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"WALL·E", who is going to see it?
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on January 06, 2009, 10:32:58 am ---I thought the hoverchair humans were hilarious. It was an exaggerated MOVIE plot device. It wouldn't have been FUNNY if they were normal sized, active humans. Geez Chad, lighten up!
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Could have been funny any of 100 other ways. As I said, it didn't bother me, I just didn't find what they did amusing. Not everyone sees the same things as funny. I guess I'm tired of "hey look at the fat people!" It doesn't strike me as all that imaginative even if you disregard the animator's shortcut of whale-shaped people.
HaRuMaN:
^ Chad's sensitive about being fat...
shardian:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on January 06, 2009, 10:31:20 am ---
--- Quote from: shardian on January 06, 2009, 10:24:01 am ---P.S. The Dark Knight was WAY more preachy than this movie
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Uh, what?
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Exactly.
I didn't think TDK was preachy either while watching it, but that didn't stop the political pundits from going to town on it.
shmokes:
The movie never even said it was laziness. The movie, in fact, specifically attributed the obesity and (and bone loss) to living their whole lives in space. Nevermind that the ship appears to have artificial gravity identical to Earth's so this doesn't make much sense in my head. But the movie didn't say that human laziness was to blame.
Regardless, do you hate all dystopian stories? 1984? Brave New World? THX 1138? Mad Max? Waterworld (wait . . .)? Minority Report? The Matrix? Fahrenheit 451? Gattaca? V For Vendetta? Planet of the Apes? Serenity? Robocop? Children of Men? Blade Runner? A Clockwork Orange? Terminator?
Don't all of these movies make damning statements about human nature? Are you sure your dislike for Wall-E is as noble as you think? :P
ChadTower:
TDK was also based on characters decades old. It's pretty hard to be preachy in the same way as a totally new movie when it's just a new presentation of something we've seen many times already. I didn't see any preachiness in TDK.
Why are you guys so worked up over someone not liking Wall-E? That's what isn't making sense here. Some of us didn't like it and we've given varying reasons. What's so unusual about that? I didn't say there was any nobility in my not liking it. I just didn't find it funny. I didn't find Burn After Reading funny either but nobody was offended when I said that.
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