YMMV / Sideways

Tropes associated with the movie:

• Adaptation Displacement: Raise your hand if you knew before the credits that it was based off a novel.
• Award Snub: Although rewarded fairly well at the Oscars, earning an award for its screenplay and nominations for Picture, Director, and actors Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen, the film surprisingly missed a nomination for Paul Giamatti's lead performance.
• Fridge Logic: An in-movie example, followed by an example of Fridge Brilliance: "Wait... why wasn't I injured in the accident?" "Because you were wearing your seatbelt."
• Genius Bonus: An incredibly ironic joke in the film's final minutes. Miles, in the throes of depression, opens his prized vintage wine, a 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc. It's made from Cabernet Franc and Merlot, two grapes Miles had verbally trashed during the film.
  • Frass Canyon, the vineyard Miles trashes and where he gets the news that his book had been rejected, is this plus Meaningful Name: the word "frass" means insect waste material.
  • Miles's novel The Day After Yesterday. Roger Ebert (who knew from personal experience) wrote that is what every day feels like to an alcoholic.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Try watching the discussion about whether Miles should commit suicide again after the reveal that Miles' father did.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Miles and Jack would both go on to play Spider-Man villains.
• Squick: Miles drinking from the spit bucket at Frass Canyon.
  • And there's of course the moment with the naked husband...just ugh.
    • What are you talking about? That scene's hilarious!
  • The Unfortunate Implications of Miles buying a porn magazine called Barely Legal. He's an eighth grade teacher.
    • And he reads it enough that he can correct the clerk about which issue on the shelf is the most recent one.
• The Woobie: Miles brings a lot of problems on himself, but considering some of the things that happened to him recently, it's easy to see why he's clinically depressed. It's hard not to feel for the guy when he calls Maya (and gets her answering machine) to apologize for not telling her and Stephanie about Jack's wedding, admits his feelings for her, and then tacks on the news that his book is not getting published. It's hard to sound more defeated than his parting lines:
  Miles: So you see, I'm not much of a writer. I'm not much of anything, really.
• Woolseyism: The TV edit has one particularly nice moment where Jack's line about how a woman's husband caught him "with my cock in his wife's ass" is changed to the technically clean but still very suggestive "with my finger in his wife's cookie jar."

Tropes associated with the comic:

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Sideways ended up being one of the more popular additions Dark Matter brought to the universe.
• Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of fans picked up the annual and the issues leading up to it just for the appearance of the New 52 Superman, once again written by Grant Morrison.
• Memetic Loser: Tempus Fuginaut claims that his duty is to ensure barriers between dimensions are never broken. In the light of how many times in DC history this has happened, fans have quickly made jokes about how bad at his job he must be.
  thefingerfuckingfemalefury: THE FUGINAUT HAS BEEN ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH FOR THE LAST SIX DECADES