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Rewatched the movie "Sideways"
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Date: April 18th, 2024 7:46 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich I rewatched the movie Sideways (2004) for the first time since it came out. It holds up well; I think I liked it more this time than the first time. I liked the interplay of opposites between Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church — introverted vs extroverted, ugly versus handsome, pessimist vs optimist, truth-teller vs. liar, smart versus less smart, complex versus simple, loser versus winner. It’s the interplay of those contrasting forces that drives the film. The acting is quite strong by everyone, especially Giamatti. The beats feel real and I like how things aren’t wrapped up into a neat bow at the end. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592664) |
Date: April 18th, 2024 7:56 AM Author: fantasy-prone crawly idiot Weird how Haden Church’s career just faltered after that movie. I think he did some cape$hit and now lives alone on a ranch in Texas. Alpha I guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592667) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 8:08 AM Author: naked sanctuary yeah the last thing i remember him in was being the bad in a particularly shitty spiderman movie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592671) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:53 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich I had this thought too, it looks like he’s still a pretty active actor just in smaller things on his IMDb
It’s interesting that ugly loser clique giamatti was the big success |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: brass appetizing queen of the night azn His magnum opus and career pinnacle was his supporting role on Wings. The best TV show all time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592792) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:06 PM Author: Curious self-absorbed sneaky criminal "I blame-a myself-a" - Antonio Scarpacci (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593247) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:20 PM Author: Maroon Nubile Casino he was a washed up actor by the time that movie came out, he's done fine for himself considering he was already too old to be a real leading man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593281) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 8:38 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station giamatti stealing money from his mom made me think of people like paralegal mohammed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592688) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:54 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich He steals from his mom too? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592735) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:26 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station it's certainly a reasonable assumption given what we know about him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592765) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:40 AM Author: Irradiated Impertinent Library Kitty bad husband
bad son
all around bad guy! |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:44 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station cr! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592780) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:59 PM Author: Alcoholic Property Alpha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593034) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:14 AM Author: Sooty frum people who are hurt What a groundbreaking analysis really thought provoking stuff here
Deep Springs once again just producing unparalleled minds
I hate kikes so much it’s unreal |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:59 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich Not every post has to have super analysis
It’s just a good movie worthy of a paragraph length post
Did you like or hate the movie? |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:50 AM Author: Sooty frum people who are hurt You are a waste of life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592784) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich you seem truly miserable, friend
i hope you figure it out |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:47 AM Author: sick field "The acting is quite strong by everyone, especially Giamatti." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592729) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 9:59 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich And? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592743) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:18 AM Author: sick field that cr observation is why the movie holds up. first rate acting by four leads. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592758) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:28 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station sup Sandra (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592766) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:48 PM Author: sick field she looks busted in 90% of her appearances but in Sideways she's 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592997) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:03 PM Author: cerebral coral gas station I think the role was great but she’s not hot except maybe for a second when she bares some midriff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593056) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:32 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592770) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:23 AM Author: glittery iridescent jap I remember watching it in the theater and thinking the main character was old. I am now several years older that he was. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592762) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:33 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich yeah i actually looked that up as i was watching, giamatti was like 35 when it was filmed but he looked 50
in high school one of my teachers looked 100 but i think was like 70. he lived another 10-15 years after i graduated, i was shocked and thought he would die way sooner |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:41 AM Author: pale piazza new version Are you chewing gum?? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592775) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:43 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich great line
a couple scenes stood out to me: when giamatti grabs the wine bottle and runs down the hill in despair after hearing his ex got remarried and the two lol scenes where naked man chases giamatti in one and the car doesn't hit the tree in the other |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:50 AM Author: Demanding prole forum Don't you want to feel that cozy little box grip down on your johnson? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592787) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich virginia madsen was somehow pretty hot in it
can not find sandra oh attractive no matter how hard the film tried |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 10:57 AM Author: Irradiated Impertinent Library Kitty sandra oh is butt ugly. i used to poast on JDU and there was a dood in his 50s who posted there (shoutout to my nigga venceremos) who said she was hot. i remember telling him he had a weird chink fetish and that was why he thought that, but she's objectively busted.
