(No Homo) Ryan Reynolds – The Nines [Review]

Monday, July 7th, 2008 @ 1:45 am | Movies, Reviews

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Continuing my recent man crush parade on Ryan Reynolds, I checked out The Nines, a movie released late last year.

It’s really hard to describe the movie, and when I read the general plot line, it didn’t seem interesting at all. Even if you watch the trailer below, it doesn’t seem that interesting.

But I watched it for Ryan Reynolds (ladies, he takes off his shirt in this, and if you have ever seen him with his shirt off, you will understand and appreciate why I mention this), and it was worth it. He is excellent in this, but so is everyone else.

(I wish I had his abs. When I watch basketball, I sometimes get excited and want to go shoot hoops- Ryan Reynolds makes me want to go do crunches.

Whoa. That is very much a least some homo there. Moving on….)

It’s quite a good movie, it’s a bit of a conceptual piece (though not as much as The Fountain that slowly comes into focus. You just can’t really talk about it or describe it in a way to make people understand if they should see it or not. At the same time I can see it being a this-is-weird, miss, or this-is-awesome, hit type of movie.

I’m on the side of hit, giving it a 7/10 on IMDB.

Like I just said it feels a bit off, but I think that’s what’s intended. It’s hard to know how to rate it. I have some more to say about it, but I consider it a bit of a spoiler, so it’s after the trailer. I suggest not reading in order to focus more on the movie experience.

In the middle of the movie, one of the characters is doing a test pilot focus group. People are watching a TV show pilot and then giving feedback on the show. When I watched the movie, that’s how I felt- I felt like there was some concept or some idea that was being pushed to me. Not as focused or mature as it normally should belike you’d seen in a TV show in its 3rd of fourth year, but I felt like the person being tested, being gauged to see if I could follow the movie, was it interesting, did I like the characters.

Very unique, and my assumption is this was intended.

Trailer:

(The Nines Trailer)

*****Potential Spoilers******

I read an article a couple of months ago talking about how there’s a good possibility we’re (our universe/world) just part of a simulation. Kind of how we’re trying to make video games now that simulate real life, this world could be someone’s advanced artificial intelligence simulation. This idea was somewhat shown at the end of Men in Black- remember how they kept zooming out and eventually the entire universe was shown as one marble an alien was playing marbles with?

Basically, we are not all that in the universe, where universe means everything we can or cannot imagine. It’s an idea I very much believe in, and on a religious level, I know that there was no way I could understand the concept of a higher being or a god. Having that kind of awareness will instantly make me insane.

Anyway, let’s going back to The Nines, this is the concept that the movie wraps itself in.

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