9 Songs

Advantages: It ends quite quickly
Disadvantages: The general dirtyness of the whole movie.

...work colleague introduced me to 9 Songs. What's it about I asked? A lot of sex and 9 songs was the reply. Being as the person I had asked was a "STUDENT" I thought that maybe he was being a little bitchy, because he after all is the worst sort of student, a film student. What did throw me back a lot is that 9 songs is literally as the movie was described. A couple meet at a concert where we are subjected to a moment of live music, this is where ...
...pattern has been formed. 9 songs is no more or no less anything other than a wank-fest. it's a bit of medium level porn disguised as a story. Its apparently very art house, and very clever; if this is the case however my very existence is in fact wasted. The characters Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley) are not an attractive couple, she is described as being beautiful if this is the case every woman on every high street is a super model. ... Read review

Advantages: Some decent enough music.
Disadvantages: Pornography thinly disguised as a love story.

...is that 8 or the 9 songs featured in the film are indie-rock songs, but they have chosen the one that doesn't fit this mould, Michael Nyman's "Debbie", to play over the menu selections, which just doesn't quite feel right. What promised to be more interesting were the interviews with the cast and the director. However, even these are slightly disappointing, as although the segments were clearly filmed with all of them having been asked questions, ...
...Director Michael Winterbottom focuses on the music and the technical side of things and maintains his stance that he was trying to give the audience more than sex. As with the trailer, having seen the film, this claim seems slightly laughable. The main actors also get their turn in the spot light. Keiran O'Brien gives the best of all the interviews as he's less serious and not afraid to talk about the sex in the movie. He's very laid back about ... Read review

Advantages: Is a good, interesting and novel idea, great music.
Disadvantages: Everything else. The acting, the actual story(!)

Now I have decided that to save my reputation I need to first say that I didn’t pay to see this film, I was working for a film festival at the time a special preview of it was shown and saw it that way! Would I have seen it otherwise, maybe but I doubt I would have paid to see it! Nine Songs, possibly the most talked about film in the British press for a long, long time, outside of the film review pages anyway. It caused uproar back at the beginning ...
...18 certificate without any cuts, making it the first British made movie to show actual sex in it. A few French films had managed to get past the censors before this, but normally under the view that they were art films and therefore it was acceptable (Romance and Baise-moi). Having been branded by the tabloids ‘UK’s most explicit film ever’ does Nine Songs live up to this tag and more importantly is it any good? The central premise for the film ... Read review

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: pure crap

...The film contains (bizarrely.) 9 songs. They are typically dire tracks, by mainstream indie-rock bands such as elbow, franz ferdinand etc. This, and the two arty looking bits take up approximately two thirds of the films 69 (tee hee hee!) minutes. The rest is graphic sex. We have it all here. We have masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio, penetrative vaginal sex, and ....... drumroll please...... the first known scene of ejaculation to be passed on ...
...existant, it seems was 'classy' enough to get this through the sensors. Either that, or Winterbottom poked the poor guys eyes out before he got a chance to watch. Now that I mention it, its possible the lead male poked them out with his........ Anyway, the film encompasses the relationship that two young people had. Matt (Kieran 'big willy' O'Brian.), and Lisa (Margo 'bad actress, but good in the sack' Stilley.) go to lots of concerts, at which we ... Read review

Advantages: Something different, brave performances
Disadvantages: Only barely can be described as anything other than pornographic

...Dooyoo. Thanks! Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs is a sexual experience from near enough its first frame. The film’s premise is incredibly straightforward – Matt (Kieran O’Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley) meet at a concert, and 9 Songs is essentially an expression of their love story, which just so happens to rather loosely revolve around music. From the outset, we must consider where the line between glamourised pornography and artistic sexual expression ...
...viewers among us. Initially, 9 Songs appears to follow the format of a presentation of seemingly sage information about Matt’s expedition to Antarctica, followed by a scene of intense intimacy, followed again by a musical interlude. Given the repetition and questionable narrative structure of the film, one can understand the criticism leveled against it almost immediately. The film at points appears to settle down, yet just as an interesting or ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling viewing if you let it draw you in
Disadvantages: Has a high opinion of itself, this may deter some viewers

...the boards of child abuse, is it sexual or just a straight forward and innocent relationship? The one undeniable fact is that as the movie draws to a close, and whatever your views on the movie as it takes you to its final destination, you'll never see what's coming next, and the harsh ending really takes you not only by surprise, but gives you the thirst for much more than the movie dares to show you. Made in 1998 the movie is directed by Michael Winterbottom, the director of The Road To Guantanamo, 24 Hour Party People, and the abysmal 9 Songs; I Want You has the story aspects of The Road To Guantanamo, and the sexual thirst of 9 Songs; it's cast of familiar faces specifically Weisz going on sexual journeys you never expected them to take. I Want You, is currently unavailable on DVD or Video, though you might stumble upon an old deleted... Read review

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Advantages: Good movie with a clear message
Disadvantages: Dissapointing finale

...The trailer threatens you in a way that you need to see the film. You realise that seeing what you have in the trailer leaves so many things unanswered; it makes you want to investigate what evil thing has occurred. The trouble being for me was that while seducing me with its message it gave to much away, while ensnaring me it made one thing very obvious; and that one thing is the mystery the whole movie is about. I really enjoy the work of Paddy Considine from A Room For Romeo Brass, to In America; I have followed his career avidly. I'd heard lots of good and bad things about Dead Man's Shoes the one thing I never knew was that it had this highly underused actor in it. Having seen the trailer on the movie 9 Songs I decided to make the purchase £4.99 was all it cost from Play.Com. Something has happened to Richard's brother... Read review

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Advantages: It has got a good album to go with the film
Disadvantages: it lacks originality

...The Film.... Whilst on holiday a popular basketball guy Troy has to stand up and sing with the intelligent beautifull Gabriella, they both hit it off straight away and realise that they are good when they sing together. When Troy gets home he dosent think much more of it until he notices Gabriella has moved to the same school has him! This makes him think about singing but hes worried about what all of his friends will think, in the end Troy and Gabriella audition for the main roles in the school musical much to the dismay of Ryan and Sharpay the brother and sister that have been acting together since they were children. The Music..... The music is like most music in a musical its mostly all pop music, all the songs however are catchy and its hard to get them out of your head once there in. There are 9 songs performed in the film so... Read review

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