Not doing as great at the Box Office.
It might be the most watched "animation" of the year, but I thought it would easily do over $250m in NA
| allaboutthegames885 said: I made the ultimate mistake last night... I saw Wall-E and Wanted at the same theater one after the other. My mind is so blown that I'm having a hard time gathering the chunks. Yes, even now. |
Hahhaa, I did the same thing. Kinda.
The wife and I went theater hopping, and saw WALL-E, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Wanted, and then The Dark Knight.
At the end of the night, I didn't even remember Wanted. Such a waste of fucking time. But it was the only movie that could fit in our schedule, so we couldn't see Hancock or something.
Also, WALL-E is brilliant.
AND BETTER THAN TOY STORY.
I found this on Wikipedia:
In an interview with World Magazine's Megan Basham, Stanton explained his singular vision for WALL-E: "(W)hat really interested me was the idea of the most human thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment Christ gives us is to love, but that's not always our priority. So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to say—that irrational love defeats the world's programming. You've got these two robots that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their programming, to experience love."
Ok guys. Shut up about Box Office, shut up about it being political (the fact that it carries a poignant message for our time is part of it's genius) and just go watch it. It is the best fucking film of the year if not the decade. And yes, I'm including Dark Knight in that assesement. It's Pixar's greatest achievement, surpassing toy story quite easily.
Really, there is no excuse for not watching such a brilliant movie.
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
Seriously. So much better than The Dark Knight or Toy Story. It's also the first Pixar film to have a real life actor in it, and it's FRED WILLARD.
And it's got a kickass new Peter Gabriel song in the end credits unavailable anywhere else.
It's a really great blend of adventure and comedy, and has flawless pacing and never wastes a second. As a person who's taken 3 editing classes and edited my own shorts at school, this is one of the only films I've ever seen which I wouldn't cut at least 20 minutes out of.
(Most films can be cut in half without ruining the mood, and if you're okay with ruining the mood, you can tell any story in under 5 minutes, including the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy.)
And who's whining about the box office? It cost $180 million to make it, and it's already made $311 million. And it still hasn't had worldwide release yet, let alone astronomical DVD sales.
Ooh, and apparently Stanton conceived WALL-E before they even made Toy Story. This has been his baby trapped in his head for over 13 years. Damn.
I saw it a few days ago. I didn't read anything about it so wasn't expecting much and to my surprise, it was a masterpiece. The movie was really touching and, without much words, could show much more than any other movie.
Ratatouille was better than Wall-E, IMO. I love Pixar and enjoyed Wall-E, but it got a little preachy at the end, and I am a pretty big environmentalist.
I enjoyed MGS4 more than Wall-E. I felt it was more enjoyable and had more to say than Wall-E.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
I thought it was gorgeous primarily. The story was good, but the visuals... stunning!
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I saw Wall-E. The first 40 minutes were impressive.
Then a load of fat humans invaded the screen and the film collapsed.
Letdown
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