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Posted by DexterBG on 12/8/2008, 6:06 am
So I'm checking Satellite News, cause I haven't for a long time. And I see their link to all the Rifftrax titles, available. And I figure, "Great, I see that WALL-E is one of them." And surprise, it's not! What's the hold up? They did this year's Indiana Jones movie. Ironman. And Dark Knight is next. No Rifftrax for "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" either. And then it dawns on me to check to see if they've done any animated movies. And apparently they never have. I don't know why they leave such movies as "The Bee Movie" and "Finding Nemo" alone. But they do. And it seems to me that "WALL-E" is nearly perfect for riffing, as it has so little dialog to start with. Like a Benji (the dog) movie. And it's not like they never riff anything comedic. As they have done so with the 1st "Willy Wonka" movie. But perhaps they fear the Disney lawyers will go after them, for even simply using their movies' titles.
It could simply be feature animations are too tough to riff. Even the environmentally heavy-handed ones like "WALL-E". But as Rifftrax has made exceptions to a certain class of movie. I think they should again do so with "WALL-E", and riff the crap out of it! I was a bit disappointed by it, when I finally rented and saw it. Once again, robots are the bad for us, when it comes to space travel. A few plot holes emerged, proving to me the political motive to the movie.
For example, we're shown how successive generations of the Axiom's captains have grown obese. And yet when the BuyNLarge CEO character does his final taped message to the people on the ship. He mentions possible "bone loss" due to the microgravity. And they show silhouette stages of a human getting fatter, in a single generation.
Well that contradicts what was previously established about humans getting fatter because they left robots do all the work. And the gravity on the ship is simulated, so there is NO microgravity to blame for getting fat or losing bone mass. And then the CEO character goes on to say "a few lapse around the track" will correct this. A fiction NASA has tried to sell about exercising in space. But it's not proven to work in the long term. Just the week's trip to the moon and back, left the US astronauts' muscles weakened. That's what that Isolation Trailer was really covering for. Not protecting us from any moon germs. As if anything living could survive the heat of the moon's unprotected surface.
So I wonder if Disney did "cooperate" once again with NASA to make this movie to sell it "manned presence, only" missions in space? Rather than giving the job to robotic probes to do? In the guise of an environmental message movie. That only stresses that we might consume too much, without considering the consequences. Well, duh.
I noticed the movie only showed the mega-stores as a problem near a big city. Only, they don't build Walmarts near large cities. So the movie avoids pointing a finger at urban sprawl. This movie has definately pulled its punches about what's bad for us and the planet. It's Ok to build giant spaceships to escape the earth's pollution problem. But not Ok that we put so many "unmanned" satellites in orbit. Get it?
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