Nah, the line you missed that is the best line ever and truest ever "that's all irrelevant now. The idea of governments and nations is public realtions theory at this point". So much truer today.
One of my favorite scenes is after they dispose of the body in the furnace, Jeremy Piven's character orders a drink and Martin orders a club soda. The horror on Piven character's face is priceless. He introduces himself because he realizes he doesn't know his "old friend" at all.
Mine too. I also liked the best-friends dynamic, where his first instinct was to help his friend, and only think about the implications after he was safe. But my absolute favorite remains the one with baby Robbie, and "cause love's such an old fashioned word" in the background.
@@wvu05 Pretty crazy how some legendary actors can perform over a long career of decades and yet still manage to never get that nod of appreciation in the form of a nomination at the least. Hell, Leo DiCaprio went on a fucking rampage starting in the mid-2000's when he took on more mature roles in films that were often directed by the highest talent in the history of the film industry (Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Edward Zwick, etc etc). I remember this phase of his career starting with the movie The Departed although I'm not 100% sure, but when he did The Aviator that had Oscar win written all over it except for the rotten luck of releasing the same year as Jamie Foxx's lead role in Ray. Seemed like Leo had shit luck until The Revenant, but really even had Leo never outright won an Academy Award he still would have been given far more adulation than what Cusack got. It's not as though I feel sorry for him, the guy has had one helluva career that was very well deserved at that. It is disappointing for me due to how this lack of enthusiasm means not nearly enough attention is given to his movies and people in the future could be left unaware of what they are missing. Anyway, kinda went on a whole thing there, shit lol. Basically, what I'm trying to say with all this is that I concur, sirs, I concur very much!
@@RussBurlingame He only realizes it after she leaves the hotel room, although it is implied that one of his valued clients is an automotive company, so maybe he remembered those people.
Really like this film and one of the things I really enjoy about is that after she makes herself very clear, he stays away. He only goes back in order to save her and her father's life. He may be a cold blooded killer, but he's not a creep who can't no for an answer.
"You were trained to do it. You were encouraged to do it, and ultimately you get to like it." Martin Blank's argument is very compelling. One cannot expect a person in this profession to go all those year following orders, and just turn it off. Its a job that, unfortunately, someone has to do.
One of the better explanations I have heard on film, was in Saving Private Ryan. Tom Hanks very methodically explains how he has to gauge marching men to their deaths if it means saving a superior number of troops, that MIght, end the battle quickly.
The UnProfessionals i love that he almost choked saying “you get to like it” like as is he could not believe himself saying something like that. Really a good actor, shame we didn’t get to see him more.
@@JM-nl9ow The part where I put the asterisk implies where the change occurs ;-) How that movie never got a boatload of nominations for screenplay is beyond me.
"You don't get to have me" is still one of the greatest romantic - but I'm ditching you lines in Cinema history. The number of woman have pulled on my hand when they've heard it is incredible. It makes the ending of this that much more interesting. Great movie and wonderful script writing.
it's one of the things that make this movie about an assassin more real. The movie is full of fits and starts, and comedy and darkness. It's definitely in my all time, top 5, John Cusack movies, for sure.
The number of women? What? So you're saying that not only are you constantly breaking up with women but also every time you do it you use this line and every time this happens they pull on your hand? You live an absurd life my friend
I love this movie, I feel a lot of the audience didn't read between the lines of a motherfuck of PTSD Martin has, it's way easier to throw around sociopath
It's a brilliant parody for so much about life, great piece of writing. Sober, think about the relationship you have with the owner of your company not your colleagues. It's a parody of we all deserve life versus taking it away. Hope people see it, I love this film.
when i watched good will hunting i thought minnie driver looked ok but wasn't beautiful. i didn't care, she was absolutely brilliant in that role. but when i saw this movie not only was her acting again exceptional but for whatever reason she looked amazing so amazing to the point where i thought she looked too good for this role, i mean come on she's on the radio? no way man no way
Despite the title and the comments, if you've watched the movie you know he does get to have her in the end, following the title's own words. In the end the sociopath does get to have civilized society, because without him you're just the prey of other sociopaths who don't care about you. So, please, have some sympathy and some taste.
