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A wine tasting road trip to salute Jack's final days as a bachelor careens woefully sideways as he and Miles hit the gas en route to mid-life crises. The comically mismatched pair, who share little mo...( read more 
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MCT:August 26, 2008I suppose that if the characters were well-adjusted, there would be no movie, but I'm still put off by the way these people create problems for themselves--where's the conflict?
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MCT:August 24, 2008I bought the DVD a year ago, haven't seen the movie until yesterday, wasn't pleased. Church's character pissed me off the whole time, Giamatti's character was boring and lame and the whole tone of the movie was garbage.
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MCT:August 15, 2008
I learned some great things about wine from this movie. Who says that you have to watch documentaries to learn something importnant?
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MCT:August 14, 2008I thought this was supposed to be really good. I watched all of it and wished I had just turned it off!
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MCT:August 12, 2008One of the great films of 2004. Sideways brilliantly blends comedy and drama while moving at a perfect pace.
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MCT:August 12, 2008
i watched this on hbo once don't really remember too much......i kinda like paul giamatti's acting....
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MCT:July 30, 2008Three funny scenes and a lot of talking do NOTHING for this cheap "art and whine" flick set in wine country. Two luckless, whiney, and extremely chatty dudes do a wine taster's version of My Dinner with Andre. Three funny scenes involve sex. Has a dumb, dumb, dumb ending, but maybe the writer was drunk when he wrote it and forgot to give it one. A non-ending is not clever. It's just not. It's like cheap wine.
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MCT:July 25, 2008
With solid performances, this film did touch the heart in a truthful way, showing flaws in the protagonists and not wrapping everything up in a pretty bow. The two buddies (Giamatti and Church) go on a wide tasting road trip to celebrate Church's final week as a bachelor. However, as they attempt to live it up, Giamatti remains a scarred divorcee who's trying to get by in life, still sulking over a losing battle with getting his novel published along with hopes of rekindling the romance with his ex. Enter Madsen's character, Mia, a fellow wine taster with a keen sense of life that is refined as her taste in wine. Their scenes together are really wonderful. However, I think this movie was a bit overbuzzed when Oscar time came, it was good, but not THAT good that it received as much buzz as it did. I just don't think that it was that extraordinary, but I do think that it's worth a look and is a more true to life portrayal of people.
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MCT:July 24, 2008
overrated - which doesn't mean bad. quite good movie, but nothing as great as i expected after all that hype. recommended for wine lovers.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
totally loved Thomas Haden Church in this, well, actually, I loved everyone in this movie, well actually I loved everything about the movie.
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MCT:July 14, 2008This film makes you want to drink wine, it shows the complexity of wine and relationships. There's no reason not to watch Sideways, just remember to keep your brain active.
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MCT:July 13, 2008
Hell, I'm probably too young to actually appreciate the film's true meaning and value but I know a great film when I see one. One of the few indie comedies I actually like.
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MCT:July 9, 2008
Brilliantly observed characters are becoming second nature to Payne and Taylor, and the performances here are uniformly terrific. This is wonderful, original stuff.
In Sideways, Payne has created four of the most lived-in, indelible characters in recent American movies. This deliciously bittersweet movie makes magic out of the quotidian. -
MCT:July 3, 2008want to see this because it won best picture with the NYFC, best comedy or musical picture at the golden globes, and best picture with the LAFC
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MCT:June 29, 2008
A funny and smart comedy- very real and authentic. The characters are not perfect and very complex and thus come across as real, and people you could possibly know. Paul Giamatti is, at times, sympathetic, despicable and pathetic. Though not a perfect film and one that speaks to certain people, I enjoyed it and found it to be smarter than a lot of the other films out there.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
Alexander Payne is a fine film-maker, Paul Giamatti is one of the best acting talents around. A great combination in a fine movie.
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MCT:June 25, 2008
The *only* funny part to me was Paul Giamatti running down a hill chugging a bottle of wine. Otherwise I didn't empathize at all with the crappy caracters and stupid scenarios they got themselves into. Bah.
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MCT:June 25, 2008
This is one of my favorite romantic comedies, and also one of my favorite movies about friendship. The acting and the screenplay are tops here, with the latter even getting an Oscar nomination (rare for a comedy). Giamatti gives a particularly brilliant performance. This movie really reminds me of the dynamic between me and one of my best friends (with Miles representing me; unfortunately, there is more of Miles in me than I care to admit). I starting drinking pinot noir after I first saw this movie! Overall, this is an excellent film, and it gets my strongest recommendation.
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MCT:June 23, 2008
LOVE this movie. Thomas Hayden Church is great. LOVE when the car crashes into the tree. Paul Giamantti's face is hilarious...Just the best..
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MCT:June 21, 2008
Real and hilarious! Makes you want to spend all summer holidays getting drunk in California, no matter how messed up your life is...
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MCT:June 11, 2008
This movie always feels like a summer movie and the strip was flawless. The cast was amazing and overall so was the movie. The feel makes you feels so many emotions, but in the end you feel....strange. But in a good way.
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MCT:June 7, 2008
For me, it is totally overated. Perhaps I didn't get it, so itwouldn't hurt me if I saw it again. Even so, I'm able to see what makes this comedy different from any other crap coming out these days.
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MCT:June 5, 2008
Giamatti and Haden-Church play off each other so well that you'd swear they'd actually done a road-trip like this before. Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh are also wonderful as two "friends" they meet along the way. Everything flows so smoothly that this movie is over before you know it. If Giamatti isn't the master of sarcasm, then I don't know who is? Matthew Perry maybe?
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MCT:June 3, 2008
It's getting better at the ending.. Paul Giamatti shows a great acting here and so does Thomas Haden Church.
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