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artemis -> WALL-E (6/25/2008 10:43:16 PM)

I know it doesn't come out for a few days, but I just couldn't wait any longer. WALL-E is sooooooooo cute [sm=heart.gif] I want to take him home with me [:D] I really hope the movie is great because I'm super excited about it!

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jodavi -> RE: WALL-E (6/25/2008 11:36:50 PM)

He reminds me Johnny No. 5 from Short Circuit way back in the 80's....hmmm....maybe they're related or maybe it's Johnny No. 5. My son now is 13 so I have to drag my 4 year old nephew so I can watch this.



DreadPirateRandy -> RE: WALL-E (6/26/2008 2:33:03 AM)

I saw a trailer for Wall-E during the previews in Prince Caspian, it looked cute. Of course, I was sitting next to my girlfriend, so it might've just been her.

I'll probably see it. But we don't have a theatre, so it'll be awhile. Unless this pirate can find him treasure on YouTube... [sm=pirateanger.gif]



PrincessButtercup -> RE: WALL-E (6/26/2008 11:12:59 PM)

I'll be seeing this one, I'm sure. My family and I enjoy seeing the Disney/Pixar movies and love most of them.

Seeing the commercials, I never thought I would ever consider a robot "cute".



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 1:59:12 AM)

Won't be seeing this one. Don't feel like paying to see bad fat jokes and negative stereotypes.



Talon3 -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 9:28:40 AM)

We have been looking foward to see WallE for awhile. After my daugter and I saw the more in-depth preview yesterday, we are ready to go. We have to wait about 2 weeks so that we can use our movie passes, but it looks like it will be worth it.



artemis -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 9:41:23 AM)

We saw it at midnight and it was awesome [:)] I [sm=heart.gif] WALL-E [:)]



uncabeeil -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 10:32:30 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair

Won't be seeing this one. Don't feel like paying to see bad fat jokes and negative stereotypes.

Are you sure you're in the right thread? I thought the movie was about robots. All I've seen are the 30 second commercials, though.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 11:27:01 AM)

Yes, I am quite sure.



kernsfamily -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 11:51:36 AM)

The Dallas Morning News this morning gave Wall-E an "A"...which, for an animated movie, directed towards kids is quite an accomplishment.
(and, I almost always agree with their "assessment" movies: If they really liked it, I most likely will to. If they didn't...I probably won't)....Of course, that's not the case with all critics, but the ones from the Dallas Morning News are usually "right on" when it come to letting me know if it's "great" or if it's a "dud"....

Pixar is simply phenomenal....from Cars to Ratatoullie (sp?) to Nemo....just amazing work.....

I just read the "review" about this on that "plugged in" online thing from focus on the family.....(which, i usually find amusing to read...to see how "nit picky" they can be about some "negative" aspect of a movie, that I didn't even "see" or remember from a movie I had just watched....

ANYWAY

Here's an excerpt of the "conclusion" of the column.....AND, they actually LIKED the movie, overall....which, at that website, is a VERY hard thing for them to do!!!!!:

Some credit for these cinematic virtues must go to the film's director, 42-year-old Andrew Stanton, who told Christianity Today, "They tell you that as a storyteller, it's vital to just stick with and be honest with your values system. The last thing I want to do is go to a movie and feel like I'm being preached at. ... I think it's more honest—and you're going to have more effect—to be truthful with the values of your characters. ... That was the case with WALL-E. The greatest commandment is to love one another, and to me, that's the ultimate purpose of living. So that was the perfect goal for the loneliest robot on Earth, to learn the greatest commandment, to learn to love."

So, without being preachy, Stanton's film gently but unmistakably critiques consumerism and demonstrates the importance of environmental care along with the value of hard work, even as two adorable robots discover what it means to take care of one another. Along the milky way, they remind humanity what it means to be human.

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0004114.cfm



DreadPirateRandy -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 2:06:57 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair

Won't be seeing this one. Don't feel like paying to see bad fat jokes and negative stereotypes.


Umm... what?



