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Old 27th June 2008, 04:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Wall-E

I won't post spoilers, but I just wanted to say this was an excellent movie. It will be a crime if it's not nominated for Best Picture. Go see it. Now.
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Old 28th June 2008, 04:13 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I'll have to second this; GO See WALL*E
I loved the Incredibles, loved Ratatouille, and really enjoyed Cars.

Wall*E surpasses em all, with great, yet incredibly simple story telling.

oh, and MO....
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Old 28th June 2008, 09:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I'll third it. I saw it last night with the GF. Its a good family oriented, fun movies. Wall-E rawks.
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Old 29th June 2008, 02:04 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Nthed. Great stuff. I started to think too much about the ending from a SciFi point of view at the end before I told my brain to shut up (as the movie is not SciFi, its Pixar).
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Old 29th June 2008, 04:05 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Has a fully animated movie ever been nominated for Best Picture before?
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Old 29th June 2008, 05:48 AM   #6 (permalink)
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1991. It wasn't until 10 years after that they added the Best Animated Film category.
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dIRecTive!

Damned movie made me bawl. ;_;
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Best use of 2001 music ever! (Well, other than 2001.)

I really liked it as well.
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While I really like Wall▪E, I cannot say that I liked it more than the Incredibles or Ratatouille. However, it's definitely better than Cars.

I was hoping for more from this movie; I don't know why, but IMO, it wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. The first half of the movie was incredibly funny — the second half not so much.

The movie has a lot of political and social commentary imbeded into it — almost too much, in places. The commentary didn't ruin the movie for me but it did make the movie less enjoyable for me.

The "personalities" of the various robots are definitely the best part about this movie. And how those "personalities" change after meeting Wall▪E made me laugh.

I give Wall▪E a 7 out of 10. It's a good movie with fun characters, but it needed more to make me think it is worth of being nominated for Best Picture.
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Old 30th June 2008, 08:45 PM   #10 (permalink)
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The lesson I took away from Wall*E was that you can never, ever trust an AI with a single, glowing red eye. Ever.
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Old 30th June 2008, 08:57 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I -loved- this movie. Love love love. I managed to get to an advance screening, and then watched it a second time on its actual opening night -- and it was fantastic both times. I hate to admit it, but I like this even more than Finding Nemo, and that was my all-time Pixar favorite. If you haven't seen it yet, go now. Don't waste another second.
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Old 30th June 2008, 09:24 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I -loved- this movie. Love love love. I managed to get to an advance screening, and then watched it a second time on its actual opening night -- and it was fantastic both times. I hate to admit it, but I like this even more than Finding Nemo, and that was my all-time Pixar favorite. If you haven't seen it yet, go now. Don't waste another second.
Same guy did both, so I don't think he'll mind.
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Same guy did both, so I don't think he'll mind.
Yes, <3 Andrew Stanton.
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I bet that HAL is spinning in his grave about now and complaining about WALL*E's main antaganist being a blaintant rippoff.

But if HAL met WALL*E he would discover that WALL*E was a decent guy, and then he would have no complaints against WALL*E.
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I bet that HAL is spinning in his grave about now and complaining about WALL*E's main antagonist being a blatant rip-off.
Pretty sure it was an homage...
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Pretty sure it was an homage...
Yes. I don't think anyone would try to claim that Auto was an original. HAL was fantastic -- that Pixar referenced him in their film only means that they didn't feel the need to screw that up by trying to top it.
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Yes. I don't think anyone would try to claim that Auto was an original. HAL was fantastic -- that Pixar referenced him in their film only means that they didn't feel the need to screw that up by trying to top it.
I know he was an homage, but HAL doesn't since he's a little behind on the times. :P
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Wow.

The Pixar people are wicked good. They turned a song from Hello Dolly into chase music, a roach into a symbol of fidelity and a trash compactor into a hero. And most of that was done without dialog.

"Define dance..."

And the ending credits themselves were nifty.
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Excellent movie. Not nearly Best Picture material tho.
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