WALL-E: What'd you think? And other Pixar films discussion
I really enjoyed this movie. This was definitely a hit and really had a lot of laughs. Not to mention the storyline was as amazing as The Incredibles. Hopefully Pixar will really follow this movie with more great hits. The love story is really just touching as it doesn't completely follow the typical cliche--I mean they are robots. But the robots show so much human emotion that you really forget that.
The voice cast is pretty small, but the great thing about this movie is, you don't need those $20 million voices to portray the great romance in this movie.
Upcoming Pixar Films:
Cars 2
I'd rather see Incredibles 2. I liked Cars to some extent, but not enough to see a sequel.
Newt
This looks amusing. It's about two newts that are the last of their species and must cooperate in order to save their species. And they hate each other.
Toy Story 3
I'm a bit worried, as they're doing what Dreamworks did with Shrek. Oh well, still looks entertaining. And not to mention they have the whole cast from the first and second films.
Up
It's about a 70-year old man that befriends a clueless Wilderness Ranger (I assume something like a boy scout) and travels the world to have many adentures and still eats dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon.
There are other Pixar films on the way too. I'm going to add more titles once I hear of them.
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I'm not one to see animated movies in the theater, but WALL-E looks really charming.
I look forward to Net-Flix'ing it when it's released on DVD.
I really want to see this, but only because it reminds me so much of these other cuddly robots...
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@Tkyl: A lot of those robots look like the ones used in WALL-E.
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I haven't seen it but so far no pixar movie has failed to entertain. However I have noticed with pixar movies I only really have the desire to ever watch them once. Kind of odd since I love rewatching other movies. This one looked like another fairly entertaining movie and one that I will see in the near future.
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Elysium wrote:
I love all the Pixar movies, with Cars being the only one I feel didn't measure up to Pixar's usual high standards. I've been anxiously awaiting this movie,for quite some time now, and I'll finally get a chance to go see it tomorrow. Between all the clips/trailers and highly positive movie reviews I've seen today, I predict it will become one of my top three Pixar films. Maybe even number one. Keeping my fingers crossed on that one.
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From what I've seen of the preivews, WALL-E looks like it has taken a lot of concepts from RoboRally. Then just expanded to actually be a movie people would watch and love.
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And you're losing out a whole lot. For example, Cars (and to a lesser extent, Finding Nemo) looked SPECTACULAR on the big screen. Well worth a trip to a theater.
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Is it wrong to think the chick robot in Wall-E is hot?
The attitude from the previews is all I base that on
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EVE is hot. She's pretty awesome.
WALL-E was definitely worth the trip to the theatre, especially at midnight.
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You certainly do raise a good point.
My thing is that I'm just not a fan of going to Megaplex theaters anymore. My tastes are more in the independent/foreign film genre, and the theater-going experience is a bit different in those parts. They serve alcohol & gourmet foods and more importantly, the patrons are far more courteous.
Yeah, I know it makes me sound like an elitist snob. I just have a better time at "art house" theaters.
I usually base my opinions of Pixar movies on how uninterested I am in the previews. So far, I've hit gold with Toy Story, Incredibles, Finding Nemo, and a very belated Monster's Inc. (last week being the first full viewing). Each of these previews did nothing for me. Each movie was phenominal IMHO, Incredibles being the best. Now, that being said, after those string of successes, this theory no longer holds true as I now expect great things from Pixar.
P.S. Boundin was my favorite short and probably will be for all time.
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The new short that you get to see with WALL-E, called Presto is great. Very hilarious. It had everyone in the theatre rolling with laughter.
EDIT: Do you think I could ask for the cardboard WALL-E in the movie theatre? And get it once the movie is over?
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Hurray for implied paedophilia!
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! Wow, I didn't think about that. XD
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At one of the theatres here, someone stole his head...not sure what to do with that information...
I'd definitely take a poster of EVE though
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Well, this WALL-E cardboard thing isn't exactly small. I mean, it's the whole robot. I'd say it's about the size of a smart car. XD Maybe a bit smaller. But I think you get the point.
I asked my mom what she would do if I brought it home and she kind of looked at me, and then asked where it'd go. XD
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Saw it today. Very cute. It's extremely lighthearted but not enough to make it mindless (i.e. Saturday morning cartoons).
I was a little angry at the end. I was watching the various art styles used during the credits and ENJOYING it... But the dude manning the film reel just shut it off. It was about a minute after the movie ended and the theater was still full of people watching. Bastard.
I noticed from the beginning that WALL-E looks like a miniature version of Johnny 5.
