oops...i haven't seen that one yet! love john c. but, let's face it, much as i love "high fidelity," it begins and ends with "say anything." "high fidelity" is one of the most quotable movies out there, though! oh, and you'd do well to get the book, too!
Ain't that the truth. I watched "Say Anything" last weekend and, goodness my, Ione Skye is straight butter.
PLEASE see grosse pointe blank - if you dont you are cheating yourself and lets not forget the sure thing
Re: Re: High Fidelity i liked "better off dead." "i want my two dollars!!" i've only seen bits of "one crazy summer." that's the one with demi moore, right? and i liked "the sure thing," too. still, my favorite is "say anything." "i gave her my heart, she gave me a pen..." but thanks, bluedaddy19, for the "grosse point blank" recommendation. i've also never seen "the grifters." but back to thread!! "i've read books, like "the unbearable lightness of being," and "love in the time of cholera," and i think i've understood them. they're about girls, right? ...just kidding."
agreed. what's great about barry is that he's a COMPLETE music snob, yet his taste in music is CRAP! katrina and the waves? the righteous brothers over mitch? ugh. but his stevie-wonder-customer kissoff scene was fantastic! rob: "i don't WANT to listen to 'sad bastard music,' i just want something i can ignore!"
Re: Re: Re: High Fidelity I should've mentioned "Better Off Dead" in the "great movies everyone thinks are bad" thread. While we're on the topic, you have to check out Tapeheads, a cult classic he made with Tim Robbins about guys who go to LA to make it big in the music video business. Great cameo by Soul Train's Don Cornelius, who explains the importance of "production values" if you want to get on MTV. By production values, he means "tits and ass." B.O.T.: High Fidelity was quite good. I didn't think I was going to like having it moved from England to Chicago, but it worked well.
I love High Fidelity, book and movie. I find it think it about it when I'm buying music, arranging cds, making tapes, etc. Guess it's because music has always been huge in my life (except for when the kids were small and there was not enough time).
I like Cusack, but his character in High Fidelity is such a pathetic loser. He was really hard to take and the end was very predictable. Did we really have to suffer through all of his stupid neurotic tendencies for 90 percent of the film. Personally it was torture.
Believe it or not, in the book the main character was even more pathetic and neurotic, and some of his stalking behavior verges on the outright psychopathic.
Gotta mention 'The Sure Thing' as long as we're talking about John Cusak. I think it's his funniest movie to date.
If you want neurotic tendancies in a Nick Hornby book, go read Fever Pitch. It just shows how all his characters are offshoots of himself.
By all means read Fever Pitch. It's a great book. I can't vouch for any other Hornby books besides those two, because I haven't read them, however: I liked High Fidelity very much but of the two I enjoyed Fever Pitch more.
Basically, his books have a neurotic main character who has trouble with commitment and who has strong ideas about the way things should be and has a snobbish attitude about many things. e.g., the main character in High Fidelity looks down on people who have fewer than 500 records in their collection ( this attitude appears a bit in Fever Pitch and About a Boy). I have enjoyed all the books of his I've read except "How to be Good", which I pretty much hated.
Is there anyone, anyone who genuinely enjoyed "How To Be Good"? It's like Hornby put together everything we hate about his protagonists without everything we like, and then pitted her against a character that every Hornby fan would just love to smack upside the head.
This in a nutshell describes what I would like to do to the Cusack character in High Fidelity. Smackem upside the head repeatedly until they started acting normal.