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MontanaHatchet on 09 August 2008
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The Ghost of RubangB said:
MontanaHatchet said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Yeah the first act was incredible, but I don't think it petered out. I think it just changed gears. The first act wouldn't have been able to sustain a feature length with only that mood and environment, so it turned into an epic comedy adventure romance extravaganza.


Now excuse me while I battle Montana:

I felt more emotion in WALL-E than in any movie with Matthew Broderick ever.

No, no. The climax showed such good acting on Alan Ruck's part. Plus, as a mild truant myself, watching it again reminds me of the good old days. Although I admit that Wall-E is a fantastic movie, I only feel emotional when I'm really immersed in a movie. Perhaps the futuristic environment, or maybe just the pure goofyness of the obese humans, seemed to have cut me off from the experience. This is why I looked like a statue when watching Titanic (the only sign of emotion I showed was the occasional grin when someone got their shit ruined).

Plus, the ending of Wall-E was so freakin' lame. Thank god for the credits in that movie. Seriously though, listen to the credits for the movie Mongol. It will blow your freakin' mind.

I just hate Matthew Broderick.  I mean, I love Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused and Weird Science and Sixteen Candles and Some Kind of Wonderful and License to drive and other various high school adventures.  I just hate Matthew Broderick.  He's so emotionless and boring and has no personality that the idea of him being interesting or cool at all just blows my mind and makes the whole movie unwatchable.  Also, the principal in the movie is a convicted pedophile, which gives that movie and Howard the Duck bonus points for having a pedophilic villain.

But yeah, Titanic was boring as shit.  I didn't care about a single character or action or anything.  I was just waiting for them to die.  And that crap about the diamond trying to bookend it or whatever?  Booooooooooring, weak, forced, too little too late.

 

I think the obesity of the humans in WALL-E was hilarious and not even far-fetched.  Look at Table 1 right here:

http://obesity1.tempdomainname.com/subs/fastfacts/obesity_US.shtml

The amount of overweight, obese, and severely obese people in the U.S. has been on the rise for 30 years.  64.5% are overweight.  Given the trend, in 700 years they'd all be over a ton.  WALL-E was holding back.

 

I really haven't watched enough of his movies to give a good opinion. The only other movie I remember him starring in is one with Jim Carrey, in which Broderick and Carrey were both playing basketball and Carrey was acting like a retard (it was a random scene that came on TV). And the principal was a pedophile? I don't know, he doesn't have the demeanor of a pedophile, although I guess it differs. Usually pedophiles looking for teenage girls will be assholes, whereas pedos looking for young girls will be just creepy as shit.

But yes, the Titanic was so awful. And what made it worse was how popular it was. It has to be one of the most boring movies ever until they crash into the iceberg, and then you have some decent action, and then it gets emotional again and I just want to puke. Bleh!

And your last paragraph implies that everyone will be like Americans. Are we suggesting that everyone who is not American and possibly Canadian will just die in the uninhabitable earth while the lucky few live like fat lazy morons in space? Damn, that would be the ultimate example of a sci-fi future that would suck. And I happen to be against pessimism when it comes to the future. How could life suck more than it does now?