I just saw it today and I don't know what you're referring to. Not any weirder than anything else Tim Burton has been involved with. The only problem I could possibly see is if you couldn't suspend your disbelief on the techno-magic they had going on.
It's not that it was weird, that wasn't the problem. And no, the techno-magic wasn't the issue either. It was the story. 9 wakes up, 2 saves him and gets taken. Okay. Good up to that point. But the rest of the movie basically turns out to be '9 shows up, messes up everything that wasn't messed up, half the dolls die, and now it's raining.' Nobody had any real motivation that I could figure out, least of all 9, and then at the end, after 'saving' all the 'souls' from the machine, they end up, in fact, not being able to put the souls back into their bodies (or new bodies that they would some how create), but instead they just DIE. But they're free, so it's better! Well, if being free is so much better, why don't the rest of the dolls off themselves and be done with it?
And finally, the story didn't go anywhere. It basically made things worse, and then left the entire world the same as it had been.
I agree, tremendous disappointment. Wasted potential more than anything else. I guess it's just one of those "Great Trailer/Mediocre Movie" things. Sigh.
See, I disagree. I saw it yesterday, and the ending seemed to be more along the lines of a substantial change in the film's world. The place was bone-dry before, and now suddenly there's rain -- in the wake of freeing the scientist's soul and intellect from the Machine. Moreover, by doing so there's been a genesis of new life -- thus, the squirming green parameciums and amoebas and whatnot in the raindrops on the virtual lens at the end there.
I saw it more as a creation myth given shape and substance.
That said, yes, 9 got most often handed the award for "Nice Job Breaking It Hero". But given that each of the dolls were a fragment of the scientist's soul, perhaps 9 represented curiosity unbounded by caution yet still moral. The Machine certainly was industrious creation without any morals other than driving ambition to control.
*shrug* It made sense to me. As much as a Tim Burton movie can, anyways. *grin* Far more so than, say, that "... the hell?" ending from Planet of the Apes.
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And finally, the story didn't go anywhere. It basically made things worse, and then left the entire world the same as it had been.
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I saw it more as a creation myth given shape and substance.
That said, yes, 9 got most often handed the award for "Nice Job Breaking It Hero". But given that each of the dolls were a fragment of the scientist's soul, perhaps 9 represented curiosity unbounded by caution yet still moral. The Machine certainly was industrious creation without any morals other than driving ambition to control.
*shrug* It made sense to me. As much as a Tim Burton movie can, anyways. *grin* Far more so than, say, that "... the hell?" ending from Planet of the Apes.
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