Sideways: (movie/late-pass related)
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Just saw this movie on DVD tonight. Fucking radd, dude!I've been a fan of Thomas Haden Church since "wings". Good to see him in a good flick.
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radd! Good to see that you get some new releases at the compound...
What I love about "Sideways" though is how merlot sales went down by 2% and pinot noir sales went up by 18% (not to mention the Santa Barbara winery region has been doing huge business from tourists on "Sideways" tours).
"I'm not drinking any fucking merlot!"
I feel ya. Since giving my TV to the girlfriend when she moved, I watch once a week now. I'm happy this way. and, I must admit, I find the sound of Televison jarring now. It puts me on edge. But, seeing a movie like this makes me grateful for it. And, I still manage to watch "the OC". It's like an mc escher drawing; I'm watching the OC in the OC!
I'd not heard of it. but, oh yeah, I don't have a TV. My Psychologist told me to see it, actually.
That stat about Melot/Pinot sales is probably the funniest thing about the whole movie though.
Boring ass intro...
Should I cue it back up, or send it back to Netflix?
Yeah, I kinda felt the same way. We saw it at the theatre for my girls birthday and while at times sharp and funny, I was like "great, another movie about slacker white dudes having to grow up". Personally I just don't find the problems of the upper middle class in America endlessly fascinating. It just seemed too intellectual, like a movie about aging California coffee house artsy guys for aging California coffee house artsy guys.
My girl really liked it, talked shit about the actor character and what a motherfucker he was the whole ride home. Me? I liked it when dude got the shit kicked out of him by the motorcycle lady. That was cool.
Bonus points for a Bukowski reference.
Deep beats and deep crates,
SonicReducer
(TEAMAARON)
Yes, give it another go....slow does not always = boring, although in today's media world it seems the two have come to mean the same thing. It's quite funny, and the obsessive quality of Giamatti's character's life should resonate with anyone reading this board.
My wife and I actually watched it at home together, a rare event since she slips off to sleep even in the theatres. A solid movie.
I liked "Election" (directed by the same dude) better though, but Sideways is at least a nose ahead of About Schmidt.
I guess I liked the fact that the characters were professional, reasonably successful guys, and not complete stereotypes. But I agree, "middle age crazy" movies are usually not my cup of tea. But Sideways was funny enough and strayed well off most of the cliches it veered towards, so I thought it was pretty successful in that regard. The characters all seemed like real people, with maybe Virgina Madsen getting a bit of a short shrift, she seemed more like a handy plot device.
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Excellent choice of words. It had a bittersweet edge to it that I liked a lot.
Best scene is Miles sneaking into the house to steal back the wallet...
I watched it ,at the time when it was released........it is beautifully shot and has great performances .......but I think the director is responsible for the whole goodness of the movie....
I mean it's the case that when the director has good taste and the critics simply noted that
...I also think it's fast paced for that kind of movie..........
and I feel like
send it back, i was really disapointed in this movie for the amount of hype it got, to me it was completly average and i don't think i cracked a smile once through the whole flick, same goes for about schmit, which i thought was a "comedy", about schmit only depressed me and sideways was just really blah, and i do like paul givoniwhatever but he couldn;t make this film work for me
oscar nomination worthy, never, but most of the movies that were nominateed were crap
the amount of young folks now ordering pinot noir is absurd down here. there was a news story a while back interviewing wine stores in the area about their sales and all mentioned the "Sideways factor."
some funny material in there, but overall bleh.
I thought about this too. I was kinda embarrased.
haha!!!
that was when I knew it was a great movie, rather than just a good movie.
About the middle age crisis deal............it's a common occurance, a reality many people will deal with or have. I gravitate towards movies which resemble life, that's probably why I liked this so much. Whereas a lot of people see movies as an escape from their everyday dull routine. They don't need to see shit reminding them of their insecurities and problems. That's why mindless action blockbusters w/ neat tidy endings do well well at the box office. People prefer closure, so they can wrap it up and not think about things after they've finished watching. I on the other hand love open endings, because rarely do things end completely in life.
My favourite moment is Giamatti using pinoit noir grapes as a metaphor in describing himself to Madsen.