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Great new poster for 9. I don’t know what language it’s in, but this mystifying version is the one I’d rather have framed on the wall. To anglo-centric eyes, the strangeness of the names only add to the cryptic eccentricity.
I know I’ll get hammered for saying this but, for me, Coraline and 9 both have something Up lacks: a singular aesthetic executed with exceptional visual imagination. After Ratatouille and WALL-E, I expected Up to soar more.
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I did not like the short this was based on. My expectations are, therefore, extremely low.
I’m biased as I have stated before, but I think this movie is going to wow people in a way that pixar films wow people…
it’s very dark, it’s got some scary moments and a great score by danny elfman….watch for this to make some good coin come september….it may just be the type of film that the academy would love to award since it is so different than many of the other animated features that normally vie for the oscar.
9 vs. Up perhaps?
It’s Russian.
I’m sure the N. American version of this poster will be much darker and have way better art direction – this looks very – er – cultural.
9 better turn it up. I am rooting for this movie 100 percent.
Thanks, Ben. I thought that Cyrillic alphabet looked familiar from some of the spam that gets caught in the filter every day. (”А у вас нет материала насчет похудания?”) But I feared as soon as I ventured a guess, someone from Serbia or Uzbekistan would come along and correct me.
“…it may just be the type of film that the academy would love to award since it is so different…”
I’m feeling the same way, filmboymichael. That goes to what Sasha said yesterday about Up, for all its charm, not really showing us anything new.
“I know I’ll get hammered for saying this but, for me, Coraline and 9 both have something Up lacks: a singular aesthetic executed with exceptional visual imagination. After Ratatouille and WALL-E, I expected Up to soar more.” – Ryan Adams
You hit the nail on the head.
what separates 9 from movies like UP first and foremost is the fact that this is a film that is geared toward more toward grownups – it’s not one of those movies that is trying to appeal to a broad spectrum – I saw an early screening and was actually on the edge of my seat some of the scenes were suspenseful bordering on frightening….and let’s face it, the main characters are not cute and cuddly….
also, I have to mention this because it was a topic of conversation yesterday – the female character in 9 is strong and kicks a lot of ass!
filmboy
I am excited to hear that. I have such high hopes for this movie. I remember grabbing the edge of my seat when I watched the preview which was posted on Awards daily. That was such a powerful and mesmerizing scene. Wowza! I still get chills just thinking about it.
I know exactly what you mean – the teaser that came out in the fall still gives me goosebumps….I just wish they hadn’t given so much of the plot away in the latest trailer – be that as it may it still a f-ing good looking movie….and I have this feeling that it’s going to be a lot bigger than people are anticipating – and what I hope people talk about when this movie comes out is how they took a modest budget and made it look like something much more costly.
Anyone who missed the 9 trailer a couple of weeks ago — or anybody who wants to see it again — can find it here.
I just re-watched the sneak peak clip again which was posted on awards daily and my goosebumps/excitement has only intensified. I am more than psyched for this.
sorry guys, but this still looks to me as the “Little Big Planet” movie, with some changes to avoid copyright.
Hey Jesus…I know what you mean – however, these characters were created before Little Big Planet was ever released…
So, where is Daniel Day Lewis?
There’s a similarity, for sure. But since Shane Acker directed the 9 short in 2005, and Little Big Planet was introduced in 2007, I think it’s Sackboy who needs a lawyer.
[EDIT: ...oh. I see filmboymichael beat me to that defense.]
haha…thanks Ryan – god, you think I should be working or something!
oh and tidbit of info to Rob Y – 9 and Nine at one point were both scheduled to release on the same day – imagine the possible confusion it could have caused!
District 9 — 14 August 2009
Nine — 25 November 2009
But 9 wins with a release date of 9-9-09
who do you think will have the first quotable review stating:
“9 is a 10!”
Rex Reed
Larry King
or
Shawn Edwards
ahaha!
“Skip 9. 8 is enough.” — Armand White
Larry King is more likely to say, “The Best Movie About a Perfect Square Ever Made!”
Nein for 9!
Gene Shalit.
ha!
spot on.
“But 9 wins with a release date of 9-9-09″
We had The Omen Remake on 06/06/06
We had the Olympics on 08/08/08
So are they remaking “10″ to be released on October 10 next year?
OPRAH would say
“This is my favorite movie in a long time, I fell in love in this movie. EVERYONE SHOULD GO AND SEE IT. MY audience did and they LOVED IT. OMG! wasn’t it great? huh? yeah? yeah?”
I’m very much anticipating 9. There’s so much competition for animated feature this year, they’d better nominate five!
Coraline could definitely surprise. The only thing that may work against it is the early release.
***That goes to what Sasha said yesterday about Up, for all its charm, not really showing us anything new.***
What is new is how startlingly sensitive and emotionally mature it is, with a simple dramatic elegance few films let alone animated ones can pull off so naturally.
If Coraline, Up, Ponyo, Mary & Max and 9 make the final five, I’ll be as happy as a clam. But knowing the Academy, they think that animation for adults is a myth, just like Santa Claus and WMD in Iraq.
The Natural is right on.
Up is no Wall-E, but it may end up being the best of the year.
9 will fail. Both critically and commercially. Better not have much hope in it, or you will be severely disappointed.
