You must see Wall.E

If you thought it was just the latest kid's cartoon, you were wrong. It is actually an incredible film with an incredible message.

I honestly don't believe that anyone under the age of 16 would really "get" it.

If you were considering going to see it, I say do it. It's worth every penny.

 

how about a little more of a synopsis?

 

sure. i just didn't want to spoil anything for anyone.


basically:

Wall.E is a cute little robot/trash compactor that is working on earth to clean up the global-sized mess that the humans have left behind.(the humans have left earth because it was so dirty that they couldn't sustain life there any longer and are now living in space) All of the other robots that were put there to do the same have long since expired, so basically the poor little guy is all alone, day in and day out cleaning up the planet. 700 years after the clean-up operation began the humans send EVA, a super-advanced girl robot to find signs of plant life. Wall.E meets EVA, shows her around and they start to fall in love....................

i'll stop there. it's pretty much the cutest movie i have ever seen and also probably the most alarming as well. it really makes you think about what we're doing to this poor planet....

 

you could've read basically any sci-fi novel &'ve came up w/ the same conclusion.. yeah & don't worry 'bout ruining the story because the trailer is much more revealing than that

 

well...right, obviously. but who really reads these days, i mean really.(not that i think reading is lame, but i just don't know of anyone who actually reads books anymore)

all i'm saying is that anyone who trashes this planet on purpose or who just doesn't care about environmental issues much, should really see this movie. disney or not it gives you a much-needed jolt. kind of wakes you up a bit about the whole issue.

 

actually, during the weekend me and my man we decided to go to see the sex and the city, I love every second of it and before the movie there was trailer of Wall.E and that Wall.E was like "downloading is bad" and it was probably ment to be some "piracy warning" beside "you wouldn't steal a car..." and that's what confused me..

 

lol.. that post was very funny.. oh yeah & reading is good for you. should do it sometime

 

I saw it last weekend. This is seriously the greatest movie Disney has ever produced... actually, it's one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It's one of the few movies that really scared me. The message is painfully clear. It's also visually stunning, and the lack of dialogue made it even more haunting. Everyone should definitely see it.

 

I'm just worried that the only reason people think it is good is because Disney laced it with subliminal messages telling you how good it is.

Yes, I think everyone should fill up their SUV and then trek down to the local theater to see the new movie about how we're trashing the planet. And then afterwards take the kids out to McDonalds for a salad.

 

I used to read all the time and I'm starting it up again. Kurt Vonnegut died not to long ago. Have you read any of his books?

I know 6 other people who read. If you don't educate yourself, what are you doing?

 

i don't know who vonnegut is, but I DO READ.(more aimed at sdng) I read magazines, books, autobiographies, the newspaper, articles on the internet, anything and everything i can get my hands on.

exactly. this kid gets it.

 

It was good... I would love to see more non-childrens movies that take place in that version of the future... I want to be prepared.

 

WALL-E
Review by Shale
July 4, 2008

I'm a week late seeing this movie but could only handle two last weekend. So, it's likely you've seen other good reviews (almost all were) or the movie itself. This was a beautiful movie, just like Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille exactly a year ago. I have mentioned the seeming dichotomy of buying a ticket to a G-rated movie with a senior discount but these movies I think, tho geared toward kids, can only be fully appreciated by adults. The computer illustration was excellent and I found myself just enjoying the art of it.

The story is of a cute utilitarian robot left behind after humans literally trashed the earth and went off into space to wait out the cleanup. It was the task of an army of Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class robots (WALL-E) to do that. After constructing mountains of trash cubes over hundreds of years there is only one WALL-E left and he is lonely except for his friend a cockroach.

Most of the movie is the antics of WALL-E going to work to compact trash into cubes and stack them. He carries a cooler to work, in which he puts interesting pieces of trash that he takes home.

WALL-E Goin' to Work


His daily routine at home, inside a large piece of machinery is where he sorts his curios and watches an old video (VHS) of the 1969 movie Hello Dolly sadly longing to have someone with whom to dance and hold hands.

WALL-E at Home


WALL-E's routine changes when a large spaceship lands and drops off a sleek, shiny, hi-tech bot named EVE, who is here to assess the condition of the Earth for habitation. WALL-E falls in love and eventually he (assuming gender) and EVE become partners.

When WALL-E presents EVE with a lone struggling plant he has found, she stows it inside and shuts down, sending out a beacon signal. The spaceship comes and retrieves EVE and WALL-E hitches a ride. Back at the huge spaceship Axiom where all the humans have been gettin' fat and lazy with nothing to do, there is conflict between bots and EVE and WALL-E become fugitives.

EVE & WALL-E fugitives


But of course you know that eventually everything has to come out alright - altho there were actually a few suspenseful moments when this could've made a bunch of kids (and me) cry if they didn't come up with a good ending.

EVE & WALL-E Dance in Space


Like I said, this movie is not just for kids. It has a timely message about us trashing this planet that may be over the younger kids heads (it certainly has been with most adults). It also has a message about being hooked into virtual electronics to the point that you don't even know there is a physical world out there.

I'm beginning to really love it when a bunch of computer graphic artists get together and make a movie. Gotta give this a 4-DVD rating. Don't want my vid of Ratatouille to get lonely on the shelf.

Shale's movie rating scale:
0 DVD No I would not waste my money or time seeing this movie again.
1 DVD I would get this DVD for $5 or $7
2 DVD I would get this DVD for $10
3 DVD I would get this DVD for $15
4 DVD I would get this DVD for $25 as soon as it was released.

 

Thank you Karmalized! And Shale! Very good reviews.

I wanted to see this, now more so hearing about such a meaning behind it, good thread!

I just hope us humans can keep this beautiful place clean

 

i thought it sucked. stupid story line. lousy plot. dumb anthropomorphizing of machinery. it was full of cheap shot humor, like the constant 'fat people' gags that ran throughout. pretty lame. i give it 1 star.

 

Ouch.

Your signature btw, makes no sense. How is fighting FOR peace anything like fucking for virginity?

First of all, PEACE = Means standing in the MIDDLE of strife, struggle, and chaos WHILST KNOWING inside your HEART that you're at peace... If no one fought for peace, It'd die.

 

i can't take posters who use the word 'whilst' seriously.

 

this reminds me of Happy Feet. Im not the only one who thinks that it was WAY beyond little kids' mind set right?


I love that movie.

 

That's a damn shame, and, no offense, pretty surprising. He's EASILY one of the most important authors of the 1900's. There are maybe 1 or 2 books I'd ever recommend over Slaughterhouse 5.

I can't wait to see Wall-E. Pixar probably couldn't make anything other than gold if they tried (though I did skip Cars).
To the poster who didn't like the anthropomorphism: Have you heard of Pixar before . Again, no offense, but that's kind of their thing.

 

it's not so much the anthropomorphism as the poorly executed unbelievable anthropomorphism.