Hocus Pocus
Jun 29 2008, 04:40 PM
took the family to see it yesterday. Very good movie, not only for kids, but a suprising romance aspect that will endear your honey to yer heart
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nice story, humans left the planet while robots cleaned up a trashed earth. they stay 700 hundred years up in space and become over weight, barely moving, having robots and computers do everything for them.
nice love story between wall-E and Eve, who knew robots could love?
the cockroach always surviving
the robots and human and the humans are robots metaphore
do they even have sex? how do they have kids? test tubes?
they captain getting up for what is probably the first time, funny!
might give some people good ideas for drones and anything with robotics and the like. very good movie! not as good as iron man, but still go see it!
BlueRondo
Jul 9 2008, 03:47 AM
Wall-E was a delightful film. The especially enjoyed the first half, where the focus was mainly on Wall-E and EVE.
Heh, who would have thought that Pixar would release the best dystopian film of the summer?
HeavyMetalYeti
Jul 10 2008, 07:02 PM
I enjoyed it as much as my kids and my wife liked the romance. Go figure a robot chick flick.
DireRadiant
Jul 10 2008, 07:29 PM
When in the first twenty minutes my two year old turns to me and says "Robot sad", you know they did something right in animating. Because there's no dialogue until later!
Adarael
Jul 10 2008, 07:39 PM
I was actually thinking, "Could this be what the Arcology WOULD have been like, if Deus wasn't totally fucking crazy?" Because seriously, there was a drone ecology on the Axiom.
I also found myself delighted and excited by the strangest stuff in the movie - Wall-E's mac boot noise, the texture job they did on EVE's shell (they said they wanted her to look like an Apple product, and succeeded really wierd), and the random 2001 references.
BlueRondo
Jul 11 2008, 02:38 AM
Although the movie is very good as it is, and although I know it is heavily marketed towards kids...
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I would have been extremely impressed with Pixar if they had let Wall-E lose his memory at the end of the film. The younger kids probably wouldn't appreciate it very much, but I think it would have been a beautiful, tragic ending.
Other than that, though, I really got a kick out of everything they did with Buy n Large. I loved the little lines like, "B is for Buy n Large, your very best friend!" and "Welcome to the mall, where you can buy everything to make you happy!" And the press-conference-esque videos by the president were just perfect - having them done in live-action gave them a weird, otherworldly creepiness.
EDIT: Oh, and here's a gem,
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/01/right-wing-hates-wall-e/
Particle_Beam
Jul 11 2008, 04:41 AM
The film was super. Cute, romantic, visually stunning, and funny.
And all those drones on board of the Axiom, just fantastic.
DocTaotsu
Jul 16 2008, 04:16 PM
Wall-E's mac boot noise had my rolling in the aisles. I haven't heard that noise in years.
Other people have said it but Wall-E is basically a silent movie cleverly disguised as a hollywood children movie.
The spork scene was also classic.
Hocus Pocus
Jul 18 2008, 03:31 AM
think i'll get it for my kids when it comes out
HeavyMetalYeti
Jul 18 2008, 10:29 PM
One thing that bothered me was the fact that after 700 years wouldn't all the piles of metal be nothing but a layer of rust under a layer or three of soil? I can see piles of plastics and styrofoam, but metal. I still loved the movie, don't get me wrong. I will buy it also when it comes out.
Particle_Beam
Jul 18 2008, 10:43 PM
Perhaps many of the metals are non-rusting. After all, they're made with future-tech that may last for some more hundred years. Not every metal rusts, or at least, not that fast.
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