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WALL-E - New Pixar Movie

I had a huge argument with a girlfriend because I didn't like Finding Nemo :confused:

She was really meant too, proper pissed off and annoyed that I thought it was shit. It was as if I just told her to lose a bit weight and to suck me cock in her mum's dress, she went utterly fucking mental. She would introduce me to her friends and within three sentances bring it up that I didn't like Finding Nemo. Fucking Spanish lasses and their fucking cartoon fish.
 
Exquisitely detailed, sumptuously rendered, beautifully realised and engagingly written, WALL-E is the best sci-fi movie of the year, and probably the best full-length film that Pixar has ever produced.

The first 40-minutes are virtually wordless, as we meet rubbish-compacting droid WALL-E. He lives on the litter-strewn surface of a post-Apocolyptic Earth, loyally gathering and compressing cubes of trash as his program dictates. In his after-work hours he enjoys eternal re-runs of his favourite Hello Dolly video, with his pet cockroach for company. WALL-E has been left behind by his human masters, who fled the mountains of rubbish their profligate lifestyle produced, and left Earth to be cleaned up by solar-fed robots of which our eponymous hero appears to be the last.

But from space comes a visitor, in the egg-like shape of EVE - a higher-spec machine on a mission. She and WALL-E eventually bond, and leave Earth together to travel to the corporate holiday ship The Axiom, where the human race has resided for hundreds of years, becoming fat, lazy and listless as they wait for Earth to become habitable again.

The story thus switches from silent, speechless movie to breathless sci-fi chase-and-be-chased adventure, as WALL-E and a raggle-taggle assortment of metal friends seek to return humankind back to the bosom of planet Earth, as stewards of the future, rather than destroyers of the past.

The characters of WALL-E and EVE, and in fact all the robot roles, are fully-realised, and expressed wonderfully in the creative and rich sound of the film; buzzes, whistles and pops stand for words in this robotic romance, and the drama is all the more effective because of it.

The visual photo-realistic world created by Pixar lends itself to the steel casings of the robots, and the humans are conversely more cartoonish. But whether flesh or fabricated, the surface details and pure sense of mass and weight are quite mind-blowing. You almost can't believe your eyes as you see every scratch and dimple writ large on the cinema screen. Don't ask me how they make this stuff - just be thankful they can, and that the quality of writing, and vision behind the story is of a quality that doesn't put such technical prowess to shame.

The serious messages from the film are obvious; there are timely comments on environmentalism, large corporations, and the dangers of an unreal, automated existence.

But the true heart of the story lies in the digital love that connects the two main characters; the search for a partner in life, the need to hold hands, the comfort of a dream shared, and the dangers you'll go to to achieve these things.

We know Pixar can make kids' films that adults love, and perhaps this is more of an adult film that kids will love. There is dark subject matter here, and there is a twisted humour. But the spark, the redemption, and the soul of the film is what I remember as I left the screening, and finally the feeling that if my emotions can be touched so convincingly by a series of digitised pixels on a screen, then the future really is here, and robot love is not so far-fetched as it might sound.
 
I thought it very good indeed.

Would have been utterly fantastic without the happy ending

I.E if the rebuilt Wall_e had remained not remembering his adventures and EVA, it would have been so bleak and so awesome

but it's a childrens film and needs a happy ending I suppose
 
DotCommunist said:
I thought it very good indeed.

Would have been utterly fantastic without the happy ending

I.E if the rebuilt Wall_e had remained not remembering his adventures and EVA, it would have been so bleak and so awesome

but it's a childrens film and needs a happy ending I suppose
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How have you seen it already?
 
DotCommunist said:
I thought it very good indeed.

Would have been utterly fantastic without the happy ending

I.E if the rebuilt Wall_e had remained not remembering his adventures and EVA, it would have been so bleak and so awesome

but it's a childrens film and needs a happy ending I suppose
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I really loved it. Found it really charming and the soundtrack was beautiful. I think I liked it if not more than DD and her friend.
 
