Sideways

We just saw the movie Sideways yesterday. It was a great movie with lots of humor, drama and poignant moments. I read some good basic reviews on it and took my boyfriend to the movie. He had no clue what it was about. We laughed through-out the movie and afterward repeated funny lines to each other. Yet, it was also a melancholy movie about human's desires, successES and failures. It is definitely one of the best movies I've seen in recent years. Here is one of its reviews.

The main character in Sideways, Miles is a wine connoisseur. I suppose "connoisseur" can be another word for snob. His sometimes bordeline neurotic commentaries on wines were hilarious. I think the thing with these snobs is that the are so off the chart that they often don't realize how amusingly crazy they sound at times.

My boyfriend, whom I will be referring to as Mr. Lj (taking after sugarmama's reference to her boyfriend (now ex) Mr. S, is also a snob. No he is not a wine snob for he does not drink alcohol. He's a what I call a cola snob. He doesn't drink much of anything but cola, and his cola must be Coca-Cola. Pespsi won't do. And definitely RC Cola won't do. He is so religious about this that he's both annoying and amusing. When we go out to eat and Mr. Lj ordered Coke, I don't know how many times I witnessed the taken-back look on a waiter's face when he received a stern "No!" when he unwittingly asked Mr. Lj "Pepsi okay?"

I suppose a man must not compromise his principle.