cusack as cowboy...

in my quest to see every john cusack movie ever made, i've encountered some of the worst movies i've ever seen... but on occasion, i've seen a couple that are amazing... which add to the deep admiration i have for john cusack as an actor...

next on my cusack list was the jack bull... a western (of all things) starring good ol' johnny boy... i had my doubts... i'm not a huge western fan... and i have been burned by some of the last cusack movies... money for nothing was the worst... seriously one of the worst movies of all times...

but i rented it... on vhs... it was a hbo movie in 1999... and the tape's quality was horrible... i was pretty much ready for the worst two hours of my day... the only thing giving me hope was how attractive john cusack as a cowboy looks on the front cover of the tape...

after a few minutes, i was hooked... it is a terrific movie... seriously one of the best movies i've seen this year... (not just cusack movies... one of the best of all the ones i've seen this year...) and cusack did an excellent job... he was very believable in the role... i think one of the reasons i love some of his other movies is that i believe him to be the characters... lloyd dobler, rob gordon or martin blank... but he was also believable as myrl redding in territorial wyoming... and he was amazing...

the movie gave me a lot to think about... it wasn't a surface flick, that's for sure... i'd like to write more, but it's 4:05 on friday afternoon and i was just given the ok to get a head start on friday afternoon traffic... so i'm going to take it...