>I watched sideways again
>>217625761well, try watching it properly centered next time
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>>217625761Holdovers better
>>217625761Based Sideways enjoyer
>>217625761>watch sideways>go out and buy a bottle of wine >continue drinking wine with every meal for a month>snap out of it and remember i hate wine>repeat every few years when i rewatch sidewaysanyone else
>>217625839fuck no
why didn't jack's career take off?
Is it gay that I fucking love Alexander Payne movies, bros...?
>>217625983i like all of them except elections and last shift
>>217625761i watched this by myself when i was 18. i recommended it to my my parents and they thoroughly enjoyed it.
>>217625761Very excited to see its spiritual successor next month.
>>217626025>>217625983Downsizing is the worst one, wtf was he thinking
>>217625761Have a merlot enema
>>217625761why? it was okay to watch once but i'd never revisit it.
>>217626052I feel like Matt Damon took over creative control.
>>217626068>yfw watching Starfleet Academy in 2026
>>217626080it's comfy, characters are pathetic yet relatable, jokes are funny
>watched it several times and each time, at different points in the film, started crying out of nowhereReally rewatchable
>>217626052>>217626099>make whole movie about becoming tiny and retiring from the world>premise stops mattering and they're just living out a romcom drama, it doesn't matter that they're tiny
>>217625761I could only get about halfway through this despite really liking the cast and thinking the acting was really good. I just didn't give a fuck about whatever happened to those characters so that's my signal to cut bait on a movie.
>>217625761Sideways is comfykino. It's honestly a perfect movie. Alexander Payne excels in blending in blending comedy and drama without one stifling the other. About Schmidt and Nebraska are also top tier. Good taste OP
>>217627289Nebraska is so fucking good. I always avoided it, cos I remember it giving me very Oscar bait-y vibes when it released back in the day, but I finally watched it few months ago and absolutely loved it
>>217626068goon sesh
Sandra Oh getting plowed with her legs WIDE open was best part of this drama slop
>>217625761Huh, just noticed a cool easter egg with the poster. If you rotate it 90 degrees to the left, the bottle appears right side up.
>this was a looksmatch in 2004
>>217625761I watched it earlier this yeat because someone daid it was good. It was fine, nothing special. Why do you guys like it so much? It cant just be because of the loser main character right? Its not a "literally me" situation is it?
>>217627494they both like wine its like you missed the point of the entire movie
>>217625761I love this movie but I hate the romance between Paul Giamatti and Virginia Madsen. Especially the sappy way that it ends. A bittersweet ending would have been so much more appropriate.
What was his fucking problem?
>>217625761The Descendants is pretty good too.
No matter how old I get I'll never watch this kind of movies
>>217626052Downsizing? For me, I Clownsizing!
>>217626938Even just that tiny little tattoo reduces my subjective valuation of her by like 70%
>>217627836He's a pro cooze hound, dude.
>>217627836He was secretly gay and had to bully people to feel like a real man and not a sissy bottom
>>217627389Dang I might have to give this one another chance just to see that. Also check her out in Dancing at the Blue Iguana she plays a stripper and gets nekkid. Lots of name stars do in that one. >>217627942I'm really not into tats either but small shoulder tats are easy to ignore, upper arms are also. Not like anything on her chest or stomach. No clue why chicks get those.
>>217627942Based Anon. Madsen is gorgeous though.
>>217628018sexo
>>217625761I love this movie. It’s comfy. Seen it probably 50 times
>>217627742It’s funny and quirky and the mismatch of the two main male characters works really well
i’m here the cuck scene is a bit egregious but i’m here
>>217627742No. It's worse than that. This is the most fucking depressing movie ever. It's self-flagellation.I'm glad to see it discussed here so much but I'm not at all surprised.I've watched it at least 50 times. I cry at the>scene in the fast food joint where he finally cracks that bottle open, although the tears start at the end of the wedding in the parking>scene where he's correcting the papers in his kitchen>scene where he goes to her apartment, because she obviously tells him to fuck off; there's no way she can trust himAnd I still can't bring myself to accept the very simple lesson at its core, that you're dealt the hand you're dealt, and you have to accept it. Honestly, of all the literally me characters, this guy is truly the most Literally Us. There's no doubt.
