identity struggles, continued

Exchange with a reader from Lower Sandusky, OH:

i am a huge john cusack fan and it is my goal in life to see every one of his movies (as well as see all of jack black's movies--AND to some day see his band, tenacious D, play live). problem is, one of john cusack's movies is identity, the movie that you did not exactly recommend to your faithful blog readers on saturday, september 13th (see blog title: mistaken identity). it doesn't bother me that i know the ending so much as that you've instructed me not to see it because it's so bad. now that the movie has shown up at blockbuster, i walk up to it, stretch my hand out, then pull it back. but i remain standing in front of the shelf, gazing amorously at what could be, not unlike a recovering alcoholic standing in front of the liquor shelf. can you help???...

Yes, the solution is that you need to relinquish the goal of seeing all of John Cusack's movies. Perhaps you could change it to a goal of trying to memorize all the dialogue from High Fidelity (only because it has Jack Black in it as well, otherwise I would recommend memorizing Say Anything).

okay. i did love the movie high fidelity. and i rented say anything yesterday, so i have that right now. all i need is [a professional interaction analyst] to come on over and transcribe the movie for me...

is there any chance that john cusack wasn't in identity? maybe it was joan cusack impersonating him? also, couldn't my goal be to see all john cusack movies except for identity? or, could i say that i've already seen it, given that i've seen trailers/sceens and i know the basic story and ending?...