"It's a depressing dream to dream about that rabbit. It's got no brain, it's got no blood, it's got no anima. It just keeps banging on these meaningless cymbals endlessly and going and going" -Dr Oatman ~Ben
The mark of a psychopath is someone who preys on people's trust, who acts to undermine relationships (with employers, family, friends, neighbors etc) to serve their own ends. Killing and enjoying killing do not make one a psychopath. A lack of ability to adhere to and support a structure do
I love how this movie gets you into the mindset of Blank, especially the fights. They're flashy and exciting, complete thrill rides... Then there's the aftermath of the fights, which is ALWAYS a nightmare. That is, until he's fighting to defend someone he loves instead of killing for himself.
“You don’t get to have me!” 25 minutes later: has her. 😆 I love how, in the end, it turns out she was okay with it and rode off into the sunset with him.
I've always liked this scene and this movie. I also thought Driver's intense "You don't get to have me!" stood out, as it wasn't something often seen on film at the time nor is it in the formulaic rom-com today. And I somehow really wanted her to stick by that, and for a movie that seemed like it would bring the lovers together somehow to actually just not do that at all. Even after the family affair and his keeping her father safe. Maybe they just understand each other better, and she sees how plastic ethics can be on the world stage while he better understands the way to ground himself with connections to other human beings. But they don't get together in the end and he doesn't get to have her. Would have been a bold choice. Maybe not the right choice for a quirky romcom audience. But a bold one.
This film must have been a big inspiration for "Barry". A man who found some skill in the military & was later used by people to use this skill as a tool to kill people and then became an assassin, and decides he doesn't want to live that life anymore, and always tells people that he is a professional killer but they think he's just joking. Martin Blank - Barry Block Debi- Sally Grocer - Fuches (kinda)
Because rationalism isn't the be all and end all. He is uncivilized. In fact individuals within our society know better. Civilized people don't kill people just because they are told it's OK. This is why the Nazis' weren't let off the hook for their crimes. I would hope you know better than to kill people just because you were told to, even if it was rationalised in a convincing manner. There is no emotion or dogmatic rhetoric here.
I feel like, if he hadn't said he'd started to like it, he *might* have been able to find a way to salvage that conversation. Like, if he'd said something like "when the military and the CIA train you to be a killer and you kill all the time, you start to lose sight of when it's okay to kill someone and when it isn't", and then *maybe* something about how there's not much difference between the government paying you to kill someone and private entities paying you to kill someone, that she might have at least walked away not thinking he's a psychopath.
She has the naiveté of most people, at least those living in relatively stable societies. He is not naive - he has looked into the abyss and the abyss has also looked into him. SPOILER I don't buy them going off together at the end.
I hate these movies where a stoic with a level of psychopathy romantically chases a very ordinary woman. I get its to attempt to create a sense of normalcy but its hugely frustrating. Just find a woman on your wavelength who not so gullible as to honestly believe civilized societies are without mutder, esp government sponsored murder. He was making a ton of sense and she was still in fairytale land.
Ultimately the movie still glamourizes and tries to justify America's Military Industrial War and Murder Machine - not least by casting Cusack to play a typical geopolitically unresearched+clueless American. Paul G
"Psychopaths kill for no reason I kill for mon-ey- that didn't sound right." So many great lines. Love this film.
If i show up, you did something to bring me there
...much worse
Gotta love Minnie Driver
"I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
Brother, nothing is going to sound good in that situation.
Steve Pink is one of the best screenwriters for this kind of material.
I _love_ the part where he says: "what civilizations are we talking about here?"
His weakness is that he just can’t keep his mouth shut, with anyone lol.
