I'm a musical fanatic and I love that movie musicals have resurfaced in the past decade. I struggled with Nine and I have a feeling it's one of those films that will either fade away in my memory completely or I'll find myself continuously thinking back to it when I least expect it and eventually it becomes one of my favorites. It's hard to say which is more likely to happen...
The trouble is that a lot of the best things about the film I think are also some of the worst and vice versa. Visually, there are some stunning shots. The entire film is shot very artistically and it is beautiful to look at. The lighting, colors, camera angles etc. are all well thought out. Unfortunately, this was also a deterrent from the film in some ways... at times it felt as if the film was trying too hard to be artsy and stylish. While beautiful to look at it, it was done up to the extent that it felt a bit contrived. Overall, I think more of a positive than a negative though.
One of my biggest criticisms of the film is that the plot was lacking and the whole film felt somewhat disjointed... it jumped back and forth between dialog and random song/dance spectacles so abruptly that you were never really able to get into a flow with the movie. Yet, I think that in ways this was perhaps a really clever statement, as the lead of the film is a film director who struggles throughout the entire movie with writing a film with a cohesive story... throughout the film we see snippets of his visions, all disjointed without any real connective thread. This is mirrored in the film we view as the audience. Still, I'd rather see a smooth story.
It was enjoyable but felt lacking.
The trouble is that a lot of the best things about the film I think are also some of the worst and vice versa. Visually, there are some stunning shots. The entire film is shot very artistically and it is beautiful to look at. The lighting, colors, camera angles etc. are all well thought out. Unfortunately, this was also a deterrent from the film in some ways... at times it felt as if the film was trying too hard to be artsy and stylish. While beautiful to look at it, it was done up to the extent that it felt a bit contrived. Overall, I think more of a positive than a negative though.
One of my biggest criticisms of the film is that the plot was lacking and the whole film felt somewhat disjointed... it jumped back and forth between dialog and random song/dance spectacles so abruptly that you were never really able to get into a flow with the movie. Yet, I think that in ways this was perhaps a really clever statement, as the lead of the film is a film director who struggles throughout the entire movie with writing a film with a cohesive story... throughout the film we see snippets of his visions, all disjointed without any real connective thread. This is mirrored in the film we view as the audience. Still, I'd rather see a smooth story.
It was enjoyable but felt lacking.