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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Topic - "Sideways:" saw it again, today, in the theater: - tinear 16:23:50 03/04/05 (9)
- Re: "Sideways:" saw it again, today, in the theater: - RGA 22:14:53 03/05/05 (0)
- saw it twice in the theater - tunenut 17:58:24 03/04/05 (7)
- Re: "About Schmidt" - rico 04:39:58 03/05/05 (6)
- Should have been titled: "Jack's Real Life Without Hollywood". * - mr grits 09:03:36 03/05/05 (0)
- Not I. The Bates character was way too over the top, - tinear 07:54:56 03/05/05 (4)
- Re: "Election" - rico 10:50:43 03/05/05 (0)
- "the dialogue sounded 'written,' " - dennzio 09:39:44 03/05/05 (2)
- Exactly. Now, you may not like Tarantino films - tinear 13:06:11 03/05/05 (1)
- you must be living a life quite different from mine... - tunenut 12:48:57 03/07/05 (0)