Collection of Bad Manners from "Sideways"

1. Doing NYT crossword puzzle at 55 mph
2. Putting best friend on the spot by suggesting his book is being published with "Conundrum"
3. Opening a 1992 Pinot Byron in moving car too early
4. Being a dumbshit
5. Not knowing how old your mom is (while being able to spout off things like "Pinot is a thin-skinned grape"/ "color density"/ "soupcon of nutty edam cheese"/ "oxygenate your wine")
5a) Stealing $800.00 from your mom
5b) Sneaking out of the house without saying goodbye
6. Ogling underage waitresses
7. Chewing gum while sampling wine
8. Hitting on waitresses a week before getting married
9. Telling Steph she's a bad, bad girl
10. Going to the dark side
11. Calling ex-wife while on date with perfectly nice girl
12. Fucking Steph when you're going to marry Christine
13. Changing life plan on best friend
14. Talking while Miles is trying to concentrate on golf
15. Rolling your eyes at a booksigning
16. Tipping bucket of backwash on self
16a) publicly
17. "2 tons of fun- the grateful type"
18. Getting friend to steal wallet back
19. Crashing best friend's car
20. Clunking heads after lying

Doesn't that about cover...life...and people in general? :D

And it's all in the context. :rofl: B-)

:hi:

It shows how desperate people are willing to let themselves get, myself included. I highly reccommend it. :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: *squeeeeeze*

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The characters just tend to be dicks.

Thank you :hi:

When did you see the movie? How many times? Do you identify with either character? (Sorry in advance for words like "identify" :pals: )

Saw it in theatre when it opened. Thought it was great, though I wouldn't be able to write any kind of review for it, haah.

Or a "gleaning". :D

:D

How much would you pay to see some blond guy being smacked down by a pocketbook? A freaking POCKETBOOK took this guy down. Unbelieveable. All he did was be a "smudge". And Sandra Oh took him down like a WWF veteran! :D

That makes me wince even more--she must've hit him seven or eight times. Ow!

:o That's what gave him the bloody nose. The helmet!

but yes the characters are pretty nasty. It's On the Road for wine snobs...

will like it, I think! :D

But I love Sandra Oh!

Jack, looking SOO vulnerable, and then her face changed in a split second to near-demonic. Have you ever seen the movie "Last Night"?

the theater. There were some teens or college kids in the front, looked like they were skipping classes - they laughed hysterically at many parts of the film that were not that funny. I assumed they were stoned by the level of their hysteria, where the sober would find little or no amusement. The older folks behind me were doubly amused by their amusement....

was when he tipped over the wine spitoon and gulped it down. :puke:

when I saw that. Just when you thought you've seen EVERYTHING.:scared:

hopefully with you, hopefully next time I visit :7

Good times, baby.:D

I was just about rolling in the aisle laughing my ass off.

I think one of mine was the big chase downhill, when miles had just ripped open a bottle of wine with his teeth and was running with it and drinking it while running downhill. Who can do THAT? Takes some sheer coordination. :D

Thomas Haydn Church with that Motorcycle helmet I was "yelling" her on!!!

If you have the DVD, make sure you'll watch the commentary from the actors. It's like watching a new movie again, and it's extremely funny and witty. :thumbsup:

When I get home TONITE I'm going to take a look at it.:toast:

B-)

gets all warm & squishy about wine & grapes & soil & atmosphere AND ambiance, weather patterns & corks & what all else, and he ends up yaking about all-things-other = "no soup for you"

:rofl:

You NAILED IT! I think there was even some special-effect "sparkly" thing going on with her eyes.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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"Uh, I don't know, I don't know. Um, it's a hard grape to grow, as you know. Right? It's uh, it's thin-skinned, temperamental, ripens early. It's, you know, it's not a survivor like Cabernet, which can just grow anywhere and uh, thrive even when it's neglected. No, Pinot needs constant care and attention. You know? And in fact it can only grow in these really specific, little, tucked away corners of the world. And, and only the most patient and nurturing of growers can do it, really. Only somebody who really takes the time to understand Pinot's potential can then coax it into its fullest expression. Then, I mean, oh its flavors, they're just the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and... ancient on the planet."

LOL! :D

:cry: :D

I forced myself to watch it until the end. Horrible movie, horrible characters, just horrible.

did a stellar job of playing an asshole, right? I totally agree!! I wanted to bean him over the nose, myself. :thumbsup:

otherwise it was about two narcissitic twits.....one all rolled up in his self-pity about his book, his ex-wife...etc and he steals from his mother...what a catch...the other was an adult toddler.

Eight hundred bucks!GAWD. :wow:

that was the worst part...he wanted to wine and dine a jerk and carry on like a bon vivant with his mom's cash....

How sad that the highlight of the movie was full frontal male nudity. That distinction is usually reserved for bad porn.

Great scene!

fingers during that scene!:o

Thanks for the reminder. I do believe The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger and I will snuggle up and watch the DVD again this evening. :)

P.S. :*SMOOCH:* (Sugah for Sugar Smack!)

This was a great line: "It tastes like the back of a fucking L.A. school bus. Now they probably didn't de-stem, hoping for some semblance of concentration, crushed it up with leaves and mice, and then wound up with this rancid tar and turpentine bullshit. Fuckin' Raid."

*smooches to you too, love!!* Enjoy!
:D :* :*

Especially after all the hype. Its not sophisticated. Its not funny. It just sucks. I'm sorry you're a loser California film critic who never got your novel published but that doesn't mean you should push this crappy movie on others.

You just basically told everyone who likes the movie that they're losers.

I liked the movie, thought it was hilarious, and I'm not a loser.

of the movie. :-)

and all the LA film critics who wrote great reviews.

but I still liked it.

Any real Pinot snob would have continued north for 12 more hours til they hit the Wilamette Valley in Oregon...

There is always someone in life who KNOWS MORE. :D

Giamatti deserved the Oscar for that performance, and wasn't even nominated.

Trivia time: did you know his father Bart Giamatti was President of Yale University, and later Baseball Commissioner?

:D What was amazing to me was that just when you thought they couldn't go any lower...

They DID!

I think that line from the movie rivals many of Jack Nicholson's early movie lines for pure unnecessary rage/anger.

The scene where he goes to steal back the wallet from the 'grateful' waitress is a classic sequence too.

EXTRA-jumpy Miles scenes. WOW. "If anyone orders any Merlot, I'm LEAVING!!!!!":spray:

You're a bad, bad girl. :P

:D You're just bad. Whaddaya?

running outside naked when you look as visually displeasing as he did.

That was actually quite a shocker. :o Gaskets. Blown. Everywhere.