r/movies • u/shopdog • 24d ago

Question What happened to John Cusack?

Looking at his IMDB page and he's in a bunch of crap (rated 5.0 or lower) movies and a Chinese produced movies (judging from the original titles and posters).

He was in a lot of my favorite movies from the 80s until the teens and then just seemed to disappear.

Did something happen to his career? Self inflicted?

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u/AlienScrotum 24d ago edited 24d ago

He is the perfect guy to pull off Grosse Pointe Blank though. To me he has always and will always be a “I’m getting too old for this shit” actor. Even when he was young. Crazy shit would happen and he would take it in stride. So much so, I would love him in a Leathal Weapon remake with a race swap.

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u/10before15 24d ago

Top notch fight scenes.

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u/doctor_7 24d ago

They really are. Rewatched it recently and it was amazing to see how well they were done for a film coming out when it did. Most fights were just these laughable exchanges of the most telegraphed punches known to man.

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u/peacefinder 24d ago

If I recall correctly the other actor for the locker hall fight was Cusack’s trainer and maybe the fight coordinator? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Urquidez

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u/IndyO1975 24d ago

Yeah. That’s Benny “The Jet.”

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u/Unofficial_Officer 24d ago

Fuck yeah it is! Dude has been in a ton of kung fu movies.

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u/DrJDog 24d ago

His fight with Jackie Chan in Wheels On Meals is my all time favourite.

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u/AdorableSobah 24d ago

A man of culture

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u/pnmartini 24d ago

“Kickboxing, sport of the future”

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u/gogul1980 24d ago

yep benny is noted for being in 2 of jackie chan's top ten fight scenes of all time. A real rarity for a westerner in Asian cinema. He went above and beyond for the sequences in Grosse Pointe. Love that film.

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u/Vast_Professor7399 24d ago

More like the top 2 fight scenes.

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u/I_want_chicken 24d ago

Cusack mentions Benny "The Jet" Urquidez when he meets John Mahoney in Say Anything!

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u/doctor_7 24d ago

It's a Bourne quality fight, really well done.

I did not know this fact, thanks for posting it!

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u/Grit-326 24d ago

Check out Benny The Jet vs Jackie Chan.

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u/lurker512879 24d ago

he also was a fight coordinator with Chuck Norris in some training videos

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u/Fever_Rain 23d ago

He also plays the homicidal axe weilding ghost in Room 1408.