"if i show up at your door...chances are you did something to bring me there..."..best line ever...
Nah, the line you missed that is the best line ever and truest ever "that's all irrelevant now. The idea of governments and nations is public realtions theory at this point". So much truer today.
When we find out what the hit is and why, it shows sometimes it's really petty.
Amazon's new motto
@@carlrood4457 those leaky sun roof warranty recalls really add up.
@@markbrowne181except that’s absolutely not true
“You’re a psychopath”
“No no no a psychopath kills for no reason. I kill for money, it’s a job- that didn’t sound right”
One of my favorite scenes is after they dispose of the body in the furnace, Jeremy Piven's character orders a drink and Martin orders a club soda. The horror on Piven character's face is priceless. He introduces himself because he realizes he doesn't know his "old friend" at all.
What do you _do,_ Martin?
Mine too. I also liked the best-friends dynamic, where his first instinct was to help his friend, and only think about the implications after he was safe.
But my absolute favorite remains the one with baby Robbie, and "cause love's such an old fashioned word" in the background.
He does, however, help him dispose of the body. Because that's what friends do.
"Thanks for the pen."
In real life. Jeremy and John are not Friends anymore!!
"A certain moral flexibility" is the best line of this movie/era ngl.
"You're overreacting."
"YEAH! Yeah!"
LOVE that delivery.
One of the best lines, ever.
I love how her eyes bulge @2:51 when she says “right?” Kinda scary, lol. Excellent “crazy eyes.”
One of my favorite comedies. Cusack deserved an Oscar nod for this turn.
He should have gotten one for _Grace is Gone,_ too. How he's never gotten at least one is beyond me.
@@wvu05 Pretty crazy how some legendary actors can perform over a long career of decades and yet still manage to never get that nod of appreciation in the form of a nomination at the least. Hell, Leo DiCaprio went on a fucking rampage starting in the mid-2000's when he took on more mature roles in films that were often directed by the highest talent in the history of the film industry (Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Edward Zwick, etc etc). I remember this phase of his career starting with the movie The Departed although I'm not 100% sure, but when he did The Aviator that had Oscar win written all over it except for the rotten luck of releasing the same year as Jamie Foxx's lead role in Ray. Seemed like Leo had shit luck until The Revenant, but really even had Leo never outright won an Academy Award he still would have been given far more adulation than what Cusack got. It's not as though I feel sorry for him, the guy has had one helluva career that was very well deserved at that. It is disappointing for me due to how this lack of enthusiasm means not nearly enough attention is given to his movies and people in the future could be left unaware of what they are missing.
Anyway, kinda went on a whole thing there, shit lol. Basically, what I'm trying to say with all this is that I concur, sirs, I concur very much!
@@wvu05 Same reason it took DiCaprio so long, the Academy didn't feel Cusack's films were high brow enough.
@@binarywraith Except he got nominated, though, before he got his big win. I wonder what their excuse was with Donald Sutherland.
The way he enunciates "fuckers" in "You should read the files on some of these fuckers" is... interesting.
To be fair, maybe he realized halfway through that statement that he was talking about her dad.
Nope, at that point he didn't open his folder yet so he didn't know.
@@RussBurlingame He only realizes it after she leaves the hotel room, although it is implied that one of his valued clients is an automotive company, so maybe he remembered those people.
@RussBurlingame I believe he didn't know about her father at this point of the movie.
It reads like a demon's resume!! 😂
Brilliant film. Very dark, very well written and very funny
PeterHBne, agreed! This is a brilliantly dark and clever film! Love it.
@@jamesseven1487 Top notch soundtrack too!
Really like this film and one of the things I really enjoy about is that after she makes herself very clear, he stays away. He only goes back in order to save her and her father's life. He may be a cold blooded killer, but he's not a creep who can't no for an answer.
@ReaktorLeak not really lol
there are good people cursed with ASPD
still creep
"What civilizations are we talking about here... I mean history.."
