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Originally Posted by Itse
I think comedies generally get way too little credit when great movies are listed, so I definitely would not mind "opening up" that side.
However, High Fidelity is not just trying to be a certain type of comedy, it's one of those movies that's about a highly specific topic (certain type of people, with a certain type of relationship to certain type of music, in a certain time in their lives), and it just nails so much of it. You couldn't really remake it, in part because so much of it is tied to a certain point of cultural history which is essentially now gone.
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that where I'd put Dazed & Confused.
great movie that I dismissed until actually watching it.
also a movie that partly failed because the idiots that ran the studio didn't properly market it. they didn't have a clue.
I remember thinking when it came out that it was just a dumb stoner comedy and it wasn't anything like that.