, Better Off Dead and Grosse Pointe Blank.

Better Off Dead was a hilariously painful reminder of all things bad about the eighties, from the hair to the clothes to the music, and the bizarro world approach to high school was scarily appropriate.

Grosse Pointe Blank, which is about an assassin dealing with his high school ten year reunion, made me realize that I'm actually closer to my twentieth than my tenth h.s. reunion. Yikes! But the movie has a great cast, awesome soundtrack (and, you know, lots of mayhem and blood and violence) and is lotsa fun.

Well, it's after midnight and I'm supposed to get up early to go jogging of all things. Yep, I'm giving the running another try. Despite the fact that it's on the road (ouchie painful hard unyielding surface) I'm feeling surprisingly good and the sore shins I had from trekking around town last week have even gone away. Wow!

Comments

[westwindschild.livejournal.com]

I loved Grosse Point Blank! It was so funny and strange and - well, John Cusack was in it (to say nothing of wrote and produced it) - need I say more? *wipes drool off lower lip*

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

*hands you napkin to clean yourself up*

I've always liked John Cusack, but somehow, I rarely actually watch the movies he makes. Go figure.

[westwindschild.livejournal.com]

Well, I never could get myself really into Being John Malkovich, despite all the press about it being so brilliant, but other than that I've pretty much seen everything he's been in since 1990 or so.
They tend to be movies you have to be in the right mood for.