Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!
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- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
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A friend helps you move. A true friend helps you move a body.
A friend bails you outta jail.
A true friend will be sitting right beside you in jail
Paul is a ride or die friend.
Yes a true friend knows we're the bodies are buried..
A great friend helps you move a body on a bloody couch, brings the shovels, gloves, bags of lye, rope, and the van, drives with you to the desert, and helps you bury everything. But a best friend wakes you the next day after a bender to drink coffee and talk on your brand-new couch. ("Best Friends" by Francisco A. Ojeda)
Friends? That just makes more work in the end.
John and Joan Cusack play so well off each other.
It's like they've known each other forever.
Hello, Joan Cusack did well in " Hero (1992) ".
They've had practice
One of my all time favorite offbeat dark comedies starring one of my favorite actors John Cusack.
Gives me Raising Arizona vibes, which is a good thing.
Try, "Midnight in the garden of good and evil."
@@petergarayt9634 Good one 👍👍
All the dialogue in this film is so fantastic, but I especially love the Martin / Grocer scenes and the Doctor Oatman scenes ("And I know where you live.", "Oh, now. See. That wasn’t a nice thing to say. That wasn’t designed to make me feel good.") 😂
Every scene with Alan Arkin is a treat. RIP
He also plays a funny psychologist in the very odd Full Moon High
“It is I, Sydney Feldman” 😂
"You're a handsome devil. WHat's your name."
"Me? Go G? On you?"
"For awhile. For....awhile."
Cusack is actually a multi black belt holder. The actor playing the European assassin who fought Cusack is his real life martial arts instructor.
The assassin was an extra in Road House. You can see him in the dealership right after the monster truck rolls through.
Benny "The Jet" Urquidez
That's Benny 'The Jet' Urquidez. He has a crazy good fight scene with Jackie Chan in Wheels on Meals.
Even Danny Trejo said Cusack is someone you wouldn't want to mess with. He's taller than you'd think as well - I met him in Belfast once and he's a big guy - over 6'1 at least.
"What if your dad comes in?"
"You can give him one too."
- For whatever reason thats my favorite line in the movie 🤣🤣🤣. Always got me laughing at the wrongest time at my GF's house.
I love John cusack doing movies with his sister. High fidelity is another fun movie.
If you look closely at the other people at the party his other sister Ann is there also.
She was also good in Toys with Robin Williams.
Seconded.
I love the recurring line "It's not me". At first Blank says it to signify that he is not responsible because he is just the weapon that someone else has hired. When Debbie finds him kneeling over a dead body he says it again and it seems desperate, like a cry for help. Dialogue throughout the movie drops hints about the drugs that Blank used to take (and Grocer still does) to numb emotions and supress empathy, it is easy to see how when he stops taking them, Martin could have this realisation that by living the life of a hitman he is betraying who he truly is. As he puts it: "It's not me".
And Alan Arkin tells him to take a deep breath and say, “This is me breathing.” Martin does so, then looks in the mirror and says, “You’re a handsome devil. What’s your name?” Throughout the movie he’s reconnecting with his former self, and then he is faced with the reality of what he’s become when Debi is horrified at finding him with a dead body. Great scriptwriting.
@@terri2494 It's also what his mother says to him when she "meets" him at the old folks home. He's no shaken by the fact that she can't recognize her own son, because her own son can't recognize himself either.
In addition to his sister Joan as his assistant, their sister Ann plays a classmate, the drunk one they run into at the bar.
John was born in 1966…this movie came out in 1997 making him around 30/31 when he filmed it. Not much of a stretch.
Better Off Dead is a cult classic with John Cusack. An underrated 80's gem.
The summer/winter combo of One Crazy Summer and Better Off Dead was a staple of my childhood.
And One Crazy Summer.
I want my two dollars
Better off Ted too
Or Say Anything... kinda the prequel to this movie lol
As a teen-adult in the 1990s, this is a classic movie. The soundtrack was a lot of stuff from my youth.
