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Jul 8, 2008 - 01:42 PM |
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Another for the praises of WALL-E |
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Bringing the count up to 3/5 movies to see, the last two being Hancock and maybe the Dark Knight.
Yesterday my friends and I went to see the 10pm showing, and at first there were only 2 groups of people in the theatre, and shortly after I ran up to get the back row middle seats, the theater filled up the middle section with a bunch of incoming people decently.
Thanks to the warning in Acer's journal, the stupid preview for that dumb chihuahua movie left slightly less of a bitter aftertaste.
However, that Presto Digitatione (lol prestidigitation I get it ^o^ short was awesome. I couldn't help but think "Itchy and Scratchy" when I saw it, as they managed, quite cleverly, to use animated violence as the basis of the laughs for the short. In addition, they told the story quite well. Basically, the bunny wants the carrot, and there is a pair of magic hats that function as portals. Let's just say I cringed at a fair share of those painful pranks.
Then onto the movie. I thought it was surreal how they depicted the wasteful aftermath of what remained of earth, and of course, a little sad at how bleak and alone it was. I read an article in the paper noting how the composer of two "Hello Dolly" songs was moved at the way his music augmented WALL-E's emotions, so throughout the entire movie I was thinking of that.
When Eve comes in we see how she has a penchant for destruction and rather grandiose capabilities. I think she was well suited to be utilized as the transition to the second half of the movie set in outer space.
Another shock, almost equal to the opening scenes of the movie, comes when we see the state of humans, who have become utterly vegetative and dependent on technology. It wasn't bleak but rather disgusting, triggering some kind of morality thoughts and "just desserts" (forgive the pun) in my mind.
Skipping even more scenes, my favourite parts from here on out were (in no particular order):
- WALL-E's misconceptions of Eve in the Repair area.
- WALL-E's outer space dancing with Eve, and subsequently, its impact on the two humans WALL-E just happened to meet earlier.
- Mo's coincidental appearance at the airlock scene, showing how one robot made a difference (big theme throughout)
- The teamwork of the defective robots to get the plant to the chamber. Especially the reverse umbrella!
- When Eve realizes all the memories with WALL-E her security camera recorded ;o;
The part towards the end made me clutch my heart, where:
I enjoyed the credits too, for first being a watercolour rendition of the future, and then an 8bit representation of the whole story.
Marvelous.
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