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, April 27, 2010

47. April 26/27, 2010 - The Way We Get By (2009)

This documentary is surprisingly moving and powerful. The three subjects of the film - a widow with two grandchildren being deployed to Iraq, a WWII veteran with cancer, and an elderly man of the community - are tireless in their goal of meeting all of the soldiers returning from overseas as they return to the US through the Bangor International Airport in Maine. They each have their own issues to deal with, but they don't let them stop them from shaking hands and giving hugs at 3:40 in the morning. Would have made me cry had I not been showing it to a class full of teenagers.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars