Sideways, Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary
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Sideways, a story on two middle-aged men traveling in the California wine country, has gathered lots of praise. And why not? It's certainly not a bad movie. Especially if you're a wine snob, you'll enjoy this one for sure.
The main characters are great. Paul Giamatti particularly does good work depicting Miles, a depressed wine snob and failed author. It's easy to feel sorry for Miles, he's such a sympathetic character. Which is exactly what Jack isn't - he's a really despicable guy. Once again they've made a good choice on actors: Thomas Haden Church, also known as Ned from the TV-series Ned & Stacey is just the guy for the role. He's nasty!
The movie's quite nice, if a bit long. Two hours is often a bit too much, and I wouldn't have minded this one being a bit shorter, too. The end is great, though. For wine-lovers, Sideways is a good choice and I'd say it's worth watching anyway.
Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary was a piece of ... well, turkey, turkey gone bad. Expectations weren't high, but the previous Urban Legends movies were at least decent teen slasher movies. This wasn't.
The urban legend theme, which worked well in the previous movies, was really forced this time. Not good. Also, after seeing Ring and Grudge, the movie makers had to add a long-haired dead female monster in this one, too - it's a bit of a mix between those movies, and not even half as good as either of them. Forget about this one, it's not good even for laughs.
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