Wall-E - Pixar's next film (after Ratatouille)

[jrboy]

Tuesday (Day 5)
Box Office break down

Wall-E ------------ $7,601,082 // $79,601,894
Ratatouille ------- $7,877,998 // $62,456,353
Cars -------------- $5,743,462 // $72,270,878
The Incredibles - $3,212,599 // $77,482,702
Finding Nemo ---- $7,181,987 // $84,379,257

Wall-E Daily Box Office
1 - $23,164,108 // $23,164,108
2 - $22,116,197 // $45,280,305
3 - $17,807,221 // $63,087,526
4 - $8,913,286 /// $72,000,812
5 - $7,601,082 /// $79,601,894

[JDCB1986]

Want to see "Wall-E"??? Then quick go to this:

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You can watch almost any movie you want right here. Some are really great, others are .......... well, they leave a little to be desired.

Your choice. But "Wall-E" is one of the choices.

probably not the best idea... if people want to see WALL•E, then maybe they should do it the legal way and go buy themselves a ticket at their local box office.

[Harbinger]

what trailers were shown in front of the movie?

i only got in time to watch Bolt, which looking at the trailer i wish chris sanders was still part of.

[Escapay]

what trailers were shown in front of the movie?

i only got in time to watch Bolt, which looking at the trailer i wish chris sanders was still part of.

When we saw WALL-E there were trailers for:

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - eh. Looks funny enough based on the trailer, but I never bothered seeing the first one.
The Tale of Despereaux - really really want to see this, it looks really good!
Journey to the Center of the Earth - zzzz
Bolt - feelings are mixed, there's more that I dislike about it than more that I like. I want the radioactive bunny and tetchy cat again...

I was hoping to see the Igor trailer again (saw it with Prince Caspian in theatres), but unfortunately they chose not to show it.

Albert

[gardener14]

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I found Wall-E to be one of Disney/Pixar's least captivating stories of their recent films. I enjoyed it very much, but it didn't leave me wanting to see it again because I felt like I got all I could out of it. Other movies made me want to see them two or three times (and I did) so I could absorb and appreciate every nuance of the story, characters, and scenery. To me Wall-E felt more like an extended short than it did a fully realized story with depth, heart, and soul. Ratatouille, Cars, Meet the Robinsons, and Chicken Little captivated me in a way that Wall-E did not. While I enjoyed it immensely, I think the lack of dialogue made it difficult develop mulitple layers to the characters and story and more difficult for me to embrace the characters deeply. Wall-E's style left more on the surface.

[DisneyPrincess]

Stanton's main point of Wall-e was not to show people how they are mistreating earth, but Wall-e and Eve's love story.

I found the love story between Eve and Wall-E to be very minimal- (besides the non-stop Hello Dolly stuff- that got old quick) when all you could see was a dismal Earth and fatties in space- it left me totally depressed. I've loved every Pixar movie ever put out......except this one. I admit the graphics were state of the art- but that's about it. JMO!

[EAWildman]

I saw Wall-E for the first time on Tuesday night. Pretty full theater considering it was dinner time. Pleanty of kids and adults and teens and older folks. I feel that Wall-E can be enjoyed by all ages, but the story line is way above the average kid's head. I heard the phrase "What just happened?" multiple times in my theater.

At any rate, I *loved* the film. A Pixar triumph in my opinion. It was just so beautiful to look at. While the color palate on Earth was a bit drab, the photo realism of the animation there was fantastic. It was like nothing Pixar has achieved before. The space/space ship parts were colorful and vivid. I thought that this was a very funny film...made me laugh much more than Rata or Cars. It was also a very touching film with the love story...none of the Pixar films have really tackled a true love story that I can think of.

That's what Wall-E is ultimately about, of course; a love story. When it came down to Wall-E being rebooted and his memory not coming back, I was on the edge of my seat, hoping it would restore itself...which, of course it did...in true Disney fashion with a true love's kiss. How perfect!

Some have commented on the "enviornmental" message of the film. I'm sorry, could someone please point me to the "environmental" message? Beyond the love story, the film, to me, makes two points. The first being one about over consumption. Make no mistake about it, the Earth in Wall-E wound up covered in garbage due to over consumption. Taking info from the film and from the BnL website, it appears that BnL became so large and expanded into so many aspects of people's lives that they replaced local and global governments. According to the web site, BnL actually solved global climate change and were getting into controlling the weather, for a charge (hence some of the thousands of satellites around the Earth). They continued to support over consumption to the point that there was no place left to put the waste. Recycling was not the point here...over consumption was.

