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 :-)
Saturday, January 2, 2010
January 1, 2010
Avatar (2009) True to all the hype, the visuals in this movie are amazing. The story is only so/so, but that's also to be expected. I doubt there were many people who went to see this for the writing, since - let's face it - it's really a fantasy version of Fern Gully with more explosions. It's no surprise that the movie looks as great as it does, since the visual effects were done by Industrial Light and Magic and the dream team behind Lord of the Rings, WETA Workshops and Richard Taylor. Zoe Saldana's performance was the standout, especially since it was all motion-captured. Also, now that I know that Joel David Moore is actually in this movie, his role in the episode of Bones centered around this movie's premiere is much funnier. The musical score jumped out at me, but only because half-way through, I realized that it's really similar to Titanic. Plus the banshee cries are nearly identical to the velociraptor roars in Jurassic Park. May not be the most original film of the year, but it's certainly one of the best-looking. My Netflix rating: 3 stars
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