overall, i really enjoy sideways. not sure why, it seems like a movie i would hate but i've seen it like 10 times and if i come across it while flipping around i stay on it. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:00 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592800) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:13 AM Author: brass appetizing queen of the night azn Her ugliness can probably be looked past for one night if her sideways puss has that kung fu grip (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592836) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:17 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma It was implied she was a single mom who was stretched out from BBC
She wouldn't get $40 in a Thai whorehouse |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:01 AM Author: naked sanctuary On top of the internal struggle for Miles reconciling his view of himself as an artist, scholar, man of importance with the reality that he's just an insignificant schmuck english teacher simultaneously you have the same struggle from a moral perspective. Despite his view of himself as a good person, he's just a selfish asshole who steals from his mom to fund a bachelor party for his friend (who he genuinely hates) with an itinerary of all stuff he wants to do as opposed to the groom.
It is a deeply depressing movie. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:06 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich he at least finds some validation that someone read and liked his work -- that means *something* -- and he was getting over his ex at the end and had a chance with virginia madsen for something more (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592810) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:08 AM Author: Chrome Stimulating Corn Cake Depressed merlot sales for years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592815) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:12 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich funny
i like merlot |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:21 AM Author: pale piazza new version Not flame. From IMDB:
During an emotional scene in the film, Miles talks with great passion about Pinot Noir. After the release of this movie, sales of Pinot Noir wines rose by more than 20 percent over the 2004-05 Christmas/New Year period, compared to the same period the previous year. A similar phenomenon was experienced in British wine outlets. Miles is deeply disparaging, in a different scene, about Merlot, and sales dropped after the film came out. Ironically, Miles's prized bottle of wine, a 1961 Château Cheval Blanc, is a blend of Merlot and Cabernet Franc, another grape Miles disparaged. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:31 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station pinot noir is for emo fags like luis
muh delicate grapeth |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:28 AM Author: pale piazza new version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592848) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:51 PM Author: Jade bearded base degenerate i became drinking age around the time that movie came out. went to a wine store to buy a decent priced bottle of wine for thanksgiving. asked for pinot noir and the guy was like "just watch sideways?"
flustered, i insisted that no, i've enjoyed pinot for a quite a while before the film. but he got me fucking good, he was totally right lol. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:09 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma The Sandra Oh/Virginia Madsen bit was the most unrealistic part of the movie
It'd just end up with Giamatti drinking and fighting w Church
Also Sandra Oh is a uniquely ugly Azn woman with an odious personality |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:13 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich yeah its weird they were paired as friends
church would probably get laid irl, giamatti would just be miserable and alone in a irl story |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:14 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma church would probably fuck the fat pig waitress
the sandra oh bit was just dumb
and LJL at giamatti--a depressed HS english teacher--shacking up with virginia madsen |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:29 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592851) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:12 AM Author: razzmatazz buck-toothed stain I could not get over how ugly Sanra Oh was. After she appeared its all I could think about. Her ugliness was so distracting that none of the other plot made sense. why would someone pick a hideous beast and make her an object of desire?
You might as well have made a movie about a random person hitting themselves with a hammer over and over. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:13 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich she was distractingly ugly even with her great body
why did she have a black kid in the film? |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:14 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma because she was "Cool"
remember she also rode a motorcycle and had this odious sassy personality |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:30 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592852) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:36 AM Author: razzmatazz buck-toothed stain I now remember exactly why I hated this movie so much. I would rather watch the most odious girl power fart comedy movie than Sandra Oh's character on sideways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592859) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:39 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station wow lol, i would never watch those fart girl movies
i love sideways. agree she's not hot at all but not offputting to me |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:41 AM Author: coiffed avocado house her face is like a 2/10 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592869) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:51 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station agreed
doesnt impact the movie for me. i mean look at who jack fucks at the end |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:58 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma i would no joke fuck that pig at the end over Oh. she at least looks like she had a pleasant personality and would be a good/kinky fuck
sandra oh seems like the type where we'd fuck in an overexaggerated, fake way, sprinting to orgasm. and then afterwards she'd lecture me about feminism with her 110IQ |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 12:23 PM Author: cerebral coral gas station I agree, but the point is that Jack is just a lost soul who will fuck anything. Oh’s character would make much less sense if it was some hottie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592898) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:59 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma pig also had some big tits.
