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

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

c'mon, are you really going to tell me that the 80's were worse than any other decade? :devil: I mean everyone thought the beehive was the worst hair ever until the B-52's made it camp :D

"Tree Trimmer: Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that."

heh, John's roughly my age, and played lotsa bad luck, so I identified a lot with that... :D and I still have a tremendous crush on his sister... so I've always liked his movies a bunch. The sure thing was good too...;)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Oh, the eighties weren't any worse than any other era. I was laughing while watching the movie at first because I thought it was filmed later and the worst aspects of 80s style had been chosen. Then I realized it was actually from '85 and they were trying to pick the 'coolest' looks of the day when they filmed it, lol.

The lady who sang for the band during the dance scene was possibly the worst. As eve11 said, she looked like she was wearing a Stegosaurus hide.

[wishkey.livejournal.com]

Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

I always liked that one.

My sister had a beehive. Then again, this is (eyeroll) my sister we're talking about, so, go fig.