High Fidelity
 

It's on at 9am Eastern, y'all, E! channel. I recommend y'all get up and showered and dressed and watch it with me. Hell, you're so familiar with it by now you can watch it while you work. Your bossman won't mind.

It'll be my background noise while I slave away this morning.

I can't think of High Fidelity without singing the chorus from this. "High Fidelity, HIGH, High High Fidelity!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V15u9...eature=related

I'm in love with John Cusack, he is just (in my opinion) the perfect height and perfect weight for a man, and he's got such a sweet face.

I think it's funny he stars with his real-life sister. They're great together.

It's one of the worst movies that I have ever seen in my entire life. Everything about both the book and the film is annoying. The story, the script, JohnfuckingCusack etc. Terrible. But, as you know gmku, I love you. You make my time worthwhile.

I would never say I stake a claim on good taste in anything. I like a lot of trash, in fact. And you, Porkie, not only make my time worthwhile but you also make it special.

I liked that book a lot. I read it like 4 times.

Never read the book, but i have the movie on video.

For a movie about a record store owner, the music he talks about it incredibly mundane.

I tried the book but I have to admit I like the movie better.

But honestly I can't think of any movie depiction that really gets the record store right. They're all off target.

Oh, and Nick Hornby is one of the most annoying writers of the past 5000 years. I despise his writing and what he writes about with all my heart. Everything about this man is vile.

Yeah, I've never been able to get into any of his books. I've tried. I don't why people like him.

Okay, I have to get to work now. Stop distracting me.

o man i hate that movie, i have to confess

he TALKS TOO MUCH

while i enjoy talk-based movies (many european films come to mind), the cinematic device of having a character look at the camera and rant forever annoys me to no end. add spalding gray to the lot of it.

sure, zeta is in it, and that's a bonus, but by god, they did a horrid job of condensing a book for the screen with that one. compare with no country for old men. oh yes. the beastly glory of it.

im indifferent... never read the book and doubt i will any time soon.

oh i didn't read the book either. but it's so evident that they are cribbing monologues right out of a book-- i mean novels and screenplays are very different beasts and whoever adapted that for the screen must have thought that a "literary rant" would not bore people to tears. WRONG.

well-- me anyway. other people like it. they have their reasons.

That's very true. Spot on.

I have NFL Replay on, it's a show on NFL network that shows hour and a half trimmed-down versions of full games. I'm not really watching it that much (mostly listening), because I'm doing other things. Being reshown is the Pats at Jags game from last season.

High Fidelity a romantic comedy, albeit a good one. But hey, it's losing out to Dan Dierdorf haha (who is an announcer), and I can't stand Dan.

I think the movie's a lot of fun. I'm enjoying it right now. I'm not saying it's perfect or one of the all-time great pieces of cinema. It's just a fun movie.

agreed, they kinda make up for it by displaying better records in the background.

i love that movie and like everything else, i don't care what you sad fucks think. it's also sort of a...let's say tha movie helps me understand some things better when i watch it.

the book was set in britain right?
full of refernces to horrid brit bands right?

i like the movie
entertaining.
I love when the pussy twitchy fuck is playing belle and fucking sebastian.

what a horrid belle & sebastian song he plays!

i mean, i love me some twee metal (by which i mean i really love most of b&s), but that song in particular is awful! like barry says, it's "bland pap".

I just don't understand how people can still see John Cusack's character as a an individual who deserves any kind of sympathy.

When people say they can relate to him, I have to wonder why.

Yah, and how he goes (with a slight twitch), "...Correct," when his flirt at the counter surprises him by interjecting, "The Clash!"

God, I've known people like him. But then how could I not? I lived in a pretentious little college town.

Overall, the movie is nostalgic for me--nostalgic for a place that may not even have existed except in my imagination. Championship Vinyl is the place I wanted every one of my favorite record stores to really be. Run by snobs for snobs, run as place where people really talked about music, and where relationships really did begin and end over music. A total music fan's wet dream, at least for a certain generation.

I also love Barry (Jack Black's) sarcastic minor rant about "Oh, I thought we wanted customers to come. I didn't know not having customers was a business strategy," or something like that. And Cusack can't say anything. Perfect.

I know what you mean, although people have told me that im like him, which by extension means i am deserving of no sympathy, which is troubling.
I hate Belle and Sebastien though which saves me somewhat from the fires.

I've had four different people, within the past week, tell me that they saw Juno and the main character reminded them of me. One actually phoned me for the sole purpose of telling me this.

I have not seen this movie, I was not planning on seeing it, and now I am going to actually try not to see it. I don't know if I could sit there and watch it.

my favourite movie. come over and then we'll watch it and discuss it like hardcore fans.

cormac mcarthy is ina different league to hornby, i did like the movie though, it was pretty much like the record store i worked in for 6 years.

Word.

high five!

haha yeah, i love the US Maple poster that they have up. I just keep spotting new records in the backgrounds.

I love Barry's little reccomendation of Psychocandy and Blonde on Blonde to that guy.

To the side, down low... Too slow!

anyone ever wondered what sonic death monkey actually sounded like?

I got the impression Barry just made the name up to bug the Cusack character, and that all along the band was really what we see at the end.

They play Let's Get It On at the end.

actually, the guitar player dude who answers the ad tells him they are already called that.

before they play let's get it on, barry announces they will change the name to katherine turner overdrive.

Incidentally, if you don't hate Hornby after reading High Fidelity, give this a go:

 

you'll want to cut his fingers off so he never writes his sad old man garbage again.