Comments on: Go, Read: Hello, Dolly songsmith on WALL•E

By: BlueNight

BlueNight — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:33:16 +0000

Ah; I meant the Axiom’s trash pit. You know, where the Wall-Rs work. There’s way too much garbage generated by the Axiom. Unless the ship is SO efficient at recycling that the Wall-Rs are only called out once every hundred years or so.

The plant in vacuum bugged me too. However, plants are more resilient than animals; their motabolism is much more distributed and less time-sensitive. I wonder how it was growing in the first place, in a closed fridge, without access to sunlight or water.

By: G

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:43:20 +0000

WALL-E is indeed a MASTERPIECE. You were right dude :)

Oh btw- it’s me G, one of the guys who visited you at last week’s Wizard World. Y’know the Pinoy guy haha ^^. I posted your artwork actually on my blog: http://gzep.livejournal.com/118227.html

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:28:03 +0000

Yeah that was the only moment that bothered me too. Minor. Reading the negative reviews of the movie are pretty funny over at rotten tomatoes. Essentially all complaining that nothing happened or that it was heavy handed with its message. Personally, I thought it was great. Hard Sci-Fi for kids.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:27:20 +0000

STILL SPOILERS:

“Still being generated”? I don’t follow you there.

The massive winds would blow any loose garbage around constantly, if that addresses what you mean; I don’t get where you think there was still garbage being generated. One little robot wouldn’t have been able to clean up jack shit, even after 700 years. (And even assuming he wasn’t alone for more than a few hundred years of it.)
There was only one moment that didn’t work for me: when WALL•E pulled the plant out to show EVE in the cold vacuum of outer space. It would have instantly died, wouldn’t it? (Hell, I don’t know.) Still, it was a very minor thing, and it pulled me out of the movie for only the briefest second.

By: BlueNight

BlueNight — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:55:03 +0000

You know, I AM a right-wing crank, and I thought it was the best film I’d seen since Iron Man. (Spoilers below.)

“OMG, it’s environmentalism!!!” Really? It was “Don’t litter” writ big, and even the director says it’s simply the most visually obvious way to tell the story of why humans left Earth in the hands of cleanup robots.

“OMG, it’s anti-consumerism!!!” Really? If anything, Buy’n'Large represents some sort of uber-American Communism; instead of the state taking over the corporations, one megamonopoly which has surpassed all competitors now takes over the state. It’s Ayn Rand’s nightmare in reverse, with free dental and lifetime health care.

I only found one flaw, and that was the sheer volume of garbage still being generated after 700 years. Perhaps the Axiom is still receiving visits from supply ships…

By: Gordon McAlpin

Gordon McAlpin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:32:10 +0000

Or that, yeah. :)

By: MC

MC — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:27:59 +0000

“And if you don’t like WALL•E, you are a soulless robot.”

Or a right-wing crank that thinks it is leftist propaganda and not a quality piece of emotionally-engaging entertainment.