Trying to understand those who don't love WALL-E ...........

Pixar's Feature Films WALL•E
#7

Well, pitiful as it sounds, I am one of the few people that fall under the WALL-E-Non-Lover category. I am sorry, but it just isn’t my favorite PIxar film.

Now I am not saying that it was a horrible movie. In fact, I thought it was a really brilliant movie done by Pixar. The people at Pixar have created one of the best movies of the year. I’ll use it a basball analogy to explain my feelings of WALL-E

Pixar knocked one out of the ballpark with WALL-E, just not my ballpark.

I guess I got a tad bored with the lack of dialogue. They story was amazing, but for me, I wish there could have been more talking. The characters were really cute and the love story was corny, but nice. I found the voices to be a tad annoying though. t was cute, but after hearing “WALL-E and EVA” so many times, I kinda got tired of it. Plus, I think WALL-E was a ittle too deep a movie for my taste. Also, I think there were just some moments of WALL-E that seemed to drag a little bit. SOmetimes, I wish there could have been a little more.

One of the factors that kept me from hating WALL-E was Hello Dolly. I love (and performed) the musical. It is one of my favorites, and I found myself singing to the songs.

Well, there you have it. my thoughts. Please don’t lash at me for not loving it as much as most around here.

#8

At least you explained your reaons and that’s fine. :slight_smile:

I’m not sure why some people don’t like the lack of dialogue though - dialogue can be superfluous in some situations and emotions can often be expressed far better without words (an action, a movement, a stance, a gesture, an expression). When those are put across correctly, as they were in WALL-E, then dialogue would ruin it.

#9

I’m pretty sure it’s just what topics Wall-E covers that don’t appeal to people. Y’know, environmental issues, morbidly obese humans, the idea that love is eternal, meaning of life, etc.

It’s a film that defintely goes to topics that would be considered daring in an animated feature, but people don’t always like what is daring. People can also get bored in the beginning, lack of dialogue, hate romance films, hate animated films, hate sci-fi, blibber blabber blubber blabber.

Guess we all have our likes and dislikes. I loved Terminator 2, but some people hated it. Same applies for Wall-E.

#10

I loved Terminator 2 as well!

Just to add a bit to Irongiant’s well thought out post, yes, Wall-E and Eve have very limited vocabularies and yet their inflections, especially when saying one another’s names, convey such a spectrum of emotions. It isn’t so much what they say as it is how they say it and there is a certain measure of beauty in that.

#11

I am glad I pposted my thoughts here with people who can understand and tolerate my opinion on WALL-E.

#12

I for one liked the lack of dialouge but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

#13

I don’ know, maybe the lack of dialouge seemed to have dragged the movie for me. But even though the absence of talking, I was able to understand the characters by their actions.

#14

The point was to understand them through their actions.

#15

I know WALL-E. I know. BUt it might be me, but I wasn’t really touched that much with dialogue lacking.

#16

Oh well, I guess we’ll agree to disagree.

#17

Oh, tell me about it!
There are a lot of people I know as friends, family etc… and they have seen Wall.E and they do not like it at all.
My five and ten year old cousin do clearly not like it and I think were suprised how they didn’t like it and my family don’t like it but I love the film and don’t understand either.

#18

I guess there’s just no accounting for taste. :wink:

Just out of interest, I wonder if anyone who loved The Dark Knight loves WALL-E just as much? Totally different films I know, and just for the record, I thought The Dark Knight was rather poor.

#19

I like the lack of diolougue as well, especially because there are so many animated movies these days that have way to much diolougue.

#20

I thought Dark Knight was slightly above average (and I’m quite a fan of DC Comics at that). While I’ve seen Wall-E 4 times now, I have absolutely no desire to see TDK again. People look at me like I’m from another planet when I’ve told them that.

#21

It’s almost like TDK has become a ‘rite of passage’ and that you’re somehow ‘weird’ if you haven’t seen it. Like you, I too have no desire to see it again.

As for WALL-E - I have a feeling that when the DVD is out it’s going to get a lot of replays! :smiley:

#22

I can understand people not LOVING the film, but I have yet to find a truly negative review that doesn’t sound whiny.

