Yep - sorry for the confusion. I just remembered seeing “Nine” on the marquise and assumed it was the same show. I was wrong.
So trivial and yet I’ll mention: one of my favorite lyrical phrases in all of the showtuniverse is from the song My Husband Makes Movies in NINE. It’s only 3 words but it’s so powerfully evocative and we can all relate (if you’re over 30 anyway):
“Long ago, years ago, someone else ago.”
*Lyrics are slightly changed in the movie version of the song but the ‘someone else ago’ is intact.
I love musicals and want to see it, but the Penelope Cruz Component is going to be difficult for me to stomach.
Hand up! I love musicals, and shiny things. This looks like it has both.
Having just caught the trailer today, ME ME ME ME ME!
I was totally blown when I saw “that” was Fergie and love having a chance to see P. trot out her dance training. The rest of the casting doesn’t look half bad either… that Dench chick looks familiar… 
(you could put that woman on screen with Jaws, Predator and Alien and she’d still manage to be the one “eating the scene”)
I saw Nine, Crazy Heart and Sherlock Holmes last night. Nine was my least-favorite which is disappointing because it’s the one I had the highest hopes for.
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Strike out there. Holy hell, Broadway standards are very low. “Be Italian” was the only song in the movie I liked. I thought the rest were horrible. It sure made me appreciate Chicago a lot more than I did, and I love Chicago. In Chicago, all the songs are great, and the story is interesting, complex and very dark. In Nine, all the songs were mediocre except for “Be Italian” and the story was ridiculous. IMO, obviously. If a “regular” movie had been made about a director 10 days away from starting a movie but with no script or even any idea what he wants the movie to be about, while a large film crew is cooling their heels, not knowing what to make or do, the scorn would be tremendous. But for some reason musicals get a pass on stupid stories. But that’s ok, I would have been willing to give it a pass because the acting by everybody is so good, but oh my god, those songs! Sorry Sampiro, I know you like them, and I wanted to like them too, but I thought they were awful.
No glitter that I remember, but otherwise everything else panned out. Well, not a lot of dancing, but some.
I hope Colleen Atwood gets an Oscar nomination for the costumes, and the Art Director.[/spoiler]
All three in one night?! Wow, and I thought I was a movie freak…
We intend to see Up In The Air and Nine later this week and saw Sherlock last night, but three in one day/night? Hats off to you Equipoise! Can you deduct your popcorn bill from your taxes?
My record is 6 in one day. We think it’s a waste for us to go out and just see just one film, so it’s almost always 2, and usually 3 at a time. We’re lucky that we don’t have any other considerations (no kids at home, no dog to walk) and can stay out that long. We also use discount coupons from Costco so it’s not as expensive as it could be. Movies are our only vice and major expense outside of monthly rent/utility bills, and it’s not that major considering the entertainment value we get from it.
Ha, we don’t eat popcorn (we’re both low-carb) and we have a ton of “Free small popcorn” coupons that are useless to us. They come in handy though. One time I was at Costco and all I had to buy were some movie passes and hamburger. There was one woman in front of me waiting to put her stuff on the counter, and she had an overly full shopping cart. I asked her if she ever goes to the movies and she said yes. I asked her if she went to AMC and she said yes. I asked her if I could trade a bunch of popcorn coupons for stepping in ahead of her. I wouldn’t have asked except that I had to go to work. She was so nice and said sure! She didn’t even want to take the coupons but I assured her that I’d never use them and if she could, that’d be great, they wouldn’t go to waste.
Saw it tonight and didn’t like it. At all.
[spoiler]The songs are bad. The only one I liked was “Cinema Italiano.” The others were all utterly unmemorable and uninteresting.
I spent a lot of time wondering why they bothered to make a movie of this, and then I spent some more time wondering why they bothered to make the stage version in the first place. As Fellini’s own bit of meta whatever or vanity, fine, but to then make a musical out of it … you’d need, yanno, some decent songs or something. Or a character or two you gave a shit about. Or something.[/spoiler]
Didn’t have anything to challenge All That Jazz in any way.
Oh good, I was afraid I’d get my ass kicked by the musical fans once they got around to seeing it. You didn’t like “Be Italian”? I thought Fergie kicked ass (in a good way) and was the best thing about the movie. Not that I didn’t love all the actors, but most of them were completely wasted.
I still think the trailer is brilliant. I can see myself watching that over and over again, but never watching the movie itself again.
Wasn’t the trailer just the Be Italian song? I actually thought it was a pretty sucky trailer, having no context or useful information about WTF it is.
Anyway, since I’m familiar with Fellini and I knew what it was before I saw the trailer, I of course planned to see the movie, which I did tonight.
It was thoroughly “meh.”
What makes that sucky?? I have never seen the stage play. I have never seen the Fellini movie. I had never heard of Nine let alone any songs from it. I saw the trailer and not one thing in it was familiar (well, story and music-wise because of course I knew the actors on sight) and at the end I had no more of an idea of what the story was than I did at the beginning, and still, I was quite simply blown the fuck away by it. BLOWN AWAY, I tell you! Few trailers make my eyes pop and make me exclaim “OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!” which is how I reacted. I’m sure I started a thread about it back when the trailer first appeared but I can’t find it now.
Really, the trailer is so amazingly amazing that there’s no way the movie could have lived up to it.
It’s the opposite of Avatar, which has a horrible trailer, but it’s a wonderful movie.
I didn’t dislike it – the staging was quite eye-popping – but the song itself was … um, what was the song about, again? Seriously, what was the song about?