High Fidelity -The Movie (1 Viewer)

[Klimtology]

How great was this?

Top 5 Records!

Changes from day to day.

For me:

Permanent Waves

Harvest

Pacific Daydream

Fair Warning

Sea Change

And You?

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Permanent Waves

Fair Warning

2 of my favorites right there.

 

[El Floppo]

just rewatched this a couple weeks ago- commented on it in the movie thread.

usually these gimmicky narrative structure things tend to not have legs... and maybe it's just been that long since I saw it, but I thought it held up really well. first time I'd seen Jack Black on screen (at first viewing in the theater) and I remember thinking he was amazing and not as annoying as I found him on rewatch.

I will now sell 5 copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band.

 

[Eephus]

The Hulu series was pretty good as well but was a casualty of the pandemic. Zoey Kravitz starred as Rob and Da'Vine Joy Randolph was hilarious in the Frank Black role.

 

[TripItUp]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

He made me laugh just about every second he was on screen, whether he spoke or not.

Overall I liked the movie, but it reminded me that my musical tastes were pretty much out of step with my peers. Probably #4 of my Desert Island Top 5 Cusak movies.

 

[urbanhack]

A lot of that was filmed in my old neighborhood in Chicago. Love watching it to see what the hood used to look like.

 

[urbanhack]

Love when that Beta Band song comes on...always reminds me of that scene.

 

[General Malaise]

just rewatched this a couple weeks ago- commented on it in the movie thread.

usually these gimmicky narrative structure things tend to not have legs... and maybe it's just been that long since I saw it, but I thought it held up really well. first time I'd seen Jack Black on screen (at first viewing in the theater) and I remember thinking he was amazing and not as annoying as I found him on rewatch.

I will now sell 5 copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band.

I actually went out to a record store and bought this CD. It's......not very good.

 

[General Malaise]

This is one of those movies that made the book proud. Not many movie adaptations of books hit the mark; this one nailed it.

 

[El Floppo]

just rewatched this a couple weeks ago- commented on it in the movie thread.

usually these gimmicky narrative structure things tend to not have legs... and maybe it's just been that long since I saw it, but I thought it held up really well. first time I'd seen Jack Black on screen (at first viewing in the theater) and I remember thinking he was amazing and not as annoying as I found him on rewatch.

I will now sell 5 copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band.

I actually went out to a record store and bought this CD. It's......not very good.

Lol. The single he played, Dry the Rain... Is still great. But yeah, the rest didn't grab me the same way.

 

[Navin Johnson]

Just read the book a couple months ago and decided to buy the movie on Google, was four bucks, I think.

Pause it when he inserts Marie de Salle's CD.

In the 2000 movie "High Fidelity", John Cusack's character Rob ...

Found on Google from reddit.com

www.google.com

 

[General Malaise]

I would totally let Lisa Bonet sing Ghostbusters to me.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

How great was this?

Love it—

Top 5 film of 2000.

 

[Klimtology]

I loved the top five list automatic disqualification for being used in "The Big Chill."

 

[Klimtology]

"Rob, top five musical crimes perpetuated by Stevie Wonder in the '80s and '90s. Go. Sub-question: is it in fact unfair to criticize a formerly great artist for his latter day sins, is it better to burn out or fade away?"

 

[Statorama]

A hundred and ten percent - that's how important it is to me that you don't play!

 

[B Maverick]

I remember enjoying it when it came out. Haven't watched it since then. May need to give it another look.

 

[Keith R]

Not sure why I never saw this one. I tried to see every Catherine Zeta-Jones movie from this time frame, even the awful remake of The Haunting

 

[General Malaise]

Not sure why I never saw this one. I tried to see every Catherine Zeta-Jones movie from this time frame, even the awful remake of The Haunting

She's not in it very much, but she's prime CZJ hot in this one.

I should watch this again. It's been a while.

 

[matttyl]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

He made me laugh just about every second he was on screen, whether he spoke or not.

Overall I liked the movie, but it reminded me that my musical tastes were pretty much out of step with my peers. Probably #4 of my Desert Island Top 5 Cusak movies.

The other 4? Grosse Point Blank, 2012, runaway jury, say anything.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

He made me laugh just about every second he was on screen, whether he spoke or not.

Overall I liked the movie, but it reminded me that my musical tastes were pretty much out of step with my peers. Probably #4 of my Desert Island Top 5 Cusak movies.

The other 4? Grosse Point Blank, 2012, runaway jury, say anything.

1. Better Off Dead
2. Grosse Point Blank
3. Say Anything
4. Hi Fidelity
5. The Sure Thing

 

[El Floppo]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

He made me laugh just about every second he was on screen, whether he spoke or not.

Overall I liked the movie, but it reminded me that my musical tastes were pretty much out of step with my peers. Probably #4 of my Desert Island Top 5 Cusak movies.

The other 4? Grosse Point Blank, 2012, runaway jury, say anything.

1. Better Off Dead
2. Grosse Point Blank
3. Say Anything
4. Hi Fidelity
5. The Sure Thing

2. Grosse Point Blank
3. Say Anything
4. Hi Fidelity

those 3 for sure. 2012? not for me. I'd have to look back over his roles and movies to fill in the next 2.

 

[Navin Johnson]

movie is awesome...the Cusack quasi depressed shtick is kinda meh, but it works with this movie. Jack Black's best role for me.

He made me laugh just about every second he was on screen, whether he spoke or not.

Overall I liked the movie, but it reminded me that my musical tastes were pretty much out of step with my peers. Probably #4 of my Desert Island Top 5 Cusak movies.

The other 4? Grosse Point Blank, 2012, runaway jury, say anything.

I gotta have Better Off Dead in there somewhere. Probably drop 2012

 

[El Floppo]

2. Grosse Point Blank
3. Say Anything
4. Hi Fidelity

Being John Malkovic

War Inc/ Better Off Dead/ Bullets over Broadway

 

[TripItUp]

Don't think I've ever heard of "The Sure Thing"

 

[TripItUp]

Also, Joan Cusack crushed her role too...perfectly casted movie.

 

[Navin Johnson]

Also, Joan Cusack crushed this role to...perfectly casted movie.

With Daphne Zuniga of Visionquest fame

 

[Charlie Steiner]

Don't think I've ever heard of "The Sure Thing"

Released in 1985, directed by Rob Reiner, also starred Anthony Edwards, Tim Robbins and Nicollette Sheridan.

 

[General Malaise]

Don't think I've ever heard of "The Sure Thing"

Released in 1985, directed by Rob Reiner, also starred Anthony Edwards, Tim Robbins and Nicollette Sheridan.

It made shot-gunning a beer famous!

 

[General Malaise]

Also, Joan Cusack crushed this role to...perfectly casted movie.

With Daphne Zuniga of Visionquest fame

I sure hope Space Balls made his 80s list.

 

[Todem]

Very good flick. Jack Black stole the movie.