Much to Disney's chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.
Party pooper!
Posted on 06/29/2008 5:43:02 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I saw WALL-E with my five year old on Saturday night. It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment.
All this from mega-company Disney, who wants us to buy WALL-E kitsch for our kids that are manufactured in China at environment-destroying factories and packed in plastic that will take hundreds of year to biodegrade in our landfills.
Much to Disney's chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.
I am honestly glad you feel that way- I love Disney and it’s a big part of my family’s life....but I just shook my head as I was watching the movie...
Besides why reduce a film this complex to one simple message and miss out on one of the most artful studio films in years? The first half was almost like a Buster Keaton comedy.
Any story can have multiple (and sometimes contradictory) messages. It is largely a function of the viewers views. I liked it, my kids liked it. The humans didn’t take the easy way out in the end, they rolled up their sleeves and did the hard work necessary.
Uhmmm...I do...
Generally, if they like something, it cannot be something I would like. Conversely, if they disliked a something - like a policy or candidate or movie, the odds would be good I would like it.
You’re entitled to your opinion and you know more about it than I because you have seen it. But what I have read about it from usually reliable sources paints a different picture of than your commentary does.
Couldn’t you have made your point without the name calling?
The tone is getting very rude around here
So if they liked the Sisten Chapel you would dislike it? Art doesn’t work that way.
I’m pretty sure he was addressing the author and not the poster, since he called him by name. However I agree that once name-calling and profanity start, the argument has been lost because you cannot persuade by those methods.
Johnny-5 would kick Wall-E’s backside!
Don't forget. The humans were living in micro-gravity for 700 years and lost a considerable amount of bone mass. This was explained in the film.
Much to Disney's chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.
Party pooper!
I wasn’t being rude to anyone “around here.”
“Greg” is the author of the silly article at National Review Online.
Though you’re right, to the extent I could’ve given him the benefit of the doubt and said he’d “taken leave of his senses” instead of calling him an idiot.
But for someone who makes a snide point about starting the 10-millionth boycott of a company to which he JUST PAID admission to their movie...well...he deserves some snippyness.
Further, you are also correct that the fragging around here has hit all time highs.
Both of which were great societal commentary and dramatic masterpieces. Neither of which should be done by Disney for kids, though.
Yes, secret, I was railing on the author of the article.
And I could've been nicer...but the contradiction in the article is so frustrating.
Yaking offense and promising to start a boycott--- just right after you pay that company $40 in admission for yourself and your child to see a film you deem as worthy boycotting?
Aside from whether or not the film is good/worth it/propaganda/masterpiece....the article is too cute by half....or just dumb.
There are plenty works of this sort that kids read...Animal Farm, Farenheit 451. This film’s content isn’t as disturbing as the aforementioned.
It was also a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of letting your life be run by an authoritarian entity (and the whole BnL corporation screamed 'government-run' to me), the virtues of individualism, and how working hard for something you want accomplished is much more effective, efficient, and rewarding than letting a giant state-esque entity do it for you (while failing).
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Not the movie my familly saw.
How is the movie incoherent? The movie is a love story about two little robots.
I felt that Wall*E was extremely heavy-handed in its message. I normally love all of Pixar’s films, but this one seriously left a bad taste in my mouth.
BTW- if you’re interested in my basic review, feel free to scope out my blog:
A_Baran.1up.com
Ah... so they repackaged the plot of Silent Running.
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