I thought it was because Shawkshank and Schindlers list were most definatly NOT for children while Wall-e was a kids film >_>AkJay said:
WALL-E Writers Win Humanitas Award
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And yet another award for Wall-E. I guess they figured ya either get busy exploring the human condition with robots or ya get busy dying.
Aw, that's sweet. I hate sweet! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LWNOcQ2nf8]
Seriously though I love movies like that, and now that I know that there's a list of them, I think I may have to watch a lot of them.
Seriously though I love movies like that, and now that I know that there's a list of them, I think I may have to watch a lot of them.
I'm sorry I just don't see the attraction for Wall E. I love most pixar films but it has to be their weakest one. It was over preachy and totally lost focus once those ugly unnecesary humans showed up.
Just my opinion guys.
Just my opinion guys.
In all honesty, I didn't really like this movie at all.
The first act was pretty cool, seeing a mute robot traversing a desolate metropolis. But the instant the movie enterd outer space it lost all it's dignity.
The first act was pretty cool, seeing a mute robot traversing a desolate metropolis. But the instant the movie enterd outer space it lost all it's dignity.
I loved Wall-E, and I think it's one of the best Pixar films ever, but...
"Enriching human understanding"? Ok, I know it was supposed to be " Have some dignity, don't get fat, and start carrying for your planet", but it ended up as " Don't build a fucking spaceship". It's like halfway through the scriptwriters decided they don't want a cute story about robots but a critical view on humanity, so they ended up with the spaceship idea because the planet was inhabitable.
"Enriching human understanding"? Ok, I know it was supposed to be " Have some dignity, don't get fat, and start carrying for your planet", but it ended up as " Don't build a fucking spaceship". It's like halfway through the scriptwriters decided they don't want a cute story about robots but a critical view on humanity, so they ended up with the spaceship idea because the planet was inhabitable.
Strange, why couldn't something be targeted to children and adults? Children only pay attention to the cute and cuddly, yes that's very true, but that simply doesn't mean that there can't be a message in it that adults can understand. Just because the kids don't see it doesn't mean that it isn't there. It's like the double humour in some old cartoons, just because the young kids only see the slapstick violence, doesn't mean that the cartoon can't be extremely witty at the same time. The young one's simply don't notice that, but we do. Why would that make it less witty? Or in WALL-E's case, less thought-provoking?AkJay said:
Really?! Didn't you just go "awwww" at EVE and WALL-E's 'space dance'?! I found that to be absolutely beautiful.Casual Shinji said:
Wall-E does not deserve it, it was a simple left wing political piece firing an ultra wide spread shotgun at everything from enviromentalist, to obesity, and tossed in an underlying technophobiac message despite the robotic protaganist along with it.
Schindler's list deserves it, as that is *mostly* a documentary of sorts though it also banks heavily on WW II propaganda. It gets away with it's message though by not being truely outrageous about it.
The Shawshank Redemption is pushing it, but I can see it sort of.
At any rate it's their award and they can give it to whatever they want. Personally though the point of awards like that is that they mean something to people who respect the award. With the inclusion of Wall E to the list, it simply drops on my respect-o-meter.
See, it's not that Wall E was a bad movie, it's just that it wasn't good on THAT level or in the areas they are praising it for. As I said, it basically fired a shotgun at a bunch of leftist issues that "everyone agrees with" hit most of them as far as fitting them into the story, and that is pretty much all it did.
In comparison I thought "The Incredibles" was a much better movie, and also more thought provoking in it's own way.
Schindler's list deserves it, as that is *mostly* a documentary of sorts though it also banks heavily on WW II propaganda. It gets away with it's message though by not being truely outrageous about it.
The Shawshank Redemption is pushing it, but I can see it sort of.
At any rate it's their award and they can give it to whatever they want. Personally though the point of awards like that is that they mean something to people who respect the award. With the inclusion of Wall E to the list, it simply drops on my respect-o-meter.
See, it's not that Wall E was a bad movie, it's just that it wasn't good on THAT level or in the areas they are praising it for. As I said, it basically fired a shotgun at a bunch of leftist issues that "everyone agrees with" hit most of them as far as fitting them into the story, and that is pretty much all it did.
In comparison I thought "The Incredibles" was a much better movie, and also more thought provoking in it's own way.
Don't worry Gump, sitting there with your box of chocolates. Your time will come.hansari said:So how many Humanitas Awards did Forest Gump win?
Poor gump...he is still waiting for Humanitas' reply.
I liked it. It was sort of preachy, I agree with Therumancer, but the total amount of greatness packed into a film without two fucking words is staggering.
This thing is for an environmentalist movie, and, if anything, environmentalist movies have to be preachy. So I agree with this, I think it was a good movie overall and, that being said, I think it was preachy.
Awesome outweighed the preachiness, though.
This thing is for an environmentalist movie, and, if anything, environmentalist movies have to be preachy. So I agree with this, I think it was a good movie overall and, that being said, I think it was preachy.
Awesome outweighed the preachiness, though.
This is good, because closed-mindedness is a notoriously difficult--well near impossible--thing to overcome on the internet. However, I will say this. No matter what you feel about WALL-E, some guns are not a good idea to stick to. Especially if they're fallacies built on mostly personal notions on inherent quality.AkJay said:
(And I thought Schindler's List was a bit heavy-handed. Granted, it was about the Holocaust so it gets a pass.)
More importantly, I find awards celebrating humanity offensive on account of personal cynicism. Just rubs me the wrong way.
EDIT: And Forrest Gump is also overrated.
Factually inaccurate. The fat people in the movie were removed from the problem and came later. The criticism was of a culture of waste, and of leisure at the expense of all else. The fat people in the movie were a symptom of poor decisions made by the prior establishment of Earth, who themselves were NOT predominantly overweight if the inaugural captain of the ship and the messages sent from are Earth are any guide.Cheeze_Pavilion said:
I think it's odd that overall opinion is that kids don't sense the deeper meaning of life. They might not understand it or be able to explain it, but that doesn't mean they don't feel it. Some of my childhood movies were The Dark Crystal and The Neverending Story. I didn't just like those movies because they had pretty fluffy pictures, i liked them because they had meaning. I didn't understand it at the time, but I most surely felt it.
In response to me not liking WALL-E. I felt that Pixar p*ssied out by putting humans in the movie. Apparently they didn't feel confident enough that the audience would sympayhize with two mute robots. So they put in funny looking humans with a romance of there own. This killed the movie for me. I would've loved it if it was just WALL-E and EVE roaming the lonely Earth filled with lost memories.
