Waaaaall-eeeeee

eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
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This movie just came out in Australia, saw it with some mates yesterday. Holy gods was it good. Simple in concept, like every pixar movie, but done so well that it was a strength not a weakness.

Now that this and the dark knight are done, I have no idea what movie to look forward to. I guess I'll just wait til Wall-e comes out on DVD :3
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  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder "Das est NTLDR?" Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    Welcome to three months ago.

    In all seriousness though, yes it was a movie with great strengths and superb visuals which was executed with skill by the Pixar team. They took a simple concept and cut off all of the excess bits until they had something even more basic. At which point they managed to give the simple device layers of depth enjoyable by a great range of audiences, a skill that Pixar has had from day one.

    Seriously though australian movie release dates are retarded. I lived in Sydney for two years and vowed to one day demolish the file release date embargo perpetuated by the elitist australian bourgeois. Alas I have yet to succeed in my crusade, wish me luck! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    Yeah, I went and saw it last night. It was superb. The bit in which eve and walle were dancing around outside the big ship, that was pretty awesome.

    Also, when eve blew a hole in walle's roof to let the sun in. Extreme hahas.

    Pixar, you've done it again.

    --Scythe--
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Indeed a great movie. In fact my only complaint is that it's not as pretty as Pixar movies usually are; with a few expections, I was never gaping at the screen the way I did during <i>Ratatouille</i> or <i>Finding Nemo</i>. And <i>Ratatouille</i> is still a better movie. Fred Willard is awesome though.
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    One thing that irked me a bit were the stars. When wall-e is clutching the outside of the scout ship heading back from earth, he's flying along in a dense star field, that's fine. Next shot he's way out in intergalactic space, looking at the galaxy from top down, several billion light years from where he was. A minor gaff, but a noticeable one.

    Also, when he's flying away from the ship in the escape pod, you can see the starfield moving. So very wrong.

    --Scythe--
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1688534:date=Sep 21 2008, 10:41 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Sep 21 2008, 10:41 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1688534"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And <i>Ratatouille</i> is still a better movie.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I have the same complaint about Wallee that I have about most pixar movies... It's very very slow. That's why I never like watching Finding Nemo again though I liked it the first time.

    I actually watched Hellboy 2 and Wallee the same night (snuck into hellboy 2)... what hellboy lacked in story wallee made up for, and what hellboy helped with the action/faster pacing that I really wanted...

    Point is, both movies left me feeling like I had missed half a movie, so together it helped me feel I had got my money's worth. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

    Ratatouille I really liked, though I haven't seen it a second time.... and thinking back on it I probably would have the same feeling... That the plot moves too slow.
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  • LokeTheSleekPeruvianLokeTheSleekPeruvian Join Date: 2003-08-21 Member: 20054Members
    omfg so Peru isn't the last place where stuff gets released?

    btw I loved Sgt Pepper's, when will the beatles release their next album?
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  • weywey Cineastè Join Date: 2003-06-01 Member: 16910Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    I didn't like the look of the humans very much, they looked too simplistic IMO. Oh and there was sound in space, but that's probably what you would expect from an animation film. The rest was fine though. Didn't watch Ratatouille or Finding Nemo (no scifi = fail), so I can't compare.
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  • BeastBeast Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
    As I've said before, and I'll say again. Wall-E is one of the best movies EVER.

    Also lol at the subtle "Mac vs PC" theme XD
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  • EmanonEmanon Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16254Members, Constellation
    It was better than most story lines that include words......
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I think it might be the first film since 2001: A Space Odyssey that didn't have any dialogue for the first half.

    --Scythe--
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  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    edited September 2008
    It is an awesome, awesome film. I watched it on a whim because there was nothing else on and it really had been marketed virtually silently over here before release, so much so I thought it was one of those second-rate Disney's-own animations.

    Anyway I was very pleasantly surprised and thought it was gonna be the best film all year, until I saw the Dark Knight, that is (which has great plotting and great dialogue, great acting, good special effects, good sets and awesome action - all of which outweigh the husky voice and the overworked and a-bit-out-of-place boats dilemma).
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