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Saw it this afternoon and loved it. There's a lot more going on this film than comes out from the previews. A lot of interesting commentary and perspectives on humanity. Plus, you know cute as all get out and, at times, outright hysterical. There's a scene with Wall-E and EVE out in space that I can't wait to go back and see again (with my kids in tow). I'm not sure where it'll rank in the Pixar pantheon for me. To date my favorite two Pixar flicks are Finding Nemo and Incredibles. On first viewing, this one ranks right up there.
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Saw it today, thought it was great. Great art, I think the limited "dialogue" and sounds for Wall-e and EVE really displayed a lot of emotion. Great ending credits!
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Saw it tonight with my wife. I thought it was genius. The animation is of course brilliant. Pixar generally does well in this regard. However, it was the way they created emotion that was simply stunning to me. Remember when there was all the hoopla about how Tom Hanks was able to convey so much emotion in Castaway during an hour or so without dialogue. I've never seen Castaway, but I'm not sure it could top what Pixar did. A great portion of the movie has little to no dialogue and yet there is so much emotion packed into those robots. It's beautiful. The love story is good. The message is intelligent and delivered well. Messages, rather. The portrayal of humans (while softened at the end) is not kind. It's biting and it's dead on, IMHO.
Excellent work.
My favorite aspect of the movie was its focus on how connection and touch with what's real is what makes life worth living. A life-affirming film about robots. Wow.
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It's good to know that everyone so far has enjoyed it! My group of friends really enjoyed it too. I might go see it again this weekend with my mom and cousin.
I laughed really hard seeing all the shelves WALL-E had of stuff and how organized it was. It reminded me of my room... I have a bad habit of sorting things that it drives my mom nuts. She literally puts a handful of M&Ms or Skittles in front of me and expects me to not sort them and arrange them. Easier said than done.
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This movie is a must see. WALL-E is an wonderfully cute and entertaining Pixar movie. They demonstrate such emotion with simply movements and limited gestures and a computer sound byte. It's a great story with enough cuteness and entertainment for the entire family.
A great moment in the theater when I went to see it was during a portion of the movie when WALL-E is having a stressful moment. The theater is dead silent, the movie has very little sound going on and everyone is practically holding their breath. This little kid near the top row of the theater suddenly says, "Wall-E?" in a very cute concerned tone. You here his father go "Shhh you have to be quiet.", the theater just awwwws as it was really cute to hear that little boy say that at the specific time in the movie. Then about half a minute later you hear the kid again say, "Wall-e." in a tone you might say a puppies name looking for it. Again the theater sighs it's collective, "awwww" to immediately be followed by, "What's wrong with Wall-E?" as the kid asks his father. The father, if you can imagine, is just at a loss as to how to explain what's going on with the movie to his child.
It was a very memorable moment. The movie is a great one. Everyone should absolutely go see it.
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Yes. It actually reminds me of a game, strangely. Reminds me of how I felt about Shadow of the Colossus. So much emotion conveyed through close to zero dialogue or exposition. I wish there were more movies like this. I wish I could think of other games that evoked emotion like this.
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I took my daughter and her friend and they loved it. Something I did not notice before, as soon as Auto scans Eve before he wakes up the captain, A113 flashed on his eye.
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Went to see it again today, this time with my kids. They seemed to enjoy it, but with a 3 and 4 year old it's tough to tell as they got pretty restless at several points. I missed a bunch thanks to their potty breaks, but still enjoyed it a ton the second time around. Only thing I really don't get was the decision to use live actors in the BNL videos; I'm sure Pixar had a reason for that, but I thought it was a bit of a disconnect seeing an animated human watching a video presentation of an actual one. No big, though.
One thing that amazed me, with both audiences almost nobody watched the closing credit reel. I mean, considering it tells another entire little story I was surprised so few people hung around to see it.
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I loved Finding Nemo because of all the stuff a child wouldn't get, but the adults did. Sadly some of the most innovative comedy comes out of a animated movies marketed towards children, they have to be much sneakier in them.
I've seen it in a theater with mostly kids (on Sunday at noon). It was fantastic, a truly memorable experience. Half of the theater cried when Nemo appeared to be dead to his father. And man did they rejoice when they finally met again.
My girlfriend and me watch this movie every two moths or so, it's one of our favorites. You can tell by my avatar, actually, it's the small turtle from the movie, we have all of them as plush toys
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When I saw it, the whole audience just sat there, and watched the credits straight through. We were all so entranced at the animation that we just waited until the end and then applauded some more.
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