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 3:05:10 PM)

From HERE

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WALL-E specifically singles out and targets obese people as the primary cause of mankind’s demise, further perpetuating the stereotype of the gluttonous, slothful fat person. Furthermore, the film suggests that, in their exaggerated laziness, obese people disregard not only personal health, but also that of the planets, and are held up as the cause for the destruction of the environmental landscape


That's right, kiddies...fat equals evil.[8|]



uncabeeil -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 3:19:33 PM)

Looks like a real reliable web site for movie reviews. [8|] I've heard or read half a dozen reviews and they're all positive. Only that one even mentions anything about "fat". It's a web site devoted to eating disorders, not movies for Pete's sake!



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 3:24:08 PM)

I know that. I wouldn't expect movie reviews on movie review sites to cover that info. I simply said that I don't like what they have done with that vein in their movie and will not be seeing itfor that reason, and was asked repeatedly what on earth I was talking about, so I shared that info. Several blogs talk about it, not just that one. Apparently this particular prejudice is so socially acceptable that most people don't even see it when it's in front of them in a children's movie. Very sad.



daisies4u -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 3:51:50 PM)

If you look for the bad in mankind, you will probably find it - Abraham Lincoln

Come on...it is a kids movie. Besides, it is a fact that obesity is on the rise in America, especially in the South. Even if that is the subtle undertones of the movie, is that a bad thing?



kernsfamily -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:04:22 PM)

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I know that. I wouldn't expect movie reviews on movie review sites to cover that info.


I would have expected that "PluggedIn Online" website (focus on the family) cover this "issue" in the worst possible light (they're so good at doing that)

...well, they did mention it briefly...but, in a way that this "issue" in the movie is listed under "positive elements"....

their mission usually seems to be to find the BAD in every movie....(even "manufacturing" "bad" when it doesn't exist.....if they have to!)

read it for yourself.....then, go SEE it for yourself....(if you want to)...

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/movies/movies/a0004114.cfm


For those PIXAR fans out there....(of which I am one)....a few weeks ago I learned that there's a new book called, "The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company"....covering everything from "Toy Story" to today and beyond (or, should I say "infinity and beyond"!).....and, discussing everything it took to get the company up and running....and successful.....just an FYI.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:11:02 PM)

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it is a fact that obesity is on the rise in America

Even if true, that does not make fat people evil, uncaring, lazy slobs, which is what the movie portrays. That is what I and others object to.



artemis -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:21:34 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Jenny-Fair

quote:

it is a fact that obesity is on the rise in America

Even if true, that does not make fat people evil, uncaring, lazy slobs, which is what the movie portrays. That is what I and others object to.


There is not a single fat "bad guy" in the entire movie. I suppose if you were looking to be upset about the movie, you might could make the argument that it had a few parts that poked fun at overweight characters, but not any more than, say, The Incredibles. My husband is overweight and I'm usually pretty sensitive about "fat jokes," but I really saw absolutely nothing to be upset about in this movie. That review read like someone who wanted to be upset.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:27:34 PM)

So portraying the entire surviving human race as a bunch of people so overweight that they have to use the space-age equivalent of wheelchairs, while grossly overeating, and destroying the planet...you don't see this as negative and stereotypical?



DreadPirateRandy -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:31:07 PM)

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WALL-E specifically singles out and targets obese people as the primary cause of mankind’s demise...


It certainly doesn't help.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:33:40 PM)

Oh, so you think fat people ARE evil and should be made fun of...right, we are totally less human than the rest of you wonderful examples of the species and don't deserve any dignity and respect.[8|]



kernsfamily -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 4:35:56 PM)

well, can't really say much more about it.....

This weekend, or sometime next week I'll actually SEE the movie....

THEN, I just may come back and I'll be able to discuss what the movie "portrays"....



ta_mosquito -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 5:00:59 PM)

One is certainly welcome to not watch a film if one doesn't want to see it.

However, I'd like to point out that that web site's blog/review was done last November. Was the film even in its final version?



Mrs.Wifey -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 5:02:21 PM)

We are excited to go see it this weekend, I love Pixar stuff.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: WALL-E (6/27/2008 5:06:57 PM)

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However, I'd like to point out that that web site's blog/review was done last November. Was the film even in its final version?

I actually got to that blog via another that I cannot link to, that was just posted the other day, and that stated that a few things had been changed. It wasn't in its final stage, but the main part of it was done.



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