Structaural said:
Amusing slag-off of some of the more crap CG-movies.

Top 10 worst CG movies
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I've seen that film only because it was one of the 3D filoms available at the Science Museum Imax. The memory of it still makes me slightly nauseous. Course, I loathed Tom Hanks even before that (it was 'God Bless America!' at the Oscars that did it - how can anyone want to watch him after that?)

I didn't really like Finding Nemo either, though, so am now slightly worried that I won't like Wall-E, and I'll be taking my daughter and a friend or two to see it on her birthday weekend. That long without dialogue seems a bit much for kids to take.

Has anyone on here actually taken any kids to see the film yet? What did they think?
 
Read reviews of this yesterday and all giving it five stars. Even the cynical reviewers of IMDB have given this one pretty much top marks so one to see at the picture house I should say.

Generally I am a bit mixed on CGI films but they are clever (I quite liked Ratatouille too) and for a subject matter this vast I would rather see a cute CGI robot then Will Smith the Scientologist ;)
 
Just came back from seeing this. It's excellent. Entertaining and witty with really great characters even if most of them really don't say much. Want to see it again just to see if it bears repeated viewing like a true classic.

Potentially the modern day E.T. and boy I love that film too. :D
 
Good film, far better than the average Cars and Incredibles. Reminded me of Finding Nero...that space with the fire extinguisher was great!
 
Magneze said:
Just came back from seeing this. It's excellent. Entertaining and witty with really great characters even if most of them really don't say much. Want to see it again just to see if it bears repeated viewing like a true classic.

Potentially the modern day E.T. and boy I love that film too. :D
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Im in love with WALL- E he is one of the most endearing characters ive ever witnessed:cool:
 
I loved it too, and also want to watch it again just to make sure it's as good as I think it is :)

Don't miss the end credits whatever you do!!! ;)
 
Brilliant film and breathtakingly subversive for a Disney, and to a lesser extent Pixar, film.

There were moments in it where I may have been making the wrong connections but when the spaceship returned to Earth I couldn't help but wonder at one of the skyscrapers of rubbish collapsing in the foreground. It was very reminscent of the WTC and seemed to be a wonderfully subtle point about human priorities and the consequences of our actions.

The broader themes though of sendentary, purely consumerist lifestyles leading to a bovine manner of satiated existence were just as powerful. The endless shopping mall in one of the opening scenes, which was branded with the mono-corporation's Buy'n'Large logo, was exceptionally visually effective and bleaker than any of its ruined surroundings.

I like this disclaimer that some wag at Pixar's knocked up for the aforementioned corporation:

http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html

There's a lot more to mull over, I reckon it'll wear another viewing.
 
I don't do the cinema as much as a film loving chap should but this one is really making me want to go.
 
The escape pod scene when WALL-E jumped on the seat and swung his track was so cute. Ace film on many levels, its high marks on rotten tomatos are wholely deserved.
 
Diamond said:
Brilliant film and breathtakingly subversive for a Disney, and to a lesser extent Pixar, film.

There were moments in it where I may have been making the wrong connections but when the spaceship returned to Earth I couldn't help but wonder at one of the skyscrapers of rubbish collapsing in the foreground. It was very reminscent of the WTC and seemed to be a wonderfully subtle point about human priorities and the consequences of our actions.

The broader themes though of sendentary, purely consumerist lifestyles leading to a bovine manner of satiated existence were just as powerful. The endless shopping mall in one of the opening scenes, which was branded with the mono-corporation's Buy'n'Large logo, was exceptionally visually effective and bleaker than any of its ruined surroundings.

I like this disclaimer that some wag at Pixar's knocked up for the aforementioned corporation:

http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html

There's a lot more to mull over, I reckon it'll wear another viewing.
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subtle nod to Brave New World with the kids watching the buy n large ad/propaganda.

I got told off for pointing out every sci fi reference I noticed:mad:
 
Excellent film. Succeeds on many levels, at many things. Great. Gotta watch it again.

Firky you are dead inside :)
 
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