NINE - I've kept my silence until now...- Page 2

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:07am

Day-Lewis is miscast. One of the great actors of the world, he's at sea here, and Marshall is no help.

As for his singing, well. The poor thing just can't carry a tune.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:11am

's what I figured.

Bizarre.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:13am

Yeah. I just sat there thinking that I never want to hear ANYONE complain about Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd ever again.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:26am

How can they be so clueless about casting when so much money is at stake in the film?

Hello, he sings, so you need to get a singer, a real singer, for the singing role.

Jeesh.

Oh, yeah, anybody can sing because it's no big deal--I think that's the way they think, those tone-deaf checkbooks that only hear music in slimeball karaoke bars.

Pity.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 10:57am

I am confused as to where all this hatred for NINE is coming from. While I don't think it's "Academy Award Winning Best Picture" material, I still thought it was an incredibly well made film. Yes, it clearly has flaws... but I didn't find it to be NEAR the hot mess that everyone thought it was.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:08am

I agree Pgenre, it was a grand mess...lol

[tazber]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:13am

The hatred is coming from the fact that it sucked.

Poorly thought out and embarrassingly executed.

With a cast who didn't even seem to be trying.

Awful.

And it's only compounded by the fact that the both 8 1/2 and the original musical are both brilliant pieces of work.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:41am

I've grown more indifferent to the movie. I came out mostly liking it the first time. The second time was... considerably rougher for me to sit through.

I still love the soundtrack, though.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:58am

Rob's doing SPIDER WOMAN? I'm already casting in my mind..

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:00pm

Rob's doing the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:03pm

I'm still surprised he picked THAT as his next project. How dull. Do we really need a 4th installment of those movies? And couldn't Rob Marshall pick something more interesting to direct?

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:05pm

Rob picked a commercial franchise (potential) blockbuster. It was a strong, safe, high-profile choice.

Certainly not an artistic one! Maybe he has bills to pay.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:09pm

Besty, you're right, I can certainly see why he picked it. Regardless of how much flack he gets on the board, I still find him admirable and I love his vision, I just wish he had picked a more interesting project. Still, it'll be interesting to see him working with Johnny Depp. I'm curious to see what the two of them can do together.

Penelope Cruz has repeatedly said she would love to do another musical and with Rob Marshall. There you have our Aurora/Spider Woman (and before everyone starts bashing Rob and Penelope, I'm not being completely serious about this).

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:15pm

Kiss of the Spider Woman would be another "artistic" musical film happening in the main character's mind, based on an art house movie that made about five dollars at the box office back in 1985, despite critical acclaim. It has no hit (or even well-known) songs in the score, even with Kander and Ebb as the songwriting team.

It will not be made into a movie anytime soon. Not after NINE got ripped apart for being the poor stepchild of "Chicago."

The critics would already be writing their reviews before Rob even started filming it.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:26pm

It'll never happen, but it's "the movie in my mind"
I do hope Rob Marshall is able to find the right project at some point. I think with the right material and the right team of people he is incredibly talented, and he assembles a great group of people both behind the cameras and on camera.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:39pm

Look at the bright side. Marshall could not cut any songs/music from the movie (Pirates).

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 1:18pm

Finally saw it. Yeah, its a botch, but not nearly as bad as its detractors say. I'd sit through this again than all that A SINGLE MAN bulls**t.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 1:18pm

I think Rob Marshall should direct the film remake of "The Wall," a musical which quite literally does take place in the protagonist's head.

[jasonf]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 2:22pm

I really didn't think it was as bad as is being reported either. The biggest complaint I can't wrap my head around is that the plot doesn't make sense. Whether or not individual numbers worked (and I felt most did) I had absolutely no trouble following the story at all. Could it be that because it was different from the stage version that we know, people couldn't mesh the two in their head and couldn't see the movie as its own entity?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:23pm

I just can't believe you waited to actually see it before you hated it for once.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:24pm

LOL joe!

[devonian.t]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:26pm

Such a disappointment, but many of those faults were also to be found in the editing of Chicago. Keep Marshall away from musicals on film!

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:55pm

Well, since I have now seen TAF and remained mum I'll just turn this into an all-out revelation-fest: TAF was even WORSE than NINE. I was completely right, and actually I found the show even more unseemly, crude and bland on stage than either the score or script indicated it could possibly be. See, some people can actually change their minds about things, and I actually HATE TAF now whereas I only disliked it before. Then again, one would have to possess a mind in order to change it so pay this no mind.

P

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 4:12pm

I'm sorry, but what is TAF? I can't figure it out for the life of me.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/31/09 at 4:16pm

I am bewildered. That Awful Film?