Wall-e

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Maximum Jonah

Saw it tonight with the wife and a theatre full of parents and kids, and amazingly, no one created a disturbance.

Great thing too, because this was a movie that just took my emotions to a new level. Boy, did I laugh, cry, get lost in the story.

Thank you, Pixar, thank you...

/ 5

Ha, you know I didn't think of it until you mentioned it. But we saw it opening night and the same thing. Tons of kids and parents and no commotion at all. Everyone was glued to it. Great movie. I can't wait for this to come out.

[iluvalex]

Saw this Saturday with my date. I must say we were the majority. I noticed only a few kids in the place...
... and surprisingly it was only about a 1/3 full.

Loved it.

There was a lot going on at times and I'm sure I'll need to watch it several more times to catch some of the nuances Pixar placed in there. Don't know if I could really place it with a number because I do like The Incredibles and Ratatouille and a few other non-pixar films. Yet I know I'll watch this each and every time it's on.

[Damian]

Amazing film. Loved every frame of it. Lots of fun little easter eggs placed through out.
Also loved the Presto short. By far the funniest short Pixar ever produced.

[limacharliewhiskey]

Saw Wall-E over the weekend, too, and absolutely loved it. I think there was more visually going on in this movie than other Pixar films, because of the limited amount of dialogue, as some things didn't register in my brain until 2 or 3 seconds afterwards.

I rank it up near the top next to Toy Story, and I might even rank it as the best, just because of the more involved story, and sci-fi being my favorite genre.

[umainebearman]

Finally got out to see this today and loved it like I knew I would. I laughed out loud when I heard the R2-D2 whistle when Wall-E turns and first sees the red dot on the ground. Also there was a short music cue that sounded very star warsish don't remember where it was though.

[ganthc]

Originally Posted by limacharliewhiskey

Saw Wall-E over the weekend, too, and absolutely loved it. I think there was more visually going on in this movie than other Pixar films, because of the limited amount of dialogue, as some things didn't register in my brain until 2 or 3 seconds afterwards.

I rank it up near the top next to Toy Story, and I might even rank it as the best, just because of the more involved story, and sci-fi being my favorite genre.

Same here. I was impressed also at how the movie held the attention of kids in the theater. I was expecting a lot of crying kids or talking, but there were only a few outbursts, despite the audience being full of kids. That says a lot for the movie.

[bloodstainedwings]

I saw this movie tonight and I love it so much. Will be getting it on dvd or blu ray depending on if I have a blu player by then. This movie is abosolutely amazing

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by ganthc

Same here. I was impressed also at how the movie held the attention of kids in the theater. I was expecting a lot of crying kids or talking, but there were only a few outbursts, despite the audience being full of kids. That says a lot for the movie.

That's right. I saw the film opening night at a packed showing, and aside from laughter in the appropriate spots, there was remarkably little squirming and chatter from the ankle-biters around me. One little girl did say a few things like "Look, mommy, more Wallys!", but not very often. Especially impressive due to how little dialogue there was in the film.

[SilentBob]

Well finally saw it and i loved it. Love the animation in this film and the way it worked for all ages. Can't wait for the Blu-ray

[reapersaurus]

Wall-E is an amazing film.

There is no doubt about that.

In fact, it may well be one of the highpoints of animation, alongside the heights of Fantasia - AFAIK, animators have been dreaming about a full-length Hollywood movie that solely uses animation and sound (no dialogue) to push the story along for decades.
And (other than the humans-on-spaceship denouement) they got it with Wall-E. And as an added bonus, it is amazingly well-received.

However, as a film (and not an avante-garde film-school test pilot), I think Wall-E is not quite up to par with the majority of their past successes.
It is better than Cars by a long mile, and even better than Bug's Life, but it doesn't reach Toy Story I/II, Finding Nemo, Monster's Inc, or even close to Incredibles territory. (I do reserve the right to watch and appreciate it on DVD to judge Wall-E fairly in this regard)

What Wall-E has over every other film (including Toy Story I, which was all new ground) is the experimental nature of it - they truly were in command of the whole repetoire of filmmaking with Wall-E, and it showed me they can do ANYthing on film.
Seriously, from dialog-less movie to simple shapes and sounds conveying emotional dialog to mind-blowing detail and realisticness (some shots looked like live action - even better (more real-looking) post-apocalyptic cityscapes than I Am Legend!) to 70's-era sci-fi to 8-bit title credits, PIXAR showed they can do anything they set their targets on.

