Sunday 29 June 2008
Wall–E
I saw Wall–E last night and must say that it made R2D2 look like a dustbin in comparison. Several reviews have compared the eponymous robot to Charlie Chaplin and I must agree with them. This is not only an excellent animated feature and a decent science fiction film, but is also a damn good picture full stop. It even makes the "green" message, which is forty years out of date and inexcusable even on its own terms, forgivable for the set up it gives for a marvelous romantic comedy that shows its more "serious" competitors for the shams that they are.
Also, my soon-to-be-six-years old daughter thought the bra over the eyes joke exceptionally funny, which must count for something in the scheme of things.
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I found Wall-E to be Luddite tripe. Either Pixar is atoning for the Objectivist "The Incredibles" and the southern/NASCAR "Cars", or the management wanted to appease their leftist animators.
It's really well crafted vile propoganda. It went immediately to the bottom of my list of all movies.
Yikes, anonymous!
I haven't seen this yet, but am planning to do so soon. It looks rather good; and the David Zondy seal of approval is nice to know.
I agree with wunderbear. I don't see Mr. Szondy as exactly the type to go for commie propaganda. Or maybe he's done as the rest of us have done, and grown a thicker skin: anything that comes out of Hollywood these days comes from the point of view of a standard comic book Marxism, so just roll your eyes (it's dark in the theater, so they won't catch your facecrime) and eat your popcorn.
Random: notice how at the end of the Errol Flynn Robin Hood, the one that Mel Brooks redid, only much better, King Richard comes in in the end and gives a speech about how the government should stay at home and manage things, not go overseas and (ahem) interfere in other people's wars. This was released in 1938. So, looks like these people have been regarding their own backsides as a good place to keep their heads for a very long time.
This is what I want to see in the movies:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2006/02/#006438
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000173.html
Or how about something like this:
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/the-geekly-re-1.html
I heard the depiction of the Humans of the future has the fatties steamed.
"I heard the depiction of the Humans of the future has the fatties steamed."
good
separate topic: The movie really handles environmental issues in such a playful way that its not bad for the story. Its just a setting, not a message.
UPDATE: Just went to see this movie.
Absolutely fantastic. Best film that Pixar have made in ages. Funny and absolutely charming.
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