WALL-E the movie

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Wow! I took my youngest kid yesterday. In my opinion this movie sucked! The characters were cute but the overiding theme was very bleak, and that americans are big fat lazy pigs. My son seemed sad afterwards.

[Nessa 23]

i agree that americans are lazy. That explains a lot why this is the most successful country in the world, because its population is lazy

[Niels Bohr 72]

The people in Wall-E are fat because of their length of stay in space. The density of bones do decrease in space because of the lack of gravity. It makes them appear chubby.

Yes, it's true. BNL in the movie is just like the way we look at Burger King.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's a cartoon....set 700 years into the future. Some people need to lighten up and enjoy a movie for what it is - fiction.

[KiKi 0]

It's getting off the chart great reviews.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's getting off the chart great reviews.

Yep. It's just that some of the Right Wing media outlets are griping about the social commentary of the movie. All of sudden, they've become the PC crowd. Amazing, isn't it?

[KiKi 0]

Ah well......it all makes sense now.....

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Ah well......it all makes sense now.....

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

The same characters could have been incorporated into a totally different theme. Movie critics? I looked at the trailors and none of them show or even hint what the overall message is.

Edited July 7, 2008 by ={Rogue}=

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I've heard good things about that movie - I was going to see it at the weekend but we kept missing the showtimes.

There are certainly subtexts in every work of fiction - and you can't control interpretation so its obviously a matter for individuals to decide for themselves whether they find particular content objectionable.

I found the portrayal of the Persian Empire in "300" to be defamatory and insulting. I also didn't buy George Lucas' explanation about Jamaican Jar Jar Binks and the Japanese frog people - though in the Star Wars prequels it was really just silly rather than offensive.

Unfortunately what happens a lot is that people allow their minds to be made up for them by the media, and you discover quite frequently that they haven't watched the movie at all - this is generally what happens in a lot of the moral outrages at film and video game sex/violence. I could care less what people think, just as long as they have actually bothered to go and see or read the movie/book they're objecting to.

[Marilyn. 340]

I-T I-S A M-O-V-I-E!!

Edited July 7, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[Niels Bohr 72]

I like Wall-E. Well because of the CG compared to the first CG film, Toy Story, done by Pixar Animation. The SIGGRAPH community have done an outstanding job at sharing the knowledge from Sci-Fi, Final Fantasy, and a number of others movie in the past like Star Wars.

I like it very much!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

like I said, the characters were awsome. The world that surrounds them could have had endless possibilities that were positive but they chose a very negative and dark one.

[mendeleev 68]

I don't get it. The objections, that is. Why should all art be happy happy happy?

Edited July 8, 2008 by novotul

[Sprailenes 47]

I thought it was a great movie. It had nothing to do with Americans being fat and lazy. If you failed to remember it was the entire world that was evacuated. It is an American made film but it had nothing to do with putting down America.

It is good your son came out of the movie sad because it evoked some sort of emotion, something about it made him think. Thats what movies should do.

However I didn't see it as incredibly dark or sad. Sure this is what the world could look like one day, but it wasn't preachy, it was a love story. I thought it was a beautiful film.