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NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#25re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#26re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:11am
's what I figured.
Bizarre.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#27re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 7:13amYeah. I just sat there thinking that I never want to hear ANYONE complain about Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd ever again.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#28re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#29re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 10:57amI 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.
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#30re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:08amI agree Pgenre, it was a grand mess...lol
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#31re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
....but the world goes 'round
#32re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
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#33re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 11:58amRob's doing SPIDER WOMAN? I'm already casting in my mind..
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#34re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:00pmRob's doing the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#35re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:03pmI'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?
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#36re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#37re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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).
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#38re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#39re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#40re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 12:39pmLook at the bright side. Marshall could not cut any songs/music from the movie (Pirates).
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#41re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 1:18pmFinally 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.
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#42re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 1:18pmI think Rob Marshall should direct the film remake of "The Wall," a musical which quite literally does take place in the protagonist's head.
#43re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#44re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:23pmI just can't believe you waited to actually see it before you hated it for once.
#45re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:24pmLOL joe!
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#46re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 3:26pmSuch a disappointment, but many of those faults were also to be found in the editing of Chicago. Keep Marshall away from musicals on film!
#47re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
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.
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SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#48re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 4:12pmI'm sorry, but what is TAF? I can't figure it out for the life of me.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#49re: NINE - I've kept my silence until now...
Posted: 12/31/09 at 4:16pmI am bewildered. That Awful Film?
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