Thursday, July 3, 2008

WALL-E

So I like to watch movies. And the one question that always gets me is, "Did you like—name whatever movie—? It takes me a long time to come up with an answer. I have to process movies, that process takes about as long as a dial-up computer would take to download a youtube movie. So now I'm going to process movies via blogging, since that's the best way for me to express and process things. And you won't have awkward silence for two hours. The first film, I'm glad to report I will be critiquing is WALL-E. I won't go into details about the synopsis of the film, that takes too long, and hard for most film since you don't want to give anything away, and if you want to know look it up on yahoo movies.

  • Acting: The acting for this movie is hard to critique since it's animated. Nonetheless it was flawless. When WALL-E was sad, you knew he was sad. When he was scared, you knew he was scared, even though the only way for you to tell his emotions was by those big, binocular shaped eyes.

  • Filming: How should I start with this? The animation was beautiful, I was often had my mouth a gape and eyes gawking at the incredible scenes that created. It would be a wonderful film to watch on an IMAX screen, since a lot of the scenes swoop in and out. The scenes in space are unbelievable. Let's just say when WALL-E says "Woah!" you will too.

  • Script: There isn't much of a script in this movie. Not because it's terrible, but because there simply isn't one. The story-telling is done through actions not words. And as we all know actions speak louder than words and it certainly does in WALL-E.

  • Plot: The plot in WALL-E is very simple, easy to follow, and flows very nicely, being mostly a children's film. However, there is a hidden, well not hidden, rather blatantly obvious message in the film, unlike a lot of Pixar films. It's a very thought-provoking movie with a message. A lot of times I don't like movies with messages, sometimes it doesn't work and I would prefer to decide for myself what I want to do about about our planet, but in WALL-E it works and I like it a lot.

  • Other: I'm not sure there's a whole lot more to add. Expect BE CAREFUL you'll fall in love with WALL-E and for some strange reason start to care about a animated robot.

Well, that's about it. I would strongly encourage you to go see WALL-E. Even though it's supposed to be children's film it might be a little slow for some children and adult. If you fall asleep in most action flicks then you'll probably fall asleep in WALL-E. It reminds me of a whole bunch of PIXAR's short film in a full length film.

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