Wow. My heart was touched. I cried a few times. This was amazing. Why hasn't there been a topic on this already?
Because we ate all the people that make review topics.
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Wait.. how does a box eat things? I mean, you can put a box over things, and put things in boxes.. but it doesn't digest them... nor does it chew them? Is that really *eating*?
Haven't you ever put something in a box, then come back later, and it's not there anymore?
Just like that.
I can't say I have had that happen. Unless there was some outside interference. Usually it just turns out that I did my inventory wrong and it's another box. Now, if we're going on the idea that it was digestion.. that leads to some unfortunate possibilities as to what the other box might be. So which end of the box digestion system are you llearch? ;-)
*Edit: Just a bit of revenge for the compensation shot you took at me llearch.
Remember that he also has a lot of monkeys in the box. That could account for the removal/digestion of said item. Even if the item is a forum member.
I though that he sometimes had a sloth in his box... hm. I always never did trust those things... they just move slow so that we think they're up to no good... the sloths are evil!
And for the record, WALL-E is on my list of movies to see.
The Dark Night
Hellboy II
WALL-E
Kung Fu Panda.
Darnit, all of these great summed flicks. We're going to have a crappy Blockbuster summer next year to balance it out. Or maybe a whole bunchload of crappy movies will be released to balance out the karmic scale now (Distaster Movie comes to mind...)
Quote from: Mowser on July 15, 2008, 10:05:43 AM
I can't say I have had that happen. Unless there was some outside interference. Usually it just turns out that I did my inventory wrong and it's another box. Now, if we're going on the idea that it was digestion.. that leads to some unfortunate possibilities as to what the other box might be. So which end of the box digestion system are you llearch? ;-)
The end you don't want to mess with. ;-]
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on July 15, 2008, 10:44:22 AM
Quote from: Mowser on July 15, 2008, 10:05:43 AM
I can't say I have had that happen. Unless there was some outside interference. Usually it just turns out that I did my inventory wrong and it's another box. Now, if we're going on the idea that it was digestion.. that leads to some unfortunate possibilities as to what the other box might be. So which end of the box digestion system are you llearch? ;-)
The end you don't want to mess with. ;-]
Ah, the front end.
Indeed.
Well, you know. The teeth and fangs and the long slathering tongue. What do boxes have, anyway?
Hop in and check for me. ;-)
Sure thing, just make sure you're at the other end to catch me.
Sure just let me find my gloves!
Just so long as you don't borrow mine: they're cool.
Valid point. For that matter.. I'd better get some full gear in case of.. splatter.
Speaking of splatter and various waste products, that's the essential vibe of Wall*E right? Humans produce too much waste and need to learn to clean up after themselves? With a touch anti-big business thrown in?
I know I have yet to see this, but from what I've heard it's partially that and a mentality of we need to fix our problems because they're not going to just go away if we ignore it.
Seems almost a waste that this is a 'kids' movie then. I can think of a lot of older folks who would benefit from that message.
Yeah, but part of the problem is that a lot of older folks aren't going to be around when the crap really hits the fan. Right now, it's really important that kids and young-to-middle-aged adults (i.e. those with kids currently) kind of get this mentality so that we can not only cut back on mass-consumerism, but also work on fixing the problems caused by it.
Does anyone else think it's funny that DISNEY made a movie about the dangers of mass-consumerism? Or that Pixar could actually make a movie this preachy and have it be good?
It's disturbing and uncomfortable for adults, too, I think. It's also a love story.
I liked the movie too...and I doubt it's that preachy. I've said that it would be a pretty sad future for people to put themselves in, but it's pretty darn doubtful that the ENTIRE human race would become sedentary blobs. I bet they did that for comedic irony.
I rather like to see movies for the story rather than the context. And it was quite an emotional movie as well as unique in that they don't rely on too much dialogue to tell the story. Instead they rely on action and emotion on the part of the heroes, and those often speak wonders more than words. They don't make movies much like that any more.
I'm actually starting to wonder how Pixar will top themselves the next time.
i like the movie =3
i went in expecting another 'Robots', but boy was i wrong! it's really cute and the ending almost made me cry
it was p. good
Quote from: Xze-Xze on July 15, 2008, 10:26:13 PM
i like the movie =3
i went in expecting another 'Robots', but boy was i wrong! it's really cute and the ending almost made me cry
keat's DA journal says she started to cry a little and was afraid the kid next to her would call her weird
but i too cried a little, it was just so beautiful, and the ending had such hope to it.
in my mind three things made it fantastic- it was a realistic future, the robots had impressive amounts of personality, and it had hope
realisim is obvious, especially with what seems to be wallmart and macdonalds merging into one super corporation of evil that makes starbucks look like a carebear.
the personality, well, just look at the difference between wally normal and after he lost his memory- its like looking at a person and then looking at a statue.
hope, far too many people forget to add hope to the future. my absolute favorite scifi author thinks himself special that he always has a little hope, and thats what makes his books so good.
QuoteThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Quote from: Brunhidden on July 16, 2008, 01:21:39 AM
hope, far too many people forget to add hope to the future. my absolute favorite scifi author thinks himself special that he always has a little hope, and thats what makes his books so good.
If I may ask, who's your favorite sci-fi author?
Larry niven, author of such pieces as ringworld, a gift from earth, Lucifer's hammer, the flying sourcerors, and so fourth. niven has thought up or improved many concepts of modern space travel, most notably the niven ring, which is an improvement on the dyson sphere.
also note that the concept of resident evil was ripped off of his 70s short story 'night on mispec moor', which actually made more sense and was far more plausible then the resident evil concept
QuoteReaders are many, but thinkers are few
Quote from: Brunhidden on July 16, 2008, 01:21:39 AM
keat's DA journal says she started to cry a little and was afraid the kid next to her would call her weird
It's true. :>
~Keaton the Black Jackal
It goes without saying that I thought this movie was truly awesome and wonderful, as well.
When I first saw the commercials a year ago, just the concept basically pointing out that Pixar's next movie is going to be about robot who develops emotions and is lonely, my first thought was literally, "Oh no." But this movie blew me away. I think it will indeed have to go on my list of all-time favorite movies. Which, by the way, I don't have ;)
I'm sorry. Wall-E is "Short Circuit" for the slow-of-thinking. It really is.
Yeah, even the robots are the same. And the autopilot is just a rehash of HAL. Down to the "the mission is everything" mindset.
Except for one subtle difference - Johnny 5 was a total jerk, yet you loved him. Wall-E is a sniffling little pansy and you just can't love that.
Quote from: rabid_fox on July 17, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
Except for one subtle difference - Johnny 5 was a total jerk, yet you loved him. Wall-E is a sniffling little pansy and you just can't love that.
Jerk of the world!
Turkey!
Idiot!
Pain-in-the-ass!
Quote from: rabid_fox on July 17, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
Except for one subtle difference - Johnny 5 was a total jerk, yet you loved him. Wall-E is a sniffling little pansy and you just can't love that.
There were lots of words I'd use to describe Wall-E.
"Pansy" isn't one of them.
Quote from: Zina on July 17, 2008, 01:11:24 PM
Quote from: rabid_fox on July 17, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
Except for one subtle difference - Johnny 5 was a total jerk, yet you loved him. Wall-E is a sniffling little pansy and you just can't love that.
There were lots of words I'd use to describe Wall-E.
"Pansy" isn't one of them.
ban him :eager
I'll teach him a thing or two about having different opinions than me!
Quote from: Aisha deCabre on July 15, 2008, 03:05:54 PM
I liked the movie too...and I doubt it's that preachy. I've said that it would be a pretty sad future for people to put themselves in, but it's pretty darn doubtful that the ENTIRE human race would become sedentary blobs. I bet they did that for comedic irony.
I haven't seen the movie but I have read alot of interviews with the team behind WALL-E and a lot of people are misinterpreting the look of the humans in the movie. The fact that humans are so big and fat in the movie is not a commentary obesity, rather the animators talked to scientists about the long term effects life in zero g. If humans spent there whole life time in a weightless environment there bones would become weak, the muscles would atrophy and in the end we'd look like amorphous blobs of flesh. The animators actually started with the humans looking just like that, but they felt it was too confusing so they pulled the effect back bit and instead of free floating spheres of flesh they are the large baby like forms in the movie.
Quote from: rabid_fox on July 17, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
Except for one subtle difference - Johnny 5 was a total jerk, yet you loved him. Wall-E is a sniffling little pansy and you just can't love that.
WALL*E was every shy, awkward male who had trouble approaching a girl. There's a lot out there, you know. He also showed a lot of bravery in the movie. He was shy, not sniffling.
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I don't think it was as amazing as most of you do, but it was really enjoyable. I went in with really high expectations, though. I am a gigantic sucker for old broken robots, so it started out classified as 'good.'
I felt that they were trying too hard to make Wall-E lovable. It's not enough that he's a cute little robot with emotions who falls in love, he's gotta be Snow White as well? :/ He was a little too calculated to be cute for my taste.
I enjoyed it, but it's not a favourite.
Quote from: thegayhare on July 17, 2008, 04:49:50 PM
The fact that humans are so big and fat in the movie is not a commentary obesity, rather the animators talked to scientists about the long term effects life in zero g. If humans spent there whole life time in a weightless environment there bones would become weak, the muscles would atrophy and in the end we'd look like amorphous blobs of flesh.
pay attention, the 'real' person even refers to it directly as 'bone shrinkage' and shows a little diagram too. however spending your entire life sitting in a chair cant help either, gotta have some kind of butt callus thats bulletproof
real person? was that a referance to something in the movie or an interview I haven't read?
Quote from: thegayhare on July 18, 2008, 09:07:57 PM
real person? was that a referance to something in the movie or an interview I haven't read?
the President guy, in one of his messages
i forget where ive seen him before, but its a real actor thats been around for a while. smiles alot, and runs the evil supercorporation that i can only compare to if macdonalds and walmart fused together
Fred Willard. He's been in, ah, a lot of things.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929609/