Did this person like WallE?

[jobycom]

Wall-E is art. Hell, it’s philosophy -- it’s practically religion.

I mean that. Pixar’s latest miracle is, on the surface, about a little robot, but it’s really about us, we humans, and how brilliant we can be, and how foolish we often are. It’s spiritual in the secular sense, in inadvertantly (or maybe intentionally -- I don’t know) asking us to contemplate the great things we are capable of, and how we so frequently fail to even try to live up to that potential. Not as individuals, but as a culture and as a species. It’s a kind of spirituality that we’re gonna need if we’re gonna survive ourselves...

snip

Not only is this not a comedy, it’s not a kids’ movie. They won’t be bored by it, but they’ll miss what’s so special about it. It’s so exquisite -- from the near-silent-movie-ness of it during its first half to the brutal but candy-colored satire of its second half -- that people will still be watching this movie hundreds of years from now. And if we’re not lucky, and not smart, and not wise, those people will watch Wall-E and they’ll know that we knew that the ruination of the Earth was possible, and that we did nothing to stop it.


http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2008/06/walle_review.html
(Read the whole thing).

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. I want to see it.

:bounce:

[jobycom]

7. It's pretty darned good.nt

[txwhitedove]

2. Great review. My son said much the same and wants to take us all

to see Wall-E next week.

:thumbsup:

[BarenakedLady]

3. It was very good.

[momto3]

4. Saw it yesterday with my kids.

It was fantastic. I highly recommend seeing it.

[WildEyedLiberal]

5. I'm in the UK and can't see it until July

:cry:

[Critters2]

12. Dude, July is Tuesday. nt

[Connonym]

6. I thought it was quite good

and I had been really worried because there was a birthday party of about 25 1st graders sitting in a block of seats very close to mine. The movie was good enough that they actually shut up and watched without chattering, much to my relief (and yes, I AM a crotchety old woman).

[TommyO]

8. I'll see your crotchety old woman and raise you

I'm a crotchety, 40-something gay man! The vast majority of the kids that saw the movie when I did were actually watching it, instead of chattering, crying, or running around. Nothing works my last good nerve like screaming kids (even at a "kid's movie").

[Connonym]

9. oh I know, you should have heard me when I saw them taping off the seats next to me

and they told me there was a b-day party coming in. I had already warned my kids that I would embarrass them by yelling out "hush" if the group had continued to chatter once the movie started. I think it really says something about the story telling that adults found it good and the little kids were engrossed enough to be quiet.

[TommyO]

10. I nearly lost it when I saw "Kung Fu Panda"

I got there and got a great seat, dead center on the screen, with nobody around me at all. Until the "family from hell" decided to come into the theater just as the movie was beginning.

It was the only movie where I was tempted to tell the parents that they needed to perform a post-partum abortion. The kids were running around, talking, screaming, crying, and making every kind of noise imaginable. The parent's (and I use that term loosely) response to the kids? "Shhh..."

ARGHGHGHGHGH!

[Shakespeare]

11. I just saw it this afternoon. It's profoundly moving, on several levels.

Tips of the hat to Chaplin, 2001/Space Odyssey, and several others you'll recognize. That they were able to make it both an achingly sweet love story and a post-apocalyptic (but hopeful) cautionary tale borders on the miraculous.

[Auggie]

13. A stunning, artistic achievement...

makes most of other Hollywood output (including film) look amateurish.

And consider this -- every frame is rendered by scratch. Character development, backgrounds, lighting, shading, camera movement -- it all has to be thought out in painstaking detail. To pull it off with such grace and wonderful cohesive storytelling, while pushing the technical envelope with little regards to cost-cutting, is nothing short of miraculous.

Relish what PIXAR gives us.