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Summary: A Quirky Love Story
Review: OK. This movie is hard to explain. This guy Rob played by John Cusak owns a record store and gets dumped by his girlfriend. From there he takes us on a trip through his top 5 worst breakups while meeting up with them in the movie and trying to better himself eventually winning over his girlfriend. One of the highlights of the movie is Jack Black who plays Rob's strange assistant at the record store. This is a great movie! Allison
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Summary: Masterful
Review: this movie was hilarious! I thouroughly enjoyed his seemingly endless top 5 lists, and found myself making my own lists as well. Catherine zeta-Jones does a marvelous job as Charlie, his #4 on the worst break-up list.
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Summary: Top Five Reasons to Buy This DVD
Review: 1. The movie is much smarter than its characters pretend to be. Either you get or you'll hate it. 2. For those of you who thought you had an abscure, Brobdingagian collection of musical lore, check out these guys. 3. A soundtrack that does not include rap or hip-hop - in other words, it doesn't suck. 4. John Cusack makes this movie work. It is <HIS> movie. 5. The deleted scenes included in the DVD (this is a review of the DVD, after all) clear up some points, are funny, and further extend a world I enjoyed visiting.
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Summary: One of the few films which is better than the book
Review: High Fidelity and its main character mystify me. The film is much better set in America than England, and all 3 record store guys are hilarious. But it is much more favorable towards the main character than the book, I think.I would love to be the main character. Owning a small record store, having a huge collection of LPs: basically I love music and could see myself as him. We also share a fondness for creating lists of things. However women seem to see him in a evil light and say things like 'If men are like that, I don't want to know him'. This mystifies me. However I do love the film anyway, partly because I really identify with the main character. By the way, this is NOT just a romance film. It's a comedy, and although the romance is looked at in a quirky, cool way, and it occupies a large section of the film, comedy and drama are also both genres applying to the film in certain ways. John Cusack is great and the rock snob is brilliant, whilst Dick, the other guy in the record store, is also played funnily. Overall it's a great film. 5 stars.
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Summary: Cusack at his best
Review: This movie is hilarious. I first saw it at the theatre, and i knew I had to get it. I had been a fan of John Cusack Since the 80's with One Crazy Summer. Cusack plays a record store owner that talks about his old girlfriends. This is a real different but funny movie. I recommend it..
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Summary: A Romantic Comedy for Guys
Review: For those of you who loathe the sappy, predictable archetype that all romantic comedies obligatorily adhere to, you will really enjoy High Fidelity. Essentially, High Fidelity is a film about a man whose relationships, both past and present collide, resulting in a compulsive, introspective, stream of consciousness by which he eventually reaches some kind of closure. My initial reaction to seeing this film was, "Wow. This is the most realistic movie I have ever seen." Every memory, every emotion, and every behavior is poignantly real, leaving the viewer feeling as if his own life has just been portrayed. Like another Cusack film, Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity involves an absolution of one's past to come to a clearer sense of the present. This self-therepy is portrayed so accurately by Cusack that the viewer can't help but sympathize with him. Cusack becomes every man, and the lack of a true plot in the film is overshadowed by the vivid emotional struggle endured by the protagonist. But to clear up one common misconception, this film is not a comedy. If there are comedic elements in the film it is because life is actually funny sometimes. I recommend this movie to any man who feels that he is alone in the world, and to any woman who really wants to know how men think. Oh yeah, and Catherine Zeta Jones is really hot.
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Summary: john cusack's best film!
Review: 1st off to all of you people saying that you are cusack fans did you know that john was nominated for best actor this year at the golden globe's for this film and high fidelity was ranked as one of the top 10 films of 2000 by critics? john is one of the most deserving actors out there and it's funny to read reviews of so-called cusack fans bashing this, in my opinion is best movie so far and saying he's better in the thin red line (which is an overrated, boring film and i love war movies!). When i first saw the trailer for this film i knew right away that this had the potential of being his best film and i was right. of course say anything put john on the map and i think that this film is way better (not that there is anything wrong with say anything). i've worked in a used cd store and the atmosphere was simular to that in the film and my boss always reminded me of john's charchter rob (my boss was/is also a cusack fan)the boom box scene in say anything will always be the scene everyone rembers but i think the scenes in the rain and the music that goes with them (the music in this film is really added well into the film and myself being a fan of punk (i'm a big clash fan and that happens to be john's fave. band as well)this was another little added bonus)john cusack best acting is in these type of romatic comedies (say anything/grosse point blank/high fidelity to be are a little trilogy)and more recent comedy films (money for nothing, pushing tin, and being john malkovich and even his earlier comedy one crazy summer is a personal fave.) he's also proved many times that he's a great serious actor and has given us some great drama's like midnight in the garden of good and evil, true colors, the grifters, and city hall. of course he's given us some duds as well (i'm not a fan of his con-air role and it just seemd to not be the john we all know and love!)no matter what this guy has done in the late 80's-90's i've loved and will continue to love what he does because he is a true actor and always seems to be having fun at what he's doing unlike alot of today's actors who are more concerned about their fame/money/ego then the films that they are making! check out high fidelity because it truly is one of the top films of 2000 and in my opinion one of the best of all time as is john cusack!
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Summary: Here's the hustle
Review: First things first; I liked this film. But as with 'Trainspotting', it was too calculating in it's attempts at hipness and too 'cute' to strike me as a brilliant film, not to mention spare. In other words, Cusack (in his co-writer's mind) is seemingly trying to write another cult classic a la 'Say Anything', but it doesn't work here. That being said, there are some great moments in the film; my favourite is when Tim Robbins shows up in the record store--the fantasy sequence had me roaring with laughter... unfortunately the rest of the film isn't nearly as funny, and actually drags its feet far too often. The dialogue also suffers from the 'top ten' gimmick, which hasn't been funny for about a decade (you'd think Letterman would figure it out as well), and even as a novelty, it gets tired really fast. Performances are fine across the board, but the film reaches for the moon and just barely snags a star.
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Summary: Cosby sweater-wearing babe
Review: I had resisted the urge to rent this on video, as I was determined to stick to my plan of waiting to see this at the beautiful Astor theatre with friends. It was sooo worth the wait! This movie was a complete and utter joy, with Cusack making it seem as though he was born to play the role of the Man who Never Really Grew Up, Rob Gordon. The way in which he pulls the structure of relationships to shreds and puts the chaotic remnants back together again in his own frustrated manner makes for an original and very funny testimony of 30-something angst. The guys who work with Rob in his record store are fantastic, as they help Rob make up Top 5 lists of everything under the sun. I mean, this is the way me and my friends talk, if we're really getting silly. This is the way I think, when I know I should be taking life more seriously! I only saw this last night, but if someone came up to me and asked me to watch it again, I would not hesitate. In fact, I would steal the vid from their grubby little hands and run away with it. And that little act of cheekiness would find its way onto my Top 5 list of The Best Things I Ever Did! Oh how I want to work in a quaint and shabby record store...
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Summary: Love Cusak - Hate the movie
Review: This was a boring and insipid movie. Slow moving and bitter there were only a few redeeming moments. The fellow clerks were funny from time to time, but the humor never took root. Give this one a BIG pass.
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