Thoughts on High Fidelity?

My favorite Jack Black role

Yea man, he definitely calls her. I think she even makes a comment about it when she calls.

One of my favorite Cusack films and a movie I've watched a few dozen times.

I love this movie, and it hits a little too close to home. Two gripes, both of them minor, but what the hell...

ONE. They cut my two favorite scenes from the book. One is actually referenced in the film, as he gets the call to go buy some records from someone, but they never follow up on it. In the book, it's a bitter ex-wife selling off her husband's pristine collection full of impossible to find records for a total of 10 bucks. He can't do it to another record collector, and walks out with only one record. Also, and more critically, he goes to a dinner party after reconciling with his girlfriend with two of her friends. They are cool people and he enjoys their company. She gets him to look at their record collection, and it is truly awful. He decides that it is more important what you're like, not what you like. Maybe it's too on the nose, but I liked his growth.

TWO. Green Day's two primary influences are not the Ramones and Stiff Little Fingers. Look, I love Stiff Little Fingers, too. And 78 RPM is great f'n song, as is Alternative Ulster. But geez Tom, if you're such a music dork, you're not going to give credit to an Irish band popular into the UK to the San Francisco punk scene. This is where the book clearly shows it was written by a Brit. American punk, particularly at Green Day's formation, was fiercely nationalistic, and almost completely rejected UK punk. Their second major influence was Husker Du, as evidenced by the fact American Idiot is a near carbon copy of Zen Arcade's story.

Like I said, it hit too close to home.

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TWO. Green Day's two primary influences are not the Ramones and Stiff Little Fingers. Look, I love Stiff Little Fingers, too. And 78 RPM is great f'n song, as is Alternative Ulster. But geez Tom, if you're such a music dork, you're not going to give credit to an Irish band popular into the UK to the San Francisco punk scene. This is where the book clearly shows it was written by a Brit. American pun, particularly at Green Day's formation, was fiercely nationalistic, and almost completely rejected UK punk. Their second major influence was Husker Du, as evidenced by the fact American Idiot is a near carbon copy of Zen Arcade's story.

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Rob would sell you that record.

And would it f'n KILL them to at least mention Chicago's pretty amazing local music scene? He does wear a Pigface t-shirt at one point, but that's it. Couldn't put Big Black on the soundtrack, guys? What? Was Naked Raygun's price too high?

I showed my wife the last scene where Rob was explaining why he wanted to get married. I told her "this helped me grow up".

Awesome movie. Seen it many times.

I actually saw it for the first time like 2 months ago. I liked it it's kinda of a rom-com for guys who don't like rom-coms.

I'm a fan of director Stephen Frears and I knew I was in for a treat when the movie started off with some 13th Floor Elevators rocking!

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Also Jack Black was just perfect in this movie. Tour de force.

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"Do you even know your daughter? There's NO WAY she listens to that.. oh, is she in a coma?"