Oh no! Wall-E!

[Oompa Star]

Finding Nemo is a curse to pet store employees. There is nothing more irritating than hearing an ignorant child shouting, LOOK IT'S NEMO!!! when they come across the clownfish for sale. Hell, I have even heard some adults call them Nemos! I know this sounds trivial, but it would get under your skin too if you heard it in person.

[Zeta]

I hear it at aquariums, and yes, it does piss me off.

And Chicken Little sucked but Meet the Robinsons ruled. Even if the ending made little sense.

[cjmcray]

Personally, I liked the story premise whipped up before Disney bought out Pixar--the one about Buzz Lightyear getting recalled and sent back to Taiwan, with the other toys going to rescue him.

I personally hated that idea. It would've just been Toy Story 2 again, only backwards. And Toy Story 2 was a terrible movie.

I havent seen Wall-E yet, but Stanton is involved, and he made Finding Nemo, my favorite Pixar film, so I have high expectations for this one.

I didnt care much for The Incredibles. It seemed too much like a typical Cartoon Network action show.

[Cuckooguy]

It's ironic how Finding Nemo had an anti-pet theme yet demand for clownfish pets went up. It makes me want to go, "Did you not watch the movie?"

[Shadow Hog]

Bah, TS2 was better than the first one in my opinion. Not horrible by a long shot.

[Radrappy]

I was about to say the same thing but everyone's got their weird personal tastes that you just can't fight. J-man likes Treasure Planet for crissakes.

[Esrever]

I thought Toy Story 2 was one of the few universally adored sequels.

[Cuckooguy]

I myself thought Treasure Planet was ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZsnore

[j-man]

God, what is wrong with you people? It's basically Disney-does-anime, and you fuckers would lap up any generic Japanese shit with catgirls and space pirates.

[Segaholic2]

I hate anime.

[Esrever]

I think Treasure Planet had the same problem Atlantis did... it's hard to do an epic adventure with a huge cast in only 70 minutes.

[Yami CJMErl]

God, what is wrong with you people? It's basically Disney-does-anime, and you fuckers would lap up any generic Japanese shit with catgirls and space pirates.

I wouldn't.

[Ngangbius]

Finally saw WALL-E today. Sorry about your trivial jaded nitpicks, Rappy, but I enjoyed it. It made me misty-eyed in a few of the final parts, and enjoyed the soundtrack. So far, it's one of my top favorite Pixar flicks along with The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Too bad some conservative groups are up in arms about the film's environmental theme accusing it of being "too preachy" and "an liberal agenda" or some crap. Sheesh, where were these folks when friggin' Happy Feet played in theaters? I didn't really mind or pay any deep attention to any environmentalist text, because that's not what the movie was mainly about. I cared only about how WALL-E was trying to win the affection of EVE. The movie is also dark with the humans becoming so complacent with their way of life on the Axiom and thru Buy and Large is that they become fat adult-babies who lost their meaning to live as "humans".

Also Presto! was hilarious.

God, what is wrong with you people? It's basically Disney-does-anime, and you fuckers would lap up any generic Japanese shit with catgirls and space pirates.

Are you sure this is the correct board you are addressing about?

[DackAttac]

Just got back from seeing it. Made my favorites. I kind of didn't know what to expect since this is from the Finding Nemo guy, which I found to be somewhat overrated (not that it was bad, it just seems like the obviously superior stuff from Brad Bird fell on deafer ears.) I liked how The Incredibles' had a subtext I agreed with wholeheartedly, but I knew it could be easily ignored if I didn't. Wall-E's got the balls to just stick the message out there. It doesn't villainize the spoiled general population characters; I suppose you couldn't even call them spoiled with how quickly they recovered. But nothing irritates me more than movies whose moral is "We can fix the world, the problem is everyone else in the world but me. Look at all of you with your iPods and cell phones, and how stupid you look. That main character represents me, the normal one, and I hate your guts. Please change so the world will be a better place for me." The humans weren't apathetic blobs out of being lazy, they had laziness forced upon them, and weren't the antagonists I was expecting them to be. I mildly liked Garlin going into this, but his "I don't want to survive; I want to live" line was the best one I've heard in the cinema for a damn long time, and any lesser delivery would have made it cheese sauce. I'd rank this up there with Ratatouille. I'm gonna miss these kinds of films when the current creative heads get rotated and retired out of Pixar. I can't remember the last time a studio's output quality was so consistent, let alone this high.

[Radrappy]

Finally saw WALL-E today. Sorry about your trivial jaded nitpicks, Rappy, but I enjoyed it.

