High Fidelity: Classic Or Dud?

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.

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!"

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

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

Grifters: C er D?

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

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!

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

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?).

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

Bless us

lol

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.

click thru

basically that HiFi Rob is a self-absorbed twit

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

damn hoos got pwned

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

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

My boy john

Yet every other ilxor rants about what a misogynist rob was

🙄

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/

heres hoping its as good as ghostbusters!

Ghostbusters is a classic bro

classic moneymaking elephantine crap

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

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

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

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.

TV logic i spose

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

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

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

huh how's that work?

morbidly curious about this show

sorry I was referring to the scene taken from the original book/movie where Rob is playing records to go on his mixtape and agonizing over the rules of song selection and sequencing but in this show everything is the same up until she just ends up making a fucking spotify playlist out of it all.

this show was a bad idea

am i imagining it that I read the store premise is that she inherited the space?

i used to work in a record shop in williamsburg. It was so chill on weekdays that I usually opened and closed by myself, just listening to music and processing orders/deliveries. We would just take our pay in cash at the end of each shift. I would totally have worked there forever if the owner hadn't sucked.

"this show was a bad idea"

it's completely unnecessary but I watched the whole thing and it got better as it went on and reminded me less of the original book and movie. It's passable weekend binge subscription TV fare.

Rob's not enough of an asshole in the TV show, the writers didn't seem to recognize that the relationship was a McGuffin and it was about contronting in middle age that you're an enormous piece of shit.

really don't get the impression that the movie knows how much of a prick rob is.

like definitely it knows he's a bit of a fucking dolt and needs to grow up, but he's still our cool hero also

He’s definitely portrayed as sympathetic. Straw Dogs it is not

dolts can be heroes

eg, Bowie

I've watched the first two episode and it's still just as cringe-worthy as the movie. Maybe I'm too old for this kind of thing.

looks like the book and film maaaay have touched a nerve

i just watched the trailer for the movie and the tv show. The tv show looks must better. I haven't seen the movie since it first came out but I recall the only sympathetic thing about it was that they cast John Cusack in 2000.

Jake Lacy is really making a career out of playing "a guy you date(d)".