#23

Some people just don’t like this genre of movies. Other than that, they are fat and got offended when they watched it, or found the movie too depressing; when they really don’t want to think about real life issues this movie contains. Or some religious nut jobs think we’re making a sin for elating robots to the human level.

#24

All I had to do was read the second post and I’m tick. :stuck_out_tongue: Just kidding, but c’mon - I’m a big romance guy (as hard as it is for most of you to believe…), I dig romance films. But WALL-E? It’s just too predictable, but that’s because it’s Pixar, and as we all know, all Pixar films have one weakness, and that is that they are affiliated with Disney. And in Disney tradition, what’s the code, ladies and gents?!

Background audience: “To live happily ever after… yawn!”

That’s right, yawn!

C’mon, let’s be realistic here. Fantasy, it’s all good when taken in portions, but overdose is just intoxicating. We are drowning here. WALL-E is a good movie, I’ll put it at that. It’s just, not a good-good movie, as in like those sort of movies that deserve a five star blockbuster rating.

Spider-Man, Transformers, Jurassic Park, Flags of Our Fathers, The Good Shepherd, Iron Man, Die Hard, all these titles are legends and have an excellent quality of bringing audience that pack of punch. They made us cry, they made us cheer. And we all darn know that someone’s gonna have to die because in the real world, no one’s invincible. We lose our memories, we don’t get it back because some hot chick kissed us goodnight or give us a good one nighter. :wink: We get it through long terms of attempts trying to recollect those memories - not boom and EVE goes “WALL-E! YOU GOT YOUR MEMO BACK!”

No.

It just lacks that sort of realism, but fortunately, Pixar was able to deliver that same sort of awesomeness even when kept under a fantasy aspect.

Take Finding Nemo, for example. Even though we darn know that Nemo survived, Pixar managed to create a tearful effect with Marlin’s scene together with Dory. The atmosphere was grim, we were able to relate to a father relating to the death of his child. It’s very sad, and very relatable. Futuristic robots having a love story together - that’s a little hard.

Okay, let’s just say that we put the all so legendary ‘message’ you all claimed to be hidden in the film into perspective. Let’s just say that there is a message we could relate to and let’s try and relate to it. Okay, a message, lemme think of one…

Wow, this is harder than I didn’t expected. :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyway, while I’m thinking, lemme bring up another great example of a Pixar success. Monsters, Inc.

Mike Wazowski, played by the all so talented Billy Crystal, is darn funny, not only because his voice actor is funny, but his whole very aspect (his lines, his tiny horns, his sleek persona) is hilarious and it knock our socks off. Not only that, but once again, Pixar brought tears to our eyes (even though this film is made before FN). The Sulley scene with Boo was just tragic. We were able to relate to that because in the end, Sulley did have to leave Boo even though he’s such a darn good friend of hers and the writers just had to take him away from Boo in an inhumane, cruel manner (joke). She opened her door, and he was gone. Did she try and open the door several times again? Maybe. But if she did, did Sulley suddenly appear there just because she got all sad and teary?

Audience?

NO, NO, N-O, NO!

That’s right, he didn’t.

In short, the ending to WALL-E is too cliche, and it really disappoints. But as I’ve said before in my criticizing review towards the film, they had tried their best. Being a Disney film, they had no choice. They almost got me with there, so it was a good effort, but just because someone’s incapable of doing a good job, doesn’t mean he deserve the credit.

Sorry, WALL-E fans.

Oh, and I still can’t think of that message. :stuck_out_tongue:

#25

WBoon: What makes WALL-E so great is the emotion, the character development, the eye-opening messages. Not just in the environment, but what makes WALL-E different is that unlike the usual romance film, it removes the normal transition from “like” to “love”. No, since WALL-E is such a unique character, the movie is about him trying to win EVE who doesn’t have the emotional capacity for love. When have you seen THAT before?

#26

Wall-E is my favorite movie ever! I’ve been counting down the days to the DVD release. The only person in my family who’s excited for Wall-E is my little sister. Everyone else thinks I’m weird, and I don’t get it. I have to agree that many of them don’t like it because it’s an animated movie, but this is a very different movie. On Yahoo! movies, Wall-E got an A- from both critics and users. I’ve never seen a movie with higher ratings.