I never thought I would. But I didn't like it at all.
Nicole Kidman boring as usual.
Penelope Cruz always repeting herself, boring.
Daniel Day Lewis was great.
And I loved the scene with the car and Italy. That's all
is that your year of birth in the nickname?
shareI feel sorry for you. You missed so many terrific moments in this movie. Open your heart and mind next time. And by the way, "boring" is a very highschool judgement on a complex artistic product.
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I love all the extraordinary dance scenes -- spectacular!! BUT, if one is not into appreciating the Herculean efforts taken to hone each dance scene to perfection, then I could see room for criticism...
Complexity begets boredom for those seeking the most extreme excitement, again and again, as so much of today's movies are; this movie is about facing one's demons, finally, and recognizing what all he traded for what little...
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I even found a lot of the dance sequences boring. The choreography was lazy, pure and simple. Especially "Call from the Vatican," which is an infamous dance number as performed both by Anita Morris in the original and Jane Krakowski in the revival. The choreography for that number was uninspired at best.
shareIt may be a complex artistic proJECT, but it isn't a successful one. Nothing new here. The songs are so lazily written that you hear the whole song in the first ten seconds, but it goes on and on anyway, every time. BE ITALIAN for five droning minutes.... CINEMA ITALIANO bla bla bla MY HUSBAND MAKES MOVIES ugh "some men rule the world but my husband makes movies" I think that lyric truly sums up the shallow nature of this production. Such fantastic actors and actresses, such magnificent performances...... and such abysmal material.
sharethis is hardly a complex artistic project. it is a craven and shallow attempt to cash in on a previous actual artistic work.
The amount of talent in this film makes the utter failure that results even more stunning. the producers ought to be ashamed
this is one of the best cast ensemble. in every minute of the movie there is something art.. one shouldnt be so harsh on that, deserves a second view.
shareI like this movie the first time I watched it. Saw it for a second time. And did again for the third time.
And when I'll have some few hours of free time, I'll watch it again, for the fourth time.
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This film is about a director who has run out of ideas, has no script, and whose recent movies are flops...art imitating life anyone?
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where's the intriguing quote from?
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I thought it was boring too..I can't believe I wasted my money. I'm usually big on musicals. I thought I would like it, I guess I had something else in mind.
"Don't mess with people who serve your food." ~Waiting
I really, really wanted to like this. I loved the cast, the trailer looked so promising. Sat down to watch it with my (limited selection of) musical-loving friends. It was a very pretty film, but disappointing otherwise.
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Let's not blame the faults of the film on a generational gap.
shareAs a story I found it interesting...but as a musical I found it
lacked what I think makes a great musical, I should leave the theatre
(or in this case my living room) singing or at least humming the songs.
This didn't do it for me even though the movie did possess many of the attributes prized by the superficial male; Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Fergie,
Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman to name a few...even Daniel Day who is
pretty much awesome.
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There are lots of theories as to what makes a song "hummable," and it's mainly based on simply melodies and lots of repetition. As a songwriter, whether or not you can hum the song on your way out is my last concern. My main concern is how the songs affect you when you're sitting in the theatre watching them. Did the music in <i>Nine</i> have any effect on you while you were watching the movie.
I've known the score for a long, long time, so those melodies are ingrained in my mind. I always leave humming the tunes.
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The other thing with "I Can't Make This Movie" is that Guido has literally just watched his entire life crumble before him. In the film, nothing is really in place and then after a quiet transgression, Louisa quietly leaves him. In the stage show the movie he's making is stalled, his mistress tells him that if he won't marry her, they're through, his muse says she's not going to make excuses for him anymore and his wife, his rock, says enough is enough. Everything crashes and burns all at once. That's why "I Can't Make This Movie," a breakdown which happens in real time, results in a fantasy of his own death. And then he can't even get that right.
I know people always say, "It can't be exactly like the stage show," but I think that what I just described is far more dramatically compelling than what was presented in the movie.
Gotta love ths dismissive comments by the teens and twenty-somethings regarding this film. In short, the basic throughline of the movie is a man's mid-life crisis and the fear, uncertainty and confusion that accompany it.
Honestly, how can one expect anyone under 40 and living in a youth-centered culture to truly grasp or identify with this subject?
We'll have to wait until they reach that point in their own lives...and kids, it happens a damn sight sooner than you can possibly realize. Ciao!
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I was being neither dismissive or condescending. I was merely stating a fact. It is impossible for a person who is, let's say, 22, to comprehend what being 50 is like. It isn't a question of intelligence but experience. I have never been to Denmark so there's no way I can fully relate to that experience. I've yet to be 75 so I don't know what it feels like to be that age.
A person of any age can dislike a song or a performance or the way a film has been put together, but you cannot know what it's like to be an age you have never been. No offense intended...and it's simply my own personal opinion. Ciao again.
A good film is supposed to put you in the position of the person it's about. I don't think this was the main problem with the film. And just so you know, it isn't only 50 somethings who are afraid of getting old and not doing something important with their lives.
shareBusby,
I have been thinking the same thing as you ever since the deluge of bad reviews came in. Apart from quite considerable issues with the filmmaker's choices, surely the lack of identification with the subject matter must account somewhat for everybody getting different things out of different movies, the reason why a movie can generate both " It Rocks! " and " It Sux! " reviews.
However, its wrong to say its attributable to the age of the individual. Some young people are incredibly mature and perceptive. I myself "got" and embraced Nine and all its complexities when quite young and waaaaaay before my first mid-life crisis at 24!
And some people will never identify with or experience any of the trials of our protagonist, no matter how old they get.
