Also, directive A113 was directed IIRC to the autopilots, not just Auto.
Exactly the way bricks don’t. Good call, that.
The film is great. I found the evolving interaction between WALLE and EVE very touching. I loved the perfectly ordered regulation of the Axiom’s robots, especially the travel lines. I also liked the seeds of chaos that propagated out from wherever WALLE went.
My main complaint is the cliche “clunky, working-class guy manages to hook up with elegant girl with model looks”.
Of course, that brings up the gender question. I think it’s clear WALLE is supposed to be the boy and EVE is the girl. But is that really the case? WALLE is the hopeless romantic, pining for love and collecting kitsch. EVE is the aggressive workaholic who is all-business with no time or understanding of love. So that’s a great case for a female WALLE and male EVE. I bet someone can come up with other arguments, even same-sex ones.
But, really, it’s a great love story, and I’d rather not deconstruct too much.
Hey, it happens. 
I took Kizarvexilla to see it yesterday.
My reaction is similar to what others have expressed. The first 30-45 minutes by themselves amounted to one of the single best movies I’ve ever seen. Once Wall-E and EVE arrive on the Axiom, it dropped one or two points.
The evolution of humans into pampered tubs-o-lard was a clever plot point, but eventually amounted to one continuous “fat” joke that got old very quickly.
All in all, I was not bothered by the inclusion of live-action footage. I could very well have done without Fred Willard, however. He is a black hole of un-funniness that sucks the humorous potential out of anything he is remotely connected with. I particularly thought that the deliberate Dubya references and “stay the course” joke were glaringly out of place. In another setting (and with a different performer) I probably would have laughed. Here, however, :rolleyes:
I, too, was disappointed that there was no preview for Pixar’s next project.
Okay, enough bitching about the negative aspects. I adored this movie. It was hilariously funny, mercilessly clever, gorgeously designed, flawlessly executed, and delivered its message (for the most part) without being too preachy. I especially loved the design for EVE, and caught right away the reference to the evolution from the clunky Apple IIe to the steamlined i-Mac. Ben Burtt, in particular, deserves a tremendous amount of credit for the voice design. Beautifully done.
Oh yeah. Kizarvexilla give it two enthusiastic opposable digits up.
I loved the movie. Of course, if you can evacuate the human population of the Earth into spaceships that are self-sufficient for 700 years, you could do the exact same thing except you could leave the spaceships on Earth and save money on unneccesary propulsion systems. But sealed bio-domes aren’t as cool, and they’ve been done to death anyway.
Up was just announced in April so it might not have been in production long enough for one.
I think one of my favorite parts of the movie was when Eve watches the saved video footage in her memory of all the things that Wall-E did for her while she was turned off. Her realization of his total devotion was really touching, and could easily have been over played but it wasn’t.
Several folks were asking about taking little kids to this (a two year old??) I am not a parent, but I work with preschoolers, and have to say that this is NOT a little kids movie! The kids I saw were either running around the theatre, or asleep. There is too little action to be interesting and too much other stuff not to be boring. As far as scary - I can see a few moments when it might be, but if a child isn’t old enough to follow the story it probably won’t affect him.
Oh and btw, I love this movie. I don’t care what Pixar based the robots on. I loved this movie. I agree with just about everything you all said about it. The part where Eve was trying to get WallE back to life, calling his name, had me in tears, and I do not tend to cry at movies (reading books is a totally different matter)
My science fiction fan DH wanted to know if they could build a spaceship like that, why the hell didn’t they have the technology to do something about the garbage?
>from the clunky Apple IIe
Hey, I wrote my master’s thesis on that! (and boy am I glad thats ancient history!)
Oh, did you guys see the credits? During them, you see what happens in their future. One thing I didn’t see and wondered about - do they learn their lesson? Or like Canticle for Leibowitz, is it all over again (I hope thats not a spoiler, I don’t know how to do the fancy black screen yet. Feel free to tell me using the spoiler mode, tho)
>not just Auto.
Um, I thought his name was Otto (slinking away embarrassed…)
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I didn’t, but DH did
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Ha! No, but we should have!
Thanks, that answered a question we had about it; if they could make a space ship why couldn’t they have cleaned up the place!
You and me, both.
But EVE is clearly the girl in this story. If for nothing else her 25 ways of saying ‘WALLE!’ in the tone pissed off girlfriends use when I’ve screwed something up in the distant past.
There’s an absolutely straight-faced Buy’N’Large website. Just make sure you scroll down and check out their Privacy Policy; they play hardball
We don’t get to see Wall-E until next month. Dunno why the delay with this one. 
I just saw Wall-E today, and I loved it as well. I thought it was a wonderful movie with lots of really touching scenes. I just knew if I watched it with my boyfriend I’d be reaching for his hand and holding it at times and being all sappy-smiling mode.
About 30 minutes into the movie, I was surprised it had been 30 minutes already, it was just so entertaining, and Wall-E was delightfully expressive.
