9 SONGS - 3/10 (D-)
I know I gave this one a bad rating but let me say, I didn't not like it. It didn't do what it should have done, the plot was there! It had a great plot, they just didn't use it. The beginning of the film was amazing, I loved the talking scenes. The music scenes were awful and the sex scenes weren't that great but there were two that were good, the sex in the bath tub, which was just filmed beautifully and the music was great and the blow job scene. The guy was really hot too, the girl was kind of cute in an odd sort of way. I'm sure I'd watch 9 SONGS again sometime down the road, I wouldn't really count this as a final rating because like I said, I didn't hate the movie, I just ... thought a lot of it was boring and it shouldn't have been. It was way too slow for a movie which is only 63 minutes in length.

Easily one of the most pointless movies ever made and a cure for insomnia if ever there was one.

Story.
Couple have sex
Couple go see a shitty indie band
Couple have sex
Repeat, rinse until finish.

The improv'd dialogue is painful on the ears as is the pretty awkward sex scenes and music so up its own arse i expected it to double up on itself.

If you want music go to a concert, if you want sex get a Girlfriend/Hooker or rent a porno. If you like to torture yourself watch 9 Songs.

F

Yeah, I didn't get this aspect of the film. In fact, it pissed me off.

If you made (say) a regular action film, but replaced your standard soft-focus, slow motion, nude kissey scene with a full-on hardcore sex scene, it would never get classified.

But apparently, the BBFC gave 9 Songs an 18 because of it's "extraordinary content". Extraordinary content = people listening to the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Franz Ferdinand and shagging inbetween gigs? Only a fifteen year old, who was so up his own arse that he considered the disposable "bands" of his generation to be utterly indispensable and the best ones ever, would consider that "extraordinary".

It reminds me of the guy in my highshcool art class (1995) who had a superiority complex because he and he alone had lovingly stencilled the logos of Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Menswear, Suede, etc., etc., onto his pencil case. All of his art projects featured imaginary album covers for albums that those bands hadn't released yet. What a cock.

I'd totally forgot about that band until now. Brings back memories of those other mid 90s time capsules like The Cast and The Bluetones.

Heh. Actually, Suede are still one of my favourite bands - they did a couple of albums before they got famous (well - Jools Holland famous), and I still listen to one of them when I go jogging

One thing I've noticed - and I was just as guilty of this in my early to mid-teens - is that kids tend to love their bands in the same way that people support football teams, or political causes. They think that they're important, something to form communities around and feel superior about. Funny how I can't relate to that anymore... I must be getting old!

Brings me back to the days when I wore out my cassette of Metallica's Load album, I felt special being the only Hard Rock fan in my class.

Ah, your Manic Street Preachers phase. To be fair, that ran into your late teens, not "mid". In fact, if I remember correctly, it ran concurrently with my Whigfield and Spice Girls phase.

The only difference between you and me, my friend, is that you grew out of yours.

This stenciller you speak of... would it be right of me to assume he's a "Keeper"? *wink wink*

You assume right! But you're wrong about my late teens. I lost interest in being a rabid fan when they released their mediocre-ish "This is my truth, tell my yours" album. I was either late 16 or early 17 when that came out. Bearing in mind that the first "teen" is 13, teens go:

Early:

13
14

Middle:

15
16
17

Late:

18
19

Hey, I'm a 30 year old and American and I still love the Manics. I even like the new stuff. But I don't hear them on the radio or anything here so they are still like... unspoiled?

9 Songs is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Calling it a film is a stretch.

9 Songs is the second F I've ever given and quite possibly the worst film I've ever seen. I like what one reviewer at RT said, the director achieved the impossible, making a film featuring both sex and Rock & Roll so dull. Just absolutely pointless. What's there? It's not close to be as erotic as a straight porn, the actress isn't attractive, and it's just listening to a song in the concert, have sex, show another song, back to have another sex, with a few random Antarctica scenaries and voiceover commentaries. Total waste of time.

This is the first time I've watched a Michael Winterbottom film (not counting The Trip and The Trip to Italy because they're television series'). It's such a short film, and it's not a masterpiece but it is incredibly effective, and at least for me it made that connection to my own experiences. I've never seen a film before that so perfectly captures those passion-filled honeymoon weeks in a relationship. There's a ton of sex. That lazy, juicy, liberating sex that is so strong in a new relationship. And then they're gone...without a moments notice.

I was also pleased with the music, though I think it could have better aligned with the course of the relationship. Though I was happy that Franz Ferdinand got two songs in there.