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Say Anything... (1989)
Excellent Flick
I have liked this one since I was a college kid, especially the ghetto blaster scene. I used to carry a ghetto blaster around myself! Kinda weird huh. Well, John Cusak has made several movies I like, "Better Off Dead" being my favorite. Say Anything is not quite as quirky and thus more straight forward as a teen angst love story so it probably appeals to a much wider audience. I suppose you have to be a fan of 80's pop / college rock to really like the film on a deeper level. It is a bit formulaic as well, but the acting makes up for that weakness in the writing. I guess. Really I think I don't like the writing much and find it annoying. In fact this whole movie is annoying and reminds me of everything I hated about college. Really total rubbish and not worth renting or buying. I think I'll take my copy back to Costco and get my money back. I think I need some lunch, my blood sugar feels a bit low...
Karroll's Christmas (2004)
Karroll sums it up "This is HORRIBLE!"
Nice premise but... extremely poor execution. The movie didn't know whether it wanted to be a comedy, a drama, a romance or Porky's Revenge with a foul mouthed ghost of the future lewdly commenting that there "wasn't a dry seat in the house" after Karroll's bended knee proposal to his girlfriend. The acting oscillates between cardboard stiff caricatures to over the top emotional extortion. The sets look like they snuck onto the soundstage of "Christmas With The Kranks" after hours and had movie-making 101 students do the lighting for free. The sloppy joke writing makes fun of everything from Sodomy in Hell with the Turkish guard from "Midnight Express" to a fat naked man wiping his face on a Magi's robe with the comment "we gotta lay off the myrrh." Don't watch this with your kids unless you're prepared to explain to them what is meant by the "open my ankles" line by a negligee modeling Carrie straddling her boyfriend on his bed.
This one is one real waste of time so don't bother.