Though…
[spoiler]Was anyone else a little depressed in the first 10 minutes of the movie, or is it just me? Seeing everything in ruin, desolate, the environment practically toxic and seeing a ‘dead earth’ made me quite sad.
And then I came to realize I don’t know if they took any animals into space with them, which means all the animals on the planet suffered, starved, and died. No cats, no dogs, no lions (noo!), no cows, no bears, no anteaters, et cetera. Though I tried to tell myself they made ‘Arks’ out of some ships and animals returned soon after the first one landed.
When Wall-E was holding up that…thing they had to put the plant in near the end of the movie, I saw how close his treads were to the edge, and I kept telling myself ‘Don’t slip, don’t slip…’. Then he slips and gets crushed, and I audibly gasped right there. I’m sure my face had a “No!..” expression of surprise.[/spoiler]
I will definitely buy this movie on DVD.
At some point, I forget where now, EVE makes a two-syllable exclamation. The guy behind us said to his date, “Did she just say ‘Oh, crap?’” That’s what it sounded like to me.
I mentioned the whole Otto/Auto thing way back on page 1. At the time, there was no credit on IMDb so it could have been either way. All the way through Steel Magnolias I thought Shirley MacLaine’s character was Weezer, which is a hell-uv-a name for a woman.
Now I keep imaging the crew of Battlestar Galactica landing on a junkyard Earth and having WALL-E come trundling along…
I loved this movie. I think it’s a romance disguised as a sci-fi cartoon, but that just makes it all the better.
Re the nitpicks of the physics of space: who cares? This is cartoon space–did you not see “SpaceJam” where this is explained? 
Their space dance was a fantastic visual.
I found this film to be startlingly political (not red v blue states) with its message of environmentalism, consumerism and group think. I found it refreshing, humorous and touching. I didn’t cry, but I thought it was sweet (in a good way, not in a saccharine way).
This is a simple, heartfelt story. I cannot understand why preschoolers wouldn’t like it? (or are they now accustomed to wall to wall action? I hope not). I love that so many adults liked this film and it was rated G. It just shows that intelligent films can be made without sex and violence (I’m not against either in film, but it’s nice to see a successful one w/o).
I think it’s better than “Toy Story” (I need to see TS2, though). I had no interest in “Cars” and still don’t. I thought “Nemo” mawkish and odd (with some good bits–Ellen Degeneres made up for a lot).
For me it wasn’t so much the “dead earth” aspect as the “Last one on Earth” aspect. Same thing that got to me when watching I Am Legend. I like being around other folks, one of my big personal fears is dying alone and forgotten. It hit me a little bit early on with Wall E just trundling along going about his work, then a little more when he cannibalized spare parts off of a dead Wall E, then finally moreso when I realized that all of the numerous shelves in his shelter were bunks for other Wall Es. Kinda like having the world end and having an entire dormitory with nobody to share it with.
My daughter will be 3 in August and she LOVED this movie. She made one comment during the whole movie, and she normally talks and asks questions through everything. When we got in the car on the way home, she told me that she wanted to have a Wall-E birthday, and has been telling everyone that ever since. Up until that point she wanted to have a Darth Vader birthday.
I, of course, am to shop-worn a jaded cynic to be taken in by a bunch of schmaltz in the form of a toy commercial you have to pay to watch, but it had robots falling in love, so what could I do? I agree with Pleonast that in one sense this is typical Hollywood horseshit, because in the real world a hot robot chick like that would be way out of Wall-E’s league.
I loved the film when I saw it, but then I read where somebody said Wall-E looked a lot like Johnny 5, and now I want my goddamned money back. But since I still haven’t gotten paid after realizing that Robots was ripped off from Futurama wholesale, I guess I’ll just have to bite back my bitter, salty tears.
Seriously, folks, for those of you who believe Pixar has done a better picture than this – did you know that smoking crack rots your teeth? It’s true, man; Google that shit.
I do have nitpicks, obviously. God never sends me a day without any. The premise doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny, of course, but I can’t bring myself to care except as a topic of conversation. The things I do care about are:
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[li]Physics. My wife commented on the sound-in-space issue, but I could hardly hear her over the sound of myself choking in nerdy fury over how close Wall-E seemed to get to a solar flare without turning into slag – this just after I watched him cling with appendages designed to shovel garbage to a ship accelerating fast enough to break orbit. But then the robot did something cute, and I let it slide. The point is that accoustics was far from the worst transgression of the film. But most space movies have people managing to withstand interplanetary velocities as though they were no more murderous than land-bound vehicular velocities, which are themselves treated in movies as though they were bumper car shenanigans. Quiet lay, my rage, for your hour will come.[/li][li]I hate to see a future story in which people are still using U.S. weights and measures, like some kind of moon-worshiping monkey people. If they’re still using Fahrenheit in 700 years, the race deserves to die off. Maybe the roaches will go metric – they may be our only hope.[/li][/ul]