I'm embarrassed to say that out of all the many many times I watched this movie, it never clicked in my head that WALL-E had been alone for hundreds of years. That breaks my heart.
It is unknown how long he has been alone as there clearly were others when he started, but clearly he has been active for more then 705 years. Long enough at least to develop true AI as he clearly shows emotions and critical thinking that should not have been programmed in for a simple cleaner robot.
There's a reason this movie was so prescient about people going around with their faces buried in computer screens all the time. When it was being made, Steve Jobs was on the board of Pixar, and of course, he had an iPhone before anyone else did, and he loved to show it off. When director Andrew Stanton saw it, he knew it would one day lead to exactly that, and he decided to incorporate it into his vision of the future.
I have a First Gen Apple Phone (G2) for the History of it the phone that changed the world. Of course if it wasn't Apple it would have been one of the many others right behind. For the better or worse? Time will tell.
"They are always looking at their screens, so the miss everything going on around them." Poignant subtext. No? Also, that little "Ta-Da!" when he showed Eva his 'directive', was SO adorable!
By far the best Pixar movie. I deal with teenagers more than I'd like- I tell them "be like Wall-E". Do your job, one where you actually do something that makes the world better than it was yesterday. Be strong. Be resourceful. Be curious. Be brave. Be polite. Appreciate beauty. Have a pet and not only provide for it, be loyal to it. Believe in something bigger than just your own existence. Don't give up. And find your Eve. And ladies, most guys are looking for an Eve.
Nobody expected "Hello Dolly," was so important for our future. That little robot that was replacing the light bulb and got locked outside is named "Burn- E," there is a short feature with his story. I never thought a movie with so little dialog from the title character could be so good. I really couldn't believe a pet cockroach could be so adorable. "And that's why they used to call dating, sparking." Welcome to the Wall- e universe. Still waiting for those pizza plants.
This is my second-favorite animated movie from Disney or Pixar or the related companies. It's only slightly below "Megamind" for me. There's something impressive about the fact that they manage to give these robots so much personality and make them so relatable when the robots only really say a handful of different words in the whole movie. It's so cute and heartwarming an still manages to squeeze an important message in there as well.
Aria, if this awesome PIXAR film made you cry, you better break out a case of Kleenex for "Up." Wall-E's eye design was modeled after the robot in the movie "Short Circuit" named Johnny 5.
@@ariachanson01 "Bambi" has its sad moments, but "Up" packs a punch right from the start. They call it one of the most genuinely emotional moments that PIXAR or many other filmmakers for that matter have done in such a short span of time. Once you get past it, the movie is just plain whimsical and heart warming, but it also has its dark moments too. PIXAR at its best, like "Toy Story 2." You would LOVE IT.
This movie is even more remarkable when you consider the Steve Jobs part. The Apple CEO had some major role in Pixar then. I'm not sure if he was a major stakeholder, or he bought them out. Either way, Steve Jobs is in a position of influence at Pixar. He was very protective of the Apple brand, in that it's a trendy, modern, future looking, custom design that you need to buy into, and be willing to be on that financial tech tredmill for life. The flip side of that is that old tech isn't worth anything. Don't try to repair it, don't use it for parts to repurpose it. Always buy the new thing. Yet, look at where the heart of this movie is: It's in a little old robot who's made of a million spare parts over who knows how many years, with the years of experience to adapt to what's happening to him. The villain is the reliance on tech they don't understand; ie the ship's Autopilot.
Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service.
One last thing I'd like to get a bit more specific about. If they've got a propulsion system that can go faster than light, then they'd need a commensurate power supply. It would be, bare minimum, fusion power...possibly antimatter fusion. If they're not using it for travel, it would generate easily enough power to run everything on that ship...for eons. As for fuel and resources, it really only comes down to them flying around and collecting it from asteroids, moons, planetary rings, and the void of space itself. They really have no need at all to interact with planets in any way. Water? Nearly everywhere. Comets, Asteroids, moons, even in a frozen vapor within nebulae. There's a pretty ridiculous amount of water in the universe, literally just floating around. Minerals? Also pretty much everywhere in asteroids and moons, and probably planetary rings. Most elements are also considerably more pure OFF-planet, rather than down here with us. Out in space, they don't react with anything, so there's little refinement to be done. And they're quite abundant. Organic compounds? That's pretty much all that's necessary to make food. Organic compounds, water, and an energy source that can keep them supplied with the energy needed to drive biological processes. Or, organic compounds and a power source that can run the 3D printers that turn those compounds into food. Either or. But organic compounds are also highly commonplace in the universe. They aren't life, per se, but you can make life or food out of them, with the technology aboard the Axiom. Again, comets and some moons are absolutely lousy with the stuff. And there are also gaseous organic compounds found in nebulae still. There's literally nothing, at all, that we need here on Earth, that we can't reasonably get absolutely everywhere else in the cosmos. The only things especially unique about Earth is that it has gravity (which we can't readily duplicate yet), and that it's a completely self-managing system for the most part. It doesn't really manage itself well, but it does manage itself. But they really didn't have to leave the Axiom. All they really needed to do, was stop being so consumerist and start using that technology to its full potential. They have a post-scarcity society. Money has lost all value, and they clearly don't actually use it at all. Everything about the corporate culture on board the ship is just an empty holdover from centuries passed. Nobody is actually in charge, nobody cares about any of that crap, and it "gains" nothing anymore. And nobody is really exploited for it, either (except maybe the robots). All they had to do was ditch all the corporate propaganda, and start really living aboard the ship. Do some of the jobs of the robots, just to help out and have something to do. Take up real hobbies like painting, writing, gardening (because there was plenty of space to put in real gardens). Put actual crews on those recon ships they send out, so people can go explore. Set up labs so that people can start doing real science again. Everything was possible aboard the ship. They just...didn't know it, and chose not to try. That's not to say they shouldn't have gone back to clean up Earth, they should've. But...by that point, Earth isn't humanity's home anymore. It's supposed to give rise to a new civilization. We left the nest, and it was time to fly. But we left the nest a mess, and it's our responsibility to clean it up for those who come next.
