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What is John Cusack's signature role? (1 Viewer)

Signature Role

  • Lane - Better off Dead

    Votes: 40 18.5%

  • Ivan - Tapeheads

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Buck - Eight Men out

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Lloyd - Say Anything

    Votes: 113 52.3%

  • Roy - the Grifters

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Peter - True Colors

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Martin - Grosse Point Blank

    Votes: 18 8.3%

  • Vince - Con Air

    Votes: 4 1.9%

  • Nick - Pushing Tin

    Votes: 1 0.5%

  • Craig - Being John Malkovich

    Votes: 2 0.9%

  • Rob - High Fildelity

    Votes: 24 11.1%

  • Jake - Must love Dogs

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Brian - Love and Mercy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Adam - Hot Tub Time Machine

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • Total voters
    216
Bull Dozier said:
I actually never saw Say Anything back in the 80s.  My wife had reverence for the movie, so not so long ago we sat down to watch it.  Now, she is a rom-com die hard, but even she couldn't make it all the way through.  While the scene with the boom box is one of the ultimate images of 80s teen culture, the movie has not aged well.

I would have to pick between Better off Dead and High Fidelity, but I don't really have to.  He's like John Wayne, he plays the same character in every movie, except his character is John Cusack.  The only movie where he remotely played a different character was 8 Men Out.
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This is basically where I am at.  It's an icon scene/shot, but as a whole I barely remember anything about his role or that character.  

For me it's High Fidelity, but Better off Dead was 2nd.  

I also love him in the very short amount of time he is on the screen during Stand By Me.  

 
i picked better off dead but the boom box scene is generational and that probably wins it take that to the bank bromigos 

 
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i dont know karmahan when you say signature role does that mean best acting most memorable or what people think of when they think of him if it is the last then its probably the boom box sene isnt it take that to the bank brochacho

 
Had to go with "other" (1408).  He's the only person on screen for the majority of the film and pulls it off.  Good horror movie if you haven't seen it.

Hard not to think about him with that boom box over his head when you hear his name mentioned though 

 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
Grosse Pointe Blank is the only answer here.
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I love this movie, but by the time this movie came out, we had already seen him use all his tricks:

1. Nervous talking on the phone-Say Anything

2. Brooding about a personal existential crisis-Better Off Dead

3. Stream of conscious rambling-The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, Say Anything

4. Kickboxing-Say Anything

5. Acting with his sister-Say Anything (was going to add 16 Candles but they didn't share any scenes in it)

In fact, I sort of felt that Cusack was playing this movie as his Say Anything character hadn't gotten on the plane with the girl at the end of that movie and what he may have looked like 10 years later. I'll concede that he did bring all his tricks to bear very well in Grosse Pointe Blank and it probably took him those other movies to hone his craft to the point of what we saw here, so I guess I'm talking myself into agreeing with you.  Plus, it had Dan Aykroyd in it.

 
Statorama said:
Had to go with "other" (1408).  He's the only person on screen for the majority of the film and pulls it off.  Good horror movie if you haven't seen it.

Hard not to think about him with that boom box over his head when you hear his name mentioned though 
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gets a bad rap but I like it a lot

 
KarmaPolice said:
No more or less a star than 1/2 of these polls.  
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He's lower than the one's I've seen.

Not that I am the standard, but the last movie of his I have even watched is Training Day from 2001.  I see that there are several movies of his that are on my radar (Boyhood, The Purge, Magnificent 7, etc.), but nothing I have even been compelled to watch.

 
Statorama said:
Had to go with "other" (1408).  He's the only person on screen for the majority of the film and pulls it off.  Good horror movie if you haven't seen it.

Hard not to think about him with that boom box over his head when you hear his name mentioned though 
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1408 was good. Liked him a lot in "Identity" also.

 
Lloyd Dobler...I cant think of any one else who could have played that role with the degree of awkwardness and vulnerability Cusack did.

 
Apple Jack said:
Ethan Hawke has been in some great films. Better than Cusack, at least.
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These threads aren't about who has been in better movies. 

These are for iconic stars that are household names.

Ethan Hawke is more on par with Casey Affleck than John Cusack.

 
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