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RE: WALL-E - 6/29/2008 8:56:24 PM
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tenfour
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Teaspoon,
After I let the movie sink in a bit more, I do agree that the company was not a neutral entity. As I see it, the company was not a villain so much as a representation of society as a whole. It was because of people's rampant consumerism that a corporation could end up replacing government.
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RE: WALL-E - 6/30/2008 11:48:28 PM
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Auben
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Saw it today.
The most unabashed old-fashioned romance I've seen in a long time. In our cynical age that's saying something.
Of course I was enjoying it as much as the kids.
'Only animation could make a cockroach that cute.'
'Hey, that's the Mac noise!'
'Eva means life you know, in Hebrew.'
'Hello Dolly!!!' (I'm sure I was the only one in the theater to recognize it by the first song.)
'HA! The Lido deck.'
'I'm pretty sure that's a pea plant.'
My poor husband has to listen to my running commentary.
Not gushing, but it was a fun film. Boys enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. 3 year old got a bit bored half way through but got reinvested in 10 minutes or so when the chase scenes started.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/5/2008 11:14:24 PM
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I'd really been looking forward to this movie after seeing the previews and went with a friend the first day it was out. I wasn't disappointed - it had lots of funny moments and some touching ones, too. My friend and I laughed at how the cockroach kept getting squashed but never died and how WALL-E fed him Twinkies, and at the little robot that ran around cleaning up after everybody on the ship (FOREIGN CONTAMINANT!). I also thought it was funny how EVE was so trigger-happy at first and kept blasting things with her laser arm.
When EVE repaired WALL-E but it appeared that he didn't remember her, it was so sad! I was sitting there with tears in my eyes.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/6/2008 11:02:24 PM
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The most over-rated movie of the year so far, and the least favorite of the Pixar movies. Actuallt this is the only one that Pixar has made that I did not like. I found Wall*e to a boring one-dimensional character. Completly under-develpoed.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/7/2008 12:37:29 AM
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Definetly on my list to see.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/7/2008 10:16:59 AM
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Well, I think the disappointment about this was passing it off as a kid's movie when it was nowhere close to being one. It was my 11-year old niece's idea to see the movie. She didn't like it at all. I did notice that in the humorous spots, mostly boys around her age were laughing. But, the storyline itself, I think, was a bit too much for kids to take in. It's a sad picture of what can become a reality. Of course, it's the extreme, but it is a message I think people should pay attention to. It makes me look at how I don't respect the planet the way I should. It makes me see the importance of appreciating what I have & the consequences of having everything at my disposal. It's a hard look at what technology has the ability to do if we go overboard w/ it.
I think I was most fascinated in what Wall-E found to be treasures that man found as waste. Of course, I think a love story w/ robots is a bit much (remember Bicentennial Man).
I do get tired of previews not showing the truth of a movie & leading you to believe it is totally something else. If they can't support their own story in the advertising, what's the point in producing it? kd
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RE: WALL-E - 7/7/2008 10:31:20 AM
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freakofnature
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quote:
I found Wall*e to a boring one-dimensional character. Completly under-develpoed.
Dude- Itsa robot! Any more character and he might as well have been Bill Paxton or Nicolas Cage.
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I enjoyed the movie mostly for the cinematography. Otherwise, there was an overt message in that "people have destroyed the earth and robots have to clean it up" HOWEVER, I thought that the notion of the robot once again finding life on earth and then the "humans" return to earth and under serious stress actually make the return so that they may once again inhabit the earth and break out of their monotonous over exposed lives was a good message in the end. I don't know that (as in earlier posts) it has anything to do with equating the obese with negative stereotypes, overall, the idea that everything is handed to us instantaniously and will continue to become that way will cause people to become overweight as they don't have to work for anything... I really found no harm in the message at all.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/15/2008 1:57:24 AM
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Pman.
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Noooo, sigh... please put spoilers in your post if your going to tell the end lol. But anywho I heard this movie is really good.
But is this a kid's movie? Would you recommend this to adults?
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RE: WALL-E - 7/15/2008 9:31:31 PM
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HisFish
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ORIGINAL: Pman.
Noooo, sigh... please put spoilers in your post if your going to tell the end lol. But anywho I heard this movie is really good.
But is this a kid's movie? Would you recommend this to adults?
Im 46, i loved it.
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RE: WALL-E - 7/15/2008 9:41:13 PM
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ORIGINAL: Pman.
Noooo, sigh... please put spoilers in your post if your going to tell the end lol. But anywho I heard this movie is really good.
But is this a kid's movie? Would you recommend this to adults?
I have indeed recommended it to adults. It's very good. It's very intelligently portrayed, smartly and entertainingly developed. A good story!
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RE: WALL-E - 7/16/2008 9:14:05 AM
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wareaglekd
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I wouldn't recommend it to kids, mostly because they would just get bored. My experience was the pre-teen boys laughed at certain points, but pre-teen girls didn't like it. Although, if you have small children, it will hold their attention for a good amount of time. I had a 2 1/2 year old w/ me that seemed to behave through most of it, but she was in potty training mode, so she couldn't hold up for the whole thing. I think if kids know ahead of time that there is not a lot of talking, that will determine if they will be entertained by it. Let it be their choice. Adults are not only entertained, but find it to be a huge wake up call! kd
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RE: WALL-E - 7/16/2008 1:51:19 PM
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Actually... all of my pre-teen kids loved it. The girls liked the love story part of the movie, my oldest daughter, 12, almost cried. My two boys loved the animation and the action. Especially the scene where Wall-e and the other robot are flying around in space... well with out too many details, you remember the part!
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RE: WALL-E - 7/16/2008 2:50:36 PM
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WesP
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ORIGINAL: Tinkerbell_
We saw it and my boys loved it. I was a bit aggravated that a robot found love where I can't, but other than that, it was good.
It was so sad to see how much weight the people had gained and that they didn't even realise there was a pool. And the thought of drinking food was positively disgusting. *shudders* I don't even like my food to touch on the plate let alone blended up together in a frothy shake. *shudders again*
I saw complacency as the message. The original people were only supposed to be there for 5 years. They became complacent with not walking anywhere, not swimming, not exercising. And so they passed this down to the next generations. Very sad.
Eve reminded me of the robot who helped Padme deliver her twins in Revenge of the Sith. 
I got almost as much entertainment from your post as I did from Wall-E! 
I really did enjoy that movie. My 4 children are ages 4, 6, 7, and 10. Every one of them loved it as much as I did, but I am old going on 3. 
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RE: WALL-E - 7/21/2008 10:38:03 PM
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Cranky, remind me what the short is.
Yeah, GB talks about the movie a lot too even though it was so sad. She focuses on the happy parts when she talks about it.
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Someone who wasn't expecting him to die might not be so emotional about the movie.
I want to take him home with me 
