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"WALL·E", who is going to see it?

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Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 28, 2008, 01:30:35 pm ---
Kids dont like being told what they are doing is wrong,  even
if its true...

 (Some 'kids' just never grow up)



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Save it for the PnR board.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ddrtist on June 27, 2008, 11:51:04 pm ---To me it seems like a politically charged agenda about how humans are destroying the Earth...in the form of a cartoon.  This will be the first Pixar movie I don't see...unless the Blu-ray version rocks my socks off visually.   :D

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Seriously, so what?  All good stories have a moral to them.  Why is this one taboo?  Surely even the most conservative, non-believer in global-warming acknowledges that our consumption habits create loads and loads and loads of garbage and that it is a serious problem, if not for the environment, then just economically. We don't know what to do with it all. 

Why would you be okay with your kid watching a movie like the Iron Giant with its underlying messages about tolerance and alarmism?  Why would you be okay with him watching Sesame Street, with its many themes such as sharing and forgiveness?  Why would you watch Kung Fu Panda with its "believe in yourself" agenda?  I don't see why you wouldn't want your kid to watch a movie just because the moral was to be responsible with the world you live in, don't litter, and all that rot.  Don't get me wrong, Happy Feet was just about the biggest piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I've ever seen, but judging by the reviews, this is no Happy Feet. 

It seems to me that you need to just lighten up and enjoy life.   

Level42:
Amen.









(and this coming from an atheist :D).

TOK:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 28, 2008, 03:50:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: ddrtist on June 27, 2008, 11:51:04 pm ---To me it seems like a politically charged agenda about how humans are destroying the Earth...in the form of a cartoon.  This will be the first Pixar movie I don't see...unless the Blu-ray version rocks my socks off visually.   :D

--- End quote ---

Seriously, so what?  All good stories have a moral to them.  Why is this one taboo?  Surely even the most conservative, non-believer in global-warming acknowledges that our consumption habits create loads and loads and loads of garbage and that it is a serious problem, if not for the environment, then just economically. We don't know what to do with it all. 

Why would you be okay with your kid watching a movie like the Iron Giant with its underlying messages about tolerance and alarmism?  Why would you be okay with him watching Sesame Street, with its many themes such as sharing and forgiveness?  Why would you watch Kung Fu Panda with its "believe in yourself" agenda?  I don't see why you wouldn't want your kid to watch a movie just because the moral was to be responsible with the world you live in, don't litter, and all that rot.  Don't get me wrong, Happy Feet was just about the biggest piece of ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- I've ever seen, but judging by the reviews, this is no Happy Feet. 

It seems to me that you need to just lighten up and enjoy life.   

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You actually bring up a really good point. Iron Giant was a fantastic movie until it got all preachy. Same with that penguin one... having trouble with the name. Happy Feet. There is a fine line between trying to enlighten and rubbing your nose in it. Iron Giant and Happy Feet both go too far.

Sesame Street never does that.

AllisterFiend:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 28, 2008, 01:30:35 pm ---
Kids dont like being told what they are doing is wrong,  even
if its true...

 (Some 'kids' just never grow up)



--- End quote ---


I go to the movies to be entertained...I go to church to be preached too.

That being said... I saw WALL-E with the family yesterday and I thought it was very good, not my favorite pixar, but still very good.  ( I never get tired of this type of animation)

Allister Fiend

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