Waaaaall-eeeeee

eediot · September 2008

This movie just came out in Australia, saw it with some mates yesterday. Holy gods was it good. Simple in concept, like every pixar movie, but done so well that it was a strength not a weakness.

Now that this and the dark knight are done, I have no idea what movie to look forward to. I guess I'll just wait til Wall-e comes out on DVD :3

NeonSpyder · September 2008

Welcome to three months ago.

In all seriousness though, yes it was a movie with great strengths and superb visuals which was executed with skill by the Pixar team. They took a simple concept and cut off all of the excess bits until they had something even more basic. At which point they managed to give the simple device layers of depth enjoyable by a great range of audiences, a skill that Pixar has had from day one.

Seriously though australian movie release dates are retarded. I lived in Sydney for two years and vowed to one day demolish the file release date embargo perpetuated by the elitist australian bourgeois. Alas I have yet to succeed in my crusade, wish me luck! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Scythe · September 2008

Yeah, I went and saw it last night. It was superb. The bit in which eve and walle were dancing around outside the big ship, that was pretty awesome.

Also, when eve blew a hole in walle's roof to let the sun in. Extreme hahas.

Pixar, you've done it again.

--Scythe--

TychoCelchuuu · September 2008

Indeed a great movie. In fact my only complaint is that it's not as pretty as Pixar movies usually are; with a few expections, I was never gaping at the screen the way I did during <i>Ratatouille</i> or <i>Finding Nemo</i>. And <i>Ratatouille</i> is still a better movie. Fred Willard is awesome though.

Scythe · September 2008

One thing that irked me a bit were the stars. When wall-e is clutching the outside of the scout ship heading back from earth, he's flying along in a dense star field, that's fine. Next shot he's way out in intergalactic space, looking at the galaxy from top down, several billion light years from where he was. A minor gaff, but a noticeable one.

Also, when he's flying away from the ship in the escape pod, you can see the starfield moving. So very wrong.

--Scythe--

remi · September 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Sep 21 2008, 10:41 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1688534"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'>And <i>Ratatouille</i> is still a better movie.</div>
I have the same complaint about Wallee that I have about most pixar movies... It's very very slow. That's why I never like watching Finding Nemo again though I liked it the first time.

I actually watched Hellboy 2 and Wallee the same night (snuck into hellboy 2)... what hellboy lacked in story wallee made up for, and what hellboy helped with the action/faster pacing that I really wanted...

Point is, both movies left me feeling like I had missed half a movie, so together it helped me feel I had got my money's worth. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Ratatouille I really liked, though I haven't seen it a second time.... and thinking back on it I probably would have the same feeling... That the plot moves too slow.

LokeTheSleekPeruvian · September 2008

omfg so Peru isn't the last place where stuff gets released?

btw I loved Sgt Pepper's, when will the beatles release their next album?

wey · September 2008

I didn't like the look of the humans very much, they looked too simplistic IMO. Oh and there was sound in space, but that's probably what you would expect from an animation film. The rest was fine though. Didn't watch Ratatouille or Finding Nemo (no scifi = fail), so I can't compare.

Beast · September 2008

As I've said before, and I'll say again. Wall-E is one of the best movies EVER.

Also lol at the subtle "Mac vs PC" theme XD

Emanon · September 2008

It was better than most story lines that include words......

Scythe · September 2008

I think it might be the first film since 2001: A Space Odyssey that didn't have any dialogue for the first half.

--Scythe--

Crispy · September 2008

It is an awesome, awesome film. I watched it on a whim because there was nothing else on and it really had been marketed virtually silently over here before release, so much so I thought it was one of those second-rate Disney's-own animations.

Anyway I was very pleasantly surprised and thought it was gonna be the best film all year, until I saw the Dark Knight, that is (which has great plotting and great dialogue, great acting, good special effects, good sets and awesome action - all of which outweigh the husky voice and the overworked and a-bit-out-of-place boats dilemma).

Waaaaall-eeeeee

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