Daniel_Runyon
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After reading about it in Filmmaker and seeing a clip, I really wanted to catch this. Wife and I went last night and it was far better than I would have imagined. To me, this is a type of movie I would like to see getting made far more often than we are getting....a true adult movie.
The screenplay, acting and overall vibe are as close to perfect as I could imagine...and all truly unique in a multiplex filled with the usaual garbage. It's kind of sad that movies like this are not only made so infrequently, but also less patroned...wife and I and one other couple (in their late 40's or early 50's) were the only ones there for the movie, yet the multiplex was super busy...The Ring 2 was doing well. It is quite obviously done with far more depth than just trying hack together something that the suits will buy.
Thomas Hayden Church (Lowel from Wings) gave one fine performance, and never did I think...."Hey, thats Lowel!"...his performance was so in tune with the character it became a reality, which was easier without THC(!) being just another overexposed utility of the studios as so many "actors" are. The main character, Miles, was one of the most sympathetic movie characters I have ever witnessed on screen, with a perfect balance of traits, not overly focused into one specific sterotypical triat as a forumlated, one (or even two) dimmensional character usually would be....he breathes with dynamic and often the character suprises you in beautifully subtle ways.
The layout of the movie including its pacing, really allows you to sink into this ride without feeling jerked around, everything gets told well, without the sense that there had to be a lot of cuts for time, and it's speed feels really natural....just brillian pacing in general, and the places you are taken are amazing...you go into some towns of the wine region of California, sipping and critiqueing (yeah, dont know how to spell it) and even being educated about wines, but in a more profound...non-pretentious manner. Just beautiful. I will not spoil in the least the meat of the situations they find themselves in, but will tell you that there is far more to it than the wine sipping. If you have any desire to actually feel yourself an adult for an evening, go see Sideways and dust off the meaningless crud you have accumulated from so many hollow cinematic thrills.
The screenplay, acting and overall vibe are as close to perfect as I could imagine...and all truly unique in a multiplex filled with the usaual garbage. It's kind of sad that movies like this are not only made so infrequently, but also less patroned...wife and I and one other couple (in their late 40's or early 50's) were the only ones there for the movie, yet the multiplex was super busy...The Ring 2 was doing well. It is quite obviously done with far more depth than just trying hack together something that the suits will buy.
Thomas Hayden Church (Lowel from Wings) gave one fine performance, and never did I think...."Hey, thats Lowel!"...his performance was so in tune with the character it became a reality, which was easier without THC(!) being just another overexposed utility of the studios as so many "actors" are. The main character, Miles, was one of the most sympathetic movie characters I have ever witnessed on screen, with a perfect balance of traits, not overly focused into one specific sterotypical triat as a forumlated, one (or even two) dimmensional character usually would be....he breathes with dynamic and often the character suprises you in beautifully subtle ways.
The layout of the movie including its pacing, really allows you to sink into this ride without feeling jerked around, everything gets told well, without the sense that there had to be a lot of cuts for time, and it's speed feels really natural....just brillian pacing in general, and the places you are taken are amazing...you go into some towns of the wine region of California, sipping and critiqueing (yeah, dont know how to spell it) and even being educated about wines, but in a more profound...non-pretentious manner. Just beautiful. I will not spoil in the least the meat of the situations they find themselves in, but will tell you that there is far more to it than the wine sipping. If you have any desire to actually feel yourself an adult for an evening, go see Sideways and dust off the meaningless crud you have accumulated from so many hollow cinematic thrills.
