High Fidelity

Liked the Nick Hornby book very much. It could only have been written by someone who grew up in the era of record stores and with that love of great pop music.

Was intrigued by the movie, but ultimately disappointed. A little Cusack goes a long way. And way too much Jack Black (remember how this movie launched him)?

Was intrigued by the updated series on streaming, but ultimately disappointed. I liked the gender and race casting flips, but Zoe Kravitz was such a beautiful blank for me onscreen. I did like that they gave an entire episode to the gay male clerk (who is not in the original novel).

I never understood the reason for taking the story out of London and dropping it into Chicago, other than John Cusack is from there and did it just because he could. It took away a lot of the book’s flavor.

It was a perfect adapted screenplay. Both Cusacks were good, and well cast, as they were in Grosse Point Blank, Lisa Bonet was also well cast, because she has no depth.

I did not like the woman who played his lawyer girlfriend, like a dollartree Mary Stuart Masterson, and the very young Catherine Zeta Jones as the woman he never got over. Black and his store sidekick were good comic spice.

[quote]Zoe Kravitz was such a beautiful blank for me onscreen.

And her mother, Lisa Bonet, was woefully miscast as Marie la Salle (“Marie de Salle” in the movie — why?).

I think she was perfectly cast as the singer who isn't his soulmate.

I thought she had the screen presence of a day-old vanilla cupcake.

[quote]I did not like the woman who played his lawyer girlfriend, like a dollartree Mary Stuart Masterson

She was way too languid to be Laura. The character was supposed to be kind of intense and driven, right?

There's a scene where he's talking on the phone with CZJ and she gives the creepiest laugh. She sounded like a serial killer taunting the police

I liked this movie. John Cusack is great as lovable smartasses.

R9 He is, but an American actor playing Rob just felt wrong.