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Author Topic: High Fidelity Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 03-31-2000 04:28 AM                     YAWN!  |  IP: Logged Joshua Lott Expert Film Handler Posts: 246 From: Fairbanks, AK, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-31-2000 05:51 AM                        Ditto. WAY to drawn out. Nuff said.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-02-2000 04:10 AM                     I'll bet the sound was good though, right?  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 04-03-2000 11:14 AM                     !!!! I can count on you, John!!!  |  IP: Logged Andrew D'Vrey Film Handler Posts: 92 From: St. Paul, MN USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-09-2000 12:36 AM                     Y'know, I don't think there was one song played in the soundtrack that I even cared about. Good thing there are pleanty of big bright scenes I could read the newspaper to. ------------------ "And the monkey flips the switch." - Major Don West, "Lost In Space" Andrew D'Vrey IATSE Local 219  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2000 08:49 PM                     This one's finally arrived too this weekend. It did big business at the sneaks at my theatre. From what I saw of it...it doesn't look too bad, although I do think that for such a story 7 reels is a tad too long. I like John Cusack and think he can even make a stinker half good. (and no, the sound wasn't that impressive, Michael)  |  IP: Logged Steven Clode Film Handler Posts: 11 From: London, UK Registered: Aug 2000 posted 08-16-2000 12:42 PM                     Try reading the book it!!!!!!!Sorry i had to run and sort out some problems....... anyway to cut a short message shorter the book makes the film look so much better, if you read one book this century read this one.......  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-18-2000 02:29 AM                     I read where folks were pretty upset when Disney bought the rights to produce this. I think the results (including transferring the action to Chicago) worked just fine. Although, obviously that guy in the record store studied for the role by watching Michael Keaton in 'NightShift' a couple of hundred times. I liked the music too.  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-19-2000 06:29 PM                        Brad - Not to be disrespectful - everyone has their own tastes in movies - but, yawn? I bet that you slept through Magnolia. I dont know even though the book was much better and the adaptations were a little bit "trite" It is still one of me favorite movies of late.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-20-2000 01:48 AM                     It droned on and on. I was continually predicting the next scene. It had all been done before. Hence "yawn".  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-20-2000 03:53 AM                        Well you are Right there Brad - I guess that it hit home because it hit soo many aspects of my own life- you gotta love movies like that.  |  IP: Logged Martin Frandsen Master Film Handler Posts: 270 From: Denmark, Europe Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-23-2000 12:31 PM                     Yes this film sucks, but in Denmark people are crazy about getting to see the flick because it has the Danish actor Iben Hjejle as star. We are a very small nation, so when someone- does-big-time in Hollywood, people go crazy overhere.  |  IP: Logged Dwayne Caldwell Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Rockwall, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 10-17-2000 12:57 AM                     I tried reading the book. As a rule a novel is better than its film adaptation as we all know. Keeping that in mind, I decided to forego the movie as the book was boring as all hell. Started out interesting, then it became whiny IMHO. And I was only on page fifteen when I decided to give it up. ------------------ The man with the magic hands.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-03-2000 10:48 PM                        Brad? Yawn? I loved the film. Mainly because John Cusacks character was so right on to my own life. I can see where if you didn't live this way, it doesn't make sense, It would be boring. But as I say, It was me in that film. Spooky. I am still a lot like that person. I still love it. Dave  |  IP: Logged Tom Ferreira Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Conway, NH, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-04-2000 06:48 AM                     My 2 cents. I have it on DVD, and enjoyed it greatly. There is a wonderful deleted scene with Beverly D'Angelo trying to sell her husband's record collection to John Cusack. I guess it hits home because I always made compilation music tapes for girls I was trying to impress. Like Cusack's character in the film, I could never decide on just five songs at a time.  |  IP: Logged

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