-those old CRT televisions had big capacitors and a heavy screen so if you got hit in the head hard enough with it, it would kill you, not stun you.
It's really hard to just pick up one of those. I moved one upstairs to my dad's room and we had to carry it together.
yep fixing a 32'' one , i ground myself and fly 3 feet back in a wall Stunning me Hard
It always makes me laugh when I see younger folks not understand how dense, heavy and packed with sharp things TVs once had. LOL. They seem to think it is hollow for some reason many times. NOPE. All kinds of crap poking all over the place and if those were smashed on to a head, the insides would break and have even more sharper objects inside to die on. LOL. What is funny though is those CRT screens where NOT EASY to break. Real life it would most likely simply knock someone out and not actually break at all. Thrown onto the ground, sure. However, not someones soft head.
Saw one fall off a wall at a pizza place. Sounded like a damn bomb went off when it shattered on a stool. My mom literally screamed and threw her plate. Got pissed at my late dad cuz he couldn't quit laughing.
Dan Ackroyd says "Popcorn". It is just a silly thing he says to reference the way he shoots. He likes to shoot 2 guns at once, until they're empty. It makes a pop-pop-pop-pop , like popcorn lol
This is definitely one of my favorite John Cusack movies. Everybody is great in this, but especially Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd.😂
I adore this movie. The writing, the acting, the direction, the action scenes. And the awesome chemistry between Martin and Debbie is insane.
Yay! Thankyou Mike Adams - I’ve been hoping the Schmitts would get to Grosse Pointe Blank eventually, and it was worth the wait! It’s one of my all-time favourites, a hidden gem that from the very first needle drop of “I Can See Clearly Now” had me 100% hooked. The world is split into those who love GPB and those who have never heard of it, so it’s always a thrill to see new people experience it!
And yes, John Cusack really did kick ass! He’s a highly accomplished kick-boxer and the guy he was fighting was his instructor, legendary martial artist Benny “The Jet” Urquidez. I once watched the movie with a friend who’s a black-belt in karate, and when it got to the fight he said “Woah, this is REALLY good…”
John Cusack was in Con Air. You watched that one last year.
That's what I thought
The actor who plays The Ghoul, Vincent, is Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. He's mentioned in Say Anything, starring John Cusack.
He was also in one of the best filmed fight scenes of all time in Wheels on Meals with Jackie Chan.
Benny was also John's kickboxing trainer and choreod their hand to hand showdown.
Benny is in another Jackie picture, Dragons Forever, and has good guy role in Force Five where he gets to show off his skills.
@@LordVolkov He trained John Cusack in kickboxing for "Say Anything" , even though Cusack is never shown kickboxing. He has studied under him ever since. He's quite accomplished
Isn't he a black belt in like seven martial arts?
and followed Wheels on Meals up with the rematch in 1988's Dragons Forever.
I would have given anything if The Ghoul had said “two dollars” as he died.
Not really an incinerator. It's a furnace. It's used to heat the building and the water system for hot water. Older schools, especially in the northern US, used them for a long time.
Dark Comedy done right. One of the best.
This soundtrack was EVERYwhere! So good! It gave people so many good ideas for their own mix-cd's.
You have such a great gig getting to discover little gems like this (like when you got into Midnight Run and Ronin). So many more to look forward to...
John Cusack was doing the fight scene in the high school against his long-time kickboxing teacher, Benny Urquidez. Cusack had a great run of breezy comedies in the mid 80s that are well worth watching, from The Sure Thing to Hot Pursuit.
Easily one of my favourite movies of all time. Tons of fun dialogue, sharp story, good pacing, good performances, JOAN CUSACK being iconic. It's really fun and very rewatchable.
"You have my blessing!" is one of the best lines ever!
This movie always has a special place in my heart because Grosse Pointe isn't all that far from me. About a 20 minute drive. I loved John Cusack growing up so this was a perfect mix for me. I loved the movie since the first time I saw it as a kid. Glad you guys had fun with it too. I think the humor is right up my alley.
