My wife and I saw it tonight, totally great. It wasn't just a good cartoon, it was a pretty good science-fiction movie (and a pretty strong rap against big business, I guess).


>_> I almost cried at the end

All in all, I am a sucker for robot movies, especially cute ones.

Good to hear! My wife, 3-year old daughter and I are seeing it tomorrow. My little girl already has a WALL-E and EVE toy, I can't wait to get some more. You know, for her.

Seeing it Sunday. Can't wait.

I could type my fingers off, but man. Tired.

Should be good. Pixar really has yet to do a complete of a movie

Seeing Wanted tomorrow. Should be fun.

I saw wall-e yesterday but I kept falling a sleep while watching it so I left . I liked it alot I was just tired

I know this is all a matter of taste and opinion, but I thought Cars sucked.

Anyway, WALL-E was a very good movie. The perfect family flick. Younger kids get a well made kiddie movie, and the older crowd gets an entertaining sci-fi tale with a message,

I liked it alot and all I kept thinking durning the movie is "Why can't Pixar and Hasbro get together and totally remake the original G1 Transformers movie?" Wall-E easily sets the standards for this. Pixar has got their CGI down.

Before anyone jumps on the licensing (sp?) issues for vehicles all you have to do is take a look at EA's Burnout series.

Don't bother sticking around after the credits, there's nothing.

For those that did go (with kids) did you pick up your Wall-E watch? I managed to get two, there nothing overly special just a little promo.

I wanted a WALL-E watch, I saw them.


>_> what

BTW...I kinda want to go see it again now.

Saw it. See first post for my exact response.

Headed off to TRU right after and bought a Wall-E fig too. Also

I totally want the Transforming WALL-E. He folds up into his little cube shape. He will be mine.

Saw it yesterday, and loved it. A couple of good messages, but also a rollicking fun and exciting movie. Very touching as well, it's stunning how they can fill those characters with so much emotion. I'm getting the DVD when it's out, no question.

My only problem with it was the fact that some of the funny clips shown in the trailers weren't any longer in the movie, like the bra scene and the ball/paddle one. A tiny tiny nit to pick in an otherwise brilliant movie.

From a technical standpoint, those Pixar guys are at the top of their game. That CGI was just amazing. A re-make of the '86 TF movie, w/ the original dialog, would be an absolute winner.

For more tech nerd -ness, Ben Burtt designed the voice of WALL-E in the film. He's basically the pioneer of modern sound design, creating pretty much all of the Star Wars films' sound effects (the blaster, lightsaber, R2-D2's "voice"). I mean, it isn't too surprising as Pixar always mixes with Skywalker Sound, but it's nice to know they took this movie seriously enough to have Burtt to be so involved with the sound design for all the robots in the film.

well pixar was a spin-off from lucas...

Saw it last night!

This is the Best film of the year so far.

Wow!

So beautifully done.

Geek films are really coming into their own this summer - Between Batman, WallE, Hellboy, Ironman, Speed Racer and all the others - we have never had so much available and whats more - such HIGH QUALITY. (we even have and Indy and a Star Wars this summer - which isnt a comment on quality so much - but historically resonant nonetheless)

I knew quite a bit about Wall*E before going in and I was still surprised.
The Characters were so real, and the story so natural and touching...
It's like this is the type of film that Disney Films think they are ... but this is one of the few real ones.

I am shocked that this thread isn't longer.

Those of you who have seen it - speak up!

those of you who haven't - GO! GO NOW!

SAW IT! LOVED IT! WANT WALL-E AND EVE!!!!!

Threads are only made long out of debate. There is no debate that this is a nearly flawless film.

>Gushes<
>makes thread longer<

It's not out over here yet, so I can't see it

Isn't that an interesting point, though? The best/most looked-forward-to movies of the summeraren't the typical Lucas properties?

The best movies of the summer haven't been Lucas properties in twenty or thirty years. It's Lucas falling out of the most looked-forward-to category that is compelling...although I think Indy was among the most looked-forward-to movies of this summer, I don't think it's potential sequels will be as high up that scale.

F G1. They should do an all new TF:Animated movie with Pixar animation. That would work so well with pixar's great use of expressions and comedy.

I think Pixar would be wasted spending their time on Transformers.

Yes

Here's a neat article that gives some insight on their design process for realism in the animation and "camera" angles. Pretty deep tech and artsy stuff for a G-rated film.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone...3682&page=1

Why the hell all the people is crazy with that damn toy?

