the 1989 movie Say Anything - you seen it?

[stuntcat]

A beloved close relative of mine insisted a while back that I HAD to have seen it. I admit I've got memory problems but I remember some things better than he thinks I do and if I'd seen the movie I'd fricking know it. This certain relative (who I won't name) just can't believe that I didn't see it.. like it matters somehow, maybe to my coolness index, whether I saw every sweet teeny-bopper movie. NOT that it's a bad movie, I finally watched it on Comedy Central a few weeks ago.. nearly 20 years too late I guess :eyes:


People who know all the trivia and say they've seen every movie drive me crazy x(

I'm sharing these results too.. the fact that we're still arguing about this weeks later just makes me want to strangle someone x(

[Orsino]

1. I'm sure I've seen it...

...but someone would have to refresh my memory as to what it's about. I missed it back in the day, and finally saw it on Comedy Central sometime in the last decade, I think.

[Rambis]

2. funny in parts- best quote

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
Lloyd Dobler

[nutsnberries]

8. "i gave her my heart. she gave me

a pen."

and in Grosse Pointe Blank, Martin Blank (also John Cusack) kills Felix LaPoubelle with a pen.

coincidence?


:shrug:

prolly.

[4_Legs_Good]

3. I saw it at a drive in!

Probably the last drive in movie I ever saw. It was double featured with some movie like Young Guns II. I think that was it.

Anyway, great film! Not Young Guns II.

David

[DS1]

4. Saw it, forgot 99.995% of it

there was a scene with a radio at the end.

[AlCzervik]

5. seen it few times, i didn't think it was very good. I know people who absolutely love

it.

[SarahB]

6. Not only have I seen it,

I've been married to Lloyd Dobler for over a year now. It took me nearly 16 years after seeing that movie to find him. ;)

[stuntcat]

7. EVEN THOUGH five people say you can't live through the 80's without seeing it...

I still win this fight x( I did NOT see it until last month and that doesn't mean ANYTHING's wrong with me or that I've obviously just forgotten.

This settles it :headbang: :banghead:

My husband used DU to settle a bet last week too- on his message board about computer games someone started a thread about what could you add to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to ruin it and the people there jumped all over the person who started the thread, fighting and calling him dumb. So I said, "I bet people at DU would just be funny and at least not start fights about it" (since it seems that at least 60% of you AREN'T here to fight each other, at least in the lounge) so he came over here and started the same thread, and I was right (again..) People here stayed cool.

I have another fight to settle.. how many people know what gleek means. But screw it, I don't need proof, gleek's on fricking wikipedia.

Okay, I'm cooling off now x( for real.

[stuntcat]

9. make that eight

eight wizard geniuses, y'all should have a I'm-cooler-than-you party with each other :eyes:

[BarenakedLady]

10. I won't make you feel badly.

But I love John Cusack therefore I have seen it multiple times.

:)

[stuntcat]

11. I love him too!

I mean, I'm 20 years late to it.. but I like him so much now! :loveya: And his sister too, she's totally cool.

[littlebit]

12. I have seen it

I thought it was an ok movie.

[pitohui]

13. i saw a trailer for it, does that count? EOM

,

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. It's not a teeny bopper movie.

It's Cameron Crowe. Big difference! :D

[stuntcat]

16. I think you're right

A friend of mine (the nice one, who took my word for not seeing it x() said that it came after the wave of mid-eighties teen/brat-pack movies.

So we figured my moving to campus is how I missed it.

[Guava Jelly]

15. Loyd Dobbler is the shit!!

I must confess that I love this movie.
Along with several other Cussack flicks..
"Joe lies when he cries"
I loved the significance of the pen.

[Scarlett17]

18. Lili Taylor was great as Corey in that movie.

Lloyd to Joe: Joe. Joe. She's written 65 songs... 65. They're all about you. They're all about pain.


Corey: That'll never be me, that'll never be me. That'll never be, never be me. NO... NO, NEVER, NEVER, EVER. And don't you EVER THINK IT.

[jobycom]

17. I liked it lot. Didn't love it a lot. It was more serious than most of the teenage crap at the time

Wasn't a laugh riot, and wasn't meant to be, and it's lost a lot over time. Still, it was a good film.

[Scarlett17]

19. I love that movie. . .

I gave it to my 14 year-old daughter for Christmas. Now she shows it to her friends. Ah, tradition. . .

:hi:

[stuntcat]

20. 17 people agree that it wasn't possible to live through the 80's without seeing it?

what is this, Pop-Land, where NO ONE can miss a movie? x(

[bbernardini]

21. Here's some interesting (to me, anyway) trivia about that film...

The Smithereens' "A Girl Like You" was originally written to use in "Say Anything" (thus the phrase "I'll say anything you want to hear" being used in the song), but the filmmakers ended up not using it (although I think they still used a Smithereens song..."Blood and Roses," perhaps?).

[stuntcat]

22. I know a pissing contest when I see it.

19 boys :eyes: I didn't mean to start one.