bottle shock – Moe Lane

Movie of the Week: GI Joe.

Yes, I ripped G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra up and down the length of Twitter a couple of days ago.

So?

So we replace Bottle Shock with it as Movie of the Week. Because… well, because it was as close as you can get to the animated show without, you know, animating it.

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Movie of the Week: Bottle Shock.

I forgot to do this last night: so… Bottle Shock, which is the best darn sports movie about wine that you’ll ever see. It, of course, replaces Shadow of the Vampire, which is just… well, it’s a movie that Jon Malkovich was in, which says it all, really.

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My Little Pony… the movie.

You’d watch this.

Admit it.

My Little Pony.

Personally, I think that Allahpundit’s being too disapproving of this sort of thing. Hollywood makes movies like what this one is satirizing because people want to see them. A lot. And while they may pay for movies that Hollywood wants to make and nobody wants to watch, they also pay for movies that not enough people want to watch. I mean, I liked Bottle Shock; but no way was that movie coming out if Hollywood couldn’t pay the bills.

Just saying.

Movie Night Review: Bottle Shock.

Short answer: Bottle Shock is a good sports movie about one of the greatest sports upsets of the twentieth century – which was, of course, the defeat of French wines by Californian ones in 1976.

No, really, it’s a sports flick. Continue reading Movie Night Review: Bottle Shock.