The Chris Pine Project: Bottle Shock
So, first up we have Bottle Shock.
It starts pretty well. I love the title music, made of bottles chinking and clicking against each other, and Chris Pine's voice over putting us firmly on the story and timeline, with his silly dancing, tight bell bottom pants and messy wig long hair.
Not long after, another huge, big, immense plus of this movie: Alan Rickman, with his pursued lips, perfect accent combined with my epic admiration of him. The man can do no wrong in my eyes, but he again excels at his role. Example: Bill Pullman's character asks "Why don't I like you?" and Rickman very dryly replies "Because you think I'm an arsehole. But I'm not, I'm just British. And you're not." Touche.
The plot is pretty good: based on a true story, about the small and weak taking up the big and powerful and winning. Even if it's all about wine.
The rest of the cast is very good, but not surprisingly. You got Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina, Eliza Dushku and an unknown Rachael Taylor. All excellent actors, where Rodrigues stands out particularly as the poor man, and Farina as the extremely funny wise man.
Finally, our man Pine. His hair does almost all the acting, seeing as it's always on his face, but his character is a pretty funny, laid back playboy, and he does his part with aplomb. Like when he proposes to Sam (Rachael Taylor) they could go "get a burger, or maybe we just go some where, get naked and screw" to which she responds she would rather clean the trasher.
But even in a nice movie like this you can get a star moment. That happens not to Rickman, Pullman or Farina, but to Pine. As his father (Pullman) is pushing him against the desk, angrily demanding they return the new wine casks, that cost them both their pride to obtain, as Pine curls around himself, asking his father if he wants to fight (how bitterly ironic) and Pullman enraged says no, for one second, under all that hair and behind the arms, you see a pained facial expression on Chris Pine's face that is truly amazing and heart wrenching. Yes, it does betray his age, with those lines around his eyes, that he's not as young as his character, but that fleeting moment is what made this movie worth it for me.
A movie I can easily recommend to everybody, whether fans or not of any particular actor in the cast.
It starts pretty well. I love the title music, made of bottles chinking and clicking against each other, and Chris Pine's voice over putting us firmly on the story and timeline, with his silly dancing, tight bell bottom pants and messy wig long hair.
Not long after, another huge, big, immense plus of this movie: Alan Rickman, with his pursued lips, perfect accent combined with my epic admiration of him. The man can do no wrong in my eyes, but he again excels at his role. Example: Bill Pullman's character asks "Why don't I like you?" and Rickman very dryly replies "Because you think I'm an arsehole. But I'm not, I'm just British. And you're not." Touche.
The plot is pretty good: based on a true story, about the small and weak taking up the big and powerful and winning. Even if it's all about wine.
The rest of the cast is very good, but not surprisingly. You got Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez, Dennis Farina, Eliza Dushku and an unknown Rachael Taylor. All excellent actors, where Rodrigues stands out particularly as the poor man, and Farina as the extremely funny wise man.
Finally, our man Pine. His hair does almost all the acting, seeing as it's always on his face, but his character is a pretty funny, laid back playboy, and he does his part with aplomb. Like when he proposes to Sam (Rachael Taylor) they could go "get a burger, or maybe we just go some where, get naked and screw" to which she responds she would rather clean the trasher.
But even in a nice movie like this you can get a star moment. That happens not to Rickman, Pullman or Farina, but to Pine. As his father (Pullman) is pushing him against the desk, angrily demanding they return the new wine casks, that cost them both their pride to obtain, as Pine curls around himself, asking his father if he wants to fight (how bitterly ironic) and Pullman enraged says no, for one second, under all that hair and behind the arms, you see a pained facial expression on Chris Pine's face that is truly amazing and heart wrenching. Yes, it does betray his age, with those lines around his eyes, that he's not as young as his character, but that fleeting moment is what made this movie worth it for me.
A movie I can easily recommend to everybody, whether fans or not of any particular actor in the cast.