WALL-E

Yeah this was so brilliant. On first viewing I thought the second half messed up the film, I wished there was NO dialogue, no humans at all. But then loads of people wouldn’t really have got the film’s message (a lot still won’t…). The Axion, the ship carrying the entire human race (or what’s left of it…interesting how everyone’s American…) is such an astoundingly great idea visualized spectacularly. This is in many ways Pixar’s ultimate masterpiece.

Indeed so there are Dwarf connections. I’d like to think Doug has watched this with a smile on his face.

Yeah, it was really good. It was a little jarring having Fred Willard in the movie as the only non-CG element of the whole film, but I love the man enough that my delight far outweighed my confusion.

At first I didn’t get the whole using real humans thing, but it’s actually pretty blatant. The humans onscreen are what the ‘real’ people think they look like, or it’s what they want to look like.

Got too bloody preachy about the environment, FUCK OFF!

I didn’t think it was particularly preachy, rather, it was trying to say that modern humans are sometimes so cossetted by society that they don’t realise how much potential they have to reverse the damage their lifestyle has done.

heh heh… WILL-E.

Yeah I agree. I thought it was satirical, but optimistic, and it would depend on the age or opinions of the viewer whether they saw an enivormental message or a wacky imagained robot film.

I saw echo’s of ET, Short Circuit and R2D2 in it. Really enjoyed it.

Dam what was the short Tanya? I arrived late at the Cinema got there just as the opening titles started, on the main feature and didnt think I had missed anything.

Was the captain voiced by that guy out of Crub your enthusiasm, sounded like him, (I watched Steve Coogan pop up in that show recently). It was kind of like the holly senility angle only this time it was the humans forgetting all there knowledge and talents.

We are talking Knick knack. If so I hope Presto is on the DVD and I might get it.

>Crub your enthusiasm

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crub

Then you may find this ‘interesting’:

http://chud.com/articles/articles/15900/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-WALLE039S-UNLIKELY-LOVE-STORY/Page1.html

Did I just really read the words “date rape” in a review of a kids robot movie?

I’m not letting this guy anywhere near Bambi.

I simply cannot believe that anyone is ‘uncomfortable’ with that part of WALL-E! It’s mildly interesting that some people can’t seem to get stuff like rape out of their minds even when going to watch a Pixar film. Why even go and see a film when your attitude is one of ‘OK, I’m sitting here ready and waiting to be offending by something, ANYTHING, so I can have a good old whine about it when I get home.’

It hasn’t made as much money because most people still think it’s just about a robot shovelling trash. And if you try and describe to someone what it’s really about they’re STILL not bothered because it sounds too ‘deep’ or not interesting or funny enough.

>though that article handily skips the key discovery – Eve seeing the video playback of WALL-E protecting her while she was shut down

… and the fact that he risks everything in order to bring her the plant and enable her to fulfil her directive…

>He?s not suggesting a boycott or anything – it?s just an interpretive reading.

Sure. And I’m fine with somebody exploring their theory that the love story isn’t entirely convincing, or might actually be kind of creepy. (To be honest I agree with a lot of it.)

But I don’t know why he bothers to draw a financial correlation at all. He opens by saying, “Hey, ever wonder why Wall-E isn’t doing better in theaters? I’ll tell you. It’s because the love story isn’t convincing.”

Which is a horrible way to open your essay, because…who would actually accept the premise that convincing love story = stronger financial gain? It would take a lot of research to convince me of something like that, as I can’t say it suits my experience at all. (Let alone the idea of “convincing” being entirely subjective and “profit” being wholly objective…how on earth could you possibly link the two?)

Not that I’m saying much more in this post than I am in my previous, but I want to stress–lest I be misunderstood–that I appreciate somebody taking the time to get an unconventional opinion across. What I don’t understand is why he’s trying to link it to box office performance.

Nope, no need for apologies. I understood it wasn’t directed at me. I just wanted to be more clear with what I had said earlier, as I realized it wasn’t easily distinguishable.

Sorry to disturb the thread, like I always do, I was watching Futurama and came across one of “The Scary Door” skits and i was watching it with the guy where his eyes come out and his hands come off, and then I paused the screen, knowing for a fact that I’d seen it before it took me 4 hours to realise it was Dave’s frigging avatar!

Back to Wall-E…

My co-workers and I have taken to referring to “Presto” as “Portal: The Movie”.