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Jun 30, 2008, 06:16 PM
 
It reminded me of Portal. The carrot is a lie!

As for Wall•E, I was somewhat underwhelmed actually. I'm a huge Pixar nut and a big fan of sci-fi, but something about it felt off to me. I think it was the bland human characters and unbelievable ending. It just felt to sappy and happy. I would have preferred something bleaker and more cynical. The message (even though it's one I agree with overall) just felt to forced to me also.

I still enjoyed it, but I would put it somewhere near the bottom on my Pixar movies rating scale (that everyone seems to love to make).

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Jun 30, 2008, 06:24 PM
 
I'm also annoyed because they "stole" a bunch of movie ideas I've had in my head for years. Not that I was ever going to do anything with them, but it's still annoying.

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Ratatouille so far is my favorite Pixar flick. Its really a great movie. Wall•E is probably around number 3.
     
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... are bachin' it up on their Master Crafts that they bought on their six-fig starting salaries.
Could you translate that for me please. It seems to be English words, but put together I just cannot understand what you mean.
     
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I think "Master Crafts" is a reference to a speed boat.
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Originally Posted by design219 View Post
I think "Master Crafts" is a reference to a speed boat.
Ahhh. Thanks.

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^ Thanks again. I must learn to speak American someday.
     
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I don't think Kerrigan is American. Although, that has a nice ring to it.
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Was the animated short before the movie any good? How does it rank among the other Pixar shorts like "For the Birds" or "Lifted?"
I didn't like Lifted that much, but it's up there with my favourite, For the Birds. If you like classic cartoon slapstick, then you'll like it.
     
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Originally Posted by Stogieman View Post
Was the animated short before the movie any good? How does it rank among the other Pixar shorts like "For the Birds" or "Lifted?"
Presto
     
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Jul 2, 2008, 09:06 PM
 
Saw Wall-E yesterday. Excellent, excellent movie.

Also, I liked Presto very much. One of the best Pixar short IMO.

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That's absolutely unbelievable. These ****ing idiots.

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Jul 4, 2008, 10:18 PM
 
FINALLY saw it. It was very good. Liked it better than Finding Nemo, but perhaps not as much as Ratatouille and The Incredibles. My GF is now walking around the house going "Wall-E! Wall-E!".

 

P.S. As always, John Ratzenberger was in this movie.

P.P.S. I was amused by the
 
     
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You want Wall•E dead? Are you totally nuts?
     
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Jul 5, 2008, 12:02 AM
 
^^^ Use the spoiler tag please. And yes... to the first question. No to the second.
     
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Originally Posted by Eug View Post
No to the second.
Please use the spoiler tag.

One day, I wanna read your memoirs and NOT know all about you already

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Originally Posted by Eug View Post
^^^ Use the spoiler tag please. And yes... to the first question. No to the second.
Why the heck would I need a spoiler tag for your wish? Name one kids/disney movie where they kill the main character in the end.

What the heck kind of movie would that be... lets make millions of kids cry their brains out?
     
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Jul 5, 2008, 02:20 AM
 
Watched it last night and enjoyed it, but it's a ways down on my pixar list.

One gripe with it though:

 
     
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Originally Posted by slpdLoad View Post
Watched it last night and enjoyed it, but it's a ways down on my pixar list.

One gripe with it though:

 
 
     
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Originally Posted by slpdLoad View Post
Watched it last night and enjoyed it, but it's a ways down on my pixar list.

One gripe with it though:

 
 
     
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
Why the heck would I need a spoiler tag for your wish? Name one kids/disney movie where they kill the main character in the end.

What the heck kind of movie would that be... lets make millions of kids cry their brains out?
Well, not Bambi, but Bambi's mom. Very powerful.

Anyways, you're just justifying Pixar's choice to avoid tough scenes in order to maximize revenues. Hey, I think it's great they're able to make so much cash off these movies while still making good movies, but like I said, although I thought that Wall-E was a good movie overall, I still think they kinda oversweetened the 2nd half of the movie. The first half was astonishing, while much of the second half was like Cars.


Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES View Post
What the heck kind of movie would that be... lets make millions of kids cry their brains out?
I don't go see a movie to assess the cry factor of somebody else's kid. I go see a movie for my own enjoyment.