It’s funny you should mention Uzbekistan (of all places), Ryan. Very funny you should mention that country.
I’ve lived in Central Asia for a few years. Uzbekistan is only one of a few “stans” I got to visit. Let me just say that “Borat” was never never quite the same to me as it was to other people.
And yes, that poster is indeed in Russian.
By the way, another reason why that comment was interesting (and I appologize for getting offtopic though I don’t really care about this movie at all) is because up until mid 90s Uzbekistan DID officialy use Cyrillic alphabet. After that the President decided to switch back to Latin (a particularly stupid decision considering that they used extra characters to emulate russian-like sounds).
You may now return to your main topic of discussion.
Maybe we can get one of those buy one get one free framing deals, Ryan. I’m a fan of this poster, too. Probably more so than if it were in English, actually. I rather love movie posters in other languages.
“9 will fail. Both critically and commercially. Better not have much hope in it, or you will be severely disappointed.”
Who knows how it will do either way until Sept. 9 – I have seen much of 9 and I can tell you that the teaser or the recent trailer aren’t messing around – there’s 80 minutes of scenes just like that – it’s an animated action movie – and, even if it does modest business – given its budget, that will be a success.
Interesting point about the budget, filmboymichael. IMDb says 9 only cost $33 million.
I understand the difference in animation techniques, but it’s always boggled my mind that Ratatouille reportedly cost $150 mil and WALL-E’s budget was $170. I used to think part of the purpose of animation was to show us things that would be impossibly expensive to do with live action. Give me $150 million and I’ll train a real rat to make soup.
Can’t find any budget estimates for Up, so maybe Pixar is trying to reign in expenses? Cars only cost $70 million 3 years ago. What technical advancements were employed for WALL-E to double its budget? To my eyes, the animation for Up was a big step backwards from the last 2 Pixar features, but that’s no reason to expect it cost less. But maybe it did. Maybe the simpler backgrounds and reduced number of characters helped reign in the budget for Up?
For $33 million, 9 looks like it has an extraordinary amount of detail and lush production value.
How have you been lucky enough to see so much of 9, filmboymichael?
send me an email or add me to msn or gmail (same handle) and we’ll chat.
I’ve read that Up cost upwards of $175 million to produce with an additional $150 million in marketing….
“Up” is certainly not a step back in animation compared to their last two features… not at all. Just because it utilizes a more fantastical, brightly colored palette doesn’t make its animation any less stunning. Yes, it’s more cartoony and less photorealistic than, say, “WALL-E,” but it wasn’t going for that look. It was going for whimsy, magic, exuberance. The animation perfectly captures that lush beauty, in gorgeously expressive ways.
I don’t need for every animated movie to be photorealistic. I can be dazzled by all kinds of styles, but when the big build-up to the adventure of a lifetime plops down at a destination that looks like the background of a Roadrunner cartoon, it’s a disappointment for me.
There were some beautiful details in Up. Kevin the bird. The house. But mostly it was 3-D Hanna-Barbera, in my opinion. I’m pretty sure the character designer for Russell’s face was the same guy who drew the balloons. The dogs were more expressive.
Ryan, maybe the fact that that destination looked like that was the point. The real-life thing wasn’t quite as fantastic as Carl expected it.
And I would say the Hanna-Barbera comparison is a little harsh. Some of the lighting in the film was gorgeous (some shots in the jungle, the grays of Carl’s daily life) and some of the expressions were perfect (Carl’s face when he looks through the scrapbook and thinks he failed Ellie was *very* well done, I thought. Not too much, not too little). And I think Russell had expression. He’s most certainly not the computer-animated version of Jake Lloyd, that I’m sure we can agree on.
I don’t think 9 will be a better film than Up.
Most of people who claim that Up “isn’t anything new” clearly have Pixar fatigue, and jump on any other occasion to root for other animated films.
Up was a great film, probably as good as Wall-E. I also think that in terms of inventive storytelling, Up clearly pushes the Pixar envelope. This is an ambitious story that could have gone wrong in more ways than one, and Pete Docter/Bob Peterson evidently went in the good direction.
If you compare Wall-E and Up to Monsters, Inc. or A Bug’s Life, you can clearly see that these Pixar guys gained a lot of maturity.
(I actually think that a lot of people will be more excited the day that Pixar flops big time than the day they release another masterpiece.)
Benji92
9 will destroy UP is ways inconceivable to humankind; you just watch buddy, you just watch. 9 will usher in a new genre of adult/animated thrillers. You are witnessing history in the making; you should be glad
Afrika, I digress; Have you seen ‘Up’ at all, or are you just talking out of your ass? I’m excited for ‘9′, but ‘Up’ is the film to beat for me this year…
I have seen UP and I have seen most of 9 – they are two distinctly different entities – and I work in an animation studio and the word that I’m hearing at work is admiration from animators, lighters, modelers and riggers – the admiration is more for how they made simple look so great – one modeler I know said that they know exactly how much to model and how much to leave alone….the reaction from my studio wasn’t as emphatic as when Wall*e came out – when that was released last year I kept hearing from people how that movie made them want to be better at their craft – now, what 9 has going for it is what I have said before – it is so different from anything that we’ve seen from other studios and that may sway the vote a bit – that, and their may just be a little Pixar ennui.
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