Wall-E

Post by **Freakzilla** » 02 Jan 2009 00:43

My mom gave this Disney Pixar movie to one of the kids for Jesus' birthday, I loved it.

It's a post apocylyptic love story between two robots. Wall-E is a trash robot whose job it is to compact trash on Earth into little cubes and stack it and a hobby collecting human artifacts and Eve is a botanical probe searching for evidence of sustainable life. Eve was sent to Earth from the Axiom, an interstellar cruise ship all of humanity went on while a few remained behind in a thought to be failed attempt to clean up the planet. They have been on the cruise for over 700 years and now when Eve returns with a plant and the captain is set to go home, the autopilot, Otto, mutinies revealing that not long after the cruise disembarked, the clean up effort was abandoned and tries to prevent the plant being used to trigger the Axiom's preprogrammed navigation back to Earth for recolonization.

http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/anim ... ms/wall-e/

Post by **Omphalos** » 02 Jan 2009 02:50

I loved it too. My wife bought it the day it came out. We have probably watched it five times as a family so far. Its the cutest thing they have ever done.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 02 Jan 2009 05:30

This is actually one I want to see.

Unless I'm mistaken, though, they're just starting to show it in the theaters over here. (Teg...you know?) It's already out on DVD in the States?

Lundse · Post by **Lundse** » 02 Jan 2009 08:59

I loved it too!

Obviously, it is very much about ecology - but when the captains says to the computer running humanity for its own good: "We don't want to survive; we want to live" I knew someone had read good ol' Herbert!

Hopefully, we will have a few 'tweens seeing this movie who will get that message. KJA&BH, and their devoted fans, will probably remain ignorant...

Maybe they can write a prequel, in which it turns out the machine was really trying to kill mankind, and the reason the captain shouts this was that his chldren were tortured by a toaster in drag...? Must be a buck in it for some author-for-hire, right?

DuneFishUK · Post by **DuneFishUK** » 02 Jan 2009 09:31

Saw it at the cinema - great film.

Now watch the BBC version of EM Forster's The Machine Stops on Youtube ... I'm pretty sure they did

Spicelon · Post by **Spicelon** » 02 Jan 2009 11:14

Really good effort from Pixar, although they might have lost some of their
younger audience with the general lack of dialog.

Personally I think Pixar peaked with The Incredibles, but this one was better
than Cars, and ranks up there with Toy Story and Nemo.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 02 Jan 2009 12:00

Spicelon wrote:Really good effort from Pixar, although they might have lost some of their
younger audience with the general lack of dialog.

Allthough it was late, my kids fell asleep watching it with me last night, and I thought the same thing. I had the feeling the theme was not intended for them but for the parents.

Eyes High · Post by **Eyes High** » 02 Jan 2009 12:47

Really liked this movie. I'd forgotten it was out on DVD already. We'll have to get a copy.

My kids seemed to like it as well although they are preteen and teenage years, so the lack of dialog doesn't bother them as much as it might some younger kids.

Thanks for reminding me about a well made movie

Tleszer · Post by **Tleszer** » 02 Jan 2009 13:14

It's definitely one of my favorite Pixar movies. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought "Dune" when watching it. Even their version of machines taking over the ship makes more sense than appeared in McDune.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 02 Jan 2009 13:19

Tleszer wrote:Even their version of machines taking over the ship makes more sense than appeared in McDune.

That occured to me too. The Captain getting off his hovering lounge chair and challenging the autopilot was more in the right direction.

Sole Man · Post by **Sole Man** » 02 Jan 2009 17:47

I didn't see it but something tells I will in school. (They play those kinds of movies. Constantly.)

Serkanner · Post by **Serkanner** » 02 Jan 2009 18:37

Sole Man wrote:I didn't see it but something tells I will in school. (They play those kinds of movies. Constantly.)

How times change ... I had to read books in school.

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » 02 Jan 2009 19:45

i like Wall E as well..i watched it on new years eve for teh first time.... i thought it was pretty funny all the fat people riding around in chairs...and how all food was served in a cup

Robspierre · Post by **Robspierre** » 03 Jan 2009 16:05

My Favorite Pixar film so far. Listened ot an interview with the c0-writer/director Interesting to here he say how he worked with others and hwhere parts of the movie came form. For example the humans were originally suppose to be aliens and how they went form aliens to humans. He says it is not an environmental movie, originally it was not suppose to be set on earth, and he was thinking like a six year old and how cool would a planet be if it was completely covered in trash? All the digs at technology and how people today do not interact with others as much were intentional. It is a good discussion.

You can down load it from here:

http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/

Creative Screen Writing Magazine has screenings of movies followed by Q&'A's with the writers, directors, actors ,etc. Some good stuff can be found here.

Rob

Tleszer · Post by **Tleszer** » 03 Jan 2009 17:17

Robspierre wrote:My Favorite Pixar film so far. Listened ot an interview with the c0-writer/director Interesting to here he say how he worked with others and hwhere parts of the movie came form. For example the humans were originally suppose to be aliens and how they went form aliens to humans. He says it is not an environmental movie, originally it was not suppose to be set on earth, and he was thinking like a six year old and how cool would a planet be if it was completely covered in trash? All the digs at technology and how people today do not interact with others as much were intentional. It is a good discussion.

You can down load it from here:

http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/

Creative Screen Writing Magazine has screenings of movies followed by Q&'A's with the writers, directors, actors ,etc. Some good stuff can be found here.

Rob

Thanks for the link. Downloading it now.

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