The well-known, very popular jokes of the character "Brice de Nice", a young, lost youth, never took much more than a couple of minutes to make one laugh, and never keeping the tension for much longer a time. If you sum up the five or six jokes, that leaves you with, say, fifteen minutes of fun. The pity is that the movie takes much longer! I just hope that it taught a lesson to other stand-up comedians who, in the heat of success, plan to make a movie about their favorite character. Not every joke is matter enough for an hour's time. It's not even good for the comedian's career, if he's constantly reminded of the bad movie he did a couple of years ago. If there's anything but money to justify this movie, tell me. Another evening lost in the cinema, watching a disappointing french comedy!
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Sideways
(2004)
Midlife crisis of a post-adolescent
9 February 2005
Warning: Spoilers
It's nice to know that there is a cute Cabernet-Sauvignon here and a poetic Pinot Noir over there, but what is this movie all about? I'm usually a thankful spectator but this time I couldn't help but have a nap in the cinema. Is this a "Dude Where Is My Car" for wine-drinkers? A oenology course for the beer-and-coke-drinker? A prevention clip against AIDS? Excuse my lack of sensitivity to poor vocabulary distorted into pseudo-poetry... It's not telling you how, exactly, wine is produced in California, neither how it is ripened. So it can't be the oenology that motivated this movie. It doesn't tell you how, exactly, you should put a condom to use, only that you might need more than one per night. So it can't have been the prevention neither. Now, is it then all about just how drunk you can get on wine? How low you can go as a poor writer? How close Vineyards are to L.A.? Sorry, but that's not even worth the time you spend to get to the movies.
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