some more Sideways

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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
Adapted by the original author for Broadway: click

Tickets are available for just the show, show plus wine pairing, and show plus wine pairing plus dinner.

Did we need this? I wasn't such a big fan of the movie, honestly.

Bet they're not serving Cheval Blanc.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Movie was a dud.
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I was not a huge fan after the first viewing mainly because Paul Giamatti plays his (mostly detestable) character so well that it’s often times painful to watch. Subsequent viewings allowed me to appreciate his excellent acting -- among outstanding performances by all of the main players. The story is well written, witty, touching, and very human.

I understand why you might not like it but it is hardly a dud as a work of cinema.

That said, I think director Alexander Payne’s masterpiece so far is Election.
 
I liked the movie and if this was just a play I'd totally be into it but "an immersive food and wine experience" sounds like I'd have to walk around and talk to people or something
 
I liked the movie too, largely for how sympathetic it was to its pretty awful protagonist. I am not a fan of movies turned into plays. Without someone who has a genuine theatrical vision for the work (and that almost never happens) there doesn't seem much point. Unlike Keith, I might find getting drunk while watching alleviated the experience. But I doubt I'd want to drink the wine I would be being served.
 
So many people told me to go see Sideways because it was a "wine movie." No, it was a movie about two dysfunctional boy-men that just happened to be set in SB county wine country. Virginia Madsen's character was the bright spot. And the final scene was a nice touch, but I've never felt a desire to revisit the film.

Mark Lipton
 
the drinking out of the dump bucket and '61 cheval blanc at burger king or where ever it was were pure hollywood shite and totally bogus for the character that giomatti was playing.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
If this doesn't qualify as a wine movie, what would? 2 hours of watching a barrel go through malo?
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"Bottle Shock" would, though it's certainly less entertaining than even Sideways.

Mark Lipton

ETA: And let's not forget Mondovino
 
Fun fact: Mme L went to high school with Jim Taylor and starred in his short length first film (talking high school here).
 
originally posted by robert ames:
the drinking out of the dump bucket and '61 cheval blanc at burger king or where ever it was were pure hollywood shite and totally bogus for the character that giomatti was playing.
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Pretty sure both those scenes were in the book, whereas there was at least one other scene (involving guns and wild boar, IIRC) that didn't get included in the movie.

Overall, Pickett's book was quite a bit darker that what Payne adapted for screen.
 
Whether either scene was in the book, neither was out of character. He was someone with ambitions that were going to be crushed, consequently a lot of anger and developing alcoholism. Neither the anger that led to the dump bucket scene, nor the depression on realizing that his book would never be published and he had lost a relationship with a woman he cared for, his ex-wife was happily remarried, etc., that led him to drinking his prized wine in a way that devalued it, seemed unlikely at all. The only thing I don't understand about the movie was Miles' belief that California Pinot Noir was somehow better than California Merlot
 
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