Wall-E

I love the trailer for this. And if Ratatouille is any indication, it'll be really good.

This looks awesome. I turn into a little kid every time I see a poster for it. "Look, John! It's wallllllllllllllleeeeeeeee!"

the robot is tremble

I love the way he pronounces his own name too at the end of the trailer; Wallllllll-e.

Do you know about the human beings in the movie? The ones who trashed earth and moved away? And who are all grossly obese and get around in hover-chairs or something?

I can't believe that Disney is actually relying on this being a huge blockbuster.

teh new trailer looks awesome!

I think this could well be phenomenal. I love the design.

Looking forward to this more than Batman. Apparently Apple design guy Jonathan Ive helped in the look: http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/jonathan-ive-helped-design-eve.html

Yeah, EVE looks very much like an iThing.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/cortneyhead/johnny5isalive.jpg

Saw this thread after I posted i got high hopes for wall-e. to the pixar thread - I'm not alone, hooray!

Re: the lack of dialogue - the robots' "voices" are by sound designer Ben Burtt, who did R2D2. This is a Good Thing.

The trailer in HD looks soooooooo good.

This looks like an especially ambitious Pixar, they've gotten over having an "effect" (hair, water, etc.) now I think, but I don't know if that's a good thing or not, it should be good but I loved being wowed by their overenthusiastic lighting of the Incredibles.

actually, it's probably space, right?

Yes.

Good!

I cannot wait to see this!

Terrific trailer. I was sold from the moment Wall-E clasped his little tin hands together whilst watching the film, but when he later gets to dip a hand into Saturn's rings this made my "opening night" list, hopefully at the digital 500-seat screen in town for full sensory overload.

Am sure this has been addressed on many other threads, but can *any* other studio compare to Pixar for consistent quality?

so this isn't a movie about the playground footy game?

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

a cuddly trash-compacting robot who lives on an abandoned, heavily polluted Earth

vs.

a collection of 300 robot-themed consumer products

i.e., the right glove of The Mouse knows not what the left glove does

I am stoked for this.

I am always excited for new Pixar.

I am stoked for ANY pixar, xpost.
This + Hellboy II are the summer must sees.

space is dope imo and i will see this

This looks frustratingly irresistible. I may have to see it.

seeing it tomorrow. pretty stoked.

wall-e is the cutest savage in all the world imo

My Pixar-employee drummer </s-drop> called me up for a Sunday morning screening but I was aslumber and missed it. Looks lots more promising than Cars, which I really hated.

I never saw Cars or The Incredibles because they just didn't draw me in, but Ratatouille was pretty good and this looks great so far.

my wife asked my 4 year old daughter if she wanted to see wall-e. she spent a couple minutes jumping up and down, excitedly yelling "wall-e! wall-e!". then she calmed down a little and started explaining how wall-e used to have horns because he was a demon but he cut them off because he wanted to be more like a human.

turns out my daughter is very excited to see hellboy II.

I am hoping to take my 2 y.o. neph to this who has never seen t.v. before but I think his head might explode.

every time i see a still i think "short circuit bot- HATE"

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

Wall-E looks like the BOB the KITTEN of Pixar fillums.

i keep singing the title of this movie in my head to the tune of "jolene".

I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my RAM

have you guys seen the new trailer?

wall-e

ARGH

xpost

I want to see this v. badly. Village Voice has me excited. Any chance it's as good as ET?

genuine laff out louds during the trailers/teasers etc.
first cinema experience for my 5 year old definitely.

i liked this!

let me be more clear... i LOVED the first half but the second was not as satisfying. kind of amazing to have no dialogue for such a long stretch... longer even than "there will be blood"! take that, plainview...

at heart this is a surprisingly dark, even haunting--though not particularly subtle--movie. and sweet.

i liked it.

Is it really R2D2: A Love Story?

