{"id":1266,"date":"2009-09-14T17:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T23:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2015-12-06T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:48:50","slug":"9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MV5BMTY2ODE1MTgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1NTM2Mg@@._V1__SX1859_SY847_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MV5BMTY2ODE1MTgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1NTM2Mg@@._V1__SX1859_SY847_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"MV5BMTY2ODE1MTgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1NTM2Mg@@._V1__SX1859_SY847_\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MV5BMTY2ODE1MTgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1NTM2Mg@@._V1__SX1859_SY847_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/MV5BMTY2ODE1MTgxMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTM1NTM2Mg@@._V1__SX1859_SY847_.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>I had my time-killing afternoon movie for yesterday narrowed down to three options, when suddenly someone at the end of the table said, \u201cHey, do you wanna go see\u00a0<a title=\"When our world ended, their mission began\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0472033\/\" target=\"_blank\">9<\/a>?\u201d And other than a slightly more expensive ticket price, I had no compelling reason why not; after all, it\u2019s a flick I\u2019ve wanted to see, even if Tim Burton is kind of getting played out by virtue of basically every single one of them being about loneliness. I can deal with that in my music, but it starts to get old on the screen, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>In the dawning years of World War II, war-attuned scientists have created self-replicating machines \u201cfor the defense of the nation\u201d. And then\u2026 well, you know what happens next, don\u2019t you? As sure as zombies commute on trains[1], the machines rise up against their masters. And as humanity declines, one scientist, perhaps seeing the way the wind is blowing, engages in a knit-punk experiment to create nine tiny homunculi in the slim hopes of carrying on life on the planet. So, that\u2019s where the movie begins; as for the actual plot, it can best be summed up as \u201cadventure and interpersonal[2] conflict ensue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was a decent albeit flawed movie. I look at it like this: if you want to see a movie with incredible animation, as good as any I\u2019ve ever seen, you should check this out. If you want to see actiony dramatics, you\u2019re good. If you want to see the best use of Over the Rainbow as score, this is the place to be. If you want to see a thoughtful movie that makes coherent sense as a whole, well, you might should ought to look somewhere else. Also, if you are at all allergic to the really crunchy granola[3], you\u2019ll have some problems.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Dude, it rhymes. You expect more depth from zombies?<br \/>\n[2] Grpuavpnyyl, vagencrefbany, but that would be a spoiler. P.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/rot13.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rot13.com<\/a><br \/>\n[3] Hippies, yo. Hippies. You know what I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had my time-killing afternoon movie for yesterday narrowed down to three options, when suddenly someone at the end of the table said, \u201cHey, do you wanna go see\u00a09?\u201d And other than a slightly more expensive ticket price, I had no compelling reason why not; after all, it\u2019s a flick I\u2019ve wanted to see, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[592,593,594,106,595,596,597,598,430,599,600,601,602,603],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-a-knit-punk-experiment","tag-actiony-dramatics","tag-decent-albeit-flawed","tag-fantasy","tag-incredible-animation","tag-lack-of-coherent-sense","tag-over-the-rainbow","tag-really-crunchy-granola","tag-science-fiction","tag-slightly-more-expensive-ticket","tag-the-machines-rise-up","tag-tim-burton-is-kind-of-getting-played-out","tag-tiny-homunculi","tag-zombies-commute-on-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5323,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/5323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}