{"id":289,"date":"2007-05-27T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T02:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/289"},"modified":"2010-11-26T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T18:51:52","slug":"sideways-2004-alexander-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/289","title":{"rendered":"Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally the hype has died down enough that I feel safe watching <em>Sideways<\/em> (still 2 more years to go for <em>LA Crash<\/em>, and at least that long for <em>Babel<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/sideways1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Giamatti is a schlub with a bad novel, an ex-wife, a wine obsession and a poor social life.  His buddy Sandman is a womanizer but about to get married this saturday.  Road trip!  Out to wine country to golf and drink and fuck strangers!  Enter oscar-nominee Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh to complicate things.  Sex ensues, and Sandman gets his nose broken and goes and gets married even though he&#8217;s an ass and P.Giamatti ends the movie getting back together with V.Madsen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/sideways2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Extremely not-bad, but never great in any way.  I mean, I love watching Paul Giamatti do things, and nudity is fun and drunkenness is funny and relationships are hard, but the movie&#8217;s saying big ol&#8217; nothing and seems a step down from <em>Election<\/em> (though I forgot <em>About Schmidt<\/em> came in between).  Guess I could go back and read those hundred thousand reviews and discussions about <em>Sideways<\/em> posted online in 2002 and 2003, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like the kind of movie worth going on and on and on about either, god it&#8217;s less exciting than Little Miss Sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/sideways3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Katy likes it, and kickball said it was crappy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/sideways4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally the hype has died down enough that I feel safe watching Sideways (still 2 more years to go for LA Crash, and at least that long for Babel). Giamatti is a schlub with a bad novel, an ex-wife, a wine obsession and a poor social life. His buddy Sandman is a womanizer but about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1167,655,1168],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-alexander-payne","tag-paul-giamatti","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}