This guy does some bubbling HERE about it being ten years since High Fidelity came out. I mostly remember being disappointed in the flick - I've always said that if you just boiled down all of Jack Black's bits onto a video, I'd much prefer that.
I never read the book, even though I've met Nick Hornby (cause that's the kind of hot shot dude I am), so I didn't go into the movie with the same emotional connection the guy in the post did.
I will say one beef was always that the girlfriend just isn't hot enough. Or, more to the point, at all. And she seems like a complete, no-fun bitch to boot. Awesome. And then we hafta somehow suspend belief that you can fuck Lisa Bonét and then still pine for another woman. Please. If I found myself fucking Lisa Bonét I would bomb the White House and declare myself President of Earth, and then carve a hole in her belly to climb into forever. There are plenty of things on the "WAYS TO GET OVER AN EX" list, and I'm pretty sure that "fucking Lisa Bonét" trumps anything mere humans can come up with so far.
I do give the flick credit for one of the oddest scenes of any movie ever, the "what the fuck?" from outta nowhere cutaway to Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen. Who, apparently, has met a lot of people in his life. Maybe someone you know. Maybe not. Either way, it's not something that person (whoever it might be) likes to bring up for no reason. Cause that's just the sort of guy he is.
First of all, I disagree with your assessment of the main female love interest: I think she's hot--granted, not smoking hot--but, more importantly, she's believable as the average guy's "hot" girlfriend. Also, that dude was NEVER going to be the Bonet character's main squeeze. She was not sticking around for his neurotic ass.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Bruce cameo--which is not in the book--I'm pretty sure that was a nod to Hornby, who is a MAJOR Springsteen fan.