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9 (2009)
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Movie Review by James
September 19th, 2009
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Utterly stupid
Favorite Movie Quote: "We had such potential, such promise."
Did not like it at all, despite trying. Very stupid plot which does not make any sense at all.
I think most of the people were sitting and thinking the same as me "Huh? God, what am I doing here?!". I've never seen people leaving the theater so quickly. A few left even in the middle.
Well expected "stunning visuals" were not that stunning. Yes, beautiful. Even stylish to some extent. But in our age of computer graphics and animations it just means they
did everything right and did not screw up anything.
Images of machines constantly reminded me of "Matrix", while dolls inevitably brought up memories of "Coraline". The latter was far more enjoyable and stylish movie.
The "9" is an expensive exercise in making up a movie without a scent of a plot or a meaning. Expensive, because it's not worth 80 minutes of your life.
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 | Jethro Tall
Sep 19, 2009 10:31 PM
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Uh.... Were you stoned when you saw 9?
I see from your profile that you are interested in 'Saving The World'. What exactly are you going to save the world from? |
| Jethro Tall
Sep 21, 2009 9:55 PM
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Hey James - Thanks for your comments. I think I liked your comments better than I liked your review. Although your review was pretty good, too.
9 sounds like a really stupid movie. On what you say, alone, I think I'll avoid seeing it. |
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Sep 20, 2009 1:36 AM
The movie does not make a hint of any thoughts about these questions. It simply goes "aha! see! let's go! no! yes! we must kill it!" action-action-boom-action. No time to think. No need to think?
I put away discussing my profile here. =)
Sep 21, 2009 1:44 PM
I concur wholeheartedly with your review here. I saw 'Coraline' on the first day and loved it, I am still surprised that out here in LA the movie did not do well, I did not buy the DVD yet but I will. I like Tim Burton but this movie, 9, missed a lot of things, and like you said there were far too many questions especially about the 'mad machine' as I call it, and once the dolls get the 'mad machine' then what? And if the mad machine 'ate' them all up, then what?
The only enjoyable thing that I liked about the movie was figuring out the voices of the actors, I am not a jennifer connolly fan but she sounded nicer, softer and sweeter as opposed to seeing her in movies where I am not convinced of any of her roles.
This was a big time disappointment for me with this movie, as I said in my review I bought the song that they use in the trailer, 'welcome home.' Did you notice at the end of the film they only used a snippet of that song? Interesting. I wanted so much to enjoy this movie and--well, I did not sad to say.