>>217628319ok dood
>>217628319I felt the same about HoldoversAnons kept saying how fucking "comfy" and "feel-good" it is, but I found it immensely depressing..I feel like Payne is great at this, making movies that "feel" nice, nice settings, funny on the surface, etc, but he always implements some soul-crushing truths in the background
>>217627494>looksmatchZoom zoom, you're getting up there in age yourself. Which made me realize we also need to think of a name for gen alpha. We can't keep calling everyone younger than us zoomers anymore.
>>217628390How about "Gen Alpha"?You fucking mong
>>217628319if you've never had your priceless wine+fastfood level breakdown time you will not realize how freeing it is to hit rock bottom. the depression and anxiety is over because there's nowhere to go but up.
Are you a Miles or a Jack, /tv/?>>217627836having cake and eating it too kinda guy
>>217628417>there's nowhere to go but up>film is literally titled 'sideways'
>>217628441well you dont HAVE to go up but it's good to know you can. i'm still here after all.
>>217627836Nobody understood his plight
>>217627836He didn’t have a fucking problem. Jack did nothing wrong.
>not over your ex-wife, hoping its just a blip where she returns to you>she met someone much better, remarried and now pregnant>lifes work doesnt get published, basically a failure>alcoholicwhat was his purpose to carry on?
>>217627494>scrawny birdfaced hag with stringy chemical soaked hairbaldy can keep her
I've only watched Sideways once after seeing multiple /tv/ threads about it. I'm feeling pretty shit so I might have to watch it again soon.
>>217627836Zero ambition or drive. Exists only to please and meet expectations, except with Miles.>>217628508His book was shit, he'd be happier working at mcdonalds or something but he was in complete denial.
I loved this film so much that I ended up reading the novel it was based on. It was terrific and surprisingly quite different from the movie. Would recommend to anyone who enjoyed the movie
>>217628537how else do you do doggy, lying on your stomach?
>>217628373>t I found it immensely depressing..that scene where he's talking with his coworker at a party and he thinks he has a shot and she gets up and kisses her husband is incredibly relatable
>>217627482
>>217628053She is. Sexy as hell too. I know everyone loves The Hot Spot for prime JConn nudity (and she's a total smokeshow in that flick make no mistake), Madsen does just as much nudity including full frontal with bush.
>>217628585Also love the film and read it for the same reason. It was okayish.
>movie makes fun of winos>even the winos love itkino
>>217629048Are you chewing gum?!
election is far more soul crushingat least gilamatti has his waifu and keep refining his book. amazon self publishing was only 3 years away, also
>Oh, yes. >I forgot to tell you.>I like Merlot.
Watchiing early 2000s movies is so bizarre...like a hole into another Dimension. Can you imagine living in such a time? Even the most soul crushing, bleak movies somehow feel comfortable and "nice".Now everything is just slop
God this was so hot
>>217629977alexander payne was dating sandra oh while filming this movie
>>217625827
>>217630642Having an Asian fuckbuddy is awesome. I've got one right now. But eventually we're gonna have to split because I want to settle down with a white girl. Sad. She wants to get married too. Gonna be tough when we part.
I brought a $600 bottle of french wine and a $10 bottle of cheap spanish wine to a dinner party at a wine snobs house.I suggested we all try to blind-test the two wines for fun, and about half the people at the table thought the $10 wine was the expensive one, including the wine snob host
>>217630748This never happened, but yeah, it's just crushed grapes, it's not going to be much different
>>217630714>fwb>she's talking about marriageuh, I'd get away from that now before she cuts your dick off
>>217627494It's a looksmatch now. She's absolutely nothing special.
