I loved that speech. I saw nothing wrong with it. He came in contact with Wall-E, which if anyone noticed, was all it took for those people to change.

Oh Wall-E

OMG did anyone else almost, like, cry at this movie repeatedly?

I don't really cry at movies, but I came thisclose when:

A) Eve reboots and sees everything WALL-E did for her while she was "sleeping"
B) WALL-E reboots and doesn't recognize Eve at first

I came closest during "A."

I was incredibly close during both of those moments, but actually A even more than B. It was really sweet.

Umm...I cried on and off basically throughout the movies. WALL-E's expressions were too much too handle.

omit "almost"

Saw it for the second time tonight. It holds up really well, which is fantastic. I thought it wouldn't hold up. It might have even been better than the first time, which would be really insane.

Still an A, but a better A.

Hey, I liked that line!



Closer on A, and I think I did.

Boy, I think this movie is highly overrated. I'd give it a pretty solid B. The art/animation is superb, many of the scenes are very, very good, but, the lack of dialogue makes the 90 minute runtime a bit tedious. Theres only so many scenes of cute robot slapstick I can take before becoming disinterested. I found the story to be about on par with Monsters, Inc. Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Rat. are far superior films imo.

Your signature explains a lot.

Explains something about his/hers review?

Can we expect more snarky posts when more non-glowing reviews come?

Snarkier.

i give it an A- as the 40 mins of no talking got really boring after 30 mins.


Imo it is the best film of the year and just better then IM.

Indy is a B-


The Blockbusters this year have been decent. The three sequels last year were all C class films.

I Wall-E!

You're an idiot. "will rape your milkshake"? Ha ha. too funny. .........not!

And that shall be enough. Talk about Wall-E, or don't bother posting at all.

Saw it a 2nd time.

Some things still bothered me. The two human characters outside of the captain felt like they were thrown in there just to have two more human characters instead of being of any importance. I also felt the message got a tad too obvious at times.

Of more importance, however, is that this is a movie of stunning beauty that made me forget every problem I may have had while watching. The wonderful animation drops your jaw while the sweet story drops your guard.

true dat!



Epic screenshot!

A. Cutest/best cautionary film ever. Maybe not the latter but the cutest, you betcha. Wall E, just.. warms your heart to no end. The cutest thing i've ever seen. While being a cautionary tale for humans, its also the best love story told in ages. The love Eve and Wall E share is in the vein of Rose and Jack from Titanic (some scenes to, tipping ship anyone?). They may not say more than 5 words to each other but these two have a connection, the connection of being wanted and finding someone. The looks in their "eyes" tell their love story alone. I'm just becoming a sap now but wow, this movie hits you were it huts in the best way. The score.. don't even get me started. The score when Eve first lands is beyond my words. When we meet the humans it goes down a little in my book not making it a perfect it, it kinda becomes.. a bit much. I love the cautionary message of our lazyness and our future, and it was well done in many ways it just went too much for me. Maybe I just loved the way it worked SO well when it was just Wall E and Eve on Earth. When it comes back to the love story again its finds it's footing and never looks back. Just fantastic.

Admittedly, I love Pixar. I think Pixar's films are great, and as a whole collection stand well above all other animated films that continue to be produced under other studios. They combine strong writing, remarkable animation, humour and heart into unique, inventive stories that, even with inhuman characters, tell us great things about the human condition.

Even with my love of Pixar, I have yet to give a Pixar movie an A, mostly because all of their movies have generally been unable to strike me well enough emotionally, even if they did have an abundance of heart (Andrew Stanton with Finding Nemo probably came closest). It is just something I haven't quite felt fully in my gut, even though I love all the films and they have all the great qualities I listed above.

Wall-E is, in my opinion, the BEST Pixar film to date and surely one of the best animated films I have seen. The animation is as superb as ever, the script just blows me away (a large part of the film has no dialogue, and yet the story is moved along perfectly; also the environmental back story is well handled without being preachy), and the humour and heart are present and relevant. And finally, this movie hits me so strong in the emotions department. The final scene shared between Wall-E and Eve is wonderful.

One of the coolest scenes is the scene of Wall-E playing around with Eve in space with a fire extinguisher. Terrific cinematography... and what a patient, loving scene. Well done.

It takes strong story tellers and film makers to make two robots exhibit so many human qualities and emotions. I'm tempted to say only Pixar could have pulled this off. Whether that is true or not, many kudos to Pixar and Andrew Stanton. I feel safe giving this an:

A

Peace,
Mike

87% A's?

#5.The Asch Conformity Experiment (1953)


The Setup:
Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results.

Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The participants were then shown pictures, and individually asked to answer very simple and obvious questions. The catch was that everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give obviously wrong answers. So would the subject go against the crowd, even when the crowd was clearly and retardedly wrong?

The Result:
Questions the subjects were asked were like the puzzle shown here:



All they had to do was say which line on the right matched the one on the left. As you can see, Asch wasn't exactly asking these people to design the next space station. Really, the only way you could get the line questions honestly wrong is if you took two doses of LSD that morning and rubbed them directly on your eyeballs (which would have made for an even more awesome experiment, but we're getting off the point).

Yet, sadly, 32 percent of subjects would answer incorrectly if they saw that three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer. Even when the line was plainly off by a few inches, it didn't matter. One in three would follow the group right off the proverbial cliff.

What This Says About You:
Imagine how much that 32 percent figure inflates when the answers are less black and white. We all tend to laugh with the group even when we didn't get the joke, or doubt our opinion we realize ours is unpopular among our group. So much for those lectures you got in elementary school about peer pressure and "being brave enough to be yourself."

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Me, myself, and I, as an indepedent and free-thinking person, think Wall-E is absolutely "A" grade material. There are also those who get off on being reactionary dissenters. Not saying that's necessarily you, but there is that psychological effect as well.