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Top 40, but certainly not Top 10
The problem when adapting a tremendously great novel like Nick Hornsby's High Fidelity is that, well, your movie gets compared to a tremendously great novel like Nick Hornsby's.

In this case, it's an especially tough comparison, because the novel is relentlessly introspective, list-obsessed and obsessive compulsive about music in that braggadocio admire-my-eclectic-tastes sort of way.

Now, while a movie can do reasonably well with the music -- although this adaptation, strangely, has very little focus on its own soundtrack -- it simply can't compete with a novel for introspection or the endless lists.

Of course, the book doesn't have great performances by a wonderful array of actors or the genial charm of John Cusack -- Rob, in the novel, desperately needs a slap on the back of the head, and not a particularly gentle one, either -- but the film ends up feeling like the creators are trying to turn Hornsby's very mannish novel into a film that fans of Meg Ryan would like, which really sucks a lot of the life out of it.

The film is nice, inoffensively so, and it's definitely worth watching for Cusack and Cusack and Zeta-Jones and Black. But in the time it took to watch the movie, one could have read most of the (short) novel.

Do yourself a favor and read the novel afterwards if you liked the movie.

Feel-Good Movie
This is one of the best movies out there, and in my opinion one of the most unheard of and under-rated movies. The characters are very well developed and outlandish from the eccentricly outgoing berry(Jack Black) to the quiet weird geek type Dick. John Cusack plays his sort of loserish, bad ass, role model and tell his journey with women ever since he could remeber having interest in the opposite sex. This is an amazing story of one man's struggle to overcome the opposite sex.

Los 5 mejores temas de...
Esta pel?cula la vi por primera vez en cable, no hace mucho. La verdad es que hubo una conexi?n emp?tica desde el primer instante. Yo cre? en su momento que personajes como el que interpreta John Cusack no exist?an. Bueno realmente pens? que yo era un esp?cimen raro al que le gustaba asociar los momentos m?s importantes de su vida (digamos los sentimentales) con temas musicales. Lo mismo que esa sensaci?n de haber sido siempre "al que lo pateaban las mujeres", cosa que viendo la pel?cula, deja una reflexi?n, ya que muchas veces uno no tiene en cuenta los sentimientos que pudo haber destrozado del otro lado. Y eso de preparar un casette con los mejores temas ?qu? verdad! es todo un arte. Qu? pelicula tan simple y sincera, con momentos de humor y otros melanc?licos...
Mis cinco mejores temas de rupturas
1) Grace Jones - Love is the drug
2) Confusion - E.L.O.
3) Carrie - Europe
4) Deal for life - John Waite
5) Speed of sound - Coldplay

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