Movie Review: SOMM

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2013

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We couldn't help but review the wine movie of the day: SOMM.

We liked it, mostly. Here are the highlights:

The cinematography was outstanding -- this guy (Jason Wise) can make a movie!
Wise presented the rigor of the exam well
The characters were interesting

BUT, we felt that, knowing what we know, there were some holes in the presentation. We raise things like the intensity of the service exam (nearly invisible in the movie), the financial hit people have to take to be successful, and what it actually gets you once you achieve this level (be careful what you wish for)...

Enjoy and PLEASE take it for what it's worth. We are reviewing from the wine perspective -- we're by no means pro reviewers. We'd love to hear your opinions on it all!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	We watch a documentary Somme, which a lot of you guys on Facebook, that's Wine for Normal
0:18.0	People on the Facebook page or Twitter at Normal Wine, have said that you're interested in knowing our thoughts.
0:24.4	Well, I'm interested in knowing their thoughts.
0:27.8	Yalls' thoughts on it.
0:30.4	Wow, that was not just showing your southern side but also showing really
0:35.7	really bad grammar that was awesome on many levels. Well it's like you would say
0:40.2	yuts I would not say that same thing whatever let's talk about the positive parts of
0:46.1	this movie the cinematography is amazing this dude can do ours when we're
0:50.9	ready this dude is a really good documentary filmmaker. I actually
0:54.6	met the dude's best friend at a speaking game game. And you fail to tell me this? Why?
0:59.7	I totally forgot. I should have gotten his email address. The guy worked his ass off on it and it turns out that these
1:06.2	guys are all friends with him, but he really has an eye. He's a very artistic eye. So on the
1:11.9	real plus side, the cinematography is actually notable it's something
1:15.1	that from a documentary standpoint you don't really see he really captures some
1:19.1	very interesting things that that I don't know that other documentary filmmakers get sometimes.
1:24.0	The characters were really interesting I thought.
1:27.0	Should we back up though to just give a quick synopsis to what the main theme is?
1:31.0	Yes, and I'd like you to do it because I'm afraid I'm going to get in the
1:33.7	weeds so you do it. Oh it's easy. Basically four guys studied their tails off to pass the
1:39.1	master solmeer exam as part of the Court of Master Sommeas.
1:44.0	We've talked about this in the certifications podcast, but there's four levels.
1:48.0	There's introduction, which is really a very basic course.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wine for Normal People, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wine for Normal People and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.