AFC response to quoted critics: I really didn’t feel WALL-E’s happy ending damaged the sad beauty of those early scenes. WALL-E’s collecting may have engaged nostalgia, but I never had the sense the act was futile or wholly motivated by sadness. In short, I think the movie lives up to its hype.
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My review is a preReview–having been burned on Pixar a few times I just can’t go anymore.
The seamlessness (even with “gritty realism” texture modeling) and insistence on moral uplift in all those films is corrosive to me.
When Pixar makes its “Blue Velvet” and/or when the animation stops in the middle or finds some other way to question its own assumptions of perfection I will go see one again. The computer puppet show is now firmly institutionalized but it needs a complete rethink.
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My review is a preReview–having been burned on Pixar a few times I just can’t go anymore.
The seamlessness (even with “gritty realism” texture modeling) and insistence on moral uplift in all those films is corrosive to me.
When Pixar makes its “Blue Velvet” and/or when the animation stops in the middle or finds some other way to question its own assumptions of perfection I will go see one again. The computer puppet show is now firmly institutionalized but it needs a complete rethink.
I don’t respond positively to fake happy endings and moral uplift either, and admittedly there’s an obvious flaw in the final scene, [SPOILER ALERT] since you can’t of course, replace a robot’s motherboard, and have said robot come back to life remembering everything that was stripped clean from it. But, frankly, I was relieved to have that reality removed. The end wasn’t so feel good I wanted to puke, nor was it the alternative (so sad I want to die). Each is it’s own cliche, I guess it comes down to which you prefer.
I should note that the trailers are awful and don’t represent the movie well. The animation is much much more sophisticated than those clips show.
I don’t respond positively to fake happy endings and moral uplift either, and admittedly there’s an obvious flaw in the final scene, [SPOILER ALERT] since you can’t of course, replace a robot’s motherboard, and have said robot come back to life remembering everything that was stripped clean from it. But, frankly, I was relieved to have that reality removed. The end wasn’t so feel good I wanted to puke, nor was it the alternative (so sad I want to die). Each is it’s own cliche, I guess it comes down to which you prefer.
I should note that the trailers are awful and don’t represent the movie well. The animation is much much more sophisticated than those clips show.
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