Sideways

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.

Loved it.

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?

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....

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

"The most overrated film of the new millenium"

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.

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

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.

[Edited on Jan 10, 2005 by TedKoppel]

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.

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

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...

I've never even heard of it.

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...

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

does anyone remember sideways talking

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.

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

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

don't you mean "a beautiful mind" ?

Really?

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

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

What?

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.

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.