WALL-E (Pixar 2008)  

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Is this supposed to be like Robots 2 or something? lol.

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Short Circuit, anyone?

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Number 5 is alive!

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Pixar is putting less and less effort into quality film making and just cranking out juke just to turn a buck. Each film of theirs seem to get worse and worse.

Exactly what I thought the minute I saw the robot. You'd think they could have come up with a some what original looking robot at least.

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I also thought CARS was fantastic and only gets better on repeat viewings (and trust me, I've had plenty with my 3 year old).

Honestly, I think Pixar's second effort (A BUG'S LIFE) remains their weakest overall, so I can't buy the argument that the quality of their films is lessening.

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To me "Incredibles" was darn near perrfect, easily my favorite of all the Pixar set. My kids still love "Monsters, Inc." most with "Cars" close behind. So, hard for me to say "they crank out stuff".

I'm all eager for the release this summer.

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The teaser looked good. I'm in.

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I read that all of the voices will be electronic.
Think Stephen Hawking.


-http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=426639

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I hope they rethink this strategy. I don't know if I could stand 90 minutes worth of voices like the one in the teaser. It was only one word and it was annoying as hell.

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I started reading the synopsis, but I stopped. I decided that I do not want to have the story ruined before I see the resulting animated film.

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"The Incredibles" was a good one time see, no where near any rewatch factor like the "Toy Story" films. "Cars", again, a good one time see. "The Bugs Life" and "Monster's Inc." better then both of those. "Ratatouille", I'll pass as it looks terrible. Yes, I watched the teaser and while it shows very little it does not look interesting to me at all, at this point.

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Would it kill Time to say "City Lights?"

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I am really pumped over this. I read the synopsis, which only covers the first 1/3 of the movie, and this could be incredible. I have high hopes for this because recently Brad Bird had said he'd love to try something adventurous with the medium, and listed "Ender's Game" as one of them. If they can turn this into the real epic it sounds like, I'm totally in and hopeful for what it means about the medium.

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I have to admit reading that synopsis - it sounds really great.

And Ive been waiting for Pixar to delve into a space/scifi topic. That teaser "looked" amazing.

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)


"Honestly, I think Pixar's second effort (A BUG'S LIFE) remains their weakest overall, so I can't buy the argument that the quality of their films is lessening."

Me neither.

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Certainly your perogative to feel that way Ron, but I just finished watching this with my son (4th or 5th time through myself) and I thought it was even better than the first. Not only does it have the funny, the exciting and the amazing animation/craft, it's main thrust is the story of the family and some great messages - have confidence in yourself, never lose your identity, etc.

And Elastigirl, as voiced by Holly Hunter, is awesome.

Really? The first teaser was just decent, but the trailer looks much better (as we find out that the rat actually wants to be a chef). And I'll follow Brad Bird anywhere...

As for WALL*E:

It shows less than little, so I'm surprised you can even form any kind of judgement. That's fine if you are less interested in Pixar these days, but to say that they are "just cranking out juke just to turn a buck" is crazy talk. Crazy I tells ya...

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While the design of the main character is an obvious rip off/homage to Short Circuit, the concept/synopsis sold me on this. Sounds like a big winner for Pixar.

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Funny? It did have a couple of laughs but nothing like some of their previous films. I just cannot sit though this film, it bore's me something silly.

Chalk it up to being seriously burned out on animal animation films, haven't we seen enough in the last several years? Between bears, rats, penquins, mice...etc., enough already.

My comment is based of what I've seen (and read). But who knows, maybe a full length trailer will change my mind, it's happened before.

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Actually, that sounds more like being brunt out on animated movies, since it's not like it's a new pattern - the animal animated film has long been a huge part of American animation (off the top of my head, I can think of Dumbo, Bambi, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, 101 Dalmations, Great Mouse Detective, Lion King as films centring around animal characters - plus Jungle Book and Tarzan with a human lead in an otherwise animal world, and Robin Hood with animals in the role of humans).

Now, yes, there have been a lot of "animal animated" films lately, but that seems to me to be more a failure of imagination on the part of the other animation companies. Okay, yes, most Disney animated movies were about humans, and that is something none of the modern CGI-films have really explored (other than Incredibles and maybe Shrek) - but while other companies were making almost exlusively movies about cuddly animals, almost because they couldn't think of anything else to do or because the toy market for a cuddly plush lion or giraffe was big, Pixar were making films about toys, cars, monsters, superheroes - and when they did make movies about living creatures, they weren't the obvious subjects, but bugs or fish or rats.

The problem is that there has been this explosion in CGI-animated movies lately, which has sadly diluted the market so that Pixar movies are now seen as "just another CG-animated movie", rather than the standard-setter films that they are. And then you get people saying "I'm sick of all these types of films."

It's inevitable , it can't be helped, but it is a shame.

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Loved the trailer's music from BRAZIL.

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While a great "Pixar movie", I don't really classify The Incredibles as just another of the "Pixar movies", to me, I simply classify it as a comic book super hero movie.

And in my opinion, The Incredibles was the best super hero movie I've ever seen.

I'm still waiting for a live action comic book super hero movie to equal the super hero action executed so perfectly in this film.

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wow. this is one of the most bizarrely incongruous statements i've ever read.

be that as it may, it seems from your subsequent posts that you are actually expressing something closer to the fact that pixar's recent films just don't appeal to you in terms of plot and narrative content; the quality and depth of the actual storylines, and the sizeable incremental technical achievements represented in and by each of their films seem to be beyond reasonable dispute. i mean, i can't stand watching scorsese's films, either, but that wouldn't entitle me to say that he's therefore just pumping out crap to turn a buck.

while i still see it as Pixar's crowning glory, i totally agree with you on everything else: i've never seen a superhero movie - live-action or otherwise - that comes even remotely close to the incredibles. simply spectacular in every way.

i have no doubt wall-e will be staggering.

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Considering the reviews Ratatouille is getting, I think Pixar is well in stride.

I agree with john and Sean regarding The Incredibles. Thanks to a 3 year old, I watched it daily for about a month. And it NEVER got old. It's a masterpiece, of animation, of writing, of vocal performances, of film in general.

I'll worry about WALL-E when I see it

Pixar never translates well to trailers anyway. They never have.

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I interpret this to mean that Pixar has chosen their most challenging film to date. If "Star Wars" sound designer Ben Burtt will electronically voice the main roles" then there will be NO voice actors. Think 90% "R2D2", only 10% "Stephen Hawking".

For the first time ever Pixar will have to sell a film and get an audience emotionally invested based solely on the quality of their animation (and Burtts's sound-effects) without the benefit of actors. Since this movie is based on a silent film, I guess it's appropriate to have very little speech we can understand (apart from names). It will also mean no dubbing or subtitles overseas.

IMO a good vocal performance can count for as much as 70% of the quality of an animated film. To attempt an animated movie without any voice actors at all is either incredibly brave, arrogant or possibly stupid. However, since we're talking Pixar I'm going with 'brave'. I say good luck to them. I'm crossing my fingers. I certainly wouldn't be brave enough to attempt it, myself.

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I guess I'm in the minority. I don't go to animated films because of the voice acting. I go to animated films because the animation, the story, or both intrigue me. Good voice acting is icing on the cake.

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Andrew Stanton, writer/director of Finding Nemo...

That's all I need.

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I'm guessing that's because you've pretty much had nothing to worry about with these movies in the past. Good voice acting is pretty much a given. If every single character in Cars had been voiced by Gilbert Gottfried or maybe Steven Wright, you'd probably feel differently. Actually, I can just hear Wright saying, "My name's Mater. As in tuhmater. Without the tuh."