"9" Impressions

Sorry for the staggered posts. These past two weeks have been hellish.

The thing that hurt the most about "9" was that I was really hoping that it would be good. It had me truly interested from the beginning and it just kept looking better and better. Unfortunately for me, it was terrible. Awful. "9" felt more like an experiment in design than an actual film. It honestly felt like Shane Acker was more interested in how things looked than whether or not his story made any sense. I heard beforehand that the story was muddled, but I had no idea that it was going to be as a bad as it was. At the end of the film, I honestly wondered why any of the main characters ever existed at all. Everything just felt utterly pointless.

I am awarding "9" one star out of five for having good voice acting and decent animation but lacking pretty much anything else. If you're absolutely dead set on seeing this excuse for a film, I suggest you wait for the rental.

9 Trailer

I must admit, I am kind of excited to see 9. Regardless, of course, of the fact that I still dislike Tim Burton (even if he is only co-producing this particular film). Anyways, 9 looks like it has a lot of potential (it isn't going to continue to abuse "3D") and the voice acting cast has a lot of big names scattered here and there so that should be interesting as well. I thought I'd use Apple's trailer page because it has all the nice quality options. Expect to see this film in theaters on 9/9/2009 (which is also, coincidentally, the release day for The Beatles: Rock Band if you're interested).