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Following baph’s recommendation I watched The Nines. That’s one weird movie.

It is very well done, there are a lot of details that I really, really liked and after the plot twist is revealed everything fits. The acting is very good, as well. You notice that it’s thoroughly thought through and I don’t think that there’s anything that doesn’t go with the explanation. [Congratulations to John August! But what else to expect from the writer of Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride. On the other hand, it’s nothing you’d expect from the writer of Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, which are fun, but not necessarily the best movies in the world.]

But I didn’t like the ending very much. I don’t like it, when people resort to really weird supernatural explanations, although I have to admit that I couldn’t think of anything less strange to finish the story with. Also, I don’t like it when the ending is explained and you get shots of the clues hidden in the movie to go with the explanation. I prefer to think of them on my own.

It’s worth a watch and then you can go to the imdb forum and discuss if you think that you are a nine.

4 comments

  1. The blog’s interesting, thanks for the tip.

    Yes, the idea is good. It was a bit Matrix-like (also the discussion on the imdb, which still makes me laugh when I think about it) and not really the newest idea in the world, but good things don’t always have to be new.

  2. Waitaminit! I reccomended it to baphomet!

    What was cool about it is that it didn’t make the supernatural thingy omnipotent – he/it was fallible.

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