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 :-)

Monday, September 21, 2009

September 21, 2009

9 (2009)
Elijah Wood just attracts bad guys with huge fiery eyes and scary black towers, doesn't he? This is a pretty good movie if you can get past the ridiculous premise: the earth is barren, empty, and devoid of all life after an unnamed war between man and machines and all that survives are a series of nine diminutive sentient dolls made of burlap and metal created by an eccentric inventor straight out of Edward Scissorhands. The story itself is okay, despite the fact that the earth's nuclear winter status is never really explained and most of the characters are not especially developed. When the scientist's secret is finally revealed, it feels like a little bit of a let-down - we watched all the way to this point just to find out that he's copying Lord Voldemort? Still, as post-apocalyptic movies go, it still manages to be less depressing than WALL-E.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars