Just got through watching Bottle Shock with Alan Rickman. Have no problem with the acting except for some mauling and mild chewing of the wine and the Napa scenery. I liked Rickman, Dennis Farina and Freddy Rodriguez but the writing and the production choices, whew! Started well but then descended into a patch work of old reliable hollywood crudola. Kind of dukes of hazzard meets california wine country and throw in some French & Brit wine snobs meets the American hicks.. I 'm sure the wife and I could write a better script with enough cash incentive...we were taking notes... I will be sending letters to Alan Dennis and Freddy acknowledging their efforts in trying to carry the movie and also sending them our treatment of a New Yorker magazine food critic's roadtrip in northern New Mexico, his chance meeting with a Pueblo woman and his subsequent opening of a trading post diner in Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation and his submersion in a skinwalker mystery...
Writing is so critical. Why was Gustavo spit away like spit wine in a tasting? and wasn't Sam impersonating Daisy Dukes in those daisy dukes And Bo sure looked like a knock off of Brad Pitt impersonating Beauregard "Bo" Duke . Why was there a bed conveniently located there in a shack with only one wall overlooking the beautiful wine country so Gustavo and Sam can have a real good conoodle....two hours out of my precious life...
Writing is so critical. Why was Gustavo spit away like spit wine in a tasting? and wasn't Sam impersonating Daisy Dukes in those daisy dukes And Bo sure looked like a knock off of Brad Pitt impersonating Beauregard "Bo" Duke . Why was there a bed conveniently located there in a shack with only one wall overlooking the beautiful wine country so Gustavo and Sam can have a real good conoodle....two hours out of my precious life...