Bottle Shock

So, three days ago I watched Bottle Shock with my dad. And although I have seen movies I liked more, I quite liked this one. (I mean, it stars Alan Rickman. What's not to love? Uh, I'll get to that.) All in all I thought it was a bit lengthy. I was still waiting for something to happen when we were about one hour into the movie. (It is about one hour forty long.) I didn't mind a lot, but my dad was a bit annoyed by that. The thing is, although it gets a little more exciting, you keep on waiting for the real climax and it doesn't really happen. Nevertheless, it got more interesting towards the end.

Not a minor factor in the whole thing was probably that those people had the worst. Accent. Ever. Really, it rarely happens to me that I don't understand people at all, but that was the case here. After twenty minutes or so, I decided to turn on the subtitles, even though the only option was to have them in German. Unfortunately, I didn't get everything in the beginning, so I was a bit confused for a time, but I think I had it sorted out eventually.

Anyway, although the story was a bit weird as in "nothing really happened" and although the accent was horrible, there was one thing I loved about that film: the actors. And not only Alan Rickman, all of the other guys were great as well. I also liked the colouring, the scenery, and all in all the aesthetics. And apart from the lengthy thingy, I really liked the script, especially the humour. When Alan Rickman said that the Californian vintner didn't like him "because you think I'm an asshole, but really, I'm not. I'm just British and you're not." (or something along the lines), I cracked up.

So, in conclusion I would say that this is a film I would watch again, but probably not as often as some of my other films.

(And by the way, Bill Pullman's called Bill Pullmann over here. I still can't believe they spelled him wrong on the DVD case.)

Amazing...

... how people are so outraged because someone who raped a child was finally arrested. Oh no! Let us glorify Polanski just because he made a lot of brilliant movies. Let us pity him because he couldn't receive his Oscar in person as, if he'd done it, he'd have been taken into custody.

Having survived the Holocaust is an excuse for raping people.
As is the victim having a mother who wanted her to be in the movies.

Words fail me somewhat. Fortunately, Kate Harding is still much more eloquent than I am. Thanks to wavesofwood for linking to this one.