New Mission: Conquer John Cusack's Entire Film Resume

He's my favorite actor, so I don't see why I shouldn't make it a point to see every single one of his movies. His career spans two decades and it seems like I've watched a couple of clusters of his movies. I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Seen , Should Have Seen , Own

To explain the "should have seen" label, it basically means that I've had opportunities to see it but for one reason or another, did not.

Year	Film	Role
1983	Class	Roscoe Maibaum
1984	Sixteen Candles	Bryce
	Grandview, U.S.A.	Johnny Maine
1985	The Sure Thing	Walter (Gib) Gibson
	The Journey of Natty Gann	Harry
	Better Off Dead	Lane Meyer
1986	Stand by Me	Denny Lachance
	One Crazy Summer	Hoops McCann
1987	Hot Pursuit	Dan Bartlett
	Broadcast News	Angry Messenger
1988	Eight Men Out	George 'Buck' Weaver
	Tapeheads	Ivan Alexeev
1989	Elvis Stories	Corky
	Say Anything...	Lloyd Dobler
	Fat Man and Little Boy	Michael Merriman
1990	The Grifters	Roy Dillon
1991	True Colors	Peter Burton
1992	Shadows and Fog	Student Jack
	The Player	Self
	Bob Roberts	Cutting Edge Host
	Roadside Prophets	Caspar
1993	Map of the Human Heart	The Mapmaker
	Money for Nothing	Joey Coyle
1994	Floundering	JC
	Bullets Over Broadway	David Shayne
	The Road to Wellville	Charles Ossining
1996	City Hall	Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun
1997	Grosse Pointe Blank	Martin Q. Blank
	Con Air	U.S. Marshal Vince Larkin
	Anastasia	Dimitri
	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Kelso
1998	Chicago Cab	Scary man
	This Is My Father	Eddie Sharp, the Pilot
	The Thin Red Line	Capt. Gaff
1999	Pushing Tin	Nick Falzone
	Cradle Will Rock	Nelson Rockefeller
	Being John Malkovich	Craig Schwartz
	The Jack Bull	Myrl Redding
2000	High Fidelity	Rob Gordon
2001	America's Sweethearts	Eddie Thomas
	Serendipity	Jonathan Trager
2002	Max	Max Rothman
	Adaptation.	Himself
2003	Identity	Ed Dakota
	Breakfast With Hunter	Himself
	Runaway Jury	Nicholas Easter
2005	Must Love Dogs	Jake Anderson
	The Ice Harvest	Charlie Arglist
2006	Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film	Himself
	The Contract	Ray Keene
2007	Martian Child	David Gordon
	1408	Mike Enslin
	Grace Is Gone	Stanley Philipps
2008	War, Inc.	Brand Hauser
	Summerhood	Narrator
	Igor	Igor
2009	2012	Jackson Curtis
2010	Shanghai	Paul Soames
	The Factory	Mike Fletcher
	Hot Tub Time Machine

New Mission: Conquer EW's Top 50 Teen Movies

Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 High School Movies

Seen , Wanted to See Before This , Should Have Seen a Long Time Ago , Own

• Splendor in the Grass (1961) 
• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• Just One of the Guys (1985)
• Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
• Flirting (1992)
• My Bodyguard (1980)
• Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
• Stand and Deliver (1988)
• Fame (1980)
• Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
• Risky Business (1983)
• The Virgin Suicides (2000)
• Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
• Friday Night Lights (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
• Brick (2006)
• Get Real (1999)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• Scream (1996)
• The Karate Kid (1984)
• Bring it On (2000)
• Gregory's Girl (1982)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• To Sir, With Love (1967)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Hoosiers (1986)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Cooley High (1975)
• American Pie (1999)
• Grease (1978)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
• Lucas (1986)
• Carrie (1976)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• High School (1968)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Say Anything (1989)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  
• Election (1999)
  
• Boyz N the Hood (1991)
  
• Clueless (1995)
  
• American Graffiti (1973)
  
• Heathers (1988)
  
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  
• Dazed and Confused (1933)
  
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
  
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
  

Just under 50%....darn. There are a few here that I'm embarrassed to say I haven't seen yet.

I'm going to barf from all this anxiety eating.

Just failed at a phone interview for a staff writing position at Seattle University's newspaper, The Spectator. I want nothing more right now than to work for the school newspaper all four years of my college life. I hate phone interviews, I can't see or read the reactions of my interviewers.

I promise I'm WAY more charming in person!

I ate like a beast afterward; salmon pasta, tons of Doritos, banana nut mini muffin, can of Mug root beer. Nothing in my path was safe.

Verdict on Friday, I'm dreading it.
I never have enough confidence in the things that matter.

From Buzznet: 10 Things Wrong with a 10 Things TV Show

My opinion when ABC Family released info on a pilot they picked up for a television adaptation of the beloved 10 Things I Hate About You. Needless to say, I was unhappy and worried. I like my writing style in this one.

10/9/2008

Anyone else smelling a nostalgia trend in TV this Fall?

90210? Check

Knight Rider? Check

Riding in on the nostalgia trend that has hit television, ABC Family just picked up a pilot episode for a TV series based off the beloved 90's comedy 10 Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, that girl from Alex Mack, and that dude from 3rd Rock from the Sun.

The movie's director of "10 Things", Gil Junger, will also shoot the pilot, which is written and executive produced by Carter Covington. The series will focus more on sisters Kate and Bianca Stratford in facing their new high school environment. "10 Things" is based on the Heath Ledger romantic comedy film which was also starred by Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The film itself was based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". - [source]

So they got the original director to sign up, big whoop. Gil Junger hasn't done anything cinematically notable since 10 Things I Hate About You. Wasn't that hard to get him anyway since the guy's pretty much contracted with ABC. I suppose putting it in his hands brings the original vision of the movie, and his experience directing TV will help adapt the big screen to the small screen. It all depends on how much you like the other TV shows he's directed. ["The Untitled Jenny McCarthy Project" ? Yeah, total win.]

Writer/Exec Producer Carter Covington is also the writer for the ABC Family show Greek. Which I'll admit, is enjoyable for me to watch (but that's more thanks to Clark Duke). It also proves to me that Covington has the wit to handle the teen humor that was so essential to the movie.

But I swear, if The Plain White T's make even ONE guest appearance on 10 Things, it is going to seriously affect my upchuck reflex. =P

And of course, my number one anxiety is that whoever is cast in the TV show will have a hard act to follow. Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, Larisa Oleynik, Gabrielle Union, Larry Miller and obviously the late Heath Ledger all established hilarious, lovable characters who are now staples in pop culture. It'll be hard to fill those shoes and do them justice.

Am I gonna watch? Of course, I'm not a picky TV watcher. If it's about high school, I'm in. But I just pray to God they don't butcher it.

Could 10 Things give Gossip Girl a run for its money?