My wife and I quote this movie all the time...
Especially, " For a while..."
One of my favorite movies! The street where the radio station is actually in the L.A. area. I know this because I live near that street. The buildings are still there but not all the shops. The assassin he fights was his kickboxer trainer Benny Urquidiez
The film was shot around L.A. - outside HS scene is Marshall High, used in many things. The tiled kitchen counter is style of many kitchens in L.A.
Fun fact about the car scene between John Cusack and Jeremy Piven! They were directed to play the exchange three ways: understated, conversational, and over-the-top. In the edit, the first and last takes were combined to drive a nail onto how ridiculous the conversation is. Also, them laughing at the end wasn't in the script, that's John and Jeremy corpsing (i.e. breaking character).
Is it me or is it better when family members work together in movies like in this one John and his sister it gives u those real emotions when the act with one another
"That guy's not much of a killer"?? Oh yes, he is. That's martial arts champion BENNY 'THE JET' URQUIDEZ, an American former professional kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Urquidez is also known for once holding the rare achievement of six world titles in five different weight divisions, and remained largely undefeated in his 27-year career. He also had great fights against Jackie Chan in Wheels on Meals (1984) and Dragons Forever (1988). He was also a fight coreographer on "Road House" (1989).
One of my favorite movies and the fight at the reunion with his kickboxing teacher is one of my favorites. Thanks for reacting to this.
This film is up there with some of my favourite comedies, it gets better each time you watch it.
Thank you guys for doing this one. It's always been a favorite of mine, but I haven't watched it in years. Even just the clips of it made me remember how much I love it and has made me want to make a point to watch it again.
This soundtrack is phenomenal.
Love this movie. This is one of those movies I'm willing to rewatch anytime.
The stuff with the convenience store clerk always makes me smile. It feels at least partly improvised and there's something comedic but also totally real to his reaction to the Ultimart blowing up.
(so many great moments throughout alongside great chemistry between Cusack and Driver though in fairness, i'm pretty sure Minnie Driver could have great chemistry with a tree :)
Excellent movie. One of the most underrated movies of all time. Luv it
When this movie came out, the critics said this movie couldn't figure out what it was: a romantic comedy, a thriller or what. That threw the audience off quite a bit.
The movie knew exactly what it was, it was the critics that didn't know....
@@broodhunter21 As usual, critics don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Love this movie. Cusack is cool and Driver is adorable. Full of great lines too. My favorite has to be, "Make this gun work."
And there's, "You're a psychopath." "No, no, a psychopath kills for no reason. I killed for money."
Better Off Dead is the greatest of the early Kusak films in my humble opinion. Nope not humble, it's his best.
I liked Hot Pursuit(1987)
Say Anything for me.
'The Sure Thing' is one of my favourites, but 'Say Anything' is the best. Horrible thing to say but I've broken up with girls for not liking that film!😂
You know John hated Better Off Dead, right? He literally walked out of a screening when he was filming One Crazy Summer.
Say Anything. "Don't be a guy. Be a man."
I love comedies like this, where they rely on the characters more than being gross or loud.
This isn't my favorite movie. It's not even the best movie I've ever seen. But whenever someone asks me about a movie I like, this is the one that comes to mind almost all the time.
Same.
Great way of putting it. Utterly rewatchable film and Cusack and Driver hitting it off together gets me every time.
Glad you're reacting to this. So underrated.
One of my favorite movies that no one remembers.
This and Say Anything are on my Yearly watch list. Two all time favorite films.
Grosse Point is not really what you could call a small town. It’s a burb of Detroit and a relatively large town/city. I used to live there and my grandparents graduated from Grosse Point high. This movie is absolutely hilarious and is more of a cult classic.