Lol
This is probably one of the most underrated movies of all time. I watched it all the time when i could.
My favorite, favorite movie. I've probably seen it about 50-60 times.
"You were trained to do it. You were encouraged to do it, and ultimately you get to like it." Martin Blank's argument is very compelling. One cannot expect a person in this profession to go all those year following orders, and just turn it off. Its a job that, unfortunately, someone has to do.
One of the better explanations I have heard on film, was in Saving Private Ryan.
Tom Hanks very methodically explains how he has to gauge marching men to their deaths if it means saving a superior number of troops, that MIght, end the battle quickly.
The UnProfessionals i love that he almost choked saying “you get to like it” like as is he could not believe himself saying something like that. Really a good actor, shame we didn’t get to see him more.
@@alexanderosaiakides6761 What are you talking about? He's still doing movies.
@@alexanderosaiakides6761 "I know that sounds... bad."
The guy in predators says a very similar thing, they both must have read the hemmingway quote
oh gosh 90s Minnie Driver
Indeed
Same year as _Good Will Hunting._ =)
Wait wait. She called him a liar. But he didn't lie. He actually told her the truth. She assumed it was a joke. Lol
That is what always bothered me. The only person he ever lied to about what he did was the drunk woman at the bar played by another of his sisters.
@@wvu05 “I serve biscuits and gravy”
@@JM-nl9ow *sell biscuits and gravy all across the Southland.
@@wvu05 it’s actually “I sell biscuits and gravy all over the Southland” if you want to be exact lol
@@JM-nl9ow The part where I put the asterisk implies where the change occurs ;-) How that movie never got a boatload of nominations for screenplay is beyond me.
I saw this movie SO many times in the theater back in 1997.
Five times for me...in the theater.
"taming unchecked aggression" is my favorite too
The "civilized society" thing is sort of like the Godfather scene: "Who's being naive, Kay?"
This film is *BRILLIANT*. More salient with each bloody year that passes.
Great film. John Cusack puts in a brilliant performance and Minnie Driver is also very good as well as beautiful😘
One of the most underrated scenes ever.
You're a psycho-path!
No! No! No! Psycho-paths kill for no reason! I do it for money. It's a job- That didn't sound right.
Lol
"You don't get to have me" is still one of the greatest romantic - but I'm ditching you lines in Cinema history. The number of woman have pulled on my hand when they've heard it is incredible. It makes the ending of this that much more interesting. Great movie and wonderful script writing.
Jim F over 3?
My vows on my wedding Day: "Yes, I get to have you".
it's one of the things that make this movie about an assassin more real. The movie is full of fits and starts, and comedy and darkness. It's definitely in my all time, top 5, John Cusack movies, for sure.
The number of women? What? So you're saying that not only are you constantly breaking up with women but also every time you do it you use this line and every time this happens they pull on your hand? You live an absurd life my friend
You’re a liar, and probably a virgin.
Cute little fantasy you typed up there, little buddy ❤️
A great distillation of what drives Gen X motivations
I love this movie, I feel a lot of the audience didn't read between the lines of a motherfuck of PTSD Martin has, it's way easier to throw around sociopath
Well most people don't have common sense and they jump to conclusions
@@Artorion If most people don't have common sense, isn't that really a misnomer? ;-)
@Thanos is Retired 19 year old me didn't get it, but man oh man, did 24 year old me!
@@wvu05 Most of the shit people say is wrong and inaccurate
It's a brilliant parody for so much about life, great piece of writing. Sober, think about the relationship you have with the owner of your company not your colleagues. It's a parody of we all deserve life versus taking it away. Hope people see it, I love this film.
+DrDublin Yes! Great writing.
And moments after this, he finds out his current target all along has been her father - that's quite a setup.
when i watched good will hunting i thought minnie driver looked ok but wasn't beautiful. i didn't care, she was absolutely brilliant in that role. but when i saw this movie not only was her acting again exceptional but for whatever reason she looked amazing so amazing to the point where i thought she looked too good for this role, i mean come on she's on the radio? no way man no way
I freaking love this movie . "Moral flexibility " LOL .
