1161 WALL•E

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margot · #101 Post by **margot** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:10 pm

LQ wrote:As I was wiping my happy tears away leaving the theatre, I couldn't help but think that come Christmastime, there will probably be hundreds of thousands of Wall E toys manufactured and then given as gifts to indifferent children, and they will probably end up in the trash dumps sooner or later. Not to get super-environmental, but that movie was soberingly prophetic. (The first 30 minutes at least)

Who would throw away wall-e???

starmanof51 · #102 Post by **starmanof51** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:17 pm

margot wrote:Who would throw away wall-e???

The five year old who got it in 2008 will almost certainly need to trash it (if he hasn't already purposely crushed it under his bike tires) by 2018 to help make room for his Playstation 7.

LQ · #103 Post by LQ » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:09 pm

starmanof51 wrote:
margot wrote:Who would throw away wall-e???
The five year old who got it in 2008 will almost certainly need to trash it (if he hasn't already purposely crushed it under his bike tires) by 2018 to help make room for his Playstation 7.

Doesn't that just hurt your soul??

moviscop · #104 Post by **moviscop** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:38 pm

Don't worry, Playstation 7 will probably have Grand Theft Auto 10: Necrophilia and Blood so the kids are fine

lacritfan · #105 Post by **lacritfan** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:40 pm

margot wrote:Who would throw away wall-e???

The same kid who left Jessie in the Goodwill bin, which for me still gets me more choked up than any other moment in a Pixar film.

jbeall · #106 Post by **jbeall** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:29 pm

That kid probably grew up to become one of those sedentary people on the Axiom.

I enjoyed this a great deal. Casting Fred Willard as the President of BuyNLarge was great, and I really thought this film hit all the right notes.

Also, the Pixar short that ran before the feature was pretty funny, too.

davebert · #107 Post by **davebert** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:25 pm

Yeah, it was fantastic overall. I assume we're talking a holiday 08 blu-ray release? I can't wait.

#108 Post by **swo17** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:34 pm

FWIW, DVD Aficionado lists a release date of 11/4/08 for the Blu-ray.

Floyd · #109 Post by **Floyd** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:46 pm

I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained. I guess that is minor and this a children's film but might as well have no babies at all.

Cold Bishop · #110 Post by **Cold Bishop** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:50 pm

Probably something Brave New World-ish, I'd imagine.

moviscop · #111 Post by **moviscop** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:58 pm

Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained.

fat people can have sex too floyd.

#112 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:36 pm

moviscop wrote:
Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained.
fat people can have sex too floyd.

Yes, but fat, boneless people constricted to their individual chairs? You know, the people his post was actually talking about?

lacritfan · #113 Post by **lacritfan** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:55 am

Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained. I guess that is minor and this a children's film but might as well have no babies at all.

Porn is probably played on the screens in front of them while specialized robots, you know...like we do with bull semen...

Poncho Punch · #114 Post by **Poncho Punch** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:16 am

lacritfan wrote:
Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained. I guess that is minor and this a children's film but might as well have no babies at all.
Porn is probably played on the screens in front of them while specialized robots, you know...like we do with bull semen...

Specialized robots shove stimulating probes up the men's derrières?

#115 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:05 pm

Poncho Punch wrote:
lacritfan wrote:
Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained. I guess that is minor and this a children's film but might as well have no babies at all.
Porn is probably played on the screens in front of them while specialized robots, you know...like we do with bull semen...
Specialized robots shove stimulating probes up the men's derrières?

He's probably thinking it's more like that scene in THX 1138.

Antoine Doinel · #116 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:25 pm

Saw this today and loved it. Even though the message had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, it speaks to the level of animation and story that I was rooted to my seat to find out what happens to Wall-E and Eve. It truly is amazing that they were able to build such endearing characters out of little more than gestures and garbled robot speak. The only weak note in the film were the fat jokes, which I felt were a bit misplaced and turned the cautionary tone of the film into a mocking one, but thankfully they were very few.

And I'll add to the kudos of Presto. It's easily the best Pixar short to date and it too reminded me of the classic WB toons. It really is the kind of comedy we don't see much of in kids films these days.

LQ · #117 Post by LQ » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:43 am

Floyd wrote:I really enjoyed this for the most part besides it being a little heavy handed. The thing that seemed a little skipped over to me was there were babies but considering everyone is fat and basically boneless while being constricted to those chairs they couldn't have sex to create them. It is never really explained. I guess that is minor and this a children's film but might as well have no babies at all.

a mildly interesting, if superfluous, point... but it is just a kids movie

HOWEVER
just another nail in Diablo Cody's coffin...I read a line about her musing about how Eve and Wall-E do the whole sex thing, and I instantly felt seething hatred for her.

#118 Post by **swo17** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:59 pm

I recently watched this with my 2 and 4 year old nephews, who I thought could share a unique perspective on the film. According to one, it was "totally awesome." And both agreed that it was the best film they had ever seen. (Granted, they were also excited by the Space Chimps trailer.) However, out of the pool of films that they have seen thus far in their young lives, I would probably have to agree with them.

And Presto was just incredible. I almost liked it even more than the feature.

#119 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:52 pm

Assuming you get burned-out on watching Fanfan over and over, WALL-E will arrive in time for Thanksgiving

Antoine Doinel · #120 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:13 pm

Domino, where are you on taking the down the cover art?! It's horrid.

#121 Post by **mfunk9786** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:49 pm

The artwork is really, really bad for the 3-disc (why throw in all that red and orange garbage around a bluish image?), but I don't think it looks too shabby for the 1-disc.

exte · #122 Post by **exte** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:57 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:The artwork is really, really bad for the 3-disc (why throw in all that red and orange garbage around a bluish image?), but I don't think it looks too shabby for the 1-disc.

Was that meant to be ironic?

Tom Hagen · #123 Post by **Tom Hagen** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:50 pm

I liked the M-O character as much as the next person, but Jesus that is a terrible cover. Aren't the kiddies going to want this enough already without this visual Pixy Stix screaming for their attention at the big box stores? All that's missing is a "Hey kids, bug your Mom RIGHT NOW!" pull quote.

#124 Post by **mfunk9786** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:00 pm

exte wrote:Was that meant to be ironic?

No, that was just the word I chose to describe Disney's awful border. Now I realize how stupid that looked.

Antoine Doinel · #125 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:39 pm

Disney is giving Wall-E an Oscar push and is gunning for a Best Picture nod.