Am I going to cry like I do every time I watch Iron Giant

EL HOGARTHO

Am I going to cry like I do every time I watch Iron Giant

aww... ilu tbot

Totally stoked for this though aside from Pixar pedigree it's not Brad Bird.

slocki where is your write-up

the Washington Post review of this sucked btw
I'd temp ban that fucker if he worked for me

ive not been a fan of the digital animation for everyone but this looks kinda great

In the vignettes he's a teeny bit too much like a mechanical Mr Bean.

is there anything on the 3-disc worth getting that's not on the 1disc?

spoiler thing:

I was unable to read every post, but I'm pretty sure no one has yet mentioned the zero-gravity sequence w/ the fire extinguisher, which is one of the most beautiful scenes of any recent movie I can remember.

whiney: I got the three-disc because it was basically only like $4 more than the one-disc on amazon and the answer appears to be NO becuase disc #3 is just some kind of disney fucko "digital copy" crap with an unlocking code that you can "enjoy on your favorite device" e.g. copy to your hard drive without being brought up on felony charges

watched this last night, totally agree that the human element ruined what could have been a great robot romantic movie. and also

one potential bum note - when the ship tilts and the ppl pile up against the wall, their red costumes bear more than a slight resemblance to Liverpool home kit = Hillsborough echoes?

i totally got this too, really unfortunate scene.

The moments on Earth though were brilliant, should have just been all that.

max's usage of the word 'rubes' is p. delightful 2 me

I admit part of me really hoped they'd go with the memory-wiped Wall-E.

ok i would have drowned in a room of my own tears if they'd done that

needs geekier commentary rather than the story evolution commentary that we got.

Having watched this on DVD recently, I enjoyed it more second time around (although, as detailed above, first viewing was not quite ideal). There was a lot less time spent on the Axiom than I remembered, and the human involvement was less than I remembered too. Or went quicker. And the space dance! Wow.

but I'm pretty sure no one has yet mentioned the zero-gravity sequence w/ the fire extinguisher, which is one of the most beautiful scenes of any recent movie I can remember.

― billstevejim

yep - it was something special.

is there anything on the 3-disc worth getting that's not on the 1disc?

― uәʇɹɐƃu!әʍ ˙ƃ ʎәu!Ⴁʍ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, December 1, 2008 10:08 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the main thing on disc 2 worth seeing is about 10 minutes worth of Buy N' Large corporate messages to the shareholders / training film for the Axiom Captain's first day / advertisements for BNL history: "After our initial series of mergers, Buy N' Large began lead the world in every industry, including... World Leadership!"

there's also about 8 minutes of very rough, non-animated early storyboard alternate takes, which are interesting once. originally the captain was even more of a wide-eyed limbless balloon who could barely form complete sentences, and it's hard not to think about how great it would have been if they'd held on to more of that characterization -- as much as I love this movie, the captain is the weakest link of the entire film, every one of his scenes is nearly painfully mediocre. though I know that if they hadn't made him a Hero character, this film would have ceased to work as a film for kids.

yeah basically I think if you're much harsher on the human beings than this movie already is it basically becomes Silent Running

now would that have been so bad

aw how nice, the person who posted that transcibed Joan Baez's lyrics in the sidebar

Gather your children to your side in the sun
Tell them all they love will die,
Tell them why in the sun

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/3081904301_2519404f94.jpg

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/1848/imageuploadimagemo3.jpg

dremel work never really has the charm of actual carving.

STEEMPUNK

I'm awaiting the Wall-E trash compactor and Chia-Eve.

Wood-E

Wall-E Wood (comix joek)

so fucking good

so great when wall-e arrives in the main body of the cruise ship and is suddenly surrounded by robots of every description, waxing, scouting analyzing, buffing - wall-e's a trash collector but these guys are high-gloss cleanliness technicians!

my biggest laugh was at the double take of the doddery desk guard robot, when wall-e wheels eva into the elevator. i wonder how the animators work out the timing for these things - do they block out the scenes with actors first and then use the same timings for their animation or what?

i sorta feel this was all premise and no payoff. once the plot mechanics kick in it's rushed and by the numbers - wall-e gets physically battered while saving the day and hey presto we're on earth. and the citizens of buy n large came around with no effort at all; one minute they're passive drones and suddenly they're like whoa yeah, we have nothing to lose but our slurpees!

the number of amazing little moments here would fill three other normal movies, but the story felt small. what i would have liked: the ship comes back to earth about midway through the film. NOW what mothafuckas

I am sure I am not alone in finding the cross-species implications of the relationship between Wall-E and Eva slightly disturbing. You tell me how they make babies.

http://www.black-sabbath.de/lyrics/te.jpg

Well Ned, exactly.

