Agreed! “Better Off Dead” is Cusacks BEST film. It was funny back then and is STILL funny. My kids and their cousins howled a few weeks ago when I showed it to them. (the only thing I had to really explain was Howard Cosell.
John needs to lighten up and appreciate what made him. He just takes himself SOOOOOOOOOOOOO seriously nowadays. It’s a shame.
“Two brothers... One speaks no English, the other learned English from watching “The Wide World of Sports.” So you tell me... Which is better, speaking no English at all, or speaking Howard Cosell?”
I think Cusack hates it because it’s not his standard too smart for everyone but him and his crowd type of movie. I bet it’s one of the movies people who meet him remember him the most for which really gets him.