>>217632208I mean to me she's a fwb but to her I'm her boyfriend. I got stuck in this situation and the only thing I can do is get a job somewhere remote that makes her realize we'll never be together so she will decide on her own that she wants to stop seeing me. But she's nearing 30 and she's desperate to settle down because as I'm sure you know once you hit 30 and you're not married then you're a huge failure.
>>217628319We breakdown at the same moments but I took it the other way and cry because he goes to her apartment and she will let him in because that's the difference between him and his friend is he doesn't just run away forever as the easy option. The hope is what gets to me.
>>217625761That jolie-laide asian was a demon in the sack.
>>217625865I'm a dry drunk. Wine is great cause it doesn't have as much kick as whiskey but doesn't make you bloated and hungry like beer.
>>217628414doesn't work unless it ends with oomer
>>217628508The scene where she tells Miles she's pregnant and he's fighting with all his strength not to completely break down and actually tries to muster up a smile is legitimately some of the finest acting I've seen in my life. Giamatti fucking nailed it 100%.t. someone who was in a similar situation and got told she's pregnant with her new guy when I was still hopeful we'd ge together
>>217628390Why bother, they call everyone older than them boomers.
>>217629977Wow I don't remember that scene at all. I think I fell asleep halfway through this flick and apparently missed some good stuff.
>>217628390>think of a name for gen alpha.the irony is there has never been a generation more BETA than gen alpha
>>217637454based on?
>>217629977Not now, Miles!
>>217638841based on cringe
>>217629546Reminds me of the top Virginia wears in the movie Class when she was in her early twenties and one of the guys falls and grabs onto her shirt, ripping it open, and you see Virginia's beautiful nipple.
>>217638841>based on?having working eyes and ears.
>IM NOT DRINKING ANY FUCKING MERLOT!
>>217629977motels used to be so comfy, now the bedding is all white and feels so cold to the touch
>>217626052Everything he made after Sideways is laughably bad. I suppose everyone but John Huston runs out of ideas.
>>217640520Nebraska???The holdovers???
>>217640520retard
>get /druk/ for a change>decide to watch some new kino>black out before starting anything>wake up>Sideways, Wake in Fright, or Leaving Las Vegas is still going on the tv because player is set to repeat for when i'm using it for music>mfw
>>217640709All classics
>women like virginia madsen go for self-loathing losers who look like thisyeah sure
>>217641065he wrote a really good book okay???
>>217641065plenty of girls get some wine up in them and want a goon sesh
>>217641065You forgot>before computers were household itemsAlong with a list of a dozen other things that changed directly related to that point.Anon meme and exaggerate that any woman has a gorrilion matches on tinder as backup at all times, but even for women that don't engage in dating apps there is still some truth to these claims. You have no idea how much the dating scene changed over the last half century alone - more than it ever has in the several millenia before, combined.
>>217630714I'm in the same exact situation.
>go home after work>buy a bottle>drain it>tell myself shits fucked>time passes>go home after work>buy two bottles>drink both of them in the same (or less) time it would take me to a single bottle used to, for the same (or lesser) effect>mfw i only realise how deep the habit/tolerance are going several months later because I'm not actually keeping track every month
>>217628319the movie Dark Horse by Solondz is 4chan: the movie, but only a handful on the board have seen that
>>217628604her back isn't arched
>>217625761The American Dad episode it inspired is better than the film itself.
What was his problem?
>>217628018Hard to believe this is Michael Madsen's sister.
>>217625865I do like wine, but after watching Sideways I stopped drinking Merlot.Even today, I am NOT drinking FUCKING Merlot.
>>217627389>fucking deformed bugwoman stroke victim copulating with actual human
>>217625983It's not gay that you love A.P. movies; you're gay for other reasons.
>>217630748It's been repeatedly proven that wine connoisseurs can't distinguish "fine" wines from supermarket plonk.Fine wine is a meme.
