9

[UniversalWolf]

I saw the movie 9 today. It's a strange mix of post-apocalyptic reto-futurism in roughly the same line as Fallout. The reto is hard to define, though. Some parts of it look Victorian, others look like either the first or second world wars. I didn't really care for the ending, which was oddly feelgoody.

The strangest thing is this peculiar trend of post-apocalyptic movies for kids - a trend 9 is a part of. We also have WALL-E and City of Ember, although I haven't seen the latter. I don't really think it works, and I'm puzzled anyone would try in the first place.

A more mature 9 would have been interesting. As it is, the movie is only about an hour and ten minutes long. There are lots of details and motivations that could have been explored in another thirty or forty minutes and it still would've been under two hours.

 

[Kyuu]

Not sure why you feel post-apocalyptic and aiming for a younger audience are mutually exclusive. I don't really buy that post-apocalyptic is an inherently "mature" setting... especially when it's done as it was in Wall-E. Now, in 9, I can understand a bit more what with...[spoiler:8949209692]... the whole humans getting wiped out by a toxic gas deployed by the old machines-we-built-to-serve-us-turning-around-and-killing-us.[/spoiler:8949209692]
Although I liked 9 overall, it does feel a bit odd. On the one hand, you have the stitch-doll characters which appeal more to kids than to adults. But on the other, you have a lot of death, soul-eating, and war going on. I'm not entirely sure what sort of audience they were shooting for. Perhaps they weren't shooting for any particular audience and just made the movie they wanted to make.

In any case, I certainly agree on two points: the movie should have been longer to allow for more exposition in certain areas, and the ending was kinda weak.

I'd say it's probably worth a movie visit if you like CG-animated flicks (as I do), and at least a rental for other folks.

 

[maximaz]

I REALLY wanted to see it when I saw the very first trailer on youtube. I even showed it to everyone and said it looked awesome.

Then the second trailer came out... and completely blew my interest away. Two words: Timur Bekmambetov.

When I saw that name and heard the roaring guitars I immediately checked it off my list.

 

[zioburosky13]

Bah, me country doesn't show this film here. Guess have to wait for DVD.

 

[DammitBoy]

The strangest thing is this peculiar trend of post-apocalyptic movies for kids - a trend 9 is a part of. We also have WALL-E and City of Ember, although I haven't seen the latter. I don't really think it works, and I'm puzzled anyone would try in the first place.

It's all part of the liberal mindset propaganda produced to convince the children that man is evil and bad and we are destroying the planet.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

we are destroying the planet.

oh. we aren't? that's great. thanks db.

 

[DammitBoy]

we are destroying the planet.

oh. we aren't? that's great. thanks db.

You don't really believe in man-made global warming, do you?

 

[SimpleMinded]

Right because global warming is the only way to destroy the planet. Whew. Thank heavens.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

Yeah haven't you seen the grandaddy of all post-apocalyptic kids's shows?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAobPugvsk[/youtube]

 

[Sorrow]

Then the second trailer came out... and completely blew my interest away. Two words: Timur Bekmambetov.

When I saw that name and heard the roaring guitars I immediately checked it off my list.

Who is he and why does his name kill the deal?

 

[Member of Khans]

xxx

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

You don't really believe in man-made global warming, do you?

you don't really believe our natural resources are replenishing themselves as quick as they're being depleted, do you?

anyway...yeah, i'm sure this is all left-wing propaganda. probably has nothing to do with the inherently romantic aesthetic. just like all steampunk is the work of libertarian fascists zomg!!!

 

[DammitBoy]

You don't really believe in man-made global warming, do you?

you don't really believe our natural resources are replenishing themselves as quick as they're being depleted, do you?

Depends on which natural resources you're talking about.

Don't believe all the hype dude. Back when you were still in diapers, all the same experts were telling us the end was near and we'd all be starving to death while we froze our asses off in the new ice age caused by hairspray and deodorant.

Guess what? They were completely wrong about the mini-ice age and turns out we found new ways to make more food and the population bomb never happened.

Not that we shouldn't be good stewards of our resources, not that we shouldn't be striving towards a cleaner environment, and not that we shouldn't be pursuing alternative energy programs - it's just that the end isn't nigh and we aren't artificially heating up the planet.

 

[victor]

We're never going to destroy the planet. If anything, we're going to destroy ourselves. And even that is pretty difficult. Sure, we'll reach a point where maybe 50-60% of Humanity will die off, but who the hell cares? The survivors will live on.

 

[Deleted member 53669]

It's all part of the liberal mindset propaganda produced to convince the children that man is evil and bad and we are destroying the planet.

Your entire is mindset is propaganda produced to convince us your not a fagot and that you don't jerk-it when Von Drunky posts.

 

[UniversalWolf]

Not sure why you feel post-apocalyptic and aiming for a younger audience are mutually exclusive.

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I think the two don't mix well. I don't think they mixed well in WALL-E, even though I'm a big fan of the better Pixar movies.

I don't really buy that post-apocalyptic is an inherently "mature" setting...

I guess we'll have to disagree to agree.

To me the destruction of human civilization is a strange starting place for material aimed at kids. Part of the problem is figuring out what age group 9 is targeting. Any kid old enough not to be scared by it is too old to think the cutesy ragdolls and the hokey ending are cool. PA makes more sense for, say, teenagers, and far less sense for younger kids.

I'd say it's probably worth a movie visit if you like CG-animated flicks (as I do), and at least a rental for other folks.

Agreed. I don't regret seeing it, but it was a little disappointing. It's too intense for young kids and too kiddie for adults.

Yeah haven't you seen the grandaddy of all post-apocalyptic kids's shows?

I'll see your Thundarr and raise you Buck Rodgers with Gil Gerrard and Erin Grey!

It's all part of the liberal mindset propaganda produced to convince the children that man is evil and bad and we are destroying the planet.

I agree that contemporary sci-fi tends to be laced with tiresome, unthinking, neurotic anti-humanism in which aliens are morally superior beings who either condemn us or seek to rescue us from ourselves. If only they would save us from bad writing.

I'm not sure 9 falls into that category though. Marginally. It's closer to Terminator PA than WALL-E PA.