The other point the film made was humanity losing itself to technology, or taken to the etreme of BnL, the nanny state. Left in a place where people were completely relient upon BnL (ie. the government) for food, clothing, health care, humanity lost its humanity. Technology kept people seperated from each other. 700 years in low gravity made humans into big blobs (so the film doesn't really say much about obesity either).

Reading interviews from the director, I am pretty sure these are the points he was going for too....how we can lose ourselves to consumerism and technology and eventually to the nanny state. All of that is secondary to the love story of course. That is the main point...a love story.

I loved it...Wall-E is a great character... as is Eve. I will be happy to own this on DVD and look for all the details in the story. This one is easily in my Pixar top three.

Eric

[Okie Tigger]

Good post Eric.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - eh. Looks funny enough based on the trailer, but I never bothered seeing the first one.
The Tale of Despereaux - really really want to see this, it looks really good!
Journey to the Center of the Earth - zzzz
Bolt - feelings are mixed, there's more that I dislike about it than more that I like. I want the radioactive bunny and tetchy cat again...

We also saw that chihuahua thing.

[Widdi]

what trailers were shown in front of the movie?

i only got in time to watch Bolt, which looking at the trailer i wish chris sanders was still part of.

My theater showed:

Igor (looks like it may be okay).

Space Chimps (On July 18th go Bananas... er scratch that. On July 18th, go see Batman).

Fly Me to the Moon (When did the Chipmunks become flies? Looks like excrement).

Beverly Hills Chihuahua (The trailer actually got booed by like every one but the 20-something blond chick next to me who kept quoting the trailer during Wall-E. I wanted to punch her in the throat...).

Bolt (I think if they would have actually made Bolt a super-dog it would be more interesting cause the TV show was the best part of the trailer, but still I want to see it more than I did before I saw the trailer).

[magicalwands]

Bolt (I think if they would have actually made Bolt a super-dog it would be more interesting cause the TV show was the best part of the trailer, but still I want to see it more than I did before I saw the trailer).

I agree! I was all pumped up because the girl had the coolest dog and dad in the world...and then they say "it's all fake." It just popped my bubble which is not something they should be doing in a trailer.

[buffalobill]

Want to see "Wall-E"??? Then quick go to this:

http://www.watch-movies.net


You can watch almost any movie you want right here. Some are really great, others are .......... well, they leave a little to be desired.

Your choice. But "Wall-E" is one of the choices.

I'm surprised you haven't been banned. You say it's good enough that you saw it 4 times at the theater (I would assume legally with a ticket) & yet you advertise sending people to a site to illegally watch it. Surprised this post is still up. Most sites don't allow advertising of illegal activities.

[disneyboy20022]

Want to see "Wall-E"??? Then quick go to this:

http://www.watch-movies.net


You can watch almost any movie you want right here. Some are really great, others are .......... well, they leave a little to be desired.

Your choice. But "Wall-E" is one of the choices.

I'm surprised you haven't been banned. You say it's good enough that you saw it 4 times at the theater (I would assume legally with a ticket) & yet you advertise sending people to a site to illegally watch it. Surprised this post is still up. Most sites don't allow advertising of illegal activities.

Perhaps dvdjunkie is (or his account) possessed by an Advertising Robot... Because I wouldn't think a long time member of the UD forums would post such sites....

[AlwaysOAR]

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I found Wall-E to be one of Disney/Pixar's least captivating stories of their recent films. I enjoyed it very much, but it didn't leave me wanting to see it again because I felt like I got all I could out of it. Other movies made me want to see them two or three times (and I did) so I could absorb and appreciate every nuance of the story, characters, and scenery. To me Wall-E felt more like an extended short than it did a fully realized story with depth, heart, and soul.

I'm with you on this. I saw Wall-E yesterday, and I would have to rank it the least out of all the Pixar films, though I haven't seen Ratatoulle(I'm sure I'm not spelling that correctly). I can't say I don't appreciate it, it's just that it didn't do it for me, for lack of a better explanation. Along with Monsters, Inc., it will be one of two Pixar films that won't be in my collection. This is not to dissuade others from seeing this, it's only my personal opinion of the movie.

