Everyone who likes this movie saw it when they were juniors in high school and are romanticizing it as adults.
It sucks. Hard.
The funny thing is, my sister and I were talking about Say Anything just the other day and I mentioned I had never seen it. She was mortified I had gone through not only my teens but also my adulthood never experiencing the glory of the iconic boombox scene.
As my unlucky circumstances would have it, it was one of the movies on an Alaska Airlines flight, so I watched it today.
When we finally arrived at THE scene, it was such a letdown. This is IT?! THIS painfully bad display was what made girls cry and guys unoriginally imitate to try and get the crying girls?!
The plot and characters are thin, undeveloped, and disjointed. I kept waiting for something unexpected or NOT mind-numbingly boring to happen and it never did.
Ione Skye cannot act. John Cusack was trying really hard not to bust into Lane Meyer mode and frankly that would've made Lloyd more interesting. Give me SOMETHING, John. John Mahoney could've been so much better.
The best thing about this awful piece of garbage is the kid who plays Lloyd's nephew. Now HE was funny. It was also neat to see younger versions of Joan Cusack, Lili Taylor, Bebe Neuworth, Eric Stoltz, and Jeremy Piven with his real hair.
Say Anything is seriously one of the biggest pieces of crap I have ever seen.
Do yourself a favor and do NOT watch it as an adult.
It sucks. Hard.
The funny thing is, my sister and I were talking about Say Anything just the other day and I mentioned I had never seen it. She was mortified I had gone through not only my teens but also my adulthood never experiencing the glory of the iconic boombox scene.
As my unlucky circumstances would have it, it was one of the movies on an Alaska Airlines flight, so I watched it today.
When we finally arrived at THE scene, it was such a letdown. This is IT?! THIS painfully bad display was what made girls cry and guys unoriginally imitate to try and get the crying girls?!
The plot and characters are thin, undeveloped, and disjointed. I kept waiting for something unexpected or NOT mind-numbingly boring to happen and it never did.
Ione Skye cannot act. John Cusack was trying really hard not to bust into Lane Meyer mode and frankly that would've made Lloyd more interesting. Give me SOMETHING, John. John Mahoney could've been so much better.
The best thing about this awful piece of garbage is the kid who plays Lloyd's nephew. Now HE was funny. It was also neat to see younger versions of Joan Cusack, Lili Taylor, Bebe Neuworth, Eric Stoltz, and Jeremy Piven with his real hair.
Say Anything is seriously one of the biggest pieces of crap I have ever seen.
Do yourself a favor and do NOT watch it as an adult.