Today and Movies

Here we are again. It's a Sunday afternoon. Just got done cleaning up the bedroom and doing some grocery shopping for the upcoming week. My roommate is making dinner for me since Tuesday is my bday and we'll all be working. This, as usual, has nothing to do with the rest of the post. It just came out first lol

Here it goes...
Usually on the weekends my friend Barry, Amanda, and I make plans for Friday night to do dinner and a movie. Amanda is away working somewhere else so it has just been Barry and I as of late. Well we are in an outage at work which means crazy schedules and hours. We still managed to grab Nine. I refused to miss that one in theaters lol. My thoughts? It was....
Dramatic pause...

It was great! I was a bit skeptical due to the length of the movie. It is only a little over an hour long. This isn't too surprising since it is animated, but I thought with the previews it looked like it would be very hard to pull off what we were seeing in a short time slot. It wasn't a problem at all. The story developed perfectly. It started off with a few introductory details and such, but after that it was off and running. Not only that, but there wasn't too much. You know how on occasion movies try to put too much into a short time slot? This movie had just the right amount of story line to balance out the amount of time and still hold ones attention. Not only was the story well laid out, but it was well written too. It is hard to explain without saying too much. I will just say that the story had enough in it to get the little hamster in my mind to rolling on its wheel. It is a little odd because it reminds me of a time set up around World War II (yes I know it isn't, but that is what it made me think of) with an application of its meaning for today and the future. It was very clever. A review on IMDB.com called it "refreshing" and I totally agree. Tim Burton and Shane Acker make a good pair. Great job fellas... and everybody else that had a part in it :)

Now that I've raved about the story let me move on to the art. Holy cow. I simply sat and marveled at it. The art left you with the ability to appreciate the beauty in the detail. The beauty of the destruction (yea I know that sounds weird, but it was). Everything was taken into account. You can see each and every fiber in 9s sack body. Each finger crafted with the wood grain where you can actually see it. It was beautiful! All of this destruction and you can't help but see what care the creators put into their world. The art was so good that one of the creatures actually creeped me out. I mean really creeped me out. I won't give away too much, but it's the one with the doll head called Seamstress. Ugh! I still get shivers thinking about that thing. Anyways, if you are looking for a great story 9 is a great movie to see! Go watch it... now. Really. I mean it.
A nifty film synopsis:
http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/9/synopsis

Later days!