{"id":12401,"date":"2009-09-21T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/09\/21\/12401.html"},"modified":"2009-09-21T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T06:11:05","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/09\/21\/9\/","title":{"rendered":"9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought I'd been hearing good things about the new movie <cite>9<\/cite>, and I certainly liked the look of it in the previews. So Kam and I went to see it tonight.<\/p>\n<p>And were sadly disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>As Kam noted afterward: Just think what they could have done with a good story!<\/p>\n<p>And it's a waste of a good cast, too.<\/p>\n<p>The visuals are really lovely, though.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the film is based on a ten-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9_(2005_film)\">short<\/a> that Shane Acker made as a student project; it was released in 2005, and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/clip\/9-short\/film\">view it<\/a> in full online for free. Apparently Tim Burton and some other established film people saw it and were impressed enough by it that they produced a full-length version (well, an hour and a quarter), directed by Acker and written by Pamela Pettler. Though the feature-length version derives much of its basic story and general ideas from the short.<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;I was tempted to refer to a particular character as \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/media\/rm2176616704\/tt0472033\">7 of 9<\/a>,\" but it turns out that of course others have already made that joke, so never mind.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d been hearing good things about the new movie 9, and I certainly liked the look of it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}