Showing posts with label Sideways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sideways. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Paul Giamatti

I am part of the .000009 percent of the population who hasn't seen "Sideways," but I like Paul Giamatti. He's a good leading man in this part, someone likable, and I was interested in what would happen to his character.

Casting and script were handled well for Cleveland, too. He's not one of those improbably handsome actors who you could never imagine as a building super. He doesn't have to have a romance or, god forbid, an obligatory love scene the way all blockbusters seem to require anymore. It stretched my patience how the movie just skipped over how Cleveland convinced all of his neighbors about Story's story, but he came across as the kind of guy people liked and trusted. He was an ordinary man inexplicably chosen to play a great, important role, and he lived up to his end. For me, he redeemed the movie from its flaws.