Bottle Shock: The Movie

[Larry_P]

@Scott Brunson

@M Hudson

I just liked the blonde girl, and the wine part…or the blonde girl…ok just he blonde girl.

don’t forget the brunette

Eliza Dushku

[Larry_P]

@markye

it’s a movie… it contains some fiction… shocking

The problem with this movie isn’t that it contains some fiction, it’s that it took a very interesting true story and completely replaced it with a much less interesting and completely fictional parade of cliches.

This demands some amount of criticism IMHO

[Eric_Anderson]

Just guessing, maybe the professor was supposed to represent Maynard Amerine. Hey, now that I think about it, this movie was probably a Gilligan’s Island metaphor – Mary Ann, Ginger, et al!

[Mark_Y]

@Larry P

@markye

it’s a movie… it contains some fiction… shocking

The problem with this movie isn’t that it contains some fiction, it’s that it took a very interesting true story and completely replaced it with a much less interesting and completely fictional parade of cliches.

This demands some amount of criticism IMHO

+1… That’s a good point.

but then there’s the blonde…

[Mike_Grammer]

@Berg Atkinson

Not sure on release date, but this article from June says filming begins in September…

Second Judgement of Paris film to be made - The Drinks Business

The Toronto International Film Festival has exhibited a fondness for this type of movie in the past (Mondovino screened here), so I will look for it for next year.

skal,

Mike

[Howard_Cooper]

@Al Osterheld

I dislike that movie intensely. To be generous, it was a millimeter deep and it portrayed nearly every character as slow-witted, a slut, or both. Rickman managed to rise above the material, but he was rising from a rather low elevation.

-Al

Hard to dislike the movie intensely. It did have wine, and the blond girl and the brunette and the blond girl.

[Scott_Brunson]

I’m just sayin’…

[CFu]

@markye

@Adam Lee

Well, I know the movie Bottle Shock isn’t factual but I love it. Actually makes me tear up a bit. I love Oliver Stone’s JFK as well, and am pretty sure it isn’t factual either.

Adam Lee
Siduri Wines

I loved Independence Day! i think part of that is factual. the part about aliens maybe

Bill Pullman plays a great winemaker and president!

[jdietz]

@Howard Cooper

@Al Osterheld

I dislike that movie intensely. To be generous, it was a millimeter deep and it portrayed nearly every character as slow-witted, a slut, or both. Rickman managed to rise above the material, but he was rising from a rather low elevation.

-Al

Hard to dislike the movie intensely. It did have wine, and the blond girl and the brunette and the blond girl.

Don’t forget the blond girl.

[Larry_P]

@markye

@Larry P

@markye

it’s a movie… it contains some fiction… shocking

The problem with this movie isn’t that it contains some fiction, it’s that it took a very interesting true story and completely replaced it with a much less interesting and completely fictional parade of cliches.

This demands some amount of criticism IMHO

+1… That’s a good point.

but then there’s the blonde…

I’m with you Mark. Not to mention, the brunette

[Chris_Seiber]

@Larry P

@markye

it’s a movie… it contains some fiction… shocking

The problem with this movie isn’t that it contains some fiction, it’s that it took a very interesting true story and completely replaced it with a much less interesting and completely fictional parade of cliches.

This demands some amount of criticism IMHO

I completely agree. I am certainly someone who can appreciate the occasional fluffy and unserious movie, or one that takes large liberties in claiming to be “based on a true story,” but it was disappointing that the story they fabricated was so much less interesting than the real stories. Sure, there were pretty scenes and a few nice looking people, but it takes more than that to hold my interest. Doesn’t Hollywood usually bend the truth to make the movie more interesting, rather than less interesting?

I have much higher hopes for the movie that has Spurrier and Taber involved.

[Howard_Cooper]

@Chris Seiber

@Larry P

@markye

it’s a movie… it contains some fiction… shocking

The problem with this movie isn’t that it contains some fiction, it’s that it took a very interesting true story and completely replaced it with a much less interesting and completely fictional parade of cliches.

This demands some amount of criticism IMHO

I completely agree. I am certainly someone who can appreciate the occasional fluffy and unserious movie, or one that takes large liberties in claiming to be “based on a true story,” but it was disappointing that the story they fabricated was so much less interesting than the real stories. Sure, there were pretty scenes and a few nice looking people, but it takes more than that to hold my interest. Doesn’t Hollywood usually bend the truth to make the movie more interesting, rather than less interesting?

I have much higher hopes for the movie that has Spurrier and Taber involved.

I agree that the movie was largely fiction and that I would like to see a movie that is closer to what actually happened. But could that movie have the blond girl and the brunette?

[John_M_Fodera]

Yes, the brunette was gorgeous. What movie were we discussing??

[Larry_P]

@Chris Seiber

I have much higher hopes for the movie that has Spurrier and Taber involved.

Agreed.

On a side note, Bottle Shock had to have created a problem for Kamen’s project. There is a recent example of a pair of “based on a true story” movies are released in quick succession (Capote) where the 2nd one did very badly. My understanding is that Kamen’s screenplay was well underway when Bottle Shock began shooting, but the Bottle Shock release had to have given them a bit of pause.