Another niggle for me is that in real life, let's face it, Eva wouldn't go for Wall-E. He's not crisp enough.

There's sort of a Mac/PC thing going on there.

tracer i agree with 95% of what you said there—plot wasn't entirely satisfying, but at the same time the movie is so good otherwise that it's almost completely forgivable.

not a dry eye in the house at the theater in which i saw this

was tempted towards weepiness in the final moments, but managed to restrain the free exercise of grubby human feelings. hooray me. still the best movie i saw last year.

now that i think about it.. auto controls the whole ship, so why is he still sending out the EVAs if he plans to do nothing about them?

and, fred willard said there wasn't any life on earth anymore, so don't bother coming back.. but isn't the whole point of the EVAs for exactly this circumstance? if life exists on earth, the EVAs aren't needed

or rather if life is KNOWN to exist, the EVAs aren't needed

the Burn-E minisode on the DVD is also fantastic (vendorbot drops the rod when asked for a THIRD one)

Burn-E was great, especially because when I rewatched the movie I was like "hey, I didn't notice this the first time, but what ever ended happening to that robot who got locked out...?", and then I go to the special features and BAM!

There's sort of a Mac/PC thing going on there.

― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.)

That's true - I missed that.

glad to see that i am not the only one who saw the similarities b/w wall-e and the lyrics of gary numan's "m.e.":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnakzyCKhiA

... though i would've used different film footage if i made this video.

Honestly the first 20 minutes completely won me over and then the rest of the film mostly just held my attention. I want to see Pixar do a dark 2-hour meditation on the solitary life of a trash-collecting robot on a waste planet.

why did president fred willard secretly change the instructions for the spaceship again? the entire plot turned on that but i don't think i ever understood it

"The Captain replays EVE's visual recordings and sees that Earth is still devastated and nothing like the imagery of it that he has seen... The Captain, meanwhile, comes to the conclusion that humanity must return to Earth to restore the planet. Auto, however, reveals that he was given a final directive: when the cleanup project had been deemed a failure, the BnL CEO ordered all autopilots never to return to Earth. When the Captain resists it, Auto stages a mutiny."

"Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright, historical CEO of the Buy n Large Corporation. Known for his seemingly unending optimism, Forthright proposed the plans to evacuate, clean up and recolonize the planet. However, he gave up hope after realizing he underestimated just how toxic the planet had become."

I've read interviews by Christian magazines with both Andrew Stanton and the Monsters Inc. guy. It's weird to be reading 'robots space the future animation other robots Jesus robots" – wait what? This one ends with a Watchtoweresque sidebar trying to mesh Wall-E and the Bible. "In contrast, WALL•E, the meek little trash collector, accepts stewardship in a way that people have rejected. And because love springs from service, he comes to love the creatures that inhabit Earth. That's not an environmental message, it's a biblical one."

I don't find this bad or sinister, fwiw, just odd.

predicted upthread:

you really wish wall•e was more like the story of jesus?

― s1ocki, Monday, 7 July 2008 20:15 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I am all for people who want to draw good lessons from the words of the Bible and inspiration to do good from the words and example of Jesus. It is when the lessons are all shitty ones and the inspiration is toward smug self-righteousness that I cringe.

<3 Wall-E

so great. had some non English speaking family over. i couldnt think of anything for them to watch so i threw this on, they loved it.

http://blastr.com/2012/08/guys-spends-two-years-bui.php

Cool story, bro.

Anyone watch Wall-E (2008) recently? Looks a bit different from 2020. It came out the year after the iPhone was invented and it seems like our take away was Ok, so we can just look at these screens 24/7 and eventually a trash compacter will tell us when it's time to rebuild.

— Miranda July (@Miranda_July) February 18, 2020

Now here is some news:

We're proud to announce our first collaboration with @Pixar: WALL•E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton, entering the Collection on 4K this November! https://t.co/1T7kQ7nsSY pic.twitter.com/MG7WOoP1zR

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) September 8, 2022

Our director-approved edition features two commentaries, a masterclass with Stanton, behind-the-scenes footage, more than a dozen documentaries, deleted scenes, a tour of the Pixar Living Archive; selections from Stanton's sketchbook, and so much more! pic.twitter.com/VXuo0bPgl1

— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) September 8, 2022

https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e

Oops, missed that the link is in that first tweet.

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