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To say that an entire generation cannot appreciate a film because they have not yet gone through a midlife crisis is completely ignorant. I am 22 years old, I absolutely love Daniel Day Lewis, I loved Chicago, and I really thought this was going to be one of my favorite films. I also watch a lot of slow paced art films that most people would classify as being "boring". I just couldn't sit through it. I couldn't even finish it.
The music was just...not the kind of music you would expect from a musical (ie. catchy and memorable, something you would sing to yourself after watching it) but the repeating lyrics and annoying songs just got under my skin, and when there was none of that going on, there was NOTHING going on. I'm going to have to watch it again to be sure of myself, but don't be condescending by telling young people they are too young to understand something.
Well, just so you are aware that not everyone in that age bracket can't pick up on the beautiful and heart-wrenching themes in this movie...I watched it when I was 21 and picked up on everything you mentioned. Easily. Everyone I watched it with thought it was the dullest thing they had ever seen...and I literally couldn't grasp how they could say that it was a boring film. Haha.
So, I think it is less an age thing and more a total movie lovers thing, ya?
Anyway, hope you have a pleasant day. :)
For the record, these are themes that are present in the stage musical, as well, which is one of my favorite musicals of all time. Everything about the music and the characters' journeys thrills me. And I found the movie to be surpassingly dull.
shareI am well past 40 (58, in fact) and I found it boring. Beautifully photographed, perhaps, but boring, nevertheless. The plot just goes nowhere. You can see the ending coming from the very beginning. I felt the same way when I saw the original Broadway production (although I do wish I had seen Jane Krakowski, who I adore, in the revival). Plus, they cut some of the best songs (Germans at the Spa, Simple, Getting Tall - what on earth were they thinking?!?).
shareHey! I'm fifty-five and I was disappointed with the film. The film I saw was a mish-mash of Fellini's 8 1/2 and his City of Women, via Marshall's Chicago. I thought Marshall was trying to create a homage to Fellini's films while reproducing his earlier success of Chicago (and I loved all the films I mentioned). I was impressed with Daniel Day-Lewis, as always, as well as several of the other actors - god, Sophia Loren is so GORGEOUS and will always be one of my favorite actors.
The film did not keep my attention, and I appreciate good film. Check my lists if you doubt me. So when I write I found the film to be dull, uninteresting, unexciting and mundane, those words all mean boring. I have lived through "fear, uncertainty, and confusion" and if I remember correctly, those emotions started when I was about thirteen.
No, I didn't yet have many love affairs to look back on, but I don't believe trivializing the feelings and life experiences of "people under forty" is even relevant unless you enjoy sounding superior by not being part of the youth-centered culture any longer. You were a teen-ager once, and were under forty, and had opinions then too. Remember?
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I'm 55, I've had a mid-life crisis and I still think this film is an utter pile of *beep* The only blessing is that it's so forgettable I can't remember much of it now - I only remembered its existence because I've just seen Day-Lewis do the sunglasses thing in the trailer for "Unbearable Lightness of Being" and couldn't trust my memory of seeing him in something as bad as this.
For God's sake just go and see Fellini's "8 1/2" again, or for the first time if you've not seen it. This shallow, conventional, petty-bourgeois rip-off should be consigned to the dustbin of cinematic history as quickly as possible.
I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.
I'm waiting for the dvd release of this movie here in my place (Asian country) and am definitely buying one when it does, since it wasn't shown in our cinemas. I've seen it only online thrice as I've stated somewhere above. Yesterday, I saw it again for the fourth time, and my enthusiasm for it has only grown even more. I love this film, despite all the flaws cited by posters about it. There were great moments in it and great performances which I think compensate sufficiently enough (in fact, I think the character portrayals are excellent which cannot be said for many of the movies being spinned out by the Hollywood mills especially those made for the youung and the not so young audiences) for whatever defects, perceived or otherwise - be it technical or tonal or storyline inadequacies or whatever inconsistencies in artistic development - it has. I enjoyed almost all of the musical numbers (the only one that annoyed me was Hudson's number) and my only complaint - which even I know is minor, trivial - is that Nicole's Claudia wore a white gown whose bust line seems too large for her actual size, it looked too noticeable to me when she was being asked to turn sideways. I can't help it because my mother was once a dressmaker - and a very good one - and I knew there was something not right about that top of the gown.
This is not DDL's greatest performance but it was welcome relief for me to see him loosen up a bit in this movie, singing and doing a few choreographed movements to go with the song. The metaphorical ending with the little boy was to me a memorable and a thought-provoking film device.
Truth inexorably,inscrutably seeks and reveals Itself into the Light.
Totally agree, boring! Waste of time. It was like a movie without any script, exactly like in the movie. Movie about the movie itself. Extremely chaotic and boring.
shareIt was like a movie without any script, exactly like in the movie. Movie about the movie itself.
It was like a Broadway musical without any script.
-And I hate Broadway musicals.
Purely out of curiosity, were you aware that Nine is a Broadway musical?
And out of more curiosity, how do you feel about off-Broadway musicals? Movie musicals? Regional theatre musicals?
I honestly like Nine. I'm not a musical person, and my only intention to watch this film is that I love Daniel Day-Lewis. I thought he did a good job. I just wished he gained more weight so that he's Italian and not British. Well, my love for this movie is not the same as my deep love for There Will Be Blood, but worth watching.
I just wished the veterans (Loren, Dench) and Fergie were given more scenes here. Hudson could have been replaced by Anne Hathaway. Kate couldn't do a really great movie since Almost Famous. That's my humble opinion.
The film made me laugh a lot. And yes, buying the soundtrack is worth it. The songs may not appear catchy at first but after several plays, they're stucked to my ears!
Give this film another try and you may like it. I don't know if this could attract older people since I'm only 16.
Yeap! Boring as hell!
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