Shaken, Not Stirred

For three years, I blogged about movie challenges that I set for myself: a different movie every day (2009-2010), how many movies I watched a year (2010-2011), and how many NEW movies I watched in a year (2011-2012).

Now it's more a catch-all for my entertainment musings. The title, of course, is how James Bond takes his martinis.

The answers to the last two years' questions were 199 movies in a year, and 135 new movies in a year (one every 2.7 days). In case you were curious :-)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

August 24, 2009

The Way of the Gun (2000)
I don't really like Benicio Del Toro or Juliette Lewis, so this movie had a couple of things working against it at the start. Basically, a kidnapping of a pregnant woman goes horribly wrong and the two would-be criminals (including Ryan Phillipe with a really bad, strange accent) wind up mired in a whole lot of badness. It sort of tries to be both a buddy movie and a crime thriller, but both sort of get lost. There's also a lot of Butch Cassidy undertones in the end, but without Paul Newman or Robert Redford. It sort of falls flat without them.
My Netflix rating: 3 stars