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ough its many appeals maybe you ll take a second look at lloyd and gib opening scenes gib s hopelessness at picking up women in high school is immediately established in the sure thing was there ever a worse pickup line than consider outer space perhaps later when gib comes up with did you know that nietzsche died of syphilis we also quickly see that his bro type friend lance anthony edwards is nothing like him gib may not be as sure of himself as lance but he s witty gib feels despondent about striking out with high school girls so lance assures him that these girls will magically transform once they get to college gib with a wry expression and shake of the head says i m gonna miss you lance soon lance will leave for ucla while gib will depart for a small northeastern college unfortunately for gib his poor luck with women will continue especially when he tries to pick up his classmate alison a stuffy academic type daphne zuniga pre melrose place he asks her to tutor him in english to woo her it s not a bad ploy i enjoyed his dramatic depiction of his fast food future if he doesn t pass the class but he soon pisses her off making her an enemy instead so when lance gives him an appealing prospect come see me at christmas and i ll get you laid gib s discovery that alison will be accompanying him on the trip is not a happy moment so here we are a road trip with two people who dislike one another a rom com standard since it happened one night hijinks are about to ensue which will begin with the couple offering to drive them played by lisa jane persky and tim robbins the couple wants to spend the cross country hours singing showtunes witness cusack s hilariously horrified expression when this plan begins to be executed he is every teenager everywhere this guy is gonna be a star believability one thing i love about 80s films is that they often feature teens who are low on funds instead of focusing on the privileged in fact when rich characters are included they are often villains neither the hero nor the heroine of the sure thing can afford airfare so they go to the ride board remember those instead of dressing in fashionable or skimpy attire the two are wearing unsexy and in gib s case ill advised outfits gib s immature sleepwear looks like he s worn it since he was fourteen neither can afford much to eat we witness him snacking on pork rinds and snowballs alison is so worried about her parents rules she misses what constitutes an emergency that would enable her to use their credit card these leads have always seemed like people i know not the glamorous unconvincing teens in so many movies i ve seen since likeability of the characters both gib and alison are believably awkward with each other as their attraction grows the characters combination of bravado and insecurity is exactly what it s like to be that age just a few years after porky s celebration of objectifying women gib s character is sensitive in unexpected ways sure he s stereotypically masculine too note when he shares his distaste for the name elliot the kind of guy he says who eats paste which he compares to the name nick the kind of guy who doesn t mind if you puke in his car yet he checks on alison after a scary encounter and is careful to respect her boundaries during their trip making sure not to try anything she doesn t want alison meanwhile is afraid she s not cool she takes notes on every word the professor speaks in her english class then can t get past the professor s jibe that she needs to live more adventurously that s why she overreacts when gib teases her for being repressed for me a nerdy girl growing up in the 80s alison was pretty darn familiar gib was that charming combination of confident and sensitive that isn t easy to find especially in someone as attractive as cusack as a stressed out freshman in college i sought a comparatively relaxed boyfriend like gib so much so that i started dating the first person i met with terrible posture the film has also had some funny and enduring effects on my habits alison s habit of nervously checking around a motel room for anything left behind has haunted me and has resulted in extra care before departures in every place i ve stayed since the humor of the leads as a kid my favorite scene was gib s dramatic encounter with a sketchy truck driver he s just having so much fun freaking the guy out i ve always loved the way cusack plays gib s insecurity as when he goes to a bar to escape when alison is talking to her boyfriend on the phone even better is how he tries to impress her by showing off his supposed juggling skills when he returns gib has so many good lines my favorites are his defense of the nutritional value of pork rinds and when he shares the random questions running through his head does god exist who invented liquid soap and why alison s failure when she tries to shotgun a beer cracks me up i also smile at zuniga s goofy delivery of i m the kind of gal who likes to live on the edge which says very clearly that she is anything but the joys of the minor characters like better off dead another great cusack flick this film is full of funny minor characters the singing couple is great with impressive performances from both actors i hadn t heard any of these rusty awful tunes before and i laugh aloud when the two become fearful of these teens they re transporting and try to bar them from returning to the car screaming lock the doors it gets me every time i love the roommate who wants his almost certainly fictional sexual encounter to be published in playboy then there s the semi driver who helps gib get his sure thing i e get laid without strings because my whole life i never had a sure thing every single character in the dive bar where gib goes to avoid alison s talk with her boyfriend is hilarious the deadpan bartender who looks at gib s fake id and says okay dr levinson what ll it be the fed up waitress with her flo of mel s diner hair and her disdainful glances at her clientele the charming customers who cheer up gib with their christmas carols and their uncertainty of whether they are goodlooking men i can t decide which i like more the guy asking the waitress for critiques on his self discipline or the cowboy who tells his companions i was in paris once with my wife boy am i glad she s dead for those of us who relish funny encounters the sure thing has always felt aspirational as well as entertaining the romance zuniga doesn t have cusack s talent but she was very good in this film alison s uncertainty and awkwardness come through in zuniga s voice posture and expressions cusack is amazing in it by turns sarcastic tender playful and wistful still a teen when this film was produced he is a far better comedic actor in this his first lead role than actors twice his age he and zuniga have great chemistry and their growth as characters in the movie is sweet and believable gib grows up in alison s company and she learns to relax and act more her age i e not 85 what i love is that these are incremental growths the characters still are fundamentally who they always were of course the sure thing nicolette sheridan isn t much of a character nor is alison s boyfriend but we get more humorous encounters with lance edwards in the final scenes including what he did to set up this situation for his friend i won t reveal the end if it s a little cheesy that sentimentality is earned and cusack and zuniga sell it the comparison before i left