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Say Anything you want...
...you can't deny the fact that "Say Anything..." is a truly exceptional film. Now, I know that stereotypical macho guys wouldn't want to watch any romantic movie at all (I don't count as a "macho guy" because I love James Taylor, I hate sports and my favorite movie is "Forrest Gump"; take what you want from that).

The best and most poignant thing about this movie is that it rings true. Cameroon Crowe has fashioned for us a beautiful story about a young couple that rings true. The script is full of memorable lines ranging from the funny ("I whish you had taken the keys out of your hand first, brother!") to the poignant ("Are you here because you need someone, or because you need me?...Forget it, I don't care") to the truly unforgettable. ("I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen."

However, at the center of the film is the amazing, unflappable, John Cusack. His Lloyd Dobbler is one of the most identifiable characters in contemporary cinema. He's at his best in his many stuttering, tragic monologues, his flow of consciousness tape recordings detailing his heartache, and especially in his "eighth and final call" to Diane: "Maybe I don't know you, maybe you were a mirage, maybe the world exploded in a supernova of food and sex and in that case it's not your fault". What does that mean? Nothing. And yet everything.

Finally: the supporting characters. There's nothing wrong with Ione Skye and John Mahoney; but they get all the press. We're talking Lili Taylor. "Joe lies, Joe lies when he cries": the passion Corey exudes over Joe, and the anguish she goes through, knowing he's so much beneath him, yet she reluctantly loves him anyway. We're talking Joan Cusack. Constance definitely needed more screen time; she was a fun character to watch, as all of Joan's characters are. In fact, all of the people who had any line at all, up to and including the guy who passes through and say's "Lloyd Dobler, all right!" to Diane at the party, are all perfect, just a testament to Crowe's directing abilities.

If none of that does it for you ask yourself this: what could possibly be cuter then a five-year-old punching a punching bag while being held by his 18-year-old uncle, being asked "What do we want?", and after a perfect pause yelling "Pain!"? I put it to you, and e-mail me if you get something better

I'm the Key Master / 80's classic
An 80's teen angst romance. Kind of a sappy movie about a Clash t-shirt wearing kickboxing goofy good guy Loyd Dobler from Seattle who falls for Diane the valedictorian of high school played by Ione Skye. Just after graduation he gets enough courage up to ask her out on a date to graduation party. She sees his good nature and likes him and they start dating exclusively. He wants to spend as much time as possible with her. Now watching this you can see how much she brings Cusacks character Loyd at ease but her over bearing father has other plans for her to study abroad in europe. It seems the father played by Ed Mahoney has been planning this for a while commiting tax fraud and evasion to have the money to send her to europe. He tells her to stop seeing him. After this happens she realizes she needs Loyd in her life & they were meant for each other. Lili Taylor's great performance as a jaded friend of Loyd's who gives him love advice is enough to see this movie alone but Cusack is great as his quirky self. Cool movie about young romance and the uncertainties of the future after high school. Not my favorite 80's movie but a must see at least once. Pre Almost Famous directorial debut by Cameron Crowe.

A chick flick that guys can enjoy
I usually detest "chick flicks" and all of their ilk. Ergo, I waited 14 years before watching "Say Anything...", Cameron Crowe's 1989 directorial debut. I finally gave in after seeing part of it while staying at a hotel while traveling, and fell in love with this movie. I can now see why people call it a classic.

I won't regurgitate the plot, I think you can figure it out for yourself. It's the classic "boy meets girl" sort of love story, except that the dialogue and situations are much more realistic than you find in most love stories produced by the Hollywood movie machine. You really feel the yearning need that Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack, in a brilliant performance) and Diane Court (Ione Skye) have for each other. The chemistry between these two actors is so great that you yearn yourself for these two to get together and live happily ever after. This is no small trick to pull on a cynical moviegoer such as myself.

The DVD extras are fairly standard. The deleted and extended scenes only prove how wise the editors were for cutting those scenes in the first place. The featurette is helpful, but not necessary, and the commentary by Crowe, Cusack, and Skye is one big (moderately informative) love fest. It was interesting to learn that Cusack and Skye probably would have hooked up, if either was single in real life at the time of filming, and to watch the famous scene where Lloyd serenades Diane with "In Your Eyes" playing on his boom box with the original music (some sort of dancehall reggae stuff).

Anyway, "Say Anything..." is a true classic, and couples should definitely make this a date movie. The only danger will be if women start pestering their boyfriends to act more like Lloyd Dobler (aka: The Sweetest Boyfriend on the Face of the Planet)!

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