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Low Fidelity
We just watched High Fidelity -- me for the first time in four years or so, and Afsheen for the first time ever. In college, High Fidelity was one of my favorite books. My copy was totally beat up from being passed around to so many of my friends. And I remember the movie being a pretty good adaptation, aside from the random Danish girl who played Laura.
What I don't remember is Rob Gordon being such an asshole. Seriously, I don't know if it's the way John Cusack played him, or if I would be just as disappointed if I reread the book now, too, but he was just a total bastard. All the supporting characters and the music references were just as funny as I remembered, but Rob was so immature and unsympathetic that it was hard to keep watching.
We're watching The Princess Bride now, and thankfully it is just as wonderful as the hundred or so previous times I've seen it. Rob Gordon could stand to learn a thing or two from the Dread Pirate Roberts.
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I did think that Jack Black was kind of a scream in it (Heather and I still say "Angina's tough," to each other all the time), and Tim Robbins is good too, but the rest of it, I thought was a bit of a disaster.