Better the next morning
I was searching for an item about The Outfit that I wrote in September of '04, and I came upon my original Sideways review. And reading the following graph almost choked me up because of how infrequently this kind of specialness seems to manifest: "The worst thing a film can do (apart from being awful or boring you to tears) is to deliver this or that cheap high when you're watching it but then fall apart on the way home. Sideways does the precise opposite. It's okay at first, and then better, and then deeper and then really funny, and finally very touching. Then it seems to get even better the next morning, and better still a couple of days later."
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 17, 2006 at 2:11 PM
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Chris Molanphy
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Word. 'Sideways' even got better on a second viewing. Loved that movie.
Posted by Chris Molanphy
at October 17, 2006 2:43 PM
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Goulet
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Agreed. I liked it quite a bit the first time, but I truly fell in love with it after my second viewing.
Posted by Goulet
at October 17, 2006 5:02 PM
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Arran
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I loved it straight away...but it does get better every time I watch it. (Insert ham-fisted wine metaphor here.) Giamatti talking to his ex-wife at the wedding is one of the finest single pieces of acting I've seen.
Posted by Arran
at October 17, 2006 5:48 PM
comment #4
NYCBusybody
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Films that become my "favorite" movies usually have this exact effect; more recent examples being "Fargo", "Rushmore", and "Topsy-Turvy".
Posted by NYCBusybody
at October 18, 2006 6:19 AM
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Jesse Perry
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"Giamatti talking to his ex-wife at the wedding is one of the finest single pieces of acting I've seen."
Absolutely. It's a crime he wasn't nominated.
I remember seeing SIDEWAYS with a friend of mine . . . Afterwords, we both agreed that it was pretty good. As the day went on, the movie lingered in my mind, and my friend and I spent the day talking about it. I bought it on DVD the day it was released, and I think I've seen it 2 dozen times since then . . . A truly great film.
Posted by Jesse Perry
at October 18, 2006 6:43 AM
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donnyboy
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Just read Wells first review.
What about Sideways is mature?
Every character in the movie is a selfish jerk. They complain like little babies. The buddy goes fucking around on his fiancée?
I don't mind movies in which people are shown as being selfish and stupid. That's fine. But Payne tries to make the audience to empathize with them, take pity on them, feel bad for them?
You gotta be out of your mind.
The world is full of talent less mediocre jerks, such as the characters in that silly movie. Deal with it.
Posted by donnyboy
at October 18, 2006 9:41 AM
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Monument
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"They complain like little babies."
From the guy complaining like a little baby about a movie, of all things. Human beings are selfish and stupid, all of us are in some way or another. That is why these characters are so endearing; we can empathize with them because in many ways we can identify with them.
Posted by Monument
at October 18, 2006 10:13 AM