Another Bad Day, but Now With More Movie Review!

So, today hasn't been really any better than yesterday, I was awake at 6 again, still in pain, more drugs, etc. I just woke up and had breakfast, minor aches at the moment (well, minor for me, I don't take drugs for anything less than a 7 on the 1-10 scale) (i.e. muscle spasms/pain that bend me over, cause my leg to fold under me, etc.)

But hey, sinc eI'm up, I figured I might as well do another movie review!

Wendy and I recently watched "Bottle Shock", a Sundance film about the true story of the 1976 blind taste test between several of the best French wines and the best American wines from NApa Valley, organized by Steven Spurrier, played with true class by Alan Rickman.
SPOILER ALERT- Spurrier is an English wine merchant living in Paris, not respected by the French wine "community" because he isn't French, but who still believes that the French make the best wine. At the prompting of a friend (played also quite well by Dennis Farina), who points out that Spurrier's "Academy of Wine" (in French, of course) has hundreds of bottles of French wine and maybe 10 from Germany, Spain, and Italy total, telling him that he needs to either rename it the Academy of French Wine or open his mind a bit more, Spurrier decides to host a blind tasting of the French and Californian wines to prove that the French wine is better.

Since the movie is about the event that launched Napa wines onto the world scene and made them what they are today, you can guess who won.

Bill Pullman is great as the lawyer-turned-vintner who's perfectionism in trying to make the best chardonnay possible brings out a problem that only occurs when it is TOO pure is wonderful, and Chris Pine as the hippie son who finally takes some responsibility is great as well.

I'm too medicated to really do this movie justice, so let me just say if you are interested in wine at all, you owe it to yourself to see this.

Need I say it? 4 paws!