The design of Auto was obviously based on HAL from 2001. They even included a few notes from the theme to 2001 when the Captain deactivates it: 29:42 Great reaction, Aria. Your reaction to the ending was just beautiful.
There's a short story as a bonus to this about the robot called Burn-E who is fixing the light on the Axiom when Eve and Wall-E leave him trapped outside the ship. You get to see much more of his 'story'.
"That's all I've ever done! That's all anyone on this blasted ship has ever done. Nothing!" "On the Axiom, you will survive." "I don't want to survive. I want to live." Gun Fact: First instance of a Pixar feature-length film using live-action. Silent Hero Fact: To explore the possibilities of pure visual storytelling, Andrew Stanton and the Pixar team watched every single Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton movie, both short films and features, every day during lunch for about 18 months. A113 Reference Fact: The secret directive, A113, is an ongoing in-joke in animation. Room A113 was a classroom at Cal Arts where many Disney and Pixar animators learned their craft. The number A113 appears in all of Pixar's animated films, and in many Disney animated films as well. This is the first Pixar film in which A113 is relevant to the plot. Sound Effects Fact: Most of the robots are voiced by legendary sound effects guru Ben Burtt through mechanical sounds of his creation. He recorded 2500 different sounds for the film, twice the average of a Star Wars movie, and also the most that Burtt had ever recorded for one feature film. His involvement with the film lasted for two years. When Andrew Stanton met with Burtt to pitch the idea of him working on the film, he told him: "I need you to be 80% of my cast!"
Great reaction, Aria. When Pixar & Disney teamed up they produced a lot of home run movies. After experiencing a hiccup with "Cars", their next 4 feature films were "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", "Up" and "Toy Story 3". All of them phenomenal movies, not only with animation, but also with great story telling. Since then Pixar & Disney have gradually declined. WALL-E is fantastic. With little dialogue this movie tells a great story filled with laughs, love and drama. I agree with you that there really is no villain in this movie. Rather a big blunder in decision making. Overall, WALL-E is a true delight and a top notch movie. I know you do not want to cry at these movies, but I must say that you really need to see "Up". Another incredible movie that will have you crying with sadness & laughter.
Pixar can be incredible in their storytelling ability. Here they have a robot who virtually doesn't speak and he steals the entire movie. Every character he interacts with is irrevocably changed. For more Pixar magic, you have to watch 'Up!'. The storytelling is next level. It's another story about love and humanity. You'll love it, but wear the waterproof mascara.
I have always wondered what would happen if they turned Auto back on, AFTER the humans were well and truly reestablished back at home- once it was much too late to hope to prevent a return to earth, and it had been proven beyond all doubt that they could not only survive there, but thrive.
I think the villain in this movie is whoever programmed Auto to refuse orders from the captain. No matter who was on earth or what they thought, Auto should've deferred to the captain because that's what captain means.
Found your channel not too long ago, so I've been catching up on some videos. You have some nice content on the channel, so I think I will stick around. Thanks for the reactions, I will look forward to more in the future.
Aria, when i saw the trailer in the movie theater, it only showed a spaceship landing and maybe walle also, but that was it, and the spaceship looked different in the trailer, it looked like a regular spaceship where a human would walk out. and i thought it was a trailer for a live action star wars movie, because we haven't had one in a while, and i thought this would be a live action star wars movie centered around a droid, and a human jedi? that they knew.
Aria, at 26 min, have you ever seen a movie called the Matrix? or Soylent Green ? those two movies will explain where they get the battery power and food and water from.
🤖👍 The musical that Wall-E is obsessed with is "Hello Dolly," the 1969 big screen adaptation of the 1964 Broadway production. If you're into musicals, it's a really good movie in it's own right. Weird trivia: When this film was made, Disney did not own the rights to "Hello Dolly," but they do now. A couple of years ago, Disney purchased 20th Century Fox, and now owns their entire back catalog. After people watch "Wall-E," I always recommend that they also check out the 2009 animated film, "9" which has a similar theme. It's also set on a post-apocalyptic earth in which the only villains are pre-programmed mechanical entities. It also has a lot of intense action, with a surprisingly uplifting ending. Lots of celebrity vocal talent as well. 😉