sandra oh? LJL |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:33 AM Author: cerebral coral gas station jack aint the first chad to inexplicably catch yellow fever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592856) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:40 AM Author: coiffed avocado house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592867) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:53 PM Author: sick field google "belle laide" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593017) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:24 AM Author: Twinkling Dilemma I still remember being horrified, even as a kid, by the scene where Church is fucking Sandra Oh. Not because of the sex scene (scenes I enjoyed as a teen) but because of how horrendously ugly Oh was (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592845) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 11:30 AM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich heh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47592853) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:54 PM Author: Odious hairy legs private investor (Alex Payne) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593022) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:54 PM Author: Jade bearded base degenerate thomas hayden church does a masterclass of being a high-t chad type. whenever someone brings up people cheating with someone ugly, or just fucking someone ugly, i bring up sideways and how no man has ever thought church's character was unrealistic.
good example of how women fundamentally don't understand men. they think if a man will sleep with them they'd date them. then they see stuff like this and their birdbrain short-circuits. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 1:57 PM Author: razzle sadistic senate mother It’s a very good movie.
Both the Church/Oh and Madsen/Giamatti pairings made a lot more sense in the pre-social media/smartphone era than they do now. Randomly meeting and hanging out with people like that wouldn’t happen 20 years later and if Church wanted pussy he would just fire up tinder.
In a lot of ways the movie captures that last era of American society under Bush II before the decline really went into high gear. |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:04 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593060) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:12 PM Author: Jade bearded base degenerate fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593098) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:23 PM Author: abnormal sound barrier I love men (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593121) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:23 PM Author: Elite Space (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593294) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:00 PM Author: Alcoholic Property Alpha One of the last LOL films along with Rushmore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593039) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:04 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich Rushmore was too lean-in eccentric to me on rewatch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593062) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:05 PM Author: cerebral coral gas station does Rushmore hold up well? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593064) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:49 PM Author: Alcoholic Property Alpha i just love that 'were you in the shit?' scene with Bill Murray (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593181) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:12 PM Author: Odious hairy legs private investor Rushmore sucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593101) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:15 PM Author: mustard house-broken roommate the slant bitch was married at the time to the director. of course she got a part as the hot girl.
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:20 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich Ebert’s review holds up well
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sideways-2004
He notes like in my op how the opposite nature of the main characters combine to the essence of a complete person |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:31 PM Author: Free-loading rigpig tanning salon She's getting her graduate degree in horticulture, and is beautiful, in a kind way; you wonder why she would be attracted to Miles until you find out she was once married to a philosophy professor at Santa Barbara, which can send a woman down market in search of relief. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593143) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:43 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593166) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 2:51 PM Author: cerebral coral gas station I’ve been saying for years that there’s a whiff of Tyler Durden / Ed Norton in this movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593188) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:01 PM Author: adventurous headpube I'm surprises THC and PG didn't do more stuff together. Not sequels, but other movies a la Lemmon & Matthau or Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593234) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:01 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich they were great together (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593238) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:04 PM Author: adventurous headpube We need more duos. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson had that going for a while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593245) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:06 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich the rock and kevin hart
adam sandler and david spade / chris rock / kevin james
chris farley and david spade |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:13 PM Author: adventurous headpube Farley and Spade could've been the next Laurel and Hardy :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593265) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:19 PM Author: Insecure Talented Mediation Sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593277) |
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Date: April 18th, 2024 3:08 PM Author: sick field they were close to like Colin Ferrel and Brendan Gleason. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519019&forum_id=2#47593256) |