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A viral site for Pixar's new flick WALL-E
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So I found this site pretty interesting.
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Mild storyline spoilers follow.
The site in question looks as if it's the only corporation left on Earth. Even the FDA is named the BnL-FDA.
So I thought the site is hilarious. I especially like:
So I found this site pretty interesting.
Buy n Large
Mild storyline spoilers follow.
From John Lasseter according to wikipedia:
"WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot that his programming was to help clean up. You see, it's set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a love story, because, you see, WALL-E falls in love with [Eve], a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her."
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"WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot that his programming was to help clean up. You see, it's set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he's left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But it's not a story about science fiction. It's a love story, because, you see, WALL-E falls in love with [Eve], a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth, and she's left there to check on and see how things are going and he absolutely falls in love with her."
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The site in question looks as if it's the only corporation left on Earth. Even the FDA is named the BnL-FDA.
So I thought the site is hilarious. I especially like:
the side effects of the Xanadou "shopping euphoria" pill has side effects such as "nausea, headaches, intestinal discomfort; and cramping, temporary blindness, bleeding of the gums, and an inclination to read the works of Leon Trotsky."
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It's Pixar, and it's about a robot who falls in love
A robot
who falls in love
by Pixar
It will be magical
Let's not decide on the merits of the film until we see it.
You shut your whore mouth, Pixar is the best!
According to the teaser, they came up with the idea at a lunch in 1994 when Toy Story was almost finished. It was the same day that they brainstormed A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo.
I have high hopes for this one.
edit: Wall-E himself reminds me of Short Circuit.
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Well... I never got that it was supposed to be preachy. I saw it as a means to an end (a way to get to their original premise), not a prediction of things to come. I really think you're looking too much into their motives.
But hey opinions, opinions lol.
But seriously, has anyone actually looked at the site? It looks as if someone put a lot of work into it, and the news articles are really clever.
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that doesn't make it less hilarious. and it's not like pixar is telling them NOT to or anything.
they won't though. and even if they did, that doesn't invalidate all the shit tons of money they've made through merchandising. hell, without merchandising, there may not have even BEEN a pixar after toy story. obviously i'm kinda rushing to judgement over a movie i haven't seen, but like i said, pixar is the LAST company who should be trying to make any sort of commentary on consumerism
As far as it being preachy, you don't know that yet. They could easily do this story without focusing on human's follies. In fact, I expect they will considering that its about the robots. There probably wont be any humans in the entire film.
Most post apocolyptic movies aren't preachy at all frankly...
yes, that's actually why we have to
what
The parents die.
ITT we discover that Gorgeeen is an expert in robots fucking
We've got a thing that's called robot love
We've got a line in the sky
Robot love
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
He's saying it's preachy because, from a two-paragraph description, we know that Earth had to be abandoned due to "rampant consumerism"
Because, you know, it's not like that kind of behavior would ever really have an effect on the environment
Fuckin hippies
ROBOTS KILL.
Pixar is probably manned by clever kill bots trying to lull us into a sense of security so we'll warm up to their cold steel selves right before they stab us in the back.
Why would robots stab people? That's highly inefficient.
The stab injects a retrovirus into the victim that rewires their brain, turning them into mindless drones for use by the robots. Much more efficient to use the humans against themselves.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
When they come for you, there will be those that take advantage of the new market our robot overlords will have created.
OH NO! A childrens show which teaches values!!!!
WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO!!!!
Fuck, so beat'd.
I actually want to see this movie, I like the premise a lot.
This movie is going to be darker than you expect.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Haven't seen it...but how could a show about a rat cooking be preachy?
I think he confuses good moral values with preachy...
No, I really loved the movie, I'm just using preachy like I think Yar is using it.
So they basically took Vectorman and made it into a love story for kids
gotcha
YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS YOU SURE GOT IT
Jesus Christ, people.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Actually, I believe that the concern was that cars love, but the only thing they love is killing humans.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I squealed like a little girl in the theater when he looked at the camera and said his name.
Actually I think I'll watch it again.
*squee*