And yet he ends up with her in the end. But I do love this weird, dark flick. What a concept for what is essentially a violent rom com.
Another good film like this is "Mr. Right"
moral flexability .............I like it
tallguy3708 - that and "taming unchecked aggression".
Despite the title and the comments, if you've watched the movie you know he does get to have her in the end, following the title's own words. In the end the sociopath does get to have civilized society, because without him you're just the prey of other sociopaths who don't care about you.
So, please, have some sympathy and some taste.
No, no, no. A psychopath kills for no reason, I kill for moneyyy, its a job. Ok that sounds bad...
Holy Crap! Cusack's "Martin Blank" was "Michael Weston" 10 years earlier! (Ex-spook who is now working freelance)
Which civilisations are we talking about, lol. Brilliant movie.
Pilots carpetbomb cities! That's indiscriminate. I don't do that!
Demon’s resume isn’t bad either.
"It's a depressing dream to dream about that rabbit. It's got no brain, it's got no blood, it's got no anima. It just keeps banging on these meaningless cymbals endlessly and going and going"
-Dr Oatman
~Ben
The T is silent...
The mark of a psychopath is someone who preys on people's trust, who acts to undermine relationships (with employers, family, friends, neighbors etc) to serve their own ends.
Killing and enjoying killing do not make one a psychopath. A lack of ability to adhere to and support a structure do
Indeed. I love _Barry,_ but I think at this point the title character has definitely crossed that line.
"You're over reacting"...HA. That was the best line.
"You're overreacting"
"YEAH! Yeah..."
God I love this film
“People joke about horrible things they don’t do, they don’t DO them that’s absurd”
This is a classic along the lines of Lebowski.
George Armitage made this and also Miami Blues a few years earlier, that has a similar tone. Hugely underrated director I must say
If the roles were reversed most dudes would be like "so....how many ppl have you killed 😍"
I love how this movie gets you into the mindset of Blank, especially the fights. They're flashy and exciting, complete thrill rides... Then there's the aftermath of the fights, which is ALWAYS a nightmare. That is, until he's fighting to defend someone he loves instead of killing for himself.
“You should read the files on some of these fuckers. I mean it reads like a demon’s resumé.”
I love how the Foley artists give a Glock a grip safety lol
Minnie Driver can tell me to "shut up" any time she wants.
“You don’t get to have me!”
25 minutes later: has her. 😆
I love how, in the end, it turns out she was okay with it and rode off into the sunset with him.
"If I show up at your door, chances are, you did something to bring me there."
Creepy? Maybe. But, that does sound like a good pickup line.
"Civilized Society",... yeah right.
What a Great film.
Her accent came through there, love it!
You don't get to have me!
On the other hand, you could be my commander-in-chief.
I've always liked this scene and this movie. I also thought Driver's intense "You don't get to have me!" stood out, as it wasn't something often seen on film at the time nor is it in the formulaic rom-com today. And I somehow really wanted her to stick by that, and for a movie that seemed like it would bring the lovers together somehow to actually just not do that at all. Even after the family affair and his keeping her father safe. Maybe they just understand each other better, and she sees how plastic ethics can be on the world stage while he better understands the way to ground himself with connections to other human beings. But they don't get together in the end and he doesn't get to have her. Would have been a bold choice. Maybe not the right choice for a quirky romcom audience. But a bold one.
Oh, I’ve always had the hots for Minnie Driver! 🥰
"Moral flexibility"
This film must have been a big inspiration for "Barry".
A man who found some skill in the military & was later used by people to use this skill as a tool to kill people and then became an assassin, and decides he doesn't want to live that life anymore, and always tells people that he is a professional killer but they think he's just joking.
