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amandadnama

amandadnama

San Antonio, TX
December 2004

JAN 09, 2005 11:01 AM

Has anyone else seen this movie? I really didn't think it was that good and yet its on various best movies of 2004. Was 2004 that bad of a year? I don't know maybe its just me and the fact I saw it with my grandmother.

bredoteau

bredoteau

Rego Park, NY
April 2004

JAN 09, 2005 11:06 AM

Loved it.

Yo_La_Jimbo

Yo_La_Jimbo

Miami, FL
December 2004

JAN 09, 2005 11:48 AM

I almost saw it last month when I was in Houston visiting my mom and sister. It was my idea to go see it. But when we got there, I noticed it was rated "NR" so I felt responsible to ask what the rating was for. They had a book in the theater that lists reasons for specific movie ratings, and for Sideways is said "nudity" and "sexual situations." My sister had a problem with that since my mom was there, I guess she imagined it was an orgy movie or something, so we saw The Incredibles instead.

Um, so the answer is not yet but I still want to see it.

Btw, what was the sexual situatuion?

amandadnama

amandadnama

San Antonio, TX
December 2004

JAN 09, 2005 07:50 PM

Sexual situation would have to be they show one of the main character (you can only see his ass) fucking this girl on the bed. The other character walks in on him so its only for a few seconds. Oh and there is this one where they show this guy and this girl doing it and then the guy ends up running after the main characters and his penis is flopping around every where. Hm...and there are some more situations but you can't see anything. SO....

monkeybutt

monkeybutt

I'm lost
May 2004

JAN 09, 2005 09:56 PM

loved it. great writing. hilarious. good acting. poignant. top drawer.

toothpickmoe

toothpickmoe

Los Angeles, CA
May 2004

JAN 09, 2005 10:04 PM

"The most overrated film of the new millenium"

sweeneytodd

sweeneytodd

Charlotte, NC
November 2003

JAN 10, 2005 02:36 AM

monkeybutt said:
loved it. great writing. hilarious. good acting. poignant. top drawer.



i agree. my friends and i went out afterwards and split a bottle of pinot noir while we discussed it (it's the main character's favorite). good stuff.

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

JAN 10, 2005 04:04 AM

toothpickmoe said:
"The most overrated film of the new millenium"


There's no fucking way. Chicago won Best Picture in this millenium. So did Gladiator. Chicago was shit with barely even any sort of plot to go with the music, and Gladiator failed both as a big stupid summer movie and as a period piece. And Russell Crowe won an Academy Award for it, but not for A Beautiful Mind or The Insider.

I enjoyed it, though not quite as much as I'd hoped to. It was excellent, but I'd heard even better things about it. The performances were amazing, though, and it did stick with me in a way that not many movies this year did. I'm still pretty much gay for Alexander Payne's movies. About Schmidt, Election, Citizen Ruth...loved all of them. Election in particular.

Edit: I guess I should be more specific. It was funny and it was sad and it managed to be both of those things without being awkward. One of the reviews I read, the only bad one, in fact, complained that we hadn't been made to care about these two characters enough. Well...I disagree. I didn't dislike Miles at all, I just felt awful for him. It's hard not to feel for a guy whose life is so pathetic and so desperately needs someone to care about him. The bad review complained the Alexander Payne seems to be mocking his characters and to not give a shit about them, but that's not it at all. They're just flawed people, like people in real life. Paul Giamatti's portrayal of him was painful at times, like when

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
he takes his mother's money, and you know she knows he does it.

It's the quiet moments that always get me. Like the ending.

One thing that really distracted I thought, though, was at the otherwise wonderful ending.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
When she writes him, she mentions his letter to her. WHAT LETTER??? What did he say?? We never saw him write a letter. The whole thing was so incidental, too, I kept thinking how easily it could have been cleaned up. She could have looked up his address, so she didn't need to mention it. Just edit that bit of the speech out and you've got a basically perfect ending. That one line made me feel like I'd missed part of the story.



[Edited on Jan 10, 2005 by TedKoppel]

waxangel

waxangel

Baltimore, MD
May 2003

JAN 10, 2005 04:43 AM

It was okay at best. I don't know why everyone's creaming their pants about it. Honestly, all the wine talk got really boring, and I actually truly enjoy wine and wine-knowledge. There were a couple of laughs, but it really seemed pretty standard fare to me.

