[workerbee]

Were you paid?

Then shaddupaboutit.

[EEGator]

Better Off Dead is great.

[discostu]

Cusack needs to lighten up. Better Off Dead is a fine movie with some of the best lines ever (”waste of a perfectly good white boy” being my favorite).

[fieldmarshaldj]

"In his autobiography A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal, Guinness recalls a time he encountered an autograph-seeking fan who boasted to him about having watched Star Wars more than 100 times. In response, Guinness agreed to provide the boy an autograph under the condition that he promise never to watch the film again."

Now THAT is funny.

[IYAS9YAS]

John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was "the worst thing I have ever seen" and he would "never trust you as a director again."

As much as I hate his politics, I've always loved the '80s/early '90s movies with Cusack. Better off Dead is one of my favorites.

Cusack, much like other actors, seems to always play himself in the movies.

A manic, self-conflicted, angst-ridden dork who talks a mile a minute. Guaranteed.

[Jonty30]

Katherine Heigl always complaining about the movies she is in, which is why she isn’t in too many these days.

[DouglasKC]

I actually kind of liked Reindeer Games....

[GeronL]

“Mario Bros” was perhaps one of the worst films of all times on a lot of levels.

[MarineBrat]

Star Wars was allright for its genre.

Sound of Music was a classic that my own daughter grew up watching many times... with my blessing. No, I wouldn’t take a date to see it, but for what it was - sort of a wartime Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical - it was great. The child roles were excellent. (Ever wonder why there’s scads of great child actors and few great child everything else? - Me neither... which is why what actors say means next to nothing to me.)

I never saw any of the other movies in the list.

[greene66]

I saw Cary Grant when he was going around doing a little series of college tours, and somebody asked him about “Arsenic and Old Lace,” and he winced, and said how much he HATED his performance in it. I guess it means he wound up disliking the resulting film itself. He sure seemed to exhibit some disgust/embarrassment about it.

[al_c]

10. John Cusack, Better Off Dead. John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was "the worst thing I have ever seen" and he would "never trust you as a director again."

One of my favorites from the 80s.

[Publius]

Jack Benny hated “The Horn Blows at Midnight”.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I didn’t know that Christopher Plummer was a jerk.

[Red Steel]

10. John Cusack, Better Off Dead. John Cusack reportedly hated

[Hugin]

Prove it. Give back all the “dirty money” they paid you. Otherwise, shut up.

[RegulatorCountry]

The Sound of Mucus

Well, that is kind of funny, in a snotty sort of way.

I never did understand all those big, overblown, improbable musicals. Taken in small segments I can see the skill and the beauty, but taken as a whole they were just too canned.

Must have been a generational thing with the popularity of musicals being primarily due to moviegoers raised in a pre-tv era. I'm either the very first of Gen X or the very last of the Boomers depending upon whose definition you use.

The whole thing just made no sense to me, like a sitcom gone on way too long morphing into Lawrence Welk periodically, without explanation and without warning.

I was not alone, apparently.

[farming pharmer]

John Cusack’s ‘Better Off Dead’ was absolutely hilarious. The dancing hamburger to Van Halen’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’ was genius!

[catfish1957]

Wonder if Eastwood regrets making those Monkey (left turn clyde) movies long ago.

[Publius]

Cusack’s best role was in “Max” in 2002. He played a Jewish art dealer who meets the young Hitler right after World War I.

[alstewartfan]

Maria Von Trapp hated Sound of Music as well. But the movie was decent, I thought, and it contained one awesome scene where Rolf decides to betray the family and show fealty to the Nazi war effort.