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gmku 01.11.2008 07:30 AM

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.

screamingskull 01.11.2008 07:31 AM

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.
 

gmku 01.11.2008 07:33 AM

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

sarramkrop 01.11.2008 07:34 AM

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.

gmku 01.11.2008 07:38 AM

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.

_slavo_ 01.11.2008 07:40 AM

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

screamingskull 01.11.2008 07:41 AM

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

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.11.2008 07:57 AM

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

gmku 01.11.2008 08:05 AM

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

gmku 01.11.2008 08:07 AM

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

sarramkrop 01.11.2008 08:12 AM

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.

gmku 01.11.2008 08:22 AM

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

gmku 01.11.2008 08:23 AM

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

!@#$%! 01.11.2008 08:42 AM

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.

auto-aim 01.11.2008 08:48 AM

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

!@#$%! 01.11.2008 08:59 AM

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.

sarramkrop 01.11.2008 09:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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.

atari 2600 01.11.2008 09:22 AM

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.

gmku 01.11.2008 09:55 AM

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.

Everyneurotic 01.11.2008 10:08 AM

Quote:

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


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.


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