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...Like a Fine Wine...
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"I remember when the trailer for Sideways was first introduced to the public back while I was in college. For those of you who have not seen the trailer, it is available on the DVD and is possibly one of the best trailers I have ever seen for a non-action movie. Upon seeing the trailer I was anticipating a great film and Sideways did not dissapoint.First off, let me start with a brief acknowledgement that some Sideways fans do not care to admit. The movie in question moves very, very slow and moves from drama to comedy (and back again) so quick, and so frequently that it is often hard to keep up. After seeing it the first time I told all my friends and family to check it out only to have them scold me for reccomending something so "boring."However, the reason many people hate it happens to be the reason I have such a passion for this film. Alexander Payne directs this film to play out with all the grace and power of a fine opera. It certainly is slow moving, but life ... "
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JUNO Crosses $100 million
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"Fox Searchlight sent out a press release this morning “announcing” that Juno has crossed the $100 million mark domestically, and with it, they laid bare their entire strategy for giving this film a platform release and selling is as a “crossover success story” before the film was ever released. Juno was opened like an indie in order to make this press release possible. If it they had just opened it like other films that appeal to the same demographic and fit into the same vague genre??????Superbad, for example??????and it still took twice as long to hit $100 million, even though its star quotient is much higher and its marketing campaign was arguably more aggressive, then that wouldn’t have been news. But make it look like it’s beating the odds, like it’s making history by playing on more screens than The Banger Sisters and making more money than Sideways (as if ANYONE remembers the last time a movie about/for 45 year-olds made more money than a movie about/for 16 year-olds)??????n ... "
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JUNO Crosses $100 million
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"Fox Searchlight sent out a press release this morning “announcing” that Juno has crossed the $100 million mark domestically, and with it, they laid bare their entire strategy for giving this film a platform release and selling is as a “crossover success story” before the film was ever released. Juno was opened like an indie in order to make this press release possible. If it they had just opened it like other films that appeal to the same demographic and fit into the same vague genre??????Superbad, for example??????and it still took twice as long to hit $100 million, even though its star quotient is much higher and its marketing campaign was arguably more aggressive, then that wouldn’t have been news. But make it look like it’s beating the odds, like it’s making history by playing on more screens than The Banger Sisters and making more money than Sideways (as if ANYONE remembers the last time a movie about/for 45 year-olds made more money than a movie about/for 16 year-olds)??????n ... "
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The Great Movies: Sideways
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"I will admit that I came into Sideways biased. In fact, I went out of my way to see this movie, still in limited release. Being Alexander Payne's third major film, we see a progression of a filmmaker who is going to shake the foundation of emotional epics.Sideways is about four people and four different sets of painful lives. The first (and hands-down most pained) is Miles (played with gusto by Paul Giamatti), a middle-school English teacher and potential novelist who sets up a weeklong bachelor blowout for best friend Jack (Thomas Hayden Church). Miles is two steps away from becoming a full-blown alcoholic, and decides to take Jack to wine country in California. Jack wants to go, but not to drink. He's interested in the proverbial "last fling", which he finds in Stephanie (Sandra Oh). Feeling guilty about his promiscuity, Jack makes a mission in getting Miles together with waitress Maya (the wonderful Virginia Madsen). To go any further is to take the wonderful t ... "
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Life and how it throws you
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"Finally a film that was exactly what I thought it would be. A funny, moving, and at times painful glimpse of ordinary life and human emotion. Paul Giamatti was certainly the perfect choice for the role of Miles, a failed writer and a wine buff. He gets you to feel sad with him, be happy for him and to laugh at him. There are definitely a lot of laughs to be had in the course of the road trip that Miles and, his soon-to-be-married friend, Jack are on – quite a few of them bittersweet. In a funny way, as different as this movie was to Irréversible, it somehow leaves you with a similar sad feeling. Of how small and inconsequential we really are, and how life can break you if you don't fight back hard. And yet, most of the time it's all out of your hands anyways. "
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Why didn't Giamatti get an Osca ...
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"This is a nice movie. We actually saw it because a friend of ours has a song in the movie, and went in with no expectations. Having no expectations, we were blown away. However, if you go in having read the hype that this was the greatest movie of 2004, you will probably be underwhelmed. The beginning is not great. It's slow and the main characters appear completely unlikable. But they grow on you and the action picks up. By the end you are totally rooting for Paul Giamatti's character.His performance in this movie is stellar, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why he didn't get the Oscar for it. I don't want to give anything away, but there is one moment towards the end in particular where it feels like you actually SEE his heart break, without a single word from him. Since seeing this, I have started watching movies just because they have him in it, but this is a really special performance. "
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