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"Sideways:" saw it again, today, in the theater:

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best six bucks I've spent in some time.
I liked it quite a bit the first time, but, like most excellent films, it was even more enjoyable the second viewing.
I appreciated Giamatti's performance more, as well as his scoundrel friend's. In fact, it is a crime neither won a Best Actor or at least Best Supporting Oscar (nomination OR statue).
Church, especially, was magnificent: he made a selfish, cheating, using guy a likeable, human and very individualistic man---he took a stereotype and turned it into a very real person.
The two ladies, Madsen and Oh, also deserved some recognition.
The writer and director took the hardest of genres to pull off, the romantic comedy, and did it not only with style but intelligence. If you wish, you actually can discuss this film's content: it has some---what a shock these days!
All in all, the best movie of the year (American) for me. A perfect string quartet, if you wish...

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Re: "Sideways:" saw it again, today, in the theater: - RGA 22:14:53 03/05/05 (0)
I'm not sure i can agree with you -- This was a solid film but I got the feeling that it was aware of itself too much for my liking -- oddly a criticism fired at the film Adaptation(but that waskinda the point) here it seems slightly off.
Still it was one of the best films of the year but for me got about as far as I would have let it go.
***1/2 / *****
I was surprisingly with Roger Ebert and the Academy Awards this year - a pretty weak year. It's telling to me that Spiderman 2 really was one of the ten best movies I saw which is a compliment to that movie but also kind of depressing for 2004 movies.
saw it twice in the theater - tunenut 17:58:24 03/04/05 (7)
myself and enjoyed it just as thoroughly the 2nd time around. Acting as you say, but also dialogue. This is a movie of conversations and they bear comparison with the great romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise or Philadelphia Story. And I saw this guy's previous movies and they were not anywhere near this level, so this surprised me.
- Re: "About Schmidt" - rico 04:39:58 03/05/05 (6)
  I loved "Sideways" but feel that this one is as good.
  - Should have been titled: "Jack's Real Life Without Hollywood". * - mr grits 09:03:36 03/05/05 (0)
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  - Not I. The Bates character was way too over the top, - tinear 07:54:56 03/05/05 (4)
    the dialogue sounded "written," and stuff like the scene at the trailer park just seemed...well, so crazy as to be silly.
    Now, "Election?" That was a very good film, with an underappreciated performance by Matthew Broderick.
    - Re: "Election" - rico 10:50:43 03/05/05 (0)
      I liked that one as well.
    - "the dialogue sounded 'written,' " - dennzio 09:39:44 03/05/05 (2)
      Hmmm...interesting observation. Think I get what you mean...that the dialogue doesn't have that spontaneous feel. Dreadful stuff.
      - Exactly. Now, you may not like Tarantino films - tinear 13:06:11 03/05/05 (1)
        
        In Reply to: "the dialogue sounded 'written,' " posted by dennzio on March 5, 2005 at 09:39:44:
        
        but one must acknowledge that the characters seem very real because they speak like guys do in "real life."
        
        you must be living a life quite different from mine... - tunenut 12:48:57 03/07/05 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Exactly. Now, you may not like Tarantino films posted by tinear on March 5, 2005 at 13:06:11:
        
        if people in your life talk like people in Tarantino movies.

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