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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yes! high fidelity! fucking, annoying. yapyapyapyapyapyapyapyap--to the camera. ugh. SHUT UP DUDE.
say anything is better. speaking of which-- i have the grifters and grosse point blank on the way.
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Haha. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not a great film, and it's more annoying than I thought when I was younger and snobbier and angstier (Rob, the Cusack character, is a real fucking snob, and a really angsty one at that), but I identified with him when I was in my early 20s.
I remember, back in, 2002 or 2003, my former high school girlfriend, who I was still kinda "touching base" with on a fairly regular occasion, saw High Fidelity and called me and said she felt like she finally "understood" me. I was happy as a clam at the comparison, and told her to watch Say Anything and Igby (speaking of Igby) for further study. Hah.
Looking back, I'm embarrassed. Like, "wow, ok, so this confused, jealous, snobby, whiny man-child who doesn't know what he wants made someone think of me, and I thought that was cool?!" Makes me want to re-evaluate my drug intake at the time. Maybe I was more out of it than I thought.
Grosse Point Blank is great. It's another one I haven't seen in ages, but it always turns out to be better than I remembered. Unfortunately, it came out in that post-Pulp Fiction era, where every violent-ish movie about crime or drugs with a dash of black comedy was marketed as "this year's Pulp Fiction," so this comedy was lumped in with films of a much different class, like Fargo. It's a shame. It's no Fargo, but it's good and funny as hell. Plus, it brought "Blister in the Sun" back into public consciousness, where it remains today.
