Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Sophia Loren, and Fergie. With all that star power, how could you make a bad movie? Well, Rob Marshall, the director of Nine, did. Nine sucks. It’s a musical, but the music sucks, too. Not a memorable song in the film. The story is adapted from Fellini’s 8 1/2 where a director with writer’s block is trying to make a movie. He smokes a lot, has sex a lot, imagines what his film might be like which kicks off the big musical numbers (which suck), and generally obsesses over his hypochondria. The actors bravely try to breathe some life into this corpse, but it was dead on arrival. Nine opened and closed here in two weeks. It seems like Hollywood doesn’t know how to make musicals or westerns any more. GRADE: F
Why not tell us how you really feel, George?
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Seriously, you’d have to pay me – a lot – to sit through this. And I loved teh advertising strategy – push the “previous Oscar winners” as if that could make up for a crappy script and bad direction.
It wasn’t just the crappy script and the bad direction, Jeff. The music was horrible! How can you make a musical with Bad Music?
So I guess you didn’t like it.
The guys at Gitmo could use NINE instead of water-boarding…and get better results, Bill.
I had a feeling with that cast of beautiful women, you’d give it a shot.
You’re right about the beautiful women, Patti. But the reason I was sitting there watching NINE is that Diane loves Romantic Comedies and musicals. It’s in my Contract that I have to accompany her to those films. Diane actually liked NINE. In our 31 years of marriage I can’t think of a Romantic Comedy or musical Diane DIDN’T like.
I know Judy can’t wait to see it, right Bill?
Rumor has it that Judy fell asleep during the movie that inspired NINE, Jeff: 8 1/2.
How do you explain that NINE was a big hit on Broadway and won five Tonys (Broadway Oscar)? And with much of the same music? Clearly, you didn’t understand what you were looking at. Your hatred for this film must have other reasons. It’s really quite good.
NINE cost $80 million to make and has only taken in $16.8 million, kitvc. It’s a financial disaster. NINE’s popularity on MOVIEmeter is down 65% from last week. Comparing the Broadway version with the movie version is like comparing apples and kumquats. Your tastes and my tastes are clearly different. But the movie-going public’s taste seems to be closer to mine than yours based on the box-office results.
Maybe if they’d painted the actors blue, and made the movie in 3_d, and moved the action to the jungle… naw, that still wouldn’t work. The OTHER movie with this title, only as a number, 9 also got lousy reviews. Maybe there’s some numerology curse going on here? No, probably just some more lousy movie-making.
By the way, George, none of my browsers can see the lower picture(s) on your post.
Thanks for the heads up, Rick. I can see the graphic fine in FIREFOX, but that damned Internet Explorer won’t display it. What a lousy piece of software! I’ll try to fix that graphic.
George – I tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari. It looks fine now, but it was not visible before. I don’t use IE.
Hope you’re not disappointed in the Avatar soundtrack review. I kinda bailed with the link, I guess, but I feel awful today and that was all I could manage.
I had the AVATAR soundtrack on order, Rick. Like you, I like Horner’s music. James Cameron has announced he’s already working on a sequel to AVATAR and hints he might also make a third AVATAR movie to complete the story “arc.” Cameron says he’s put in various story lines that will be developed in future AVATAR films. And, if that wasn’t enough, Cameron’s box-office numbers have eclipsed George Lucas’ box-office numbers. Hope you’re feeling better, Rick. Get that H1N1 shot!
Whatever you did worked George, as the picture is see-able now.
Like Judy Crider I didn’t like 8 1/2, so didn’t bother seeing NINE on Broadway either.
Didn’t James Horner do the soundtrack of the classic “aliens want to mate with human women” movie, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP? I think that was one of his earlier works.
You’re right, Jeff. Honer did the soundtrack to HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP in 1980. Everybody’s got to start somewhere.