Pixar's WALL• E

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Postby AgentHelix » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:33 am

The short was pretty much perfect.
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Postby RodGuen » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:27 am

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That movie is freaking brilliant.
The animation is top notch.
Great ideas.
I loooooved it .

but i wish the humans were either real or not. Not both.....


Oh yes! That short is brilliant too.
Clever, and hilarious.

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Postby drugmassacre » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:36 pm

WOW :shock:

this is probably one of my favorite movies EVER made

I couldn't believe how affected emotionally I was by it

And I was constantly blown away visually

it was incredible on every single level, a flawless film

I think it would be an absolute crime if this wasn't nominated for the Best Picture Oscar
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Postby RodGuen » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:29 pm

I think it would be an absolute crime if this wasn't nominated for the Best Picture Oscar


i agree.
But i don't think it will happen, since animation has its own category.

........Unfortunately, for this time around....

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Postby AgentHelix » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:17 am

I don't know, it's conceivable that they COULD push for it. And I honestly will not be surprised if they do.
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Postby HellboyOne » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:10 am

drugmassacre wrote:
it was incredible on every single level, a flawless film

I think it would be an absolute crime if this wasn't nominated for the Best Picture Oscar


I wouldn't say it was flawless. But I do agree that they ought to try for the big award.
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Postby drugmassacre » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:05 am

HellboyOne wrote:
drugmassacre wrote:
it was incredible on every single level, a flawless film

I think it would be an absolute crime if this wasn't nominated for the Best Picture Oscar


I wouldn't say it was flawless. But I do agree that they ought to try for the big award.


I suppose on a second viewing I could start to nit-pick, but I've been thinking about it nonstop since I saw it and I can only remember positive things about it. During watching, there was absolutely nothing to pull me out of the film at all
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Postby AgentHelix » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:06 am

Note to self: Use Wall-E to date-rape Drugs.
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Postby J0ey Lee » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:40 pm

I felt more within the first twenty minutes of this film than any other movie i saw this year. Wall-E is by far the cutest most likeable character to come out of animation in a long time. Unfortunately i didn't feel that the brilliance of the first act carried over to the rest of the film. While the interactions between Wall-E and Eve were pitch perfect the other characters fell flat for me. The "villain" in particular seemed forced into the film. With that said, the parts that do work are so mind blowing that it's easy to look past its flaws.
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Postby HellboyOne » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:00 pm

drugmassacre wrote:
HellboyOne wrote:
drugmassacre wrote:
it was incredible on every single level, a flawless film

I think it would be an absolute crime if this wasn't nominated for the Best Picture Oscar


I wouldn't say it was flawless. But I do agree that they ought to try for the big award.


I suppose on a second viewing I could start to nit-pick, but I've been thinking about it nonstop since I saw it and I can only remember positive things about it. During watching, there was absolutely nothing to pull me out of the film at all


The use of real actors vs. animated actors is a big sticking point for me. I wish it didn't bother me, but it does. It might have been different if they'd never gone back to showing Fred Willard. But not only did they go back to him, they had the captain watching him. It's just a really weird decision and I would love to hear Andrew Stanton's justification for it.
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Postby drugmassacre » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:10 am

hey, did anybody else have the sesnation of being the ONLY person in the theater to laugh when Wall*E made the Mac start-up sound when he re-charged?

Also, the live aciton stuff didn't bother me at all for some reason
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Postby Gorgonzola » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:12 am

drugmassacre wrote:hey, did anybody else have the sesnation of being the ONLY person in the theater to laugh when Wall*E made the Mac start-up sound when he re-charged?


My girlfriend, who uses a mac pretty exclusively, whispered to me during the film "That's why he's the only one left. All the other ones were PCs."
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Postby CameronStewart » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:22 am

HellboyOne wrote:It's just a really weird decision and I would love to hear Andrew Stanton's justification for it.



I'm telling you, as I said on the previous page, it's because of "Hello, Dolly!"
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Postby AgentHelix » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:31 am

I really liked the use of live action.

But then I really like Fred Willard.
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Postby HellboyOne » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:58 am

I like Fred Willard, too. And I get the "Hello Dolly" connection and the reasons why they went that way. It doesn't make it any less weird. And I'm surprised that it got all the way to actually being the way it is. Usually, if anything is even remotely confusing, it's shut down. In a way, it's a ballsy move.

As for the Mac start-up noise, I think they were just throwing Steve Jobs a bone. Which made me roll my eyes a little.
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