Wall-E

[FoolKiller]

Now there's supreme irony for you, considering that Disney never met an idea they couldn't rip off, sanitize and homogenize, and then make 5 slightly-different copies of.

I found the anti-consumerism message coming Disney-Pixar (Apple) to be quite ironic. But I also noticed it placed all the blame on Wal*Martesque shops, not the brands themselves.

Tell that to my 16-year-old daughter who was openly crying when Wall-E got greased.

And I thought my wife was bad about crying in movies.

 

[Omnis]

Sounds like Pixar should've done a movie about capital theory before doing Wall.E.

 

[Pupik]

Sounds like Pixar should've done a movie about capital theory before doing Wall.E.

It's not like it couldn't happen, but it could happen: If you're all for completely removing laws on monopolies and banishing environmental restrictions, that is. Given generation after generation and centuries of not knowing any better, the corporate culture is the culture, when common sense fails.

I don't think the message ran too deep, but then again, it's easier for the legal department to clear one fake corporate entity than five or ten fake brand names.

At the end of the movie, it's not as if B'n'L was divested.

Tell that to my 16-year-old daughter who was openly crying when Wall-E got greased.

Don't take her to a scrapyard, or have her see her car worked on...

 

[Touring Mars]

I just saw this film now... absolutely brilliant*, and it looks amazing on Blu-ray. I particularly liked the nods to 2001: A Space Odyssey - I just wish PIXAR would make a 'serious' film, like an animated version of 2001, or just something that wasn't directed at a 'family' audience. Still, this could easily make it onto my Amazon wishlist. Luckily, I can keep it on Blu-ray for a while, since I got it as part of my free trial on Lovefilm.com

* (OK, maybe not #41 best film of all time, as IMDB have it listed)

 

[Danoff]

My review: https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3342059&postcount=2727

 

[Touring Mars]

I didn't take the whole environmentalist/anti-globalisation message all that seriously myself... that said, I would like to see PIXAR extend their talents/services to more 'serious' film-making - a guided tour of the Cosmos would be mind-blowing... the scene where Wall-E is flying about in space was good enough, but imagine if they used their capabilities to give us a visually accurate tour of the galaxy? Now that would be cool... must get Smallhorses and itgirlxx on the case, since they know people who work at Pixar (and they even took me for lunch in a diner where Pixar people eat )