I regret having ever criticized this film.

[DackAttac]

Eh, it's not like you called it a piece of shit that could only be enjoyed by retards. There's nothing I hate more than people who rim a movie because they're supposed to (much like I did in my last post), or people who rip something to pieces just to appear smarter than the throngs who will surely enjoy it (see all of Pitchfork Media). To see some actual "I enjoyed it, but it's flawed and here's why" is a breath of fresh air, even if I disagree with every sentence.

For some reason, nothing makes me cry like a baby more than abandoned robots.

I hope for your sake you avoided A.I. like the goddamn plague.

[Locit]

I regret having ever criticized this film.

It's not like you can't have a dissenting opinion about it! It's just that some people really, really like it. In this case, most people.

I hope for your sake you avoided A.I. like the goddamn plague.

There are a lot of very good reasons to avoid A.I. like the plague.

[Zeta]

I hope for your sake you avoided A.I. like the goddamn plague.

I felt sorrier for the robot bear than I did Haley Joel Osmett.

[DackAttac]

See, I was thinking more of the bear when I wrote that.

[Brazillian Cara]

What's the deal with people being called solely by their full names? "Haley Osmett" sounds good enough without the "Joel" in the middle.
Back to Wall-E, I'll probably watch it by the middle of the month - you know, when it won't be "new" anymore, and there won't be as many children yelling during the movie. I just hope to find subbed versions.

[DackAttac]

I went to a packed house, and I didn't hear one kid through the whole thing. That was one thing that struck me, this was kind of the first Pixar flick where there was no moment where I thought to myself, "Heh, well, the little kids will dig that, and I guess I didn't mind it." Shocking, considering that was 80% of Nemo. If I had a kid, I wouldn't consider coercing the little bastard to see Wall-E unless he was a damned cognitive movie watcher.

[G.Silver]

But nothing irritates me more than movies whose moral is "We can fix the world, the problem is everyone else in the world but me. Look at all of you with your iPods and cell phones, and how stupid you look. That main character represents me, the normal one, and I hate your guts. Please change so the world will be a better place for me."

Which character are you supposed to be identifying with in this case?

I thought if there was an environmental message people should take from the movie it was the one where the Captain says he's been doing nothing his whole life, and now he wants to do something, something to help the earth or change humanity for the better or something. It's that we know we're doing things that are bad for the environment and/or we know there are things we should be doing to undo or lessen that damage, but often times we don't because it's inconvenient or we're lazy. Maybe I just have a guilty conscience about certain things but that's what I took from it, it was that we should find something that we can do right now, and you can do that on an individual level.

Sounds a bit like "Don't just sit there and waste your precious time" now that I think of it.

[Cuckooguy]

I just watched Wall-E. It was a great movie. I loved the trivial moments between the characters, which I think is the highlight of the movie: Wall-E's attempt at courting Eve. I actually didn't care more much else, such as the secondary plot with the Captain of the ship, though I recognize it's an important element in forwarding the story and giving more chances for Wall-E and Eve to interact. It makes me wonder if he could've been handled differently that would've made me find him more interesting without stealing the show. Oh well.

Nonetheless, it's still a great and hilarious movie.

[Pepperidge]

I too enjoyed WALL-E, and would say it is in the same league as Ratatouille, although not quite as good. Since no other Pixar movies are in the same league as Ratatouille, I suppose this makes it my second favourite Pixar movie by default, which says a lot - but I did have a few problems with it. I really liked the earlier segments, when it was concentrated on WALL-E and EVE, but it really seemed to lose that focus as the movie decided that it had to go and solve every single problem facing earth and humanity. While that is understandable, since I doubt anyone would really want a bleak ending from a movie like this, it did sort of bug me that we were initially presented with an excellent portrayal of what appeared to be a society that had destroyed itself through a perpetual reliance and desire for lives run by consumerism, only to have the whole thing wind up being pinned on evil robots controlling humanity. I saw that as a cop-out, but the movie still worked overall.

Oh, and I can't believe that none of you have posted this yet:



It certainly helped that I had just finished MGS3 before seeing this.

[Segaholic2]

Pepperidge, sounds to me like you completely misunderstood the "conflict" in the movie. The robots weren't evil or controlling humanity, they were simply following directives for humanity's protection. The only thing really keeping the humans in space was their own complacent attitude and a lack of vision and desire to better themselves, which is what Wall-E inadvertently helps them find. The message of the film isn't to rise up against our horrible robot oppressors, but that humans can be capable of great good if we just apply ourselves.