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...film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles?? mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid as much as possible before marriage shuts him down. Despite their somewhat incredible friendship—they have completely opposing interests, outlooks and goals—the acting is exceptional and Giamatti...
...film follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), a burned-out teacher and struggling novelist, and his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a road trip through California’s wine country organized to make the most of Jack’s last days of bachelorhood. The trip in Miles?? mind is about tasting great wines and in Jack’s is about getting laid as much as possible before marriage shuts him down. Despite their somewhat incredible friendship—they have completely opposing interests, outlooks and goals—the acting is exceptional and Giamatti...
...Miles react to Maya’s interest in him? By feeling more sorry for himself, a characterization flub which might be funny in a Woody Allen movie, but Miles isn’t bitterly sarcastic enough for this to be humorous. Payne then awkwardly reveals a piece of Miles??s family history that “explains” why he’s so depressed in the last minutes of the film. If Payne had introduced this information earlier, it might have really held the film together: Miles?? self-destructive behavior and dreary attitude...
Similarly unexplained behavior on Maya’s part—her unexplained interest in Miles??reflects another broad problem: Payne spends remarkably little time giving us a sense of his female characters—God forbid we lose some of the shots of scenery and endless montages of vineyards to make room for character development. So little time is devoted to his female characters that Payne is forced to use the cheap tactic of writing Maya a soliloquy about “the life of wines” in order to give her supposed spiritual depth...
...music in Sideways isn’t part of a joke. It’s just bad music and there’s a lot of it in the movie. And that’s really sad and, indeed, makes you wonder if the mysterious cause of Miles?? depression is the shitty music following him around...