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[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:55am

if you think she was great in that, wait until you see INLAND EMPIRE.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 9:31am

I loved this movie, but have one complaint: Payne made his home town of Omaha seem like the most awful, depressing city in the world. Omaha is a beautiful city with great restaurants, night life, meuseums, theatre, etc.

By the way, if you saw the movie in the theatre, you need to check out the DVD - great extras, including a deleted scene that pays tribute to Nicholson's famous scene in "Five Easy Pieces" with the waitres atthe diner ("You want me to hold the chicken?" "I want you to hold it between your knees.")
Updated On: 6/22/07 at 09:31 AM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 9:40am

I watch this regularly. Payne's movies actually look better at home. He's a master, but not much of a visual stylist,and the small screen serves the cinematography and compositions. Schmidt plays terrifically in more intimate digs. And I think Sideways works the same magic -- especially Virginia Madsen's luminous performance as an authentic grown-up woman (as opposed to Hollywood's festishistic obsessions with overgrown adolescents.)

To me these films work for a simple reason: Payne likes people, even those whom he exposes or gently satirizes. The Kathy Bates household is full of eccentrics and disgruntled malcontents, but Payne's underlying humanity always keeps them from caricature. I cannot wait for his next film, and wish he turned out one a year like Woody.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:11am

There was one absolutely BRILLIANT deleted scene that I really wish was left in the movie. It involves Schmidt and his wife meeting some friends at a steakhouse. Once the food comes, the background turns to black behind Schmidt as he watches everyone in the restaurant shovel food into their mouths like they're animals.

[Michelleruth2]

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:46am

Oh gawd, I HATED this movie! It made people from the midwest look idiotic (and they are most definitely not). I was greatly disappointed with the movie and could not believe I had wasted my money on it.