*flails*

[apocalypsos]

Oh, my God, Wall-E was SO FREAKING GOOD.

It's funny and smart and it does so much for good chunks of the movie with very little dialogue that are just amazing. And it's pretty and PRETTY and the visuals are so very stunning, and there's so many things that probably shouldn't be beautiful but are, like the skyscrapers of garbage or Wall-E's shelves of things he's saved (which are striking and gorgeous in their lovely eclectic clutter/order.) And I love that the humans in space have grown fat and lazy, but it's not that they're stupid or mean, it's just all they know to stay in their hoverchairs and drink their cupcakes in a cup and watch their virtual games.

Oh, oh, and you know what I loved best? That the credits at the end, after the humans have come back to Earth, tell the story of how they learn how not to be lazy and dependent and learn how to get up off their asses and be self-sufficient and how to grow things and fish and stuff, BUT they do it in historically progressing forms of art. Like, they start out with animation in the style of cave paintings, then Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Greek mosaics and woodcuts and Impressionist and all the way down the line. It was just this little detail to it that I adored.

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Also, I went to the bar with my buddies tonight and it was the best time I've had with them in a long time.

Fuck being broke, you guys, 'cause that was a blast.

Comments

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I saw Wall-E today and I too LOVED it. I was practically wriggling with glee! It was so precious and funny, and at the same time this incisive yet sensitive commentary on people, and what we can become if we allow ourselves to, and yet too what we can accomplish if we set our minds to it. And oh, WALL-E. My heaaaart. *flaps*

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I DON'T WANT TO SURVIVE

I WANT TO LIVE

*cuddles movie, squees*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that the BEST?! In any other movie they would have chosen the easy way out and been like, "No, we like this way much better," but once the vid screens are off or they start seeing how beautiful Earth really is, they're all, "Oh, WOW, what the hell am I doing with my life when I could have THAT instead?!"

Just watching the captain become thrilled at the thought of farming is just ... wow. Wow.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I know I personally took home the message that I need to pay attention to more than what's on my computer screen.

Can you imagine being so preoccupied with a monitor that you missed that the Axiom had a pool? A GIANT MOTHERFUCKING POOL THAT WAS EASILY A QUARTER-MILE ACROSS AND INTRICATELY DESIGNED? "I didn't know we had a pool!" was probably one of the most heartbreaking lines in the movie, hilarious though it was.