Angelic Eye for the Gendered-Species Individual ([info]rysmiel) wrote,
@ 2008-07-09 13:59:00
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OK, so why do so many of you think I would like Wall-E ?

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[info]pantryslut
2008-07-08 06:15 pm UTC (link)
Reviews make it sound good enough for a cheap movie night event. That's all.

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[info]livredor
2008-07-08 06:16 pm UTC (link)
Almost every review I've seen says, this is the first time an animated film has tacked real SF.

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[info]browngirl
2008-07-08 06:31 pm UTC (link)
This is my answer as well. I'm sure they're disregarding anime and likely some less-well-known but worthy film somewhere, but even so there seems to be a consensus.



Edited at 2008-07-08 06:32 pm UTC

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[info]sartorias
2008-07-08 06:43 pm UTC (link)
I don't know that you would...Aside from reticence in predicting anything for anyone I don't really know, I found it somewhat problematical. I far, FAR preferred King Fu Panda which was unabashedly fannish. Though I admired a lot of Wall E, there were too many recognizable emotional placemarkers for me to really enjoy it.

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[info]nancylebov
2008-07-08 07:53 pm UTC (link)
I liked Kung Fu Panda better, too-- the story was more coherent, and it's kinder about fatness.

And Wall E is definitely science fiction, but the world building is massively defective. It isn't awful, and has some strong emotional images. If you want to see two cheap movies, it's a reasonable choice for the second one.

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[info]baldanders
2008-07-08 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Because it has a scathing social critique, not just embedded in it but right on the surface, that most media outlets aren't really discussing.

Hitsville has had a series of interesting posts on the matter.

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[info]madmanatw
2008-07-09 02:39 am UTC (link)
I would like to take this opportunity to note that evidently everyone knows everyone. I may have noted this before, but I notice it again. :)

Anyway, sorry to hijack. I haven't seen WALL-E yet, though I plan to, so I don't have an opinion, even though I voted for it. I guess I was looking forward to seeing what you might have thought before I saw it.

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[info]cattitude
2008-07-08 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure you would.

On the good side, it nods towards science fiction, and the very non-human robots are well done. On the bad side, the science is pretty bad, and the robots didn't quite engage me emotionally. This may be because I was too busy thinking, "That's no way to build a robot to do that!"

Also on the good side, it's by Pixar and lives up to Pixar's usual high technical standards.

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[info]zwol
2008-07-09 12:59 am UTC (link)
I was prepared to suspend disbelief as far as the robots' capabilities and the other purely technological gimmes in the movie, but I did have to dedicate a chunk of my brain to shutting up the other chunk of my brain that was frothing at the mouth about the tactics chosen for (cleaning up Earth, determining whether Earth had been sufficiently cleaned up, designing an AI controller for a generation ship to nowhere, arranging for human oversight of said AI controller, etc., etc., *head go splode*)

The storytelling problem, unfortunately, is that if the worldbuilding had been sane in these respects, there would have been nothing to hang either the plot or the social commentary on. Rather like — no, exactly like — URINETOWN, if you know that one.

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[info]stakebait
2008-07-13 05:30 pm UTC (link)
Mostly because I did. I found it bittersweet without being schmaltzy, and it actually gave phobic me warm fuzzy feelings for a cockroach, for which there ought to be an Oscar.

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