[Prudence]

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I found Wall-E to be one of Disney/Pixar's least captivating stories of their recent films. I enjoyed it very much, but it didn't leave me wanting to see it again because I felt like I got all I could out of it. Other movies made me want to see them two or three times (and I did) so I could absorb and appreciate every nuance of the story, characters, and scenery. To me Wall-E felt more like an extended short than it did a fully realized story with depth, heart, and soul.

I'm with you on this. I saw Wall-E yesterday, and I would have to rank it the least out of all the Pixar films, though I haven't seen Ratatoulle(I'm sure I'm not spelling that correctly). I can't say I don't appreciate it, it's just that it didn't do it for me, for lack of a better explanation. Along with Monsters, Inc., it will be one of two Pixar films that won't be in my collection. This is not to dissuade others from seeing this, it's only my personal opinion of the movie.

Thirded. I saw it with my boyfriend today, and I know for a fact that he enjoyed it more than I did. As DisneyPrincess said, it left me feeling depressed. If I lived on that ship with the fatties, I would go insane from lack of - everything that makes us truly live and have purposes in doing so. I think I would have jumped out of the ship to my death by this point.

Absolutely no offense intended.

[TM2-Megatron]

THIS HAS SPOILERS IN IT, FOR ANYONE THAT CARES

I saw this today, and I absolutely loved it. I suppose I can understand why it may have depressed a few of you, however if it did it's probably only because it struck a chord. For myself; while that future is taken to the extreme, I can see milder versions of such things happening to humanity along our current path. I don't usually get depressed by such things, though. I prefer to hope that visions like that of possible futures drive us to build a better world, instead. Discounting things just because they're depressing is shortsighted, IMO. (Although Futurama had a very funny quote with regards to this in the episode about the giant ball of garbage, lol... "Some experts claimed the ball might return to Earth someday, but their concerns were dismissed as depressing).

I felt it was Pixar's best film to date, a triumphant return after the mediocrity of Cars and the average Ratatouille. As people have said, the photo-realism of the Earth shots was stunning, and it's truly incredible how expressive robots can be made... especially considering Eve was little more than an egg with eyes, lol. They still managed to make her kinda cute, and emotionally relatable. And Wall-E was adorable, as we all knew back when we first saw a picture of him.

I also liked the sci-fi references... the various classical pieces reminiscent of 2001, Auto's obvious similarities to HAL 9000, the classic "Star Trek" phaser sound when that old incandescent bulb lights up; among others. Also, though not a sci-fi reference, Wall-E getting hit in the face by Sputnik during his passage through the garbage orbitting Earth was amusing. And although I'm not really a big Mac user, the various Apple references were cute. Wall-E's "charged" chime being from the old Apple computers, Auto being "voiced" by the old text-to-speech engine, lol.

Nice to not get another typical buddy movie, that's for sure. So far, Pixar's 2 best films (IMO, anyway) have been the only ones that didn't follow that format; so maybe they should steer clear of it for the most part in the future and just focus on good stories in general. To be honest, I'm not much of a love story fan for the most part. Ironically, though, I found this love story, involving characters that aren't even human; aren't even organic beings, more touching than nearly any other love story film I've ever seen.

Though I knew it was likely to have a happy ending, I do admit that the moment near the end when it seemed that Wall-E had recieved too many replacement parts and lost that spark of sentience and life that he'd acquired in his centuries of experience, and Eve's reaction, really got to me. The white noise that she got when hitting Wall-E's "play" button was quite effective in that scene, as well. It's an effectively ironic point of the movie that a machine was the one that needed to teach humanity to regain what had made them human in the first place. And I suppose while logically, perhaps Wall-E shouldn't have recovered his memory after getting so many new internal parts, I guess we can just interpret that as sentient life being more than the sum of its physical form. Mind you, I'm an atheist so I don't hold to the idea of an indestructible soul, but for the purposes of this movie it was a nice touch. And besides, it's clear enough that our minds do contain some element of energy as well as just matter; so who's to say our personalities aren't indeed made up of something less mundane than physicality? I just don't think it's necessarily divine in origin, lol.

What I find insulting is to say that Wall-E and Eve are feeling the same love humans do, and they are people's favorite movie couple, etc. I believe they can fall in robot love, but not real love.

