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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???

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.

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??

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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...

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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. #-o

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