AndersWolleck

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY
February 2003

JAN 10, 2005 05:39 AM

i thought it was great. but i was lucky enough to see it beforee all the hype. hype really can build things up too high for people

Solaris

Solaris

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

JAN 10, 2005 11:13 AM

i have heard it was good, and i like paul giammatti or whatever his name is... i am looking forward to seeing it. and i hope the majority of you are wrong!

chestercopperpot

chestercopperpot

Bermuda
May 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:19 AM


I thought it was so good I saw it twice......the writing great. Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church where perfect as the 40ish failures with really nothing to show for all their dreams and aspirations.......Someday we all might be in their shoes...

thelastbeliever

thelastbeliever

United Kingdom
January 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:20 AM

I've never even heard of it. surreal

miffy

miffy

Japan
December 2002

JAN 10, 2005 11:50 AM

when i first saw the title of this thread I was thinking "are they taking about my vagina?"

in any case, I've heard it was good... surreal

Ryan_Dipietro

Ryan_Dipietro

Naples, FL
April 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:55 AM

It's on the "Best Movies Of 2004- For People Who are Ultra Hip and Wear Berets and Shit" list.

CaptBlackHeart

CaptBlackHeart

Denver, CO
August 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:56 AM

does anyone remember sideways talking

ThisIsWhoWeAre

ThisIsWhoWeAre

Oakland, CA
July 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:08 PM

I loved the hell out of it.

Several friends told me that "Miles", Paul Giamatti's character was ME. So I went to see it, and sure enough, although I don't LOOK like him, I saw WAY too much of myself in him. Especially during his little freak-outs. I could empathize with him in so many ways. I hated Napolen Dynamite, but this is one film that spoke to me.

MrSmead

MrSmead

Savannah, GA
February 2003

JAN 10, 2005 12:09 PM

Aww....
I was hoping this thread would be about this:

capitalistfig

capitalistfig

Los Angeles, CA
November 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:14 PM

Heh. So who wants a Sideways Wine Tour map? I give them out left and right at my hotel here in Santa Barbara lately.

monkeybutt

monkeybutt

I'm lost
May 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:23 PM

toothpickmoe said:
"The most overrated film of the new millenium"




don't you mean "a beautiful mind" ?

bredoteau

bredoteau

Rego Park, NY
April 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:28 PM

capitalistfig said:
Heh. So who wants a Sideways Wine Tour map? I give them out left and right at my hotel here in Santa Barbara lately.



Really?

BuckKnuckle

BuckKnuckle

Portland, OR
September 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:39 PM

I liked the movie quite a bit. My movie buddy thought it was a little slow, but the genuine laughs made up for it.

toothpickmoe

toothpickmoe

Los Angeles, CA
May 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:41 PM

MrSmead said:
Aww....
I was hoping this thread would be about this:



Nice. Our family therapist had these books at her house. I read the hell out of them.

EndedBen

EndedBen

Grand Rapids, MI
August 2004

JAN 10, 2005 12:42 PM

Ryan_Dipietro said:
It's on the "Best Movies Of 2004- For People Who are Ultra Hip and Wear Berets and Shit" list.



What? shocked

Birdy

Birdy

Dallas, TX
April 2004

JAN 10, 2005 01:05 PM

I saw this last night.
Everyone has been saying it is very good.
I totally HATED it.
I didn't even pay to get in, but I still felt ripped off.

I am sick of whiney guys with screwed up lives
making excuses for their lameness and stupid choices.
My friends say "Well it's a guy movie, you don't understand"
whatever.
If that's the case, I don't wanna understand.
There is a whole wave of men these days acting like it's okay to be a big wussy ball of emo and relish your failures, for they make you more sensitive.
Fuck that.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

So your novel didn't get published.
So your ex-wife got remarried and is having a baby.
So your only friend is a total moron.

GET OVER IT.

I have no time for films and books that portray this epidemic.
Life thows you lemons, dude.
Tough up and learn how to catch.

(Or did your father never play catch with you....is that the problem?)

Not to mention the general excusing of "wild oat sowing" in films these days..
Marriage has become joke.
A footnote.
And I don't need movies that let people think it's okay for them to feel like that.

...........................................Sorry.
I get a little over the top sometimes.



The acting was really really good, though, I'll give it that.

But I checked my watch 3 times and I don't like wine so I guess that's that.

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