I find Wall-E to be a very "Disappointing" film. Not because it's bad. It's not. It is a good movie. A very good movie, really. But it is still disappointing because if it continued as it did in the beginning all the way through the movie, it would be Great! Spectacular! And Instant Classic and one of my very favorite movies, I think.
I like dialog. I really do. But the beginning of Wall-E, even though it has no dialog, is amazing to me. Perhaps because it manages to be at once artistic and entertaining and thoughtful without it. What more could you want?
Dialog. Okay, fine. It comes later. It's slowly introduced. As slowly as the movie declines. I didn't really notice when the movie lost its luster, but by the end, it definitely wasn't what it could have been. And, of course, has to have the perfect ending. Everything is hunky-dory. Uh huh. Right.
That's the biggest problem. It is not a nice situation. It cannot have a perfect ending. Happy, perhaps, but only in a way.
Perhaps there shouldn't have ever been people in the movie. It could have been all about robots. But I do kinda like the fat worthless people. It's a pretty realistic, don't you think, of what people would be like without gravity or excessive and instead coddling technology. Maybe not. They'd probably be dead. In any case, it is just absurd that they have any part in 'saving the day'.
Besides that, he is an abridged list of plot holes (Spoiler Alert!) that could have been avoided:
Where do they get all that trash from anyway? How would they not repeat their failures and blast back off into space after a few years if they are still generating that level of trash? How do you suppose the world is sustainable after one tiny plant sprouted after 700 years? And where did it come from? How's the cockroach survive?
See, none of this would have been a problem if the movie progressed differently. If the ship was run differently. If the Eve probes weren't revealed as having traveled to earth often.
No comments:
Post a Comment