Thursday Movie Review: Nine

I've decided that since I love movies so much I am going to do a movie review every Thursday. (Or at least try)  Some movies may be new releases and some may be some old ones because I don't watch a ton of new releases.


Anyway for my first one I am reviewing the movie "Nine."


This is a movie that was adapted from a Tony Award winning play on Broadway.  It has an all-star, Academy Award winning cast and crew.  Here is the list...(You don't have to read it all.  Just to give you a picture...)- Nicole Kidman was awarded for The Hours (2002), and was nominated in 2002 for her role in Moulin Rouge! (2001). - Daniel Day-Lewis is a two time winner for the films My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) and There Will Be Blood (2007), as well as being nominated for both In the Name of the Father (1993) and Gangs of New York (2002). - Judi Dench won a supporting actress Oscar in 1999 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and has been nominated for both supporting and leading roles on another five occasions for Mrs Brown (1997), Chocolat (2000), Iris (2001/I), Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). - Sophia Loren won her first award in 1962 for La ciociara (1960) and has since been nominated once more for Matrimonio all'italiana (1964) and also received an Honorary Award in 1991. - Marion Cotillard was awarded in 2008 for La môme (2007). - Penélope Cruz was awarded in 2009 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and was nominated for Volver (2006/I). - 'Kate Hudson' was nominated for her supporting role in Almost Famous (2000). The crew has also been recognized by the Academy: - Director Rob Marshall was nominated for Chicago (2002). - Writer Michael Tolkin was nominated for The Player (1992). - Writer Anthony Minghella has been nominated twice for other adaptations: for The English Patient (1996) for which he also won Best Director, and later for The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). - Cinematographer Dion Beebe was nominated for Chicago (2002), and later won the award for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), both directed by Rob Marshall. -Production designer John Myhre was awarded for Chicago (2002) andMemoirs of a Geisha (2005) and nominated for Elizabeth (1998) and Dreamgirls (2006). - Set decorator Gordon Sim was awarded for Chicago(2002). - Make up and hair designer Peter King won for Best Makeup in 2004 for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). - Well-renowned producer Harvey Weinstein has an Academy Award from when Shakespeare in Love (1998) won Best Picture in 1999. He also produced Gangs of New York (2002) which was nominated for Best Picture in 2003.




Sounds promising right?  That's what I thought.  I had been excited to see it since I first heard it was coming out. Unfortunately, I was let down.  Big time.




The movie is about a director who is having problems coming up with a new movie.  He has his leading actress, costumes, and title, but he can't manage to come up with a script.  His problem could stem with all of the personal problems he is facing as well.  He has numerous mistresses and his wife is upset with him because of that.  His mother, whom he adores, is upset with him because of his infidelities, and he is being pressured by his producers and agent to come up with a new movie.  And thats pretty much the story line.




Ok so here's the deal.  I LOVE musicals which is ultimately why I was so drawn to this movie in the first place, and don't get me wrong, the songs were great.  But that is the only good part of this movie.  It was very boring.  I fell asleep in it twice.  It also has way underdeveloped characters as well as an underdeveloped plot.  Now I haven't seen the original Broadway play so I don't know if it is any better but I just seems to me like they had too much to squeeze into a 2 hour movie.




I also strongly feel that the main character "Guido" played by Daniel Day Lewis was way miscast.  His goofy Italian accent made it hard to take it seriously.  I think DDL is a great actor. I love There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York but this role just didn't seem to work for him.




So all in all, the movie was pretty bad, however some of the song and dance numbers were entertaining.  I give it 2 out of 5 stars.  

