At the Theater: Wall-E
I saw Wall-E last night at the theater. Now, I believe that everyone is perfectly entitled to their opinion. You don’t like Speed Racer? That’s fine. You want to actually enjoy some bad movie, that’s fine too. I do that lots of times.
Based on my experience last night I can tell you two things, though. First, I think Wall-E is one of the greatest animated films of any kind ever made. It ranks up with the movies that I think are the best Disney has ever done. Second, if you don’t like this movie (and there are those who don’t) then that is your right. It is also my right to lower my opinion of you. I’m not going to argue about it, as such things are an exercise in silliness. How many times have any of you ever seen someone’s opinion changed as a result of an online debate? My current tally is zilch. No, I’m just going to shake my head sadly and know that your kind and the movies previewed before Wall-E deserve each other, and I guess that’s just fine.
Everyone else, go see this movie especially if you like science fiction. It’s actually an amazingly good science fiction story. And if that auto-pilot wasn’t a sly nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey, I’m a rabbit.