for my junior year in england in the mid 1990s i discussed with a friend the horror of a partner being with you with nothing to do he nodded he felt the same the image of lloyd sitting in diane s ione skye s dorm room playing video games and practicing kickboxing the sport of the future while she tries to enjoy her fellowship was one of the reasons that my own boyfriend and i agreed that long distance was a good alternative for us i shivered at these lines from say anything thinking of lloyd glomming onto her diane s dad what are your plans for the future lloyed spend as much time as possible with diane before she leaves sure lloyd looks good compared to diane s criminal father but that s not a high bar being adrift at his age isn t a bad sign it s even endearing but she is driven and has a once in a lifetime opportunity he s about to derail clingy is not a good look even on john cusack and diane oh diane at points skye s acting is so stilted i found it difficult to watch so it was hard to feel for her character while diane is attracted to lloyd it felt like she was just replacing her dad with another guy to lean on i laughed a few times during say anything mainly at lili taylor s funny delivery and descriptions of her ex compare that to the sure thing the last time i saw it it had been over a decade and i still remembered so many scenes and lines with affection and even though i knew everything coming i laughed countless times when rob reiner died i hoped there would be a reappraisal of this underappreciated comedic gem he d directed which was well reviewed when it first came out roger ebert had given it three and a half out of four stars and called it a small miracle since say anything was not one of reiner s films i thought the sure thing would finally get the due it had never been granted instead the movie became a footnote in reiner s obituary mentioned as if it were a regrettable blip between this is spinal tap and stand by me what a shame hopefully zuniga and cusack standing together to honor reiner still adorable together will be a reminder to those who love it and a wake up call to those who have never seen it even if you like say anything you should watch cusack s first starring role to witness the charisma that would turn him into a heartthrob and beloved comedy icon there s a dusting of that charm in say anything but if you want to encounter its full wattage spend a little time with gib in the sure thing posted in 1980s films oscars romantic comedies film tagged college romance daphne zuniga john cusack films nicolette sheridan oscars tribute road rom coms rob reiner say anything teen romance the sure thing underrated rom coms wallace got an oscar 03 15 2026 by leah carygrantwonteatyou com leave a comment well some good choices some bad in this year s oscars but i m going to focus on the fact that michael b jordan got an oscar it wasn t his best performance but he s deserved awards since wallace not a single emmy for any of that stunning cast of the wire but at least this stellar performer is now an oscar winner posted in drama film oscars tagged michael b jordan oscar noms 2025 gems duds 03 14 2026 by leah carygrantwonteatyou com 6 comments hamnet can i say a performance like jessie buckley s is good if it s just one misery scene after another i don t know these characters enough to feel invested in them the pacing is all wrong i looked at my watch countless times what were the slow mo shots of trees and berries for i didn t cry if i hadn t known these were depictions of real people i would have rooted for the plague this is not the sign of a good movie song song blue feels a bit like a lifetime movie despite the great performances especially hugh jackman s the timeline is very misleading but i thought it affecting which is more than i can say for hamnet one battle after another it s an action movie it s a satire it s a comedy and it all works fantastic acting biting commentary about the current moment not easy to pull off an actually original car chase the star making turn of teyana taylor it s a movie i instantly wanted to rewatch despite its length i don t always like paul thomas anderson but he nailed this one sinners this is a daring movie it s inventive and thoughtful and metaphorical and just new i don t think it all works especially the end i might give the oscar to ryan coogler anyway because this is a deeply creative film and i believe directors who pull off something less polished but interesting deserve the accolades the main reason i wouldn t give this film the oscar is my biggest surprise i don t think michael b jordan is good in it this discovery has been a shock for me someone who has loved him since his stunning performance in the wire who adored him even his small roles lie to me who watched a superhero movie for him loved creed because of him but here s the thing if you re playing twins i should be able to tell them apart and i was so far from being able to do so that i nearly wrote down which person was wearing what so that i d stop confusing the characters consider this tatiana maslany played so many clones in orphan black that i couldn t count them and when acting as the main four clones i could tell when one of them was pretending to be another jordan is nearly always good but i found his performance dull here even if he hadn t muddled the storyline by not building enough distinctions between the two men all the other performances especially those of wunmi mosaku and delroy lindo are memorable sentimental value i really loved this film affecting understated and simple with characters so believable to me especially the relationship between the two sisters that i instantly felt invested stellan skarsgård is great in it even better than sean penn with his brilliant portrayal of the villain in one battle after another renate reinsve is moving and subtle in it but i liked the performance of inga ibsdotter lilleaas even better she plays the more grounded sister who is trying to keep the family together she s lovely in it marty supreme i don t know how to feel about this film timothée chalamet is mesmerizing in the role but as a movie i don t know it gets boring in the middle and i m not sure what we come to in the end the very end is terribly cliché there s sadly little ping pong all the character s hustles flow together and aren t really hustles at all the real person the film is based on seems far more interesting than the character drawn here i enjoyed most of it but i m not sure i can call this a good film blue moon i enjoyed this little character study it s more of a play than a film but ethan hawke who has never been my favorite star is quite good in the role as far as character studies this is far more interesting than marty supreme if i had legs i d kick you i m a big fan of this little fever dream of a film and rose byrne s was the most stunning performance of all of those i saw this year more nuanced than buckley s and reinsve s better than any of the men s performances by turns funny and heartbreaking and deadpan byrne s acting is something to watch she won t win but she should so there you have it my views on the nominees i ve seen so far i d love to hear others thoughts posted in 2020s films action sports films comedies film drama film oscars uncategorized tagged hamnet sucks oscar picks rose byrne deserves the oscar 100 years later still scary dr caligari 11 11 2025 by leah carygrantwonteatyou com 22 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