Past Pooches

Pretty sure this post turned out to be entirely too long.  Oh well.  Its my blog and I do what I want!  =]

I love animals.  Right now, we have a dog that was given to us by Harrison's mom.  She is a poodle and her name is Sophie.  Harrison and I have both gotten so attached to Sophie.  She is the coolest dog ever.  We even taught her tricks.  Well anyway, we were given Sophie with one condition.  She had to be bred. (My mother-in-law breeds the best poodles around.  Check out her website... echocreekpoodles.net) Anyway..We got Sophie in the beginning of November and at the end of last month Sophie went into heat which meant she had to go back to Inola.  So now she is in Inola and I am left here dogless for a while and I really miss her.  So I decided to make a tribute to my past dogs...(my family hasn't always had the best luck picking out good dogs)

Bud-  Bud was the first dog we ever had.  He was given to my parents by the previous owners of my parents house. The dog came with the house.  I don't remember much about him because I was pretty young but he was a cocker spaniel.  I do remember that when he died( I was about 5) my dad went to the other side of the fence to bury him in the land behind our back yard.  My mom, brother, sister and I all stood at the glass door watching him dig the hole.  My brother (6) looked up to my mom and said.."mommy, do you think bud will go to Heaven?"  my mom responded with "well I'm not sure if dogs go to heaven or not but if they do I'm sure he will be there because he was such a good dog" and my sister's (3) response to that was..."nu uh, he's in the dirt. I saw dad put him there"  Haha...that story still cracks me up.

Betty and Babs-  These dogs were sisters.  They were a german shepherd, blue heeler mix.  My brother got to name one (betty) and I got to name the other (Babs, from the tiny toons tv show)  I don't remember much of them either.  I know that we had to get rid of Babs pretty soon after we got her because she attacked Betty and almost killed her.  And then maybe a few years later we had to get rid of Betty because she barked too much and we got too many complaints from the neighbors.

Flash-Flash was one of my favorite dogs.  He was a basset hound.  He used to run around the back yard and trip over his ears.  He also used to sleep on top of his dog house.  Like snoopy.  Seriously.  We lived close to the highway so we had people who would drive by and look to see if he was on top of his house.  ha.  he was a cool dog.  we gave him to my dad's friend who lived out in the country because he barked too much too.

Tyler-After we got rid of Flash, we didn't have a dog for quite a while.  One day our neighbors came over and asked if we wanted a dog because their son was moving into an apartment and couldn't take his dog.  So we took him.  He was 2 years old when we got him and he was a scottish terrier.  he was trained and well behaved but mom wouldn't let us keep him inside because of allergies. So a formerly inside dog now had to stay outside.  His curiosity got the best of him a few months after we got him.  He dug a hole under the fence and escaped to the highway where he was unfortunately hit by a car.  Sad.  He was a good dog though.

Roofus-I can't remember what kind he was.  Maybe a beagle...or something.  Anyway he was real cool too.  He was always extremely hyper and he would take his toys and keep them in our swing in the back.  I don't know how he got them all the stay but that's where he kept them.  He was an excellent hunter and always liked to bring his prey to us to show it off.  Birds, bunnies, mice, opossums etc.  When we were building on to our house we had to take down the fence so we had to tie him up.  Never being tied up before he didn't understand that he couldn't still run full force around the yard. So he tried to take off running one time and I guess broke his esophagus or something because he died a few days later.  This was the most sad I have ever been about a pet dying.  It still makes me sad to think about it.

Next we had Sally-  She is a Blond lab and is still going strong today.  She is now 5 years old besides Bud, the pet that my family has had the longest.  She is a sweet dog and still gets extremely excited when people come to see her.

And Last we have Sophie-my dog.  Not my families, not my brothers, mine.  (and harrison's of course)  Sophie is such a wonderful dog.  It makes me so happy to get home and have her at the door ready to greet me.  She doesn't bark and she is potty trained!  One time, when I was really sick with a stomach virus, I threw up all night and she sat by me the whole time and laid her head in my lap.  And after a while I didn't want to keep walking to the bed so I laid down in the hall and she laid right by me.  I love her so much and can't wait to get her back home!

That's all for now!

New Blog!

Ok, so I tried this blog thing once but I've decided to give it another shot. I don't have the most ingtersting life ever but I am a 21 year old newly wed who is still in college so I figure that I can come up with some things to talk about =].

And to be completley honest, I'm starting this blog because I am bored at work. I've been here for an hour and have 8 hours to go. But I have a few ideas and hopefully this one will work out better then my last attempt.

Anyway...I'll write more later. Hopefully.