{"id":526,"date":"2008-11-23T20:57:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T01:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-11-23T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T01:57:14","slug":"problems-with-wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/problems-with-wall-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Wall-E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely haven&#8217;t seen many movies recently, but I managed to catch up on one this weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/featurefilms\/walle\/\">Pixar&#8217;s Wall-E<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51iSBYtoyhL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" align=right \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I watched it, I thought &#8220;A Pixar movie about robots in space? What could be cooler than that? This should be great!&#8221;. I was disappointed. <\/p>\n<p>Usually Pixar movies are so mind-blowingly creative that I don&#8217;t care if the plot doesn&#8217;t quite make sense. I own almost all of them. While Wall-E had some cute parts, it was dull in others and I couldn&#8217;t overlook all the holes in the plot. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the Axiom had been in space 700 years, how could they have been throwing out huge blocks of garbage? Where did they get the material to replace it?<\/li>\n<li>The captain made the comment that they never had a probe come back positive before. If they had been sending probes to earth for 700 years, wouldn&#8217;t Wall-E have seen these all the time?<\/li>\n<li>What was the point of building skyscrapers of trash? Who was going to pick them up?<\/li>\n<li>What happened to all the other Wall-E units? If he was the only one, then how could he have possibly cleaned earth up enough to make it livable again?<\/li>\n<li>There weren&#8217;t nearly enough captains on the wall to cover 700 years.<\/li>\n<li>If EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator)&#8217;s mission was to find plants, why the heck did she need a huge gun to blow stuff up?<\/li>\n<li>They made a big deal of the couple who met and went in the pool, like people didn&#8217;t interact at all. But there was a whole nursery of babies and the human race had survived 700 years, so clearly not everyone was anti-social.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no way people who&#8217;ve been laying down their whole lives would suddenly get up and start walking around.<\/li>\n<li>When the ship tips over, everyone slides to one side. That only makes sense is gravity is directly below them, but there&#8217;s no gravity in space.<\/li>\n<li>The plant would have died instantly (exploded and frozen, really) when exposed to space.<\/li>\n<li>Why was the BnL CEO live action whereas everyone else a cartoon?<\/li>\n<li>What did the movie that Wall-E watched over and over again have to do with anything? <\/li>\n<li>How were people going to live on Earth with those dust storms and no water and still trash everywhere?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far I was concerned, Pixar was 8 for 8 in their previous films. Wall-E was a disappointment. Hopefully things are back to par with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixar.com\/featurefilms\/up\/\">Up<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I definitely haven&#8217;t seen many movies recently, but I managed to catch up on one this weekend, Pixar&#8217;s Wall-E. Before I watched it, I thought &#8220;A Pixar movie about robots in space? What could be cooler than that? This should be great!&#8221;. I was disappointed. Usually Pixar movies are so mind-blowingly creative that I don&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/problems-with-wall-e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Problems with Wall-E&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}