It;s my understanding that Grosse Pointe is a wealthy suburb o Detroit. Is that correct? i'm from Dallas, and we have our own wealthy suburbs that I think of when I think of the name Grosse Pointe
@@slchance8839 yeah Gross Pointe is a ritzy suburb of Detroit, north-east of the city center, right on the Lake. It took me awhile to catch the title, Gross Pointe and his last name Blank. Same trick of words as Good Will Hunting.
@@fahqfassebookman5157 Nah, that would be 'Harvard Yard Hunting'. 🤔
@@deepermind4884 "Bean Town Hunting"
So many lines in this movie are permanently stuck in my head, lol. "See that wasn't nice, that wasn't designed to make me feel good." "Here's your not-omelette", and "Was looking for a little validation in my life, but apparently I CAME UP SHORT!"
John Cusack was really good in 1408.
He had not been born yet.
1408 is one of my favorite movies. But asking for a reaction is tricky because the only version that's any good is the theatrical version, which is really hard to find now. You are correct, however, it's a great movie and a wonderful performance from Cusack.
I love it, but it really does depend on which ending you get.
I think he was too young in 1408, by 1997 he had matured as an actor.
@@petercofrancesco9812 He was -558 years old in 1408.
LOVE this movie! Great writing. Thank you Mike Adams❣
Bing-bing-bing-bing-bang..popcorn!
TBR riffing on Emperor's New Groove was exactly what I needed this evening. "John Kuzco."
Forgotten classic.
Whenever I tell people I haven't seen in a long time I tell them what I've been up to also if they ask, I say professional killer. I know the "professional"part isn't needed, but it's interesting to see them be nonchalant about it.
This is a fun romantic action comedy movie that I grew up watching!
The soundtrack has some memorable songs as well.
One of my all time favourites.
If you grew up in the 80's and 90's then John Cusack starred in a string of teen favourites, such as One Crazy Summer, The Sure Thing, Say Anything (with one of THE most iconic 80's movies moments ever), The Grifters, and many more.
But Grosse Pointe Blank was the epitome of dark comedy movies of that era, and it's difficult to think of many that rival it since.
Dan Akroyd is just genius casting, as is John's sister Joan, and Minnie Driver. Just a great combination of talent.
The most underrated movie ever
6:56- Poor Doc's gonna need his own therapy after dealing with Martin. Loved Dan Akyroyd in this..from stoic Blues Brother to hyperactive hit-man, dude really could act .37:32..The fight wth Lapuvlille was Former WKA kickboxing champ ( 57-2, 31 KO's) and Judo black Belt Benny " The Jet" Urquidez. Fun reactions guys, knew you;d love this..It' still One of J.C's best to me.
This is a great movie. The soundtrack is excellent, the casting is perfect, and the dialogue back and forth was amazing, great script.
One of my favorite movies of all time. Came out when I was finishing high school myself.
Lol, I won't sit with my back out in the open. I usually like my back to the corner. Getting shot at a few times while in the military probably did that to me. My wife is use to it.
I have a soft spot in my heart for this movie. Grew up in the 80s, John Cusack and Mini Driver have such great chemistry they should have gotten married for real.
Real life brother and sister actors working together in one movie. Now that's some thing. Just like the bridges brothers.
If the Schmitts like, or react to, westerns they should watch Hollywood's ultimate brother film, The Long Riders. Movie is about the James/Younger Gang with all named siblings played by actual brothers.
The hitman he kills in hallway is Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. He was John's kickboxing teacher.
If you want more Cusack then you definitely need to do:
High Fidelity
Serendipity
Say Anything
Pushing Tin
You did also watch Cusack in Con Air too.
Identity also
@@charlesderosas5577 Not one I would personally recommend.
@@jkhoover I say it's underrated thriller
Identity is awesome
Pushing Tin was the last movie I rented from a local video store. When I went to return it, it was boarded up. Very good movie. John and Billy Bob had great chemistry imho. And Angelina Jolie was smoking.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned that John Cusak has a black belt and has been kickboxing since his early 20s. The guy he fought and killed in the movie was his first martial arts instructor from back when he was preparing for Say Anything.
