Sideways

Miles and Jack are drinking at the Hitching Post.

Maya comes around and joins them.

At this point hands jump all over the place.

Miles arms are crossed at different variations without enough time for him to move.

Jack is holding a full glass to drink, and then immediately has pushed it out for a refill.

In one shot Maya's arm is up, in the reverse shot, her left arm is down.

When Miles and Jack are sitting at the bar with Maya, Jack is sitting with his hands folded in one shot and holding his drink in the next.

When Miles is talking to Stephanie's mother in the bowling alley, her cigarette goes from being lit to unlit between shots.

Miles knocks on the large glass insert of a door, the sound is of a knock on wood.

When Miles is doing his crossword puzzle while driving, his speedometer reads zero.

As Miles and Jack drive from Los Angeles to Oxnard, the sun is shining in both sides of the car and shadows from the scenery to the right and left all fall on the road.

On Wednesday when Miles and Jack pick up the girls, Miles and Jack are in front with the girls in back.

In the next shot, Jack and Maya have switched places (there is a deleted scene that would explain why).

When Miles caresses the cluster of grapes, you can see that the yeast has already been removed from the outside of the grapes by the stroking of his thumb from a previous take.

When Miles pours the wine from the spit bucket at the tasting room over his head it drenches his shirt and pants.

In the subsequent scenes, the wine stains have dried, but the clothes have actually been changed.

There are stains on the shirt, but there are not enough to match the original incident and the pants have no stains at all.

When Miles is checking his phone messages from the motel room, the voice instructions tell him to "enter his password and press the pound key".

The sequence of digits he presses ends with one of the keys on near the top of the keypad; the pound ("#") key is on the bottom row.

When Miles is in the restaurant by himself after the wedding, the food on his plate completely changes positions after we see a close up of the 1961 Cheval Blanc.

Miles's mother's hair color changes between greeting Miles and Jack, and serving them dinner.

When Maya joins the boys at the restaurant bar for a drink after her shift, the position of her arm (holding the cigarette) keeps changing from shot to shot during their conversation.

While Miles makes his protest of Cabernet Franc and Merlot well known, the bottle of 61 Cheval Blanc is from Bordeaux, a blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot.

This is entirely logicalMerlot from California is widely considered to be inferior; Cabernet Franc is a grape used primarily in blending.

On their own, both wines are well less than stellar.

Cheval Blanc is indeed a Bordeaux blend of Cab Franc and Merlot (and a few other grapes), but in their Bordeaux incarnations their grapes produce an excellent red wine.

Indeed many Bordeaux producers use the two grapes in their Bordeaux blends; the California incarnations of the two grapes are just not all that great.

Miles' sentiment is shared by many wine lovers around the world - even those from central California.

Miles drops off Jack in front of Christine's house.

You see them unload the golf clubs and wine boxes on the left side of the porch, close to the door.

In the next scene you see Miles in the car observing Jack who knocks on the door.

It appears that the golf clubs and boxes of wine are not in the scene when Jack knocks and the door is opened by Christine.

At the end of the scene the boxes and clubs can be seen to the far right side of the porch, further away from the door.

In the scene where Jack tells Miles he thinks he's in love with Stephanie, Miles's arms are crossed over, then his fingers are laced together in the next shot, then his arms are crossed over again two shots later.

When the two guys first meet Stephanie, in one shot, we see her in the process of half-filling Miles' wine glass.

It then cuts to a continuing shot from behind, but his glass is only quarter full as she continues to pour As the duo make their quick getaway from Miles' mother's house, notice he's wearing white loafers.

Later, as he's getting dressed for the dinner date in the hotel room, he informs Jack he's only brought his brown shoes along for the trip.

When Miles is driving to LA from San Diego one of the outside car shots shows long shadows as if the sun was setting when it is supposed to be mid afternoon.

In the scene at the bowling alley, the woman at the table with Miles (Sienna's grandmother?) is smoking.

Smoking indoors is illegal in California (although it is possible the bowling alley simply was not enforcing this rule).

Maya smokes in the restaurant bar.

Smoking was banned from California bars in 1998.

The gas station the guys stop at on the way home to crash the car is actually located in Buellton, only about a mile from their hotel.

The ease in which Jack handles the cinder block that he uses to weight down the accelerator shows that it's obviously a prop.

Miles tells Jack that he only has one pair of shoes while they are in their hotel.

The shoes are brown.

However, when Miles is going into Cammi's house, he is wearing white shoes.

This movie seems to get mixed reviews, perhaps due to the diversity of people of movie goers in general? Not sure on that one.

I watch and hope so high about this movie, since its score is very high (7.5).

Sideways is a movie I now fully regret putting off for so long. I can see why it has racked up so many awards.

I like to imagine the life cycle of wine, what happened in the year of grape planting, how the sun shines and whether there is rain I like the constant change of wine, just like we opened a bottle of wine today, which will have a different taste than any other day. In fact, a bottle of wine is alive, it is constantly changing, more and more deep.

A movie worth watching. Like a documentary.

I am actually stunned. i am a media student and so i watch movies of all genres..

I did not enjoy the movie at all. The pace was slow and the entire premise is so pathetically sad it's god awful.

GOOD INTERESTING STORY THAT IS FUN AND PRETTY EASY TO FOLLOW = 1/2 StarMEMORABLE DIALOGUE = 1/2 StarFEEL A PULL TO WATCH IT AGAIN = 1 StarMUSIC OR SCORE STANDS OUT = 1 StarNO NOTICEABLE PLOT HOLES = 1 StarSTORY GETS RESOLVED OR FEELS COMPLETE IN SOME WAY = 1/2 StarI PERSONALLY LIKE OR FEEL A CONNECTION TO THIS STORY = 1/2 StarMEMORABLE OR LIKABLE CHARACTERS = 1 StarMOST THINGS ABOUT THE STORY COULD ACTUALLY HAPPEN OR ARE BELIEVABLE = 0 StarsSTORY ISN'T BORING OR REPETITIVE = 0 StarIf this isn't a "classy" bachelor party I don't know what is. The story has a weird pace but it somehow works, though seems slow at times.

This film is not quite what I was expecting. It is a simple, low budget comedy-drama that is fuelled only by the strengths of its screenplay and actors.