The Nines (2007)
July 13, 2016 11:36 AM - Subscribe
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
AV Club review
This was such a strange movie. I think I like it, but I'm not sure. Reynolds does a great job here, juggling 3 roles (that are essentially one).
Melissa McCarthy was phenomenal, even playing herself!
AV Club review
This was such a strange movie. I think I like it, but I'm not sure. Reynolds does a great job here, juggling 3 roles (that are essentially one).
Melissa McCarthy was phenomenal, even playing herself!
Are all movies about Ryan Reynolds about how he's some sort of golden god? I feel like that was the kernel around which the last several of his that I've watched were built. The (non) superhero one... Deadpool? 100% driven by the fact that RR is HOTT. And I watched The Voices recently, also predicated on the male lead being HOTTT. ...and then this film.
I mean, that's some serious Baader-Meinhof/recency bias in effect, I understand, but still I have to wonder if they're all like that?
Anyway, I kept expecting there to be a sane explanation for what was going on here, and for the RR character to have to deal with it somehow. Like the sit-down with McCarthy took a left turn for me when I was expecting a "reminder" about his disassociative identity disorder. Taking it in entirely the opposite direction was fascinating (I guess?) but I felt like it let the film makers get away with not having an ending or much character development. I mean, the whole film is a long attempt at kickstarting a forgetful deux ex machina. And the numbering system? Totally random. I mean, if we're in base 10 and he's a 9 then why not have 10 swoop in at the end if you're going the deux ex machina route?
*sigh* Sometimes I feel like my standards for movie picture entertainments is too high. Ryan Reynolds certainly was good-looking in this movie.
posted by carsonb at 11:03 AM on August 1, 2016
I mean, that's some serious Baader-Meinhof/recency bias in effect, I understand, but still I have to wonder if they're all like that?
Anyway, I kept expecting there to be a sane explanation for what was going on here, and for the RR character to have to deal with it somehow. Like the sit-down with McCarthy took a left turn for me when I was expecting a "reminder" about his disassociative identity disorder. Taking it in entirely the opposite direction was fascinating (I guess?) but I felt like it let the film makers get away with not having an ending or much character development. I mean, the whole film is a long attempt at kickstarting a forgetful deux ex machina. And the numbering system? Totally random. I mean, if we're in base 10 and he's a 9 then why not have 10 swoop in at the end if you're going the deux ex machina route?
*sigh* Sometimes I feel like my standards for movie picture entertainments is too high. Ryan Reynolds certainly was good-looking in this movie.
posted by carsonb at 11:03 AM on August 1, 2016
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