High Fidelity: Classic Or Dud?

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read the book. think i've seen the film. didn't mind them but a bit forgettable. a lot of truth, a lot of untruths.

dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

truth: record store clerks can be dicks

untruth: record store clerks who listen to a lot of doug yule velvet underground and hallucinate conversations w/bruce springsteen rarely get tail from rich hot lawyer chicks who bankroll their record obsessions

gear (gear), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

he met her as a dj

kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

there is no fucking way green day sound like the clash or stiff little fingers

latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

there is no fucking way nick hornby is a writer so that's okay

Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

is that originally in the book ?

latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

It's in the copy in the library that I defaced.

Ricky Nadir (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i did like the detail about how ultra snob rob's musical defenses fell when confronted with lisa bonet's meek, spineless cover of "baby i love your way"

gear (gear), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Nicely done. (x-post)

The only thing that's even more dud than the High Fidelity franchise are people who feel compelled to ask "have you seen High Fidelity?" once they learn that I have more than ten records.

Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

-Don't you want to see the rest of the movie?
-I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.

paul reubens, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Hahahhahhahaha.

Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:00 (twenty years ago)

jesus christ people. your long neglected and often abused subculture finally gets big-screen hollywood treatment, with john cusack playing you, and you still whine about it? c'mon high fidelity is to record geeks as top gun is to fighter pilots: simplistic heroic mythology. enjoy your myth, chrissakes.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

my favorite movie record geek is still daniel stern in diner. his fight with ellen barkin is so great. "you never ask me what the b-side is!"

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

what about Buscemi in Ghost World?

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Buscemi and Cusak don't blog

JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Max Von Sydow in Hannah and her Sisters.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Buscemi and Cusak don't blog

true, the blogger top gun has yet to come. but it will.

buscemi's fine, but he's a little too laid back. he doesn't seem really obsessive, which cusack doesn't either but daniel stern does.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Book: classic
Film: classic
Track: CLASSIC

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

my favorite movie record geek is still daniel stern in diner. his fight with ellen barkin is so great. "you never ask me what the b-side is!"
"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey!"

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 January 2008 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Put simply, Cusack rocks in *everything* - how could you possibly be a doubter?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

first saw in theater - that was really good, funny, bittersweet
see now on cable - he is so pathetic, sad, kind of a dick, WTF worst marriage proposal ever

dmr, Thursday, 31 January 2008 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Grifters: C er D?

James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

This movie made me way fucking self-conscious about my underwear choices. I never knew men had these judgements of women's underwear!

Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

This movie was boring and irritating and full of jerks by the way! If there was one excellent thing about Juno, it is that it shows these type of mangs to just be frustrating as hell, and crepey!

Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

That said, right now if a dude my age told me he was way into the Doobie Brothers, I would kind of swoon.

Abbott, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

see now on cable - he is so pathetic, sad, kind of a dick, WTF worst marriage proposal ever

-- dmr, Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:31 PM

Totally, but I think giving him all those flaws makes him more relatable and more real (maybe just to commitment-phobic record geeks like myself?).

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

lol

Hmm -
Why should I say it when the character does - literally - looking straight into the camera ? Millinials can’t be that dumb :) https://t.co/gizPBpM6nu

— John Cusack (@johncusack) August 7, 2018

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 01:08 (seven years ago)

Bless us

faculty w1fe (silby), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 01:21 (seven years ago)

lol

The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 01:41 (seven years ago)

Fuck twitter confuses me. To what was Hoos referring with his "get John Cusack to say the same" ref there? That comment seems to have to hop across 3 or 4 seperate conversations.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 01:48 (seven years ago)

click thru

basically that HiFi Rob is a self-absorbed twit

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:00 (seven years ago)

Yeah, but Cusak is right. It’s obvious in the movie, so it would be pointless for him to have to say it.

brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:18 (seven years ago)

damn hoos got pwned

Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:27 (seven years ago)

One key shot in the movie is the final one involving Lili Taylor

omar little, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:28 (seven years ago)

yo is it true hoos got sonned by a Cusack after a movie beef?

16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 02:42 (seven years ago)

My boy john

Yet every other ilxor rants about what a misogynist rob was

🙄

F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 03:42 (seven years ago)

i was unaware there's a TV series planned, w/ a female lead

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/john-cusack-high-fidelity-remake-1201950107/

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 11:47 (seven years ago)

heres hoping its as good as ghostbusters!

dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 12:59 (seven years ago)

Ghostbusters is a classic bro

F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:41 (seven years ago)

classic moneymaking elephantine crap

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 13:55 (seven years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/high-fidelity-zoe-kravitz-hulu-930069/

(•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 20 December 2019 23:03 (six years ago)

how do you write that article and not even acknowledge that zoe kravitz’s mother was in the first screen adaptation of high fidelity

i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 23:28 (six years ago)

I'm assuming they didn't even bother to read the Wikipedia

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 December 2019 00:04 (six years ago)

The lack of anyone in the record store who looks like Moby is promising

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 21 December 2019 00:10 (six years ago)

one month passes...

How she can afford to pay herself and her two employees while keeping that store open and making rent on a pretty spacious place in Crown Heights or some shit is the true magic of this show.

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 16:19 (six years ago)

TV logic i spose

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 16:19 (six years ago)

if it's Brooklyn obv she's a trust funder eg Lenny Kravitz's daughter

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 16:20 (six years ago)

Can’t wait for the Christmas episode where he comes to visit then!

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 16:34 (six years ago)

lol at listening to vinyl in order to make you playlists on spotify

(•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 19:24 (six years ago)

huh how's that work?

morbidly curious about this show

maffew12, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 19:56 (six years ago)


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