Nice. 
That’s what my daughter said too.
But I pointed out that such a lightsource lacks the wavelengths that stimulate growth, and that lack of moisture after 700 years would be a problem too.
Why yes, I am a science geek! 
Some beans do sprout in the dark. So maybe they wouldn’t be as green and leafy as the Wall-E plant, but that falls within cartoon license, I think.
I’m pretty sure the epilog showed that the plant eventually grew into a tree
Did it, or did it just show a progression of plant life?
In any case, you never read Jack and the Beanstalk? No telling what those things are capable of.
This truely is a wonderous
movie season for the magic fridge
besides
the sprout wouldn’t have survived the terrible sand storms.
nit picky nit picky nit picky.
Hey now…
[spoiler]1. The fridge was 700 years old, it is possible it had some cracks that would allow moisture and some sun.
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It would still offer protection from the sandstorms.
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Perhaps that is how the seed got into the fridge, blown away by a sandstorm until it found refuge.
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Who knows what sort of things were growing on those fridges anyways, for 700 years. Mutant compost.
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Also, since there was one, I thought the implication was that there were more, but hidden away and difficult to find. Wall-E just got lucky finding that (and so did EVE).
I just saw Wall E last night. And I enjoyed it. (Though I enjoyed Presto! much, much more. And I think that the ticket price can be justified simply for the short.)
However, I can’t give Wall E more than a 7 or 8 on a scale of one to ten. Even granting it’s supposed to be a fable. Even granting that it’s premises contradict known science left, right and center.
[spoiler]I couldn’t ignore the repeat of the old “constant thrust = constant velocity” and that Wall E could during the dance in space with EVE go in spirals effortlessly with that fire extinguisher. She was using some version of a reactionless drive, so she didn’t bother me. But Wall E, egads. If I could get a dry powder extinguisher with that kind of gas capacity…
The homage to both Sputnik and HAL and the use of Thus Spake Zarathustra was all great. But I couldn’t help thinking that someone forgot to read their Niven: EVE wasn’t sent to find habitability of the planet. EVE was out looking for proof of a habitable spot. (mutter mutter mutter)
I agree that the team on the film did a great job of finding ways to make the human characters heroic, instead of keeping them passive players to the actions of the robots.
And I wonder, just how freaked out was poor M.O. when they landed on Earth, and he had to try to decon all that dirt?[/spoiler]
Yes it did. They showed the boot under the ground underneath the tree.
Did anyone else look to see if there was going to be a big glowing crystal with that big tree at the end? 
Hey, it could have happened - John Lassiter is a big Miyazaki fan.
I read that as symbolic. The one that came first.
I’d like to add how happy I am for movies that seem to give away so much in the trailers and teasers, only to find they just scratch the surface. In the same vein, almost all of the teasers to Iron Man are out of the way in the first 5 minutes of the movie.
… looked like kudzu to me.
(Did they have seeds and animal embryos in storage?)
Saw the film yesterday and I am still processing. I enjoyed it very much, and some of the images were inspired, but the story seems a little thin.
[spoiler] I really liked the scene in the elevator – “look Eve, we’re on TV!” BLAST. “oh…”
and, the shot of the Axiom hanging in the sky above the city exactly the way that bricks don’t was perfect…[/spoiler]
Which Miyazaki film is that? I’ve got a growing list of Miyazaki in my NetFlix queue and could always use some more!
(Sorry for the hijack)
It was released in the US as Castle in the Sky. The Japanese title is listed on IMDB as *Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta**. In the title credits you’ll see that it was released in Japan as Tenkû no shiro Laputa. ISTR that you’ve got some smattering of spanish, you can see why the change of title.
At any rate, I recommend the movie highly, as I do all Miyazaki films, and most Studio Ghibli productions. Certainly this one is a good thematic match to Wall E. By no means is one movie a copy of the other, but both movies share a number of similar themes.
As long as we’re on the topic, have you seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind? If not, it’s another excellent Miyazaki, and again, shares some thematic similarities to Wall E. Not as many as Castle, but it’s another nice view of the issues.
*I’m not completely certain, but I think that translates to: “White Castle Laputa,” usually rendered as “Laputa: Castle in the Clouds”.
Dr Fidelius, if they had the technology to help humans reproduce, they probably had the technology for seeds and animals.
I know it wouldn’t work as well as a simple fairy tale, but I keep thinking it would be cool if there were other Axioms and they also got the signal that Earth was habitable again…
Thanks! I’ll add it to the list, which incidentally has Nausicaa on it at the moment (due to arrive in my next batch!)
It’s not natural, that’s just it. They are the perfet/perfeted consumers. They all have the exact same diet. They’ve been bread by the the BnL robots for 700 years, so probably ‘active’ people have been bred out.
One of my fanwanks for the film is that the passengers on the Axiom were the recipients of some genetic tinkering to, among other things, help them maintain muscle and bone mass in a low-g environment. Which explains why, despite their entirely sedentary existence, it was still possible (with some effort) for them stand up and walk.
One of the promotional clips in the beginning showed multiple ships leaving the Earth, and if you listen to the BnL president’s messages to the Axiom, you can hear a slight skip in the audio when he says the ship’s name, indicating that it was a boilerplate message for all the colony ships, with a specific name edited in for each ship that received it.
He wasn’t getting constant velocity, though. Rather, he was spiraling about, which implied an acceleration vector.
[spoiler]Sorry, I should have broken that up better. EVE’s ship, and Axiom, were both doing the constant thrust=constant velocity. (Which doesn’t make any sense if EVE is going around with a reactionless drive, anyways…)
Then, when the two 'bots were dancing outside, the motion being shown for Wall E was often perpendicular to the thrust being shown.
Two different complaints, but both related I think, to common fallacies about motion in space.[/spoiler]