>>217630748>>217630795What happens is no one buys the expensive stuff, but the proprieter doesn't wan't to just toss a $600 bottle, so it sits on the store shelf for too long and smacks of ass when finally purchased.
>>217643687i thought wine got better with age
>>217641065>>217641142Remember, she was married to a philosophy professor, "which can send anyone shopping downmarket in a hurry" (quote from Ebert's review att). I see her hooking up with him as akin to Tulsi Gabbard hooking up with Salman Rushdie. Something in her draws her to the intellectual type. But yeah, today, she'd have all ways to get her nut.
>>217643591Scarcity drives up prices more than yumminess
>>217643328Pinot noir sales skyrocketed bc of this movie. They've finally started winding down as of 5 years ago; there is a LOT less of PN on the shelves these days than 10 years ago.
>>217643723Until it peaks.>I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.
>>217628680>The Hot Spot for prime JConn nudityI don't even remember her being in that movie, but I am repulsed by Irish women. They are the most disgusting hairy pigs.
>>217643591It's true up to a point but when you get down to the extremes of low cost, things get quite obvious. I know I can't tell the difference most the time between a $30 bottle and a $300 bottle but I sure as hell know when I'm drinking a $3 bottle.
>>217625761I hated this movie.
The Suicide at the end was crazy
>>217644124*murder-suicide
>>217640445The busy patterns on that bedding was to hide the cum stains from previous guests.
>>217628585What's different from the novel?
>>217644204There was a lot. I remember the wallet scene, the biker actually caught Miles and was drowning him in his pool; Jack had to come rescue him.
>>217642961I saw this. One of solondz' best.
god I wish that were me
>>217642961Any/all Solondz.
>>217643869Maybe this will jog your memory. I thought Virginia Madsen's character was more interesting but no arguing that prime JConn wasn't hot af.
>>217626026Old soul
>>217645268oh my fucking god
>>217630714Just marry her. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Screw playing bitch roulette with other women at that point.
>>217626060Have two.
>>217625761this movie ruined where I live for like 15 years
I sometimes end up driving through Solvang for work and they really need to let this film go. Seeing it in advertising like 30 years later is cringe.
You should watch Sideways while drinking merlot. It's the contrarian and patrician way.
>>217630714it's cruel to do that to women
>>217628390Zoomer and boomer went beyond their original meaning and they are used as pejoratives to people younger or older than you. "30 year old boomer" meme is the best example of this.Anyway, if you insist on a name for gen-alpha, I suggest phoomer. I can't think of a word that has the entirety of the word "alpha" as a subset without it sounding dorky - alphenials?
>>217626938>born Sept 11, 1961I bet her 40th birthday dinner party plans got ruined
>>217627289He's great>>217627328Nebraska is so good
>>217648687alphaggots
>>217629252>Let me get a copy of Barely Legal... no, not that one... the latest issue
>>217632240>white>not fat>generally healthy lookingThat's already elite in 2026
>>217625761This was my high school movie, Inwas 16 when it released. The plight of Miles and the danger of being an underperforming depressed younger middle age wreck scared me so much as a kid that I rejected university, went into the trades, did weird nvestnents including Bitcoin early, lived all over the world and married a beautiful foreign woman(white).Thank you deeply with all of my heart, Mr. Payne.
>>217640709Hello, old friend.
>>217648116Solvang?
>>217648206I had a business partner who had a condo in Solvang and I ended up having to spend several weekends there. Some decent breakfast places but ffs it felt like living in a theme park with all the schtick.
>>217648877>all those accomplishments>double dubschecked. congrats on winning.
>tighter than a nun’s assholelol
>>217628390I suggest “faggots”Because these little permed out gay boys are all faggots
>>217642980ah.
>>217650119>hes never forced some inexperienced girl’s back downDamn must suck being you
>>217648291She literally forced herself on me. To reject her even then would've been too cruel.
