I've been meaning to make this post for a couple of days now, since "WALL-E" opened on June 27. Me and my family went to see it, all anticipating another great work from Pixar, in light of past successes such as "Toy Story" and "The Incredibles". We were sorely disappointed...
The main problem with the movie, was that it had NO real refined story whatsoever. It was like the director (Andrew Stanton who is responsible for another Pixar great, "Finding Nemo")had tons of different ideas of directions that the story could go, and then tried to do them all. He could have focused on the love story between WALL-E and EVE and done a sort of Adam and Eve story (in fact he did, naming the girl robot "EVE"), but that would have been a little weak. Mr. Stanton could have focused on a Noah's Ark theme as well. In the movie, all the people on Earth were gone and on this space cruise, as Earth had become too covered in trash and was uninhabitable. WALL-E then brought a plant from Earth to the ship, showing that the Earth was once again habitable. Once again, however, the guy did not do this either. On the cruise ship, everybody was an immobile blob riding around on a hover-bed/chair thing with everything automated and done for them. The good director could have taken this and built the movie around it but DIDN'T! There were just so many things, obvious and subtle, that the director could have built the movie on, but he instead couldn't pick any one thing, he had to do it all, and the rusult was a huge exploded mess that made for a terrible film. There was nothing else about the movie that I disliked, it simply lacked direction. I did not hate the film, it just was a massive disappointment, and it's a sad, black mark on Pixar's otherwise perfect record.
Don't bother watching it, it's not worth your time, and only made me sad.
Fiforlif Semarang Resmi
9 years ago
2 comments:
I hate going to movies that make me want to write script after script after script that could be better than the movie.
I wonder what do they do all day? They are supposed to just think this stuff up? Do they get so bogged down in the technicals? Do they get side tracked by some other idea? Did they have a story but it got killed by the studio right before release?
Several movies were like that for me.
I'm thinking Andrew Stanton got sidetracked from his sidetracks and then sidetracked from those ones as well. I'm sure there HAD to have been some story at some point, they'd been working on the movie for 15 years just about before any of us had heard of it yet!
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