Better Off Dead
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Movie Reviews of Better Off Dead
Movie Review: One Of The Best Cult Classic Movies Ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
For those interested only in the Special Features of this DVD, here they are: Widescreen Version Enhanced for 16:9 TVs, English Subtitles and Dolby Digital - English Stereo. Yeap, that's it. No commentaries, no outtakes, no nothing.
This cult classic is great. These are the type of movies that just made you feel good at the end. It's funny, charming, silly and stupid (in a good way). Even Family Guy has made fun of this movie in what they call one-percenter jokes.
For the ones interested in what the movie is about here is the ballpark: After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony an embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares, a family you can't help but identify with and a host of wonderful comic characters, this movie is a masterful look at those painfully funny teen years.
Movie Review: classic 80's film
Summary: 5 Stars
savage steve holland garnered the teenage viewers like john hughes never could. i love my hughes' films but you cannot beat a claymation of a burger/frankenstein dancing to van halen. oh, oh and the classic line, "gimme my two dollars!!!" my old supervisor and i bonded over that one. and don't forget mom's themed dinners, the green stuff....that moved ewwwww.
i have my teenage daughter hooked on 80s' films. i tore her away from twilight watching john cusack films. she doesn't even care that he's my age now. hi john!
i loved all the 80's movies, even the schlock, and these were nowhere near that level. it's fun and entertaining. it's what a family grouping should include (so my family is different from yours). what better movie to watch with your hormonal teenager than something about another teenager trying to kill himself(and failing miserably at) and finding his happy ending.
Movie Review: Don't upset mother! Buy this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was without a doubt one of the funniest I have ever seen. The first film by a young Savage Steve Holland (famous for many of my generation for "Eek! the Cat") fresh out of college, with $2,000,000 from a company that was sort-of interested in the storyline...what the viewing audience got in return was comedy gold.
The real nice thing about this movie is that like other great comedies like "Airplane!" or "Dead Alive" it doesn't take itself seriously for one second, making the entire viewing fun. I mean come on - rock 'n roll hamburgers, a cooking pot with tentacles coming out, rabid basketball players, and a rabid newspaper boy determined to get his $2 (and "not a dime" less)...how can you NOT love this movie?
I would definately suggest at least watching it. I just watched it with my screenwriting class, and my only complaint is my jaw hurts from laughing so much.
Movie Review: "Now that's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that!"
Summary: 5 Stars
John Cusack plays Lane Meyer, a guy head-over-heels for his girlfriend. But then she dumps him, and he decides to kill himself, but it never quite works out. Off-the-wall, offbeat humor. Curtis Armstrong ("Revenge Of The Nerds", "Moonlighting") plays his best friend, Charles LeMarr, and offers Lane advice ("Lane, I've been going to this high school for seven-and-a-half years...I'm no dummy.") There's also Lane's mother, who can't seem to cook anything edible (check out the tentacles and claw coming out of the pot on the stove) and his younger brother Badger, who picks up sleazy women and is building a space shuttle in his room. And then there's the paper boy...he wants his two dollars, and will stop at nothing to get it!
Written by Savage Steve Holland, the guy who brought us "One Crazy Summer" (also with Cusack) and the TV show "The Adventures Of Beans Baxter".
Movie Review: This flick is genius! TWO DOLLARS!
Summary: 5 Stars
Who else loves this film? Apparently, John Cusack doesn't. Oh well!
The film is about a teenager, Lane Meyer, who is ridiculously obsessed with his girlfriend. After breaking up with her, he tries suicide. Of course, the attempts backfire on him. Meanwhile, she's with a new guy, Roy, captain of the ski team, and he's trying to avoid a paperboy who will try anything to acquire his two dollars, and unbearable events at his house with his off the wall family members. Fortunately, Lane's neighbors have taken in a French exchange student, Monique Junot, who seems to have a crush on Lane. Meanwhile, Lane has to defeat Roy in order to get his girlfriend's respect...
"Better Off Dead..." is DEFINITELY one of the greatest teen comedies ever conceived. It's truly an original, off the wall, hilarious film. Cusack will always be Lane Meyer to me.