I loved this film when I first watched it about 13 years ago. I bought it and enjoyed it the second time around. I like John Cusack.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Great film and stays pretty true to book.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
i bought the dvd because i love the way that john cusack plays the loser in love so well, and without being like a poor little labrador puppy. he is the modern, always the teenager, cynical and emotionally stunted in the belief that love is sex and vice versa! locked away in his world of rejection as he sees it, and he doesn't see that he is always transferring his own feelings. he is in point of fact every womans' worst nightmare, but because he plays it the way he does, he is just devastatingly attractive, but needs to wrench the bucket off his head himself. laura played her part in his redemption to perfection. the film adapted well to the american situation-and the three geeks rob dick and barry! was cool! john cusack highlighted his problem with the line "just play something i can ignore" it did reach a point where he was almost alfie, and then slowly he cracked without sentimentality-he just needed to be spontaneous! well done john cusack, he didn't fail to deliver. what i was not keen about-i wouldn't say disliked, was jack black constantly grabbing his scenes. i perhaps, just don't get his cool, as he comes across to me as a fusion of colin hunt from the fast show and benny from crossroads. look at me look at me! i felt the ending was contrived for jack black to put the icing on the cake of the film, he did however manage to put the cherry on his own rock bun! hence, the film sadly just fell short of excellence. all told i am very happy to own it and will no doubt watch it again and again. my decision to buy it was my liking for john cusack in being john malkovich and america's sweethearts-my granddaughter told me about high fidelity and the compulsive list making, plus the going back to go forward, and it all appealed to my own little tinpot philosophy. i should know better at my age, but john cusack as rob is my kind of guy!Read full review
From the guys who brought you ´Grosse Point Blank´ comes the absolutely hilarious ´High Fidelity´. John Cusack stars as Rob Gordon, the owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago. He sells music the old-fashioned way, on vinyl, with his two wacky clerks - the hysterically funny rock snob Barry (Jack Black) and the more quietly opinionated underachiever Dick (Todd Louiso). But Rob´s business isn't the only thing in his life that's floundering - his needle skips the love groove when his longtime girlfriend Laura (newcomer Iben Hjejle) walks out on him. And this forces him to examine his past failed attempts at romance the only way he knows how!
I bought High Fidelity because I'd seen it before and absolutely loved it. I'm a bit of a music nerd so I enjoyed all the record-store banter. John Cusack may be THE coolest actor on the planet.
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