Watched High Fidelity again last night. It revisits all my old haunts from Chicago:
— The Music Box
— The L train
— The crashing surf and the spectacular skyline view down by the Aquarium
— The famous Biograph – which is right across the street from Lounge Ax – a music club that is no longer there, sadly. Lounge Ax was my home away from home for a good 3 years.
— And the scene where they go to see Lisa Bonet play is at Lounge Ax – the interior is actually the Lounge Ax interior – I barely see the scene when I watch the movie. I’m too busy drinking in the background.
There’s even a scene of John Cusack entering Lounge Ax – the sidewalk in front of the club. I have had many potent moments on that stretch of pavement.
But what’s really on my mind today is John Cusack, screaming out his window at his departing girlfriend, screaming about how she will never make it to his “Top 5 Breakup Scenes” – she’s not important enough, she hasn’t hurt him enough (of course, she has reduced him to a man screaming out his window … but that’s okay – the characters who lie to themselves are the most interesting…)
And he finishes his rant screaming at her:
“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have gotten to me earlier!”
Anyway. That’s what’s on my mind today.
Love that line. Absolutely love it.
Another favorite – when he lists 5 horrible things he done but the challenges viewers to do the same and then says ‘now who’s an ashole?” (Or something close to that.)
Er, that was in the movie righ? I know I saw it but mabye it was deleted scene.
Deleted scene.
And his whole monologue/credo about how WHAT people like is more important than what they ARE like.
Books, movies, etc. Or … shall we say … whether or not they think Bucky Dent is a great man … for example …
Lot of good stuff in those deleted scenes; too bad they didn’t release an expanded version a la LOTR.
Ah well – High Fidelity is still in my holy trinity of top 3 Cusack movies.
If I had dated Catherine Zeta-Jones, she would unquestionably have made my top-five breakups.
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ character is so damn FUNNY in that film
“Children are so … um … time-consuming is I think the phrase I am looking for…”
I hate to admit that I never saw High Fidelity. Best Buy has it and Grosse Pointe Blank for $9.99 each – guess I ought to make an order…
It’s a movie about what it really means to be a music-freak. It’s a movie about people who make tapes for one another, religiously … I am one of those people.
Grosse Pointe Blank is excellent as well. One my Cusack Trinity.
I believe it’s also the last movie I saw Dan Akroyd be funny in.
I recently watched High Fidelity again as well…it was on at 2 in the morning..i couldn’t just roll over and go to sleep! I love it..Jack Black..he cracks me up. Where is John Cusack?? I just saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind…awesome..is it me or is Jim Carrey very very sexy in this movie?? Kate Winslet is getting to be like Judy Davis for me..always great!
Oh shit man. I’ve GOT to see it. He looks very sexy in the previews. Cause he looks real … like a real man, not Ace Ventura, etc. Although Ace does have his sexy moments.
John C. just did that movie that came and went in a flash … Identity??
Grifters notwithstanding (great movie!!) – I like him better when he’s in something a bit more light, and a bit more cynical. He’s so damn great.
(Oh, the “Ace has his sexy moments” is … kind of a joke.)
hey, that movie’s also not hurting on the female side of the equation- Kate Winslet AND Kirsten Dunst?
I am in love with Kate Winslet too.
And because of Bring It On, Kirsten Dunst has my heart forever.
Top Five John Cusack Movies
Say Anything
Better Off Dead
The Sure Thing
High Fidelity
Being John Malkovich
I’d include Sixteen Candles but it’s not exactly a John Cusack movie. It is, however, the first one I saw him in and I remember thinking, “This guy will go far.” Damn, I’m good.
Oh the agony of the screaming “you’ve busted my heart” rant. Sadly, I know it oh so well.
Okay…it’s a little late in the convo…but I just got here.
Hey Fee. I know … I know it well, too. :)
Eternal Sunshine looks very interesting – Kate and Kirsten are a powerfully intoxicating combination. I think that one is next on my list to see in a theater.
Although, I would love to run down to Dallas to see Girl With A Pearl Earring and In America at The Inwood. But I have to be responsible and stay at home and work on my damn renovation project…
Forgot to mention- a girl I used to work with said a friend of hers once met -and was asked out by- John Cusack, and had a drink with him even though she had a boyfriend.
Then there’s Chuck Klosterman’s theory that every American woman between the ages of 18 and 40 is in love with Cusack, because they think he’s his “Say Anything” character. Personally, I’ve never felt the same way about Joan…
John Cusack looks almost exactly like my brother – so I was never really in love with him. Too incestuous. Although I love his acting.
If I could have something that resembles Joan Cusack’s career, I would be a happy woman. She rocks. She’s so great.
Joan Cusack is extraordinary, in my book. A guy could fall in love with a girl like that without even trying…
Mike, like Kevin Spacey always being “Bob from Arbitrage,” Joan Cusack will always be first, to me at least, Cyn from Working Girl:
“Why do you need speech class; you tawk fine.”
“Get you something, Mr. Trainor? Coffee, tea…me?”
“Six THOUSAND dollahs? It’s not even leathah!”
“Sometimes I dance around in my underwear and pretend I’m Madonna.”
“…doesn’t mean I am. Never will.”
I was in the pilot of Joan Cusack’s unforunate sitcom. She was so kind and sweet and funny. I loved her..if the show producers had just let her and the head writer be funny..it would still be on. I ran into her many months later and she was just as kind and open as the weeks on the set. I love her!