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John Cusack, charming and at his best
Great music, Jack Black, and John in Cosby sweaters...*sigh* what more can you ask from a movie. Well, High Fidelity delivers this and much more. Orginally, the story was set in London, England, but John read the book and thought it could just as easily be set in is his hometown of Chicago. Nicholas Horby was fine with the idea, and voila! We have a personalized Cusack creation with him reincarnationing His Lloyd Dobler vulnerability and his deameanor from the first half of The Sure Thing before he realized true love is better than cheap sex in his character Rob Gordon.

In the beginning of the film, we see Rob's girlfriend Laura walking out on him after an awful breakup...Rob starts blaring the 13th Floor Elevators to get her off his mind, but he realizes pop music can't solve his problems. His problems stem from something deeper.

Rob owns his own failing record store Championship Vinyl and hangs out with his two loyal employees Dick (Liouso) and Barry (Jack Black). This is truly Jack Black's breakout performance...his enegry and comic timing are electric and he gives John a run for his money in this movie..but all the the record store employees have a great film chemistry and they all balance each other out so it works well.

Well, anyway, back to John Cusack's character Rob....He spends his days collecting records and selling them to worthy customers while Barry's antics and Dick's senstive demeanor keep him going. Gordon can't seem to figure out what went wrong in his personal life, no matter how screwed up his professional life is, his personal life is the biggest mess. So he goes back to his past, meets up with his ex-girlfriends and tries to find out what he did wrong in his relationships to figure out what to do about Laura whom he still loves.

Will Laura stay with the patchuoli sniffing, new age dweeb called Ian, or will she come back to Rob after about 50 scenes with Cusack drenched in rain? Who knows. Watch the movie, buy the soundtrack (buy Tenacious D too by the way, Jack Black is hilarious), and spin some of your favorite vinyl records in honor of this amazing film.

The Chic Flick for Guys
I consider this the best romantic movie of all time. It's a more modern rendtion of Annie Hall, but it centers around a record store owner and movie geek. The main character classifies everyhing in terms of top fives, and throughout the film, he recounts his top five most damaging breakups. It is made that much more complex by the fact that the entire movie takes place during his most recent top five. It features the breakout performance of Tenacious D lead, Jack Black, and it is still his best performance. We witness some of the best directing of all time as we are put into the mindset of John Cusack's character, Rob. As much as we like the guy and sympathize with him, we also experience his self-loathing(that is we dislike things about him, not ourselves, but we also see a bit of ourselves in him. this could be due to the fact that so many writers worked on it.).

This truly brilliant film offers a new intimate look into the world of dating and music. Not in my top five, but definitely in my top ten. FIVE STARS.

someone give John Cusack an Oscar already!
I'm so sick of really good, really smart, funny John Cusack movies. Every year, there seems to be one more dead-on drama or romance or comedy, or some hybrid of all 3 from JC. It's starting to get old now, great performace after great performance.
But while I'm here, I might as well talk about my favorite JC role yet (yup, I like this even more than Say Anything...barely).

You really should hate Rob Gordon. He's a snob, he's whinny, and a bit of a jerk. But John Cusack (as usual) brings real sympathy to the character and you actually feel for him. I loved the movie, John Cusack in the movie, and all of the other memorable characters too. Jack Black was hilarious, and Todd Louiso was so adorable. Celeb cameos from Tim Robins, the Boss, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones (my fav scenes were hers...she always seems to add sparks to any movie) were dead on and allowed for most of the humor. Like with many John Cusack movies, Joan Cusack also made an appeanace. I always love that, she and him work so well together, there should have been more scenes with "Liz". He also seems to have great chemistry with Lili and Catherine who he's worked with in the past, and that always helps a movie. I loved how Rob talked to the cameras constantly. I actually do that in real life...only there are no cameras, so when I do it I seem insane. But I digress...the greatest parts of the movie came with the interactions between oddly charming John and equally charming newcomer Iben Hjejle. Like everyone has stated, the sdtk rocks, and so do the DVD extras. I loved all of the deleted scenes, and wished they were in the movie. I can't wait for the inevitable Special Edition, or Collector's Edition, or Superbit Deluxe Edition, or 2-disc Special Edition...some new edition that always comes out after everyone has already bought the original. But I'd gladly shell out the ...[undisclosed dollar amount] for more extras.

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