Posted on 06/29/2008 5:43:02 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
I saw WALL-E with my five year old on Saturday night. It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment.
All this from mega-company Disney, who wants us to buy WALL-E kitsch for our kids that are manufactured in China at environment-destroying factories and packed in plastic that will take hundreds of year to biodegrade in our landfills.
Much to Disney's chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.
You forgot shipping them over on container ships using fuel, spewing CO2, dumping their sewage and bringing invasive species to our bays.
It’s a brilliant film that argues against depending on goverment. Most people liked it...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2037224/posts
What an idiot. Hey Greg! You just paid them to make their anti-American movie, you couldn't even START your stupid boycott before you FAILed.
With friends like this at NRO, who needs Algore?
Liberals can’t be hypocrites - according to the MSM. So this won’t be covered - it’s a non-story.
It’s not remotely anti-American.
I saw the film and while the enviro-message might be there in a small way, there are other messages, too...
The opening shot of earth shows a windmill farm buried in trash. To ME, that is a message that “none of this environmental stuff makes sense.”
Also, the bulk of the story is about friendship and love being more important than technology. I went away smiling from the film.
Anti-Consumer (trash will kill the planet?), anti-capitalist (evil space corporation doesn't want anyone to sneak out of their captive business model, so they are bad guys?)....name me a theme in the movie that's not identical to something of which Michael Moore wouldn't do in a documentary in space?
The boycott should have started with the film...
That is not what I have read at a number of conservative review sites - and all the libs a KosKiddies love it.
I assume you saw it? I have not.
The real issue is not whether or not this film has a liberal message or a hidden conservative one. It’s the fact that it’s not a kid-friendly movie in the tradition of Disney. It’s dark, incoherent, and at the same time has an 80s cheese to it. Why couldn’t Disney/Pixar make a no-brainer sequel to Cars or The Incredibles?
He could still be around 700 years in the future!
It’s about the need for individuality and not waiting for some unseen impersonal ruler to run your life for you. It’s in the tradition of Brave New World and 2001.
Yes I have. See post 14. Who cares what the Kos people liked?
I saw it today with my 5 YO daughter....the animation was sensational....the story was drawn out and borish....humans were depicted as fat, lazy slobs who have everything done for them...very insulting for those of us who work our tails off...
It’s not about you its about those who sit on their couch slurping fast food and not actively living.
I just found the entire story drawn out and not very entertaining (animation, yes??? story?? no; I’m sick of being told doomsday is coming and it’s the fault of corporations)....
I quickly scadattled with my daughter after the movie but I can tell you I expected to see, “movie inspired by algore” in the credits...
The leaders in the film were some vague mix between state and corporation. Anyway Dystopian fiction has been around long before Al Gore. And this one has a hopeful conclusion.
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