Nine

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Ant H @AntMan1 Apr 19 Nine underrated. Critics called it disjointed, overstyled, & emotionally flat. I think many of them missed the point. The film is not celebrating glamour, seduction, and artistic ego — it is exposing the emptiness underneath them. Nine is about a man who does not know how to love. He confuses desire with love, charm with character, fantasy with truth, and self-expression with maturity. The women around him are not props; they are the evidence of the damage caused by his immaturity. The beauty of the film — the music, the cinematography, the spectacle — is not a distraction from the message. It is the message. It shows how attractive surface can be, and how destructive it becomes when cut off from conscience, responsibility, and moral depth. That may be why the film got dismissed. It hits too close to home. Nine tells an uncomfortable truth about modern relationships, male vanity, and emotional disorder. That honesty is exactly why I think it is much better than the ratings suggest. See more Mark B @RT92965712 Feb 1 A fabulous waste of time (mine) and money. An empty film that despite great production design and a fine cast feels like a puzzle the viewer has to solve. Why make this movie? In America nobody knows 8 1/2 and fewer know 9. With fake Italian accents, a choice that diminishes the entire film, I was not ready or willing to engage with what resembled a fever dream without any medication. I should add that I am no fan of Chicago either. Miscast, misinformation, and with bad highly derivative songs, I kept looking at the time instead of watching this film. See more martin c @Reasoner Jan 31 Excellent cast but a shallow boring story. See more Paul D @RT77871453 Nov 24 The statistical fact that this masterpiece of a movie only receives a 39% approval rating is a disgrace. The beauty of the movie should alone earn it 70 out of 100. That doesn't even include the storyline, the award winning stars, and the modest request in musical performance (among even more or equal to exceptional other performances) by a presumed non-italian to sprinkle a lil bit of Italian in everything! Tu eres muy loco if you think this movie is not that great. See more Robert B @RT91674532 03/15/2025 Great entertainment. Spectacular dance routines. A lot to like See more Jacob B @RT48293763 03/04/2025 Atrocious! The material that this film is based on (the legendary film maker Fellini’s masterpiece “8 1/2” and the Broadway musical adaptation of that film) is practically flawless. Yet somehow the director of this travesty has decided to throw away more than half of the score of the show, turn the main character from a complex artist on the verge of a creative breakdown/break through into a one note egocentric chauvinist, and most sacrilegiously he and the screenwriter have made a film about film making as cinematically inert as a Liftetime Channel movie of the week. The genius of Fellini’s original was that he found a new and unique cinematic language for a semi autobiographical film about an artist who couldn’t find anything new or unique to say. The Broadway musical “Nine”, operating without the obvious advantages of a camera, still focuses heavily on the artistic process and retains much of the dream like quality of the film and much of its irony ( and features one of the most beautiful scores of any musical). But somehow Rob Marshal has decided that he would excise most of what came before and make an extended music video, a la MTV. This worked for his other foray into film musicals, “Chicago” — a show about the shallowness of American society and its worship of celebrity. For that his style was a perfect fit! Unfortunately it doesn’t work here, for the true heart of “8 1/2” and “Nine” is man’s search for his soul through art, something this film has none of. Wasted cast, wasted opportunity. See more Read all reviews

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