Sideways

Sideways (2004)

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Corrected entry: When Jack meets Maya in the bar, she is seen smoking. California outlawed smoking in public places such as restaurants in 1998.

Correction: The bar has closed (Maya is finished working) so there's nobody to complain about the smoking. Even although smoking in public places is outlawed, it would be naive to assume that it never happens. Characters doing something in contravention of rules is not, in itself, a movie mistake.

tw_stuart

Corrected entry: In the scene where Miles and Maya walk up the stairs to her apartment, the stairs go straight in to her front door. Later, after their altercation, he drops her off and the stairs she climbs are at a right angle to her unit, not straight on.

Correction: This is incorrect. The camera pans 90 degrees to the right as they reach the top of the stairs to Maya's front door. That's no guarantee that the apartment is the same in both shots, but the "mistake" is unfounded.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack joins Miles in the bar to talk about Stephanie, when Jack arrives, the bar chair is already pulled out for him, indicating another take.

Correction: There is no discontinuity - the chair does not change position between shots. It isn't where you think it should be at the start of the scene, but that's not a film mistake.

Corrected entry: When Jack and Miles are drinking at the bar where they eventually meet Maya, Jack is shown with his glass in his hand as the bartender is moving to pour him, and in the next cut, the glass is on the bar top, and Jack is not holding it. There was not enough time for Jack to have set the glass down on the bar.

Correction: I watched the scenes in this bar, the Hitching Post, repeatedly and nothing looked discontinuous.

Corrected entry: When Miles returns to his hotel room after his day alone, he puts his hotel card key into the door reader upside down and the door opens. (01:08:00)

Correction: The card is used correctly. You can see the magnetic stripe on it being turned to face the door, and then the Days Inn logo appearing upright and the two small arrows at the bottom facing down, into the slot as he inserts the card.

Corrected entry: When the car crashes into the tree the sound effect for the crashing noise happens a split second before the car actually hits.

Tobin OReilly

Correction: I've watched this scene many, many times, and the sound of the car hitting the tree syncs up with the actual accident just fine.

randomguy

Corrected entry: Before going into the restaurant to meet the girls, Miles is exclaiming how much he hates merlot, and that he will leave if they open a merlot. Well he also talks during the night about his "dream wine" he has saved up for a special occasion, a '61 Château Cheval Blanc from France. Well, that wine is is a merlot, mixed with some Cab Franc (another wine he supposedly hates.).

mansoba

Correction: This is a Saint-Emilion; while it is based on both varieties, it is neither a pure Merlot nor a pure Cabernet franc. That's why Miles doesn't loathe it: the mix changes everything.

Sereenie

In the book, Merlot is the favorite wine of Victoria, Miles' ex-wife. So the reason Miles hates merlot has much more to do with his dislike of his divorce and what merlot now represents in his life. The 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc was supposed to be saved for his 10 year anniversary with Victoria, so it makes sense that they might have picked it out together.

Corrected entry: When Stephanie whacks Jack with her motorcycle helmet, she hits him many times. But Jack's only injury is a broken nose (which, by the way, heals all too well in one day). He definitely would have had more bruises or marks on his face - or at least injuries to his hands from defending himself from the blows.

Correction: There is a scene later on when Miles and Jack are at the motel, in which Jack is shirtless. You can see several bruise marks on his upper body, as a result from Stephanie's assault. Also, they don't show Jack while Stephanie is beating him, so there is no way of knowing if he protected himself with his hands.

Corrected entry: In the DVD version, the scene where Miles is driving on the freeway shows him doing a crossword puzzle on his steering wheel. If you look at the speedometer, it reads zero but he is actually driving on the highway.

Correction: Posted on a number of films and corrected on them, too. The speedometer is broken. It happens.

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Continuity mistake: When Jack and Miles pull up to the house to retrieve the wallet, one of the drapes is pulled back in the front window. When Miles walks up to the house, both drapes are drawn over the window.

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Jack: Try to be your normal, humorous self. The guy you were before the tailspin. Do you remember that guy? People love that guy.

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Trivia: When Miles is stealing money from his mother he looks at the pictures on her dresser. One of the pictures is of Miles and his Dad. It is actually Miles real dad. Miles is played by Paul Giamatti and his dad is Bart Giamatti former Commissioner of Baseball. That is who is in the picture smiling with Miles.

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Question: After Miles accidentally mentioned the rehearsal dinner to Maya, she asked him who's getting married and obviously (though not on camera), he told her Jack, thus starting a big fight with each other. Why did Miles tell her Jack instead of making up a random stranger he could say they knew since already slipping out info about the dinner? She would not have ever known, no fight would have taken place, and Jack would have saved face - literally.

Answer: Miles himself answers this question in the film. He tells Maya that he could have made something up, but chose to tell her the truth because he respected her and didn't want to lie.

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