Sideways

[johntheplamf]

Recently saw this movie, and although i agree that it is a nice little film, couldn't help but think it has been overly hyped, a thing i also thought about closer. Anyone agree, or is it just me? 

[jimmyjojojr]

I don't agree with you on sideways it ticks all the box's well acted, directed and it is just a really good film. (sometimes it takes a second watch to really get a film) but i agree with you on Closer it even saya o nthe advert "THE most anticipated film of the year" like i give a rats ass about what critics think.

[johntheplamf]

Hmm, maybe i do need a second look at sideways, but i know what you mean about the critics, i don't know how many films have been branded "Unmissable(Happiness)", but i have hated. But i guess these are just normal people who are paid to spoon feed us their opinions, and like good little Lemings, we eat it all up.

[Pinotage]

I saw the film in the US knowing almost nothing about it, except a mentionon a wine website that it was about wine, which is an interest of mine.

I very much enjoyed it and thought it was the best film I'd seen all year - althoughof course, wine played only a supporting role.

But its difficult for any fim to measure up to all the hype it gets. You go to the cinema expecting the world and you're disappointed.

I saw Sideways with Ms Pinotage later in the UK and enjoyed it even more, now I knew what to expect. Buyt it had very limited showingon our area, maybe hyped, but you had to make an effort to getto see it.

To anyone who hasn't seen it, there's no guns, car chases, explosions, CGI effects. Its not a blockbuster epic. But if you like an amusing adult film with real people who have faults, then give it a try.

[pamnez]

We went to see it because my husband was told by 2 or 3 of his customers in his taxi that it was as funny as Meet the Fokkers. I was very disappointed at first because it was not funny, but as the film went on, it seemed to click and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Excellent film.

[johngammon]

It's simply that the standards of mainstream movies are so low at the moment, and in my view film critics are crap or lazy, or lazy and crap.

The film critic for the British newspaper The Guardian, an admirable broadsheet in many ways, gave five stars for Dodgeball but only three for Kinsey and The Life Aquatic. What the Sam Hill can he have been thinking?  I've no problem with a simple difference of opinion, but he admitted in his review of Dodgeball he didn't stay for the closing titles and so missed one of the best gags.

This kind of thing is not a rare occurrence, as I can testify from having been to a few journalist previews myself. At one preview of a German film I once attended (Mannen), the booze flowed freely beforehand and, during the movie, whenever a hack juddered off to the loo at the back of the small preview theatre, he eclipsed the subtitles. Guess what, when the film came out, top stars all round - a feminist classic.