solid
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Kinda loved HiFid but didn't come close to making my 40. Best movie on list so far tho.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
would like to see it again, but at the time i was working in a record store and the Beta Band bit was OTM.
Also: the first of the bromantic comedies?
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i fucking loathe john cusack
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
morbs otm
― caek, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hf was kinda lame but brought the lolz iirc
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly most comments on this film were complaints about how it wasn't like a real record store and the girls were unrealistic w/r/t hooking up with a record store owner.
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, February 3, 2010 12:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
haha great job everyone
― bnw, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
what happened to Todd Louiso? v funny.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
argh high fidelity no
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this countdown is worth it to see what Morbs thinks about films. I would have assumed he hated High Fidelity.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Todd Louiso directed a movie called Love Liza in my hometown. But that was like 2003.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxpost Yeah, much better comment than the comments would've been.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Cusack's monologues far superior to the ones in American Psycho fwiw
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
#94 American PsychoMary Harron2000Canada(215 points, 11 votes)
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Gukbe, my crush on prime-era Cusack is well-documented, and this was pretty much the end of it.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Todd Louiso recently on CSI or NCIS or one of those procedural shows that's not Law & Order. Looks exactly the same 10 years on.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(I mean, all the shit JC has done since, Ice Harvest excepted) xp
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost That's the hidden blessing of premature baldness.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, u rong andrew farrell, cusack blows
― velko, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
eric otm
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
bad bad bad list
― moullet, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i met todd louiso at a wedding
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. I knew cusack had a bad decade, but I didn't realize just how bad until I looked at the IMDB list. Putting them all in a row like that really hurts.
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
did he marry sara gilbert??? xpost
― Freddy 'The Wonder Chicken' (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no wait
sara gilbert was not in attendance iirc
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Todd Louiso is in an upcoming movie penned by ILX's own Shakey Mo Collier:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509787/
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Eric seeing a comedy about indie-rock geeks in which Jack Black eviscerates a guy shopping for a Stevie Wonder record is blowin' my mind
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/capturingfriedmans.jpg
I just watched it yesterday. I wonder how many "victims" turned down the interview requests. It's hard to feel like you are getting all sides of the story until you hear from more of them. The most damning thing towards the police seemed to be the coerced testimonials of the victims. The most damning thing towards the Friedmans, and what convinced me of their guilt, was what their lawyer had to say.
I also felt like the bond between the brothers and their father, their relationship, was obviously strong but seemed to require or only exist in a superficial form. See: their constant need to be performing while being recorded on tape and film. Were I to be all Freudian in examining their possible dysfunction, they seem to put up quite a front of happiness i.e. their need to perform really magnifies the tip of the ice-berg. Makes you think they could very easily absorb lies into their family and continue functioning/performing, and that perhaps they try so hard to have fun because were they to stop making silly jokes for 5 minutes, the ensuing silence would be horrible.
― bnw (bnw)
I slightly resent the film putting me in the position of viewer/juror because the information presented to me was inadequate to make me feel confident in any kind of decision I made about the guys' guilt - the heavy bias on all sides means you can't trust anyone's story completely (or at all). I'm wrestling with whether a responsible film maker leaves a case like that as open as he did, or if he should have helped viewers to come to a decision. I just feel like something's been left out and wonder if he deliberately interviewed victims or 'victims' who were a bit nutty to up the entertainment and/or intrigue.
― Madchen (Madchen)
Capturing the FriedmansAndrew Jarecki2003United States(215 points, 13 votes, 1 first place)
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay, I'm glad Happy-Go-Lucky made it! It was my #2 vote. My comment up there is a bit one-sided, it's not a total anti-cynic manifesto (the Eddie Marsan character being one of the biggest reasons for that), but I can't imagine a cynic liking it. I had to put it at number #2, as I can't remember ever seeing a movie that was so perfectly suited for a person like me. It's optimistic and full of joie de vivre, yet it never feels dishonest or sugar-coated. And I think even the viewers who might disagree with the message would agree that Sally Hawkins as Poppy is incredible in it, one of the performances of the decade.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
fantastic! should have been higher, but im just happy to see it place xpost
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ jaymc
― velko, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
high fidelity is fun the first time around but mostly unwatchable after that.
high fidelity the movie is way better than the shitty book
― max, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
calling: apichatpong, 2 lynchs and coens in top 10
― moullet, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Not "a Stevie Wonder record." "I Just Called To Say I Love You."
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
optimistic with respect to Apichatpong, I think xp
― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
tuomas i know we already had this discussion and it is reprinted upthread but i really didnt see the film as an endorsement of poppys worldview - it wasnt any sort of manifesto - it was however a story w/some v well rendered characters
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
If you treat High Fidelity (the book) and High Fidelity (the film) as entirely separate entities, one doesn't color the other. It took me a while to get to that place, though.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I see Tropical Malady landing somewhere in the 70s, maybe, and that's it.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― max, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 6:48 PM (1 minute ago)
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
don't see apichatpong making the top 10
xpsssss
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for I also own but have never watched dogville, bought DVD for $2 at ocean state job lot lollol @ job lot! i never thought to look at dvds (but would not want to own von trier film tbh)
― kicker conspiracy (b. favre ha ha) (daria-g), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
don't see apichatpong making the top 100
― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
capturing the friedmans, major bummer
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
don't see apichatpong
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly the lowest polled got 204 points brah
― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
two of his film will make the top 100 but won't place highly.
― jed_, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm guessing