What amazed/shocked me about Wall-E is that PIXAR somehow got this 21st century, jaded society to somehow buy into a 60's-70's era scifi storyline.
The solo man-out-of-time/space that encounters a different being and proceeds to be thrust into another society and affects change thru his unique perspective is almost hippy-like and AFAIK a staple of early/mid sci-fi themes. I thought they stopped making those kinds of films in Hollywood after Enemy Mine.
I'm surprised Wall-E didn't die thru his sacrifice, but of course in a family movie that wouldn't do - but that's what the classic version of this story would have had, make no mistake.

The wonderful thing about PIXAR and Wall-E's success is that it shows pencil-necked Hollywood bean-counters that an audience doesn't have to be treated like imbecilic short-attention-spanned plebians.
Truly, a wonderful film that showed be seen, appreciated, and enjoyed by as many open-minded people as possible.

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by reapersaurus

I'm surprised Wall-E didn't die thru his sacrifice, but of course in a family movie that wouldn't do - but that's what the classic version of this story would have had, make no mistake.

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He almost did! delivering that plant I believe.

[Astrakan]

Originally Posted by Mikado

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True. And you could easily argue that he DID die, and was "resurrected" by Eve when she replaced all his broken components.

KM

[Mikado]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

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KM

Exactly. I almost wrote something pretty similar.

[iluvalex]

Originally Posted by reapersaurus

Wall-E is an amazing film.

The wonderful thing about PIXAR and Wall-E's success is that it shows pencil-necked Hollywood bean-counters that an audience doesn't have to be treated like imbecilic short-attention-spanned plebians.
Truly, a wonderful film that showed be seen, appreciated, and enjoyed by as many open-minded people as possible.

So true and this continually spotlights that Pixar knows their audience and what entertainment is all about.

And I keep forgetting to mention Presto. I know some folks here have praised it. I thought it was 100% solid fun in the few minutes that it ran. In my mind the best short they've produced yet.

[MJZ]

A text based 'making of,' not sure if it contains spoilers:

CGSociety - The Little Robot That Could

[mighty mint]

Originally Posted by Astrakan

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KM

That was NOT what brought him back to "real life" it was

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Eve's LOVE

[reapersaurus]

Interview with Angus MacLane:
Angus MacLane of Pixar: The Den of Geek interview - Den of Geek

There were clearly some very strong decisions made at the start there, in terms of the vision of the project?

I think it was always going to be a sci-fi opera set in space, a tribute to the 60s and 70s sci-fi films that we all were interested in. Andrew was like well we’re going to make a robot movie that’s about robots, but it’s a 60s or 70s sci-fi film.

The film opened to huge numbers in the States. Yet this was perhaps the project viewed by outsiders as the riskier Pixar project. How would you encapsulate the secret of the success?

So as long as we keep making movies that we believe in, and push ourselves to tell the best stories that we can, even when it’s not financially convenient to do so, then I think that we’ll hopefully find an audience.

I’m happy that people are seeing the movie, and I’m very proud of this film. When I watch it I have to admit I guess it is pretty risky. It’s like wow, it’s amazing this movie got made, because you could see a bunch of aspects about it that a lesser studio would say ‘I don’t think we’re going to invest money in this’. It’s totally weird in the best possible way. And that’s why I’m proud to have worked on it.

Originally Posted by reapersaurus

What Wall-E has over every other (PIXAR) film (including Toy Story I, which was all new ground) is the experimental nature of it -

What amazed/shocked me about Wall-E is that PIXAR somehow got this 21st century, jaded society to somehow buy into a 60's-70's era scifi storyline.
The solo man-out-of-time/space that encounters a different being and proceeds to be thrust into another society and affects change thru his unique perspective is almost hippy-like and AFAIK a staple of early/mid sci-fi themes.

Looks like I nailed it in my review.

[MJZ]

I watched this today and the only word I can use is amazing! It demonstrates love and friendship at its purest better than any live action film I've ever seen.