Do your cinemas have a life sized cardboard 3d sculpture of Wall--E like they do in ours???

He's made of compressed

Which one is that?
I just got the "U-repair Wall*E" and "Eve" he snaps apart to end up as a little box but doesnt "transform" perse.
I like both figs!

But i kidna wish WALL*E came with more parts.... still minor complaint.

It's one of the larger figures. As far as I know outside of the regular figures they have two larger WALL-E figures, a MP3 one and a transforming cube one.
Some pics, along with EVE.....





To transform him you just snap the head, arms, and treds into the box/body and they lock in place.



To transform him back you press a series of tabs on his back....



The top tab pops his head back up, the middle tab pops his arms out, and the two lower tabs, when pressed together, pop his treds out.

Oh, and EVE is the ness

[shameless self-plug]
Plus the continuing adventures of WALL-E and EVE!
http://forums.TFormers.com/talk/index.php?...299&st=2230
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Stop rubbing it in!!!

*wants the Ultimate WALL-E* HE'S AWESOME!!!!!

We all should be sucking Steve Jobs nuts right now.

That is all.

I just saw the movie today, loved it. I must say, Pixar really did pull out all the stops with their 3D technology this time around. Just goes to show how far the technology has come from Toy Story. Heh, I bet if you watched the two movies side by side, you wouldn't even be able to tell they were made by the same company. Kudos to Pixar for going to "infinity and beyond" once again.


Also, when I saw Wall-E boxform, I was all "aw man, that is awesome."

Yep. I thought about asking around to see if I could keep one...

And just give me an AUTO figure, and I'll be good.

It'll air in here at August.......

what Hunter said

just amazingly great in so many ways

In case there was ever any doubt that Pixar is the official heir to Walt Disney's throne...

...actually, scratch that, they're going beyond that. Disney was full of even back when they were doing groundbreaking animation. Pixar is brilliantly artistically wonderful but uses all their magic tricks in service of the story and the characters.

I mean for God's sake look at that cartoon at the beginning. It could have come straight out of the golden era of US animation.

and I don't mind saying that I cried at least twice during the movie, which I've seen 2x now

>_> I did at the end when it appeared his memory might not come back

My wife thought it was great that the love story was centered around "Hello Dolly". And Fred Willard.

Blaine'd

Yeah I took my son to see that yesterday, we all loved it! And I agree that toon at the beginning was abslutely golden. I wish they'd have a division that would just make shorts like that all the time, I'd buy every DVD they would make.


and Wall-E was perfection everything about it was just stunning and though the graphics as always were spectacular they focused on telling a good story. This is good, because the non pixar Disney stuff has been severly lacking that kind of charm for some time now. (though Enchanted was really done pretty well)

This, because I am gay for old musicals. I don't know what it is, but I love that it was such a focal point of the film.

I read a critique that the film was actually a little soft on that end... that the "rebirth" was a little too forced.
You never quite get the the feeling that he's really gone - the article uses ET as a point of comparison - where everyone thought that ET died - you never really think that WALL*E is gone...

I'm not sure how valid this critique is but its interesting. Had this been made for an adult audience - would there have been any benefit to the story if Wall*E had not "come back"?
(in some sense ET never comes back)

What would the ramifications of that be?
One a side note, I am a bit disappointed that although Wall*E is doing "well" but not GREAT at the Box Office.
How can people NOT be loving this film??

The toys are flying off the shelves (Although that maybe because TRU is the ONLY store carrying them - lord knows why!?!! Making a Toy a TRU exclusive practically begs for poor sales)

I honestly thought that he was "gone" at the end. Though I'm glad they didn't go with that because I don't know what point it would have served to do so.

Actually, I was totally up for the possibility that he might have been gone for good, and it wouldn't have bothered me. Sacrificing for love and for duty to humans, it would have made sense to me. Plus losing their only "living" tie to 700 years ago.

And I'm not sure what Hunter is saying, but that rebirth scene was singlehandedly the most powerful moment in the film to me. Where I sniffled.

I successfully kept from blubbering like an idiot, but there were tears.

That's the difference between us, then... I got misty before he came back, when it looked like he'd been FORMAT'D

Oh, I was certainly Mr. misty there. It was easy to realize the thing that would bring him back was "holding hands."

I was also a fan of Louie Armstrong singing La Vie En Rose... it reminded me of the original "Fallout" game, in a good way

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OIC

I get it.