It was a super busy week for me this past week. I’ve been on writing deadline, and that basically meant any time I wasn’t working, I was at home sitting down revising. And so I haven’t really watched or read much of anything except a few things. Thankfully, one of those things is one of my favorite movies, so I at least had that to fall back on.
No books finished, alas.
Television? We’re still trucking through season 50 of Survivor and still enjoying it. I’ve found myself grinding to a halt on The Interview with the Vampire show, however. It’s fine, but I’m also just not sure how much I love it to the point that I want to keep going with it. We started the new season, as I mentioned last week, but . . . ultimately it might just be too gory and self-indulgent for me.
When I didn’t want to think at all, we started the Physical 100: Italy show. Only one episode in, but I liked what I watched so far.
Now, on the movie front, I revisited High Fidelity and found that it remains a 10/10 for me. There are a number of reasons why it gets that high of a rating. First of all, it’s John Cusack. By default, almost any movie starring John Cusack is going to get a higher raiting from me than the same movie without it. He’s one of my favorite actors, not necessarily because he loses himself in a role, but more because I just really like the role John Cusack almost always plays. Sarcastic, honest, self-deprecating. He’s got it down to an art form, and I connect with it.
But beyond John Cusack, you’ve got the premise of High Fidelity: a man who continually sorts and interprets his life through a series of top 5 lists. The whole concept of the movie is based around this. He identifies his top 5 hardest breakups and then analyzes them to figure out what went wrong in each one. This has Bryce written all over it. Plus, the movie is very well written, with dialogue and characters that shine. And the constant debate over what is “good” and who gets to decide that is another thing that’s practically tailor made for me.
The side characters are fantastic, as well. Jack Black, Tim Robbins, Catherine Zeta-Jones. The soundtrack is superb.
Denisa wasn’t a fan of the language, which is admittedly rough for a typical rom-com, but they’re jaded music store employees. I think they’re pretty true to life.
Anyway. It had been a long time since I last watched it, and I loved going back again. I heartily recommend it.