Insulting? I've met humans that show less humanity than my 21st-century toaster... I take no issue with believing that a machine, by the fictional (or real, for that matter) 28th-century could develop true emotion and consciousness. Why is something "real" simply because a human feels it... or are you simply referring to all intelligent organic life in general? Or does it just have to be naturally evolved? Where do you draw the line? Take a naturally-occuring and intelligent silicon-based lifeform, as an example. From our point of view, it would be composed of entirely inorganic material, yet still technically be a form of life. Or, on the flip side, an artificially-engineered (yet totally organic) intelligent being... with DNA written from scratch instead of evolved over millenia. What's your view on the feelings of that individual?

In any case, humans are little more than machines ourselves. Biochemical machines as opposed to electronic, but it makes little difference. We don't even really understand ourselves, yet, exactly how the brain works, and why consciousness exists... and there's no reason to believe that the same process couldn't form, or be created, in a form other than carbon-based, biochemical organisms.

What is it you have against machines, anyway? It's a strange reason to be turned off this movie, in particular. Save your prejudice for Blade Runner, perhaps. If AI is ever developed in my lifetime, I'll be part of the first group lobbying the governments to grant such beings the same rights humans enjoy. If we aren't willing to do that, we have no business creating them in the first place.

[pap64]

Saw the film today. I honestly wish I had seen this with my friends. It would have made a WONDERFUL conversational topic, just like Cars and Ratatouille was. There's so much stuff to discuss it ain't funny.

First off, a lot of people are angry/upset over the " message" and the portrayal of a fat utopia. People, this stuff is LIGHT compared to some hardcore stuff out there. If you think the message is being shoved down your throat, avoid " Happy feet" and South Park like the plague. HF, in particular, was so focused on delivering the message and its story became a mess.

The message in Wall.E did not get in the way of the story, it actually helped it. It made the drama even more involving since the characters were fighting for something they believed in.

And people, Pixar has done stuff like this before. "A Bugs Life" taught us that you can overthrow a tyranny if you gather enough people to fight for the cause. " The Incredible" mused about how the way we treat people can shape who we face in the future. " Cars" showed to us how " progress" can sometimes damage even the smallest of people. Finally, " Ratatouille" taught us that change can happen, even if we have to work hard for it. Of course, those were subtle compared to Wall.E but were there nonetheless. So stop acting surprised.

Now onto my thoughts.

The movie was excellent, as expected, but I personally enjoyed Ratatouille better. The first half of the movie were amazing. Wall.E had so much personality that Johnny 5 would blush in shame and claim to be inhuman. His interaction and infatuation towards EVE was delightful to say the least. I just love how he slowly wins her over with his charm and heart.

When the film hits the second act I feel it becomes a tad disjointed. Too much attention is paid on the plant and too little on EVE and Wall.E. The ending, however, rectifies this by finally bringing everything together. I admit, at first I thought Pixar would actually be daring enough to include a bad ending, but was proven wrong by the time the credits rolled.

I honestly expect this movie to divide the fanbase more than Cars and even A Bugs Life did, not because its a bad movie but because its message, settings, characters and plot will move people in different ways.

Just look at this thread for proof.

[Ariel'sprince]

I haven't seen the film yet but I"m playing the game (I only got to the level where WALL-E has to follow Eve in the spaceship) but... how come one spaceship can hold all the people on earth? what about animales?.
I don't really mind how WALL-E falls in love but this is... weird.
But the game is very fun it's very much like the Ratatouille game,anyway I"ll buy the DS game soon.

[PeterPanfan]

Wall-E was..cute, as I told Aaron and Tim. I don't know why some people are saying that Wall-E didn't "come back." He remembered who Eve was, and held her hand.

Anyway, I'm seeing it again tonight and maybe it will improve for me.

[Astera121]

This movie was really good! I liked it better than Cars... saw it with my friends, we came in just in the nick of time before it started and had to get seats at the very front. OH my poor neck, lol. The message was good and not preachy at all. Very well done! My favorite character, surprisingly, was the captain of the ship, he was really funny and his fascination with Earth... the "pizza plant" line was just great. XD

[JiminyCrick91]

I just got home from a two week long trip all over the US and Canada (but mostly boring as heck Saskatchewan) so I have yet to the film. If all goes as planned I'll see it Tuesday along with a couple others (perhaps even WALL-E for a second time ) but as it stands I still have yet to formally meet WALL-E, EVE & MO.

-Sky