tcj Wrote:
Senator LooGAR HasAPosse Wrote:
The main problem is that most critics don't look at stuff from a "fan's" perspective, they look at it through the lense of a failed artiste.
These are people whose career is seeing movies. They see the majority of films that come out every year. That sounds like a dream, but think about it. When you see that many movies, you get real tired of seeing the same old crap over and over and over again, which makes up at least 90% of what Hollywood turns out. Can you imagine how many times they've seen movies like
Alone in the Dark? So when something comes along that
isn't like that, it stands out. What makes
Sideways stand out is how
real it feels - these feel like real people, not characters, except for Haden Church's character, who is an actor and who I think we're supposed to suspect is acting even when he's not on camera.
I think another big part of it is that people don't like mixing "art" with "entertainment." Look at what most people listen to - Britney falls under "entertainment" in my book, where most of what we all listen to here on Obner is "art." Movies like
Sideways are "art." Give me art any day.
Here's my take:
I think this movie was OK. The wine thing is a pretty cool device, but to call this movie super original or illuminating, or life changing, well if I thought that I'd have to fucking kill myself. When he was looking in the closet for the bottle of wine at the end, I thought he should've been going for a gun...woulda made the movie for me, but I guess it wouldn't have been as praised.
I think the part where he steals the money from his mom is to show that he is a complete fucking loser and he knows it. I actually like Lowell's character, but mainly because he is a heartless jackass.
I think these guys are actually exagerations of the two sides of the male personality..the one that wants to be smart and sensitive, and the one that wants to get his nut on..but they are extreme exaggerations, and I think that takes away from the oft-mentioned 'realism' of the film.
There were some chuckles, but in all, it as a trifle, and converse to most people I have read about, it makes me want to drink cheaper wine, shittier wine, so as not to look like the pretentious ass that Giamatti's character is.
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Throughout his life, from childhood until death, he was beset by severe swings of mood. His depressions frequently encouraged, and were exacerbated by, his various vices. His character mixed a superficial Enlightenment sensibility for reason and taste with a genuine and somewhat Romantic love of the sublime and a propensity for occasionally puerile whimsy.
harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.
FT Wrote:
LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)
