9 — District 9 — the Nines — 9 Souls — movie reviews
Heyas! Happy Friday! Here’s a super quick run through of two of the hottest numbered movies out in theatres right now, and two that you can catch on video somenine… sometime.
9
So cute! Wait… a pudgy little burlap beanbag with professional baseball player hips and motorized-aperture kinda-Wall-E eyes and Elijah Wood’s voice is cute? Darn tooting.
Casting Alan Oppenheimer as the scientist who invents the techno feat that is corrupted into a tool for evil that eventually kills all living creatures is genius partially due to his lengthy resume (Mighty Mouse, Skeletor, Vanity Smurf) but also the connotations his surname silently suggests. *shudder* Also big up for making #7 (Jennifer Connelly) so bad ass.
One question though… if the giant ‘bot was dormant, was there really a need for… well, the whole movie? Unless it was predetermined that #9 would be the most curious and naïvely brave of the bunch? Forget it. 9 isn’t that deep; it has a message, but after all the action sequences, it gets buried. Oh, the irony.
District 9
You’ve already seen this, so why do I bother? Because you have to see it again and again, you must! Chris tells me the lead (who reminds me of a dorky Jim Caviezel) was actually the director’s bud, a former film producer with no real formal training. Oh and Weta FTW with their rich graphix. Yeeow.
The Nines
Ryan Reynolds. Hope Davis. Surreal mind-trip. Parallel timelines. Shirtless Ryan Reynolds. I thought that’d be enough, but turns out I crave cohesion. Something about the herky-jerky too-flashy-for-its-own-good 90’s style editing and the awkward pauses and the wannabe Guy Ritchie meets David Lynch parts did not gel well. It’s bland enough to be forgettable, yet weird enough for a possible re-watch down the line.
9 Souls
Ryuhei Matsuda is the most… uh.. unique looking popular actor alive, but he can invoke “mysterious and moody, borderline creepy” without even saying a word. Kind of like Peter Sarsgaard. See Chris’ review.
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