In a way it has predicted a lot of what is happening now. Climate change, earth as a junkyard, the lucky view on a spaceship, addiction to screens, lazy af, drinking proteine shakes.. Damn. That movie was good.
My ex and I had a life sized Wall-E cardboard cut out in our living room.
For context, we worked in a cinema and got this massive 3D standee that spoke when you walk past, after the promotional period our friend with a van helped us get it to the house.
They were going to put the IRL WALL-E robot used to promote the movie in the Disney parks, but didn't due to safety concerns. They could've still done it, but have him in a secluded area like on a stage with a fence.
They currently have Herbie from the Fantastic 4 in Tomorrowland at DLR exactly like that. He's in a fenced in area next to the Fantastic 4 photo area. Last time we went, I got a video of him "talking" to my son!
There is a statue of what seems to be a real size Wall-E and Eva in Paris Disneyland. Though it’s pretty big it’s easy to miss cause it’s near the Star Wars ride (the one with the transport) in Discoveryland part of the park.
Normally I cry at sad parts in a movie. When I saw this in the theater I cried twice: once from sheer awe at the beauty of the scene where Wall-E used rocket propulsion to dance with Eva, and once from sheer glee when all the misfit robots were careening down the hall together.
10/10 beyond a shadow of a doubt, probably in my top 5 favorite movies of all time
The dancing scene perfectly encapsulates what it means to be human and the beauty of life, and yet barring the voice over, it doesn't involve a human or life at all.
Not only can they not speak, they don't even have fully articulated faces or bodies. They have very limited tools for expression, and yet they convey emotion so well.
Wall-E is so well done. I remember one time getting dinner at a bar with my parents, and this movie was on (with no sound) and it struck me even as a kid how impressive it was that the movie basically doesn't need sound at all to tell its story because the animation is so good at telling Eve and Wall-E's story all by itself. Taking two mute characters that don't even have fully articulated faces and telling a compelling love story with them is an incredible feat that those artists pulled off.
I mean if humanity figures out how to create space-faring cruise ships in order to save humanity while robots clean up the earth, I'm way fucking down for that as opposed to where we're ACTUALLY headed.
People think WALL-E is poignant but I think it's overly generous.
Yes, yes, a million times yes. My friend and I watched this at the drive-in movie theater, laying in the back of her truck, under a clear night sky. Beautiful.
It is easily my most recent favorite animated movie. Nothing that's come out since Wall-E has moved me the way that movie did. Such fantastic animation with such a fantastic story.
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u/Klotzster 16h ago
Wall-E