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Geoff and I went to go see Wall-E last night...You must go. Now. Trust me.
Labels: Movies
posted by Lindsay @ 9:31 AM
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Sharing the journey that has taken me from being a single girl in the advertising agency world to a married mommy running my own freelance writing and consulting business (and every random adventure in between).
About Me
- Name: Lindsay
- Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
THINGS I LOVE: Thunderstorms, power ballads, princess camping, exploring new cities, Jon Stewart, greatest hits CDs, clever ads, packing for a trip, George Clooney, impractical footwear, movies about spies, Starbucks, reading an entire book in one sitting, a house full of friends, movies about spies, buying presents, a perfect French manicure, warm modernist architecture, getting flowers for no reason, being faux brunette, Mary Poppins, making lists on Post-It notes, decorating for Christmas, having a brilliant middle-of-the-night 'aha!' idea and then actually remembering it in the morning / THINGS I HATE: People who whine, wearing sweats in public, 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner, birds, American tourists in foreign countries, taking down the Christmas tree, poems that rhyme, the misuse of semicolons, being lied to, unpacking after a trip, being closed-minded, naming your kid something common but then spelling it stupidly, cowboys, overly cautious drivers, fake curse words, ridiculously long surnames, strangers who start awkward conversations with you in places you can't readily escape
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2 Comments:
Thanks for the quick review! I've heard this movie is amazing, but that it is much different (and more daring) then past Pixar films. Can you comment on that?
I would definitely agree with that, though I can't pretend to be an expert on Pixar films - I have seen quite a few.
Wall-E was less of a movie and more of a film, if that makes sense. And they took care to ensure that it worked well on two levels: both children and adults could take something very real away with them.
The first half of the movie in particular really blew me away - it tackled the whole Chaplin-era silent film and really honoured that film style, while still injecting enough child-like humour that the three-year-old in the next row giggled contagiously all the way through (in all fairness, Chaplin was a master of that style of humour as well, but it was considered much more adult then). The entire story carried through with minimal dialogue, and I loved that - and you're talking to a writer here! It really forced them to focus on the craft of their storytelling, without some of the conventional crutches of spoken conversation. And the storytelling / narrative structure was beautiful.
Of course, any movie that's so obviously anti-Bush and anti-Walmart is okay with me :)
I haven't talked to anyone yet who didn't like it - and they all *really* like it. And 96% on RottenTomatoes.com is not pretty darn impressive.
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