John and Joan are also in The Martian Child (2007) -- not sci-fi but about a troubled orphaned child.
One of my all time fav comedy's. also goated hollywood sibling chemistry.
Have you guys seen “better off dead” or “one crazy summer”?
I'd give my left arm to knock on a door, have it opened by Minnie Driver, and have her say, "Ya can't come in...ya CAN come in."
I love the dark Christmas comedy, The Ice Harvest. Directed by the late Harold Ramis, stars John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Connie Nielsen, and a hysterical Oliver Platt. Despite the dark nature of the story, I've always found it to be a rather cozy film, given the setting and plot and just holiday spirit (even if the characters hate on Christmas most of the time).
In Bruges is one you must watch, very dark comedy.
A great quirky black comedy pick, and I'd add Seven Psychopaths as well; same director/writer producer Martin McDonagh behind that and Colin Firth in the lead again.
fukin' BELGIUM!
High Fidelity is a must watch John Cusack movie
Yay! Thumbs up before i even watch.. love this movie!
He was also in Con Air, which you guys watched 8 months ago.
"Where are all the good men dead?
In the heart...or in the head?"
I think about that line all the time
This is absolutely one of my favorite movies, so funny, such a great concept. Great chemistry, great cast.
This was the Cusack's crowning glory. They are both so hilarious in this movie. Such a great concept and script. Also my favorite Dan Akroyd role. Awesome soundtrack rounded it all out.
I absolutely love this movie. I found it on a movie channel over a decade ago, and it's pretty much perfect.
So many things owe this as their inspiration. Analyze This, The Sopranos, Barry, even a highly-rated episode of Buffy that shares some supporting cast.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. One to stop and watch anytime you see it on tv.
This is in my Mom and I's top 5.
Great movie
Love you Mom!!
I love this movie because I live near Grosse Pointe in Michigan.
John Cusack's sister, Joan, plays his secretary, and another of his siblings plays a very intoxicated lady in the restaurant scene.
That guy he killed in the High School was Benny "The Jet" an accomplished professional kickboxer.
I got to take a class from him at a martial arts convention in Vegas many years ago. :)
Schmitt me with your best shot!
Watch High Fidelity with John Cusack and Jack Black which is his first movie. A classic.
Not his first movie by a long shot. He had a whole career in teen films first.
One of my all-time favorite movies.
Another favorite of mine. One of the first films I bought on LaserDisc in the 90s.
The hitman he stabs with the pen is Benny ( The Jet ) Urquidez, Cusack's martial arts instructor. ps. 'Runaway Jury' with Cusack, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman
One of my all time favorite movies. Love me some John Cusack.
Ping-ping-ping popcorn! Great reaction! It's ridiculous but so funny! This dark comedy is such a forgotten/ignored gem! I love the chemistry between Cusack and Driver, almost makes me think it was real. Great music too.
The guy he fought in the school is kickboxing legend benny the jet. John Cusack actually trained under Benny and side kicked him for real in that scene.
In my top ten movies. Brilliantly funny. Mini Driver is great too, let alone the sound track
I was very happy to see someone recommend this. I think it's a perfect fit for the channel.
you've seen him on Con Air
"That's right. He crashed that assh...Butthole's Corvette."
- My daughter (14) RARELY slips up, but you got her😂😂😂
I’ve always giggled at the thought that these hitmen should exist in the same hitman underworld network as John Wick.
That guy from the walking Dead was also in Band of Brothers as Bull Randleman
Love this movie! So quirky and different.
Once again you're watching one of my all time faves! Love this channel!!!
The is the unofficial sequel to Better Off Dead, an 80's John Kusack teen skiing movie. If you haven't seen it, you should. It's a classic 80's movie. It's a standard teen movie of the era, no assassins. The only change from the original, is the love interest isn't French. All the other characters are there.
Oh nooo, I was late. Time to watch my favorite people on UA-cam.
This and High Fidelity are my favs.