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High Fidelity

The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson

High Fidelity The Rewatchables

Character, taste, physical-media obsession, and behavior on bad days yield separate lessons

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Approx. transcript time · 02:03:33Read transcript
  • “It’s not what you like; it’s what you’re like” is selected.
  • The opposing joke answers that it is what you like.
  • Physical-media fetish properties are compared with pornography.
  • Character is defined as not taking a bad day out on other people.
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High Fidelity

Best Double Feature

High Fidelity The Rewatchables

Clerks, Empire Records, Juliet Naked, Grosse Pointe Blank, About a Boy, and Say Anything are distinct choices

In the discussion (5)
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  • Clerks is proposed.
  • Empire Records is proposed.
  • Juliet, Naked is proposed as a version from the partner’s perspective.
  • Grosse Pointe Blank and About a Boy are proposed separately.
  • Say Anything is proposed as a Cusack bookend.
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High Fidelity

Who Won the Movie?

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Jack Black wins two votes to John Cusack’s one

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 02:04:32Read transcript
  • Two participants select Jack Black, citing the career launched by the role.
  • One participant selects John Cusack for carrying the film and nearly extending a run of generational roles.
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Shampoo

Most Rewatchable Scene

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The bistro stare-down, Lester and George’s late conversation, the opening sex scene, and several other sequences receive distinct support.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:58:47Read transcript
  • George arriving at Jill’s after sleeping with Felicia is nominated for Jill’s dawning realization that something happened.
  • George’s brief tantrum and immediate reconsideration after throwing away his jacket are nominated.
  • The chaotic salon entrances and exits are nominated.
  • George and Jackie’s parking-lot confrontation is nominated for her blunt rejection of the idea that she has sex for money.
  • George styling Jackie’s hair in the bathroom is nominated.
  • Carrie Fisher’s bedroom scene is nominated.
  • The prolonged stare-down between Felicia and Jackie at the party is nominated.
  • Lester moving awkwardly through the party is nominated.
  • George’s attempted declaration of love during “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is nominated.
  • George admitting that he slept with all of the women is nominated.
  • George making peace with Lester is nominated.
  • Jackie ending the relationship with George on the overlook is nominated.
  • The dark opening sex scene set to “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is nominated.
  • The bistro stare-down is selected for its interlocking relationships, Nixon backdrop, and Jackie’s drunken behavior.
  • Lester and George’s late-night conversation is selected for the men’s camaraderie, cruelty, and Jack Warden’s comic concern with housekeeping.
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Shampoo

Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot

Shampoo The Rewatchables

Lee Grant’s two-day walkout is offered as the film-shoot anecdote.

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:49Read transcript
  • Lee Grant reportedly left the production for two days after a disagreement about how to play Felicia’s response to her daughter’s possible encounter with George.
  • The Seagal story used to name the award is explicitly treated as an uncertain urban legend.
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Shampoo

What’s Aged the Best?

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Hollywood self-reference, the hairdresser dynamic, cinematography, performances, real estate, and soundtrack licensing are praised.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:13:24Read transcript
  • Hollywood self-reference is praised, including Carrie Fisher’s casting as a younger generation of sexual frankness.
  • The intimacy between hairdressers and clients is praised as a way the film links physical presentation, secrets, and access to power.
  • The cinematography is praised for texture and for holding on the desire immediately before kisses.
  • Warren Beatty and Jack Warden’s scenes together are praised.
  • Lester’s house is praised separately as real estate.
  • Carrie Fisher’s bold first-film performance is praised.
  • The ability to license two Beatles songs and the rest of the soundtrack is praised.
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Shampoo

I Used to Fuck Guys Like You in Prison Award for Craziest Quote

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Two lines are proposed, with Lester’s political-market monologue treated as the film’s thesis.

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:23:19Read transcript
  • Jackie’s statement that she has sex for fun rather than money is nominated.
  • Lester’s monologue about wealth, the market, Johnson, and Nixon is selected as a compact statement of the film’s thesis.
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