movies

[cardsfantx]

It's basically a blatant remake with his son, and that's what makes it so damn good.

People who don't like it, are prob the same people who love the "comedy" sideways.

I don't find Sideways particularly funny, but I like it. Not sure where that puts me.

It means I hate you

[Maclowery]

Sideways was excellent, funny, and sappy. I wouldn't call it a comedy.

I laughed at Vacation, but i count I will watch it the eight or so times I saw the original over the years.

[Vidor]

Sideways was a comedy. A pretty bittersweet dark comedy, but a comedy.

[Michael]

Dramedy

[Molly]

Sideways was a comedy. A pretty bittersweet dark comedy, but a comedy.

Well I laughed when Sandra Oh finds out Thomas Hayden Church is getting married and nails him in the face with her motorcycle helmet.

[GeddyWrox]

I finally watched Hurt Locker. Once again, late to the party. I thought it was really good. A-. I think if I had watched it while we were deeply entrenched in Iraq/Afgan it would've resonated even more with me. I can see why it won the Academy Award. But I wonder if it's going to lose some of it's luster as a film as time marches on. I try to compare it to something like Saving Private Ryan, and it loses. SPR was a superior movie all around.

[ghostrunner]

I finally watched Hurt Locker. Once again, late to the party. I thought it was really good. A-. I think if I had watched it while we were deeply entrenched in Iraq/Afgan it would've resonated even more with me. I can see why it won the Academy Award. But I wonder if it's going to lose some of it's luster as a film as time marches on. I try to compare it to something like Saving Private Ryan, and it loses. SPR was a superior movie all around.

Not that I think it has bearing on the quality, but I hear over and over how much vets ridicule that movie. In the same way I might laugh at computers or hackers in movies.

[Vidor]

Sideways was a comedy. A pretty bittersweet dark comedy, but a comedy.

Well I laughed when Sandra Oh finds out Thomas Hayden Church is getting married and nails him in the face with her motorcycle helmet.

Or when Giamatti catches Church in that weird threesome. Or something. It's been a long damn time since I watched it.

The only problem I had with that movie is the notion that Virginia Madsen, who was just sex on a stick when she was younger and even in middle age was fantastically hot, would be interested in any way in the pot-bellied balding loser Giamatti played. Of course I guess that's a trope very common to movies. You can be an alcoholic failure like his character was, but there's still a 10 out there waiting for you.

[haltz]

Sideways was annoying to those of us who sell wine. There are great Merlots and [expletive] Pinot Noirs.

Did that movie start the thing where people just say "pinot," like Pinot Grigio etc doesn't exist?

[Molly]

Sideways was annoying to those of us who sell wine. There are great Merlots and [expletive] Pinot Noirs.

Did that movie start the thing where people just say "pinot," like Pinot Grigio etc doesn't exist?

One of my favorite wines.