EDIT:

I don't necessarily agree with everything this reviewer has to say, but I agree to certain extent of the sentiment in her review:

http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/revi...l_e/index.html

Toward the end of "WALL-E," Stanton tries to circle back and recapture some of the wistful magic of the movie's early scenes, but the spell doesn't take. "WALL-E" gives us a hero who, by culling through the masses of junk that we so casually throw away, becomes a repository for human memories, a living (though not breathing) creature who has more feeling than actual humans do. Then it shows us actual humans -- lazy, fat, brainless ones who have squandered and abused their free will -- and asks us to forgive their foibles. The gloss of preachiness that washes over "WALL-E" overwhelms the haunting, delicate spirit of its first 30 minutes. This clearly isn't a movie made by a robot; the drag is that it ends up feeling so programmed.

EDIT again:

I think this review better summarizes how I feel about it.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,3954175.story

Though this wordless section of the film, punctuated only by Wall-E's frequent and idiosyncratic croak of "Eve," is in some ways merely a set up for the second half, it is easily the most memorable and distinctive part of the film. This segment, a kind of song without words, is a world-creating work of pure imagination that has been thought out to the nth degree.

"Wall-E's" second half involves the dauntingly overweight humans who have sent the probe (and who are shrewdly not pictured in any publicity material.) They've lived for centuries on a cruise liner-type spaceship called the Axiom run by a barely functional captain ( Jeff Garlin) in thrall to a Hal-type eminence called Auto, voiced, in a nod to "Alien," by Sigourney Weaver.

This [2nd] part of the story gets increasingly familiar and sometimes borders on the predictably sentimental. But along with these inevitable elements of calculation, "Wall-E" never loses its sense of wonder: wonder at life, wonder at the universe, and even wonder at the power of computer animation to create worlds unlike any we've seen before. How often do we get to say that in these dispiriting times?


And another:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...ainment/Movies

If the first hour of WALL·E is poetic, the second is a more conventional, if witty, satire on consumerism.
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Jul 5, 2008, 02:45 PM
 
They probably have crystals in their palms that turn red when it's time for them to "move on."

I'm surprised nobody is criticizing Pixar for the humans being (apparently) all American. I guess if humans have to escape, there should only be Americans, and definitely an American captain.
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Originally Posted by macdude View Post
One thing I do not understand, and I guess something that should be predictable in a Pixar film, is the failure to address the deaths of the people aboard the Axiom. "Did the people live forever?" was a question I found myself pondering following the introduction of the members aboard.
I saw no reason to suspect they lived forever. They might actually have shorter lifespans than ours given how unhealthy they appeared to be.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit View Post
I saw no reason to suspect they lived forever. They might actually have shorter lifespans than ours given how unhealthy they appeared to be.
To me, it seemed like once the guests aboard the Axiom got to a certain age, they stopped aging. It seemed as though all of the guests (at least the ones they showed) were either babies or middle-aged.
     
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Man, some people take an animated movie and over-analyze it as if it were a holy book.

For Pete's sakes, it's just a story.

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Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
Man, some people take an animated movie and over-analyze it as if it were a holy book.

For Pete's sakes, it's just a story.

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Some of us are just anal about these things...
     
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Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat...

And Presto! Presto is free!

I'll presume you know how to save and convert the .flv to a Quicktime file.

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Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat...

And Presto! Presto is free!

I'll presume you know how to save and convert the .flv to a Quicktime file.

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Ha, great. Downloadinated.

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Originally Posted by Face Ache View Post
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And Presto! Presto is free!

I'll presume you know how to save and convert the .flv to a Quicktime file.

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Fan-frickin-tastic. Their best short yet. Smacks of old-school toon slapstick! In a very good way!

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Jul 6, 2008, 09:28 AM
 
Ya know, I tried to post a message the day after it came out, but my iphone choked and I didn't feel like repeating it. BUT, I wondered why no one had mentioned the short. It reminded me of the good old days, when bugs bunny was king. I liked wall-e, but it definitely needed an unhappy ending to make it great, which they obviously wouldn't do. After the movie, I couldn't stop thinking about the short and how much I wished Pixar had a Saturday morning show with their new bugs bunny character, or the birds, or whoever they decided to entertain us with. Anything clever like they do would be great.
     
 
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