Sideways Arrow for Sideways
It's surely ironic to use a movie analogy to say that most movies don't work for me.
But there are few more memorable scenes than when Tom Hank's character in "Splash" says that he doesn't "get" love, it just wasn't a capability he was born with. And that's how I feel about most critically-acclaimed modern movies. Maybe I wasn't born with the capacity to enjoy them. The English Patient and that Rosewood movie come immediately to mind. Citizen Kane, that's the name.
It could be merely a lack of taste I'll admit. Terry Teachout, the arbiter of good taste, raved about Sideways, calling it the best of the year. I didn't think the film was terrible, just okay. There was one truly magical scene, an exchange in the middle of the movie concerning vintages of wine that was literal and metaphorical and lyrical. But that was two minutes out of a 2+ hour movie.
The characters were familiar to me and in that sense the filmmakers did a great job of recreating reality. And there was a train-wreck aspect to the lives of the two main characters that certainly made it watchable. I'll be curious to see what a real movie maven like Ham o' Bone thinks of this one.
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