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Summary: I'm too old for this
Review: My wife and I watched for about fourty minutes, didn't laugh once, and hit the stop button. We are seniors, so I guess this must be a young persons movie. GCH.
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Summary: One of my new favorite films!
Review: I bought the dvd before I had seen the movie because of all the great things I had heard about it. After watching it, I was glad that I did because I thought it was a great movie. I love John Cusack anyways and all of the films he's been in. This was one of the best movies I've seen in a while. Though I'm a chick, I'm not usually a fan of chick-flick relationship movies so I was glad to see a refreshing view of dating and relationships especially through the eyes of the main character.The relationships of the past do shape those we are in currently. I found myself thinking about the top 5 break-ups of my life after watching this film and I actually even smiled about it. As someone who is rather commitment-phobic, I found his insights towards the end to be very real. I think this film is very genuine, interesting and hilarious. I think all of the characters were great and funny. All in all, this a great film that I think both men and women can enjoy. It will be one I watch quite often.
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Summary: High Fidelity dvd
Review: This is one of the best peices of modern film making i've seen in yaers. To the casual viewer this film is an insight into the modern mans mind, but like many books that have become films it has lost something in the translation to the screen. take for instance the main character Rob in the book he owned a record shop in London, but now he lives in America. If you read the book first and loved it you may be disappointed, but if you can put the changes aside and watch it with an open mind it is one of the best films you're ever likely to see describing how utterly insecure men really are about relationships.
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Summary: cool film
Review: i have seen this so many times and it is funny every time. this is a movie for any music fan. i enjoy the movie cause it is all about a guy who loves music. if you are as much of a music freak as me, then just watch the movie. you will like it.
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Summary: Good... but a little over HYPED FIDELITY !!
Review: When High Fidelity hit the movie theaters, everyone was hyping how great it was! It was getting high reviews in the papers and everything. Then one day, a Blockbuster employee said to me, "If you liked Grosse Pointe Blank, then you'll love this movie!". That wasn't the first time I heard that remark either. So I rented it, and she was WRONG!! High Fidelity doesn't even come close to how good Grosse Pointe Blank is. John Cusack plays Rob, a late 20's/30 something guy that owns a record store. Rob feels that he's fine where he's at in life. His girlfriend Laura, played by Iben Hjejle, thinks otherwise. Laura leaves Rob for his neighbor, played by Tim Robbins. Rob then goes on one of his "Top 5 list" trips and recalls the worst breakups in his life, and it goes from there. The movie reminds me of a post-John Hughes type of movie. Like a "This is what they would be..." after Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, etc.. If you grew up with John Hughes movies (even though he's not tied in at all with this movie), then you're probably around my age and can relate with this movie. John Cusack has been in numerious films; such as, Sixteen Candles (a John Hughes film), Say Anything, Con Air, Being John Malkovich and many others. I think he's one of the most under-rated actors in the business today! He delivers another great performance in this movie. I was very disappointed on length of time that Tim Robbins was in the movie. I believe that he was only in 3 scenes! Katherine Zeta Jones and Lisa Bonet (where has she been?) are also in the movie. It was a good movie and deserves 3 1/2 stars.
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Summary: Love Cusack but Almost Walked out of Theater
Review: One word: UGH. My husband and I really like John Cusack (16 Candles, The Grifters, even that wierd western he made), and we're both into alternative music, but we both hated this movie. We liked ONE character, the annoying record shop worker, and despised the rest. They had no redeeming qualities, weren't likeable in the least. I couldn't understand why any of them liked each other. I wanted to slap Cusack in the chin to get him to close his mouth. Mouth-breathers-as-heros just ain't my thing. The main conflict was WHEN WILL HE STOP WHINING? I guess I just don't understand. I just didn't find it funny at all.
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Summary: A big reality sandwich for hopless romatics
Review: This was a great move - it drags on a bit in some places, I wished it had more funny moment. The entire scene with what's here name - the chick from the cosby show - was pointless and was only put in to make th emovie longer and get her a part in it. (there is a coorolation between why John Cusack can't be happy and keeps changing girls but still) otherwise, a movie with such great moments of humor and wisdom - the DVD is worth getting just for some of the cut scenes where we learn that men get older and lose interest in foreplay and women get older it's all they want - so the perfect match is a 40yo woman and a 14 yo boy...
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Summary: Worth seeing, especially for singles
Review: High Fidelity is an angst ridden narrative comedy about Rob's (John Cusack) bad luck with women. His girlfriend Laura (Danish actress Iben Hjejle) has just dumped him. This sends him into a hurricane of self-doubt and introspection about all the most traumatic breakups in his life complete with flashbacks of each of the top five. While vainly trying to get Laura back, he contacts all the other breakup perpetrators in an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of relationships past. The film has plenty of funny moments and a high identification factor for single adults suffering through the dating scene. Director Stephen Frears gives it a Woody Allenesque presentation and does it as well as if had been done by Allen himself. Though there is not much that is original about the story, it borrows good techniques and ideas from various romantic comedy formats, and melds them together effectively. The biggest problem for me was the main character, Rob. This was more the way he was written than the way Cusack played him, because I thought the acting was excellent. Rob was seriously out of touch with his hand in his own demise, which made him seem like a jerk. His rationalizations for relieving his guilt and sense of failure for past relationships made him a very superficial and hollow character, regardless of the sincerity of his self inflicted torment. This inability for me to identify with the lead detracted somewhat from a story that was otherwise well done. John Cusack was terrific. He was fabulous at licking his litany of self-inflicted wounds, and though I didn't fall in love with the character, his portrayal of this anguished lovelorn puppy was first rate. Iben Hjejle was also very good as Laura, giving her a sort of dignified confusion as she tried to sort things out. This film was good and definitely worth seeing, but it didn't send me over the edge. As is often true, the hype was overblown. I rated it a 7/10. Add a point or two if you are single and you just broke up with someone.
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Summary: I saw this before
Review: This movie is about John Cusack playing the exact same charecter he has played since Say Anything.I must say this one is a Snoozer.
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Summary: Top 5 Reasons To Own This DVD:
Review: 1)Great cast! Including probably one of John Cusack's best performances to date. Also, a comeback(ish) sexy performance by Lisa Bonnet,a wacky Tim Robbins, and the hilarious scene stealing antics of the brilliant Jack Black, and perfectly weird Todd Louiso as Cusack's co-workers. 2)Nine deleted scenes. 3)Interviews with Cusack and director Sephen Frears. 4)Great script from great source material: Nick Hornby's book of the same title. 5)Killer soundtrack. Yes, that may be an argument for the CD but in this movie it's integral to the fabric of the whole film. In short:Totally worth having.
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