Martin Blank - Barry Block
Debi- Sally
Grocer - Fuches (kinda)
I love this movie.
What a fucking banger
Great video and to the point
I don't know why but every line John Cusack is saying sounds like the dark humor a la Ricky Gervais.
If someone would just splice the clip at 3:22. You Don't.... I would give a strong shout out to all my cell phone and internet "providers"
Moral flexibilty
I love this movie so much
Like how he is using valid and reasonable arguments and is ''uncivilized'', and she uses simple emotional dogma and is supposedly ''civilized''
+LV426 xenomorph
sssh!
Spacebugs don't get no speakin' roles, acidspitter!
Because rationalism isn't the be all and end all. He is uncivilized. In fact individuals within our society know better. Civilized people don't kill people just because they are told it's OK. This is why the Nazis' weren't let off the hook for their crimes. I would hope you know better than to kill people just because you were told to, even if it was rationalised in a convincing manner.
There is no emotion or dogmatic rhetoric here.
Ah...the age old dilemma. The age old pattern. We achieve lovely polite society by perverted mayhem. Have at it.
Thats a false dilemma. Unhindered murder and destruction is not necessarily a prerequisite of civilization. Its certainly a symptom of it though.
I only came to comment exactly this. Thank you Maraak.
ha, his eyes made it sooo much worse, and funny
2:14- 2:17 his eyes and low voice revealled a psycho alright.
I'd forgotten where 'You don't get to have me!' is from. Thanks.
Guy reminds me of my sociopathic ex friend
Grosse Pointe---if it's your favorite, you should be able to spell it correctly
Audio guys had one job, he pulls the hammer back on a glock. Great movie still.
Feed back from others! ....AMAZING
I feel like, if he hadn't said he'd started to like it, he *might* have been able to find a way to salvage that conversation. Like, if he'd said something like "when the military and the CIA train you to be a killer and you kill all the time, you start to lose sight of when it's okay to kill someone and when it isn't", and then *maybe* something about how there's not much difference between the government paying you to kill someone and private entities paying you to kill someone, that she might have at least walked away not thinking he's a psychopath.
But that wouldn't have been the truth. He was at least being honest.
sometimes, your sense of morality needs a bit flexability
2:51 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Women always have to reason the logic into everything.
You can't pigeon hole a psychopath. 🤣
My favorite movie scene..
Everything about you is an even bigger, Debbie. I love you. Can't you see that?
hes just a killer.
which civilised society are we talking about here?
She has the naiveté of most people, at least those living in relatively stable societies. He is not naive - he has looked into the abyss and the abyss has also looked into him.
SPOILER
I don't buy them going off together at the end.
I hate these movies where a stoic with a level of psychopathy romantically chases a very ordinary woman. I get its to attempt to create a sense of normalcy but its hugely frustrating. Just find a woman on your wavelength who not so gullible as to honestly believe civilized societies are without mutder, esp government sponsored murder.
He was making a ton of sense and she was still in fairytale land.
Psychopath... Not Sociopath.
Nothing about him was a lie he told. I dont get her logic
Hey Jenny Slater
great movie. $%^*& conclusion you took from it
A slap would have doubled as punctuation, and emphasis. "You don't get to have me" *SLAP*
I see CIA agents differently now post Trump etc
What’s the name of the movie please ?
Stephanie Grosse Pointe Blank.
Grosse Pointe Blank
No such thing as a former spook.
Sigh. Hrrrrmmmm... story of my frickin' life.
🐯🧈🍚🍙🍔🦀
lmao
Great scene. #gs
3:23 youre a fucking psycho is the appropos line to upload... ilove women but the cops... well
Hmmmm.
Good movie. But I got sick of the cheesy phrases they were always saying trying to be funny.
Ultimately the movie still glamourizes and tries to justify America's Military Industrial War and Murder Machine - not least by casting Cusack to play a typical geopolitically unresearched+clueless American.
Paul G