Comments on: 9 UP

By: Tesh

Tesh — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:56:44 +0000

Plainsrunner, check out the link that I posted right before your comment. You’re right, it was Shane Acker’s short film that started this, and it looks like a fair dose of the final film was maintained from the short. I do wonder how much Burton influenced, but perhaps it doesn’t matter all that much in the end.

Funny thing is, I, for one, didn’t go because of Burton. I went because it looked interesting. I’ve never bought into the “rockstar” mentality espoused by either big name actors or people behind the camera. I didn’t even know Burton was involved until I watched the trailer for the third time. I didn’t care.

By: Plainsrunner

Plainsrunner — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:24:59 +0000

The low down on 9 was that it was never Tim Burtons. It was done off of the other guys short film he had made a while ago.

Tim burton was looking for something to run with and found it and basically offered to help produce it. Tim Burtons involvement was more having the weight to get a project off the ground that is “ground breaking” and as a consultant to the creative development/flushing out the story.

Or so I have heard.

The big thing is Tim Burton attaches his name to it and it gives it validity and puts rears in the seats

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:13 +0000

Apparently, 9 is based on a short film, found here: 9 Short

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Never heard of either of those films before but they look pretty awesome. Thanks for the links!

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:00:40 +0000

Cap’n, my wife didn’t want to see 9, and from what I told her of it afterward, she’s happy she didn’t. I went with my brother (18), and he loved it. If you like the trailer, you’ll get more of the same, and better. (For both movies, actually.) Different tastes and all that, but really, both are done very well and fun for different reasons.

TFN, thanks! There really are marked contrasts between the two, and I knew I had to write about them. I have a keen interest in animated movies; my college degree is in computer animation. (Some of my fellow graduates are working in the field. One worked on the Pixar short, Partly Cloudy. I still wish Pixar would make a satellite studio around our alma mater.)

Beej, UP isn’t my favorite Pixar show either, but it’s a great movie, and well worth seeing at least once. 9 definitely has the Tim Burton “mind trip” feel to it, but it’s less “different for different’s sake” and more “crazy idea brought to fruition”.

By: Capn John

Capn John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:43:27 +0000

I really want to see 9, and so does one of our friends, but the wife is not sold on it…yet. Perhaps I should download the Hi-Res trailer and show it to her again in all its 1600×900 widescreen glory.

By: The Friendly Necromancer

The Friendly Necromancer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:10:11 +0000

I loved the juxtaposition. Thanks for writing this!

By: Professor Beej

Professor Beej — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:48:04 +0000

I loved UP, but it’s not my favorite Pixar movie by far. It was incredibly poignant, however, and I love it for that.

9 is on my radar because it is a Tim Burton movie that legitimately looks legitimately unique. And Tim Burton has become synonymous in my world with “trying too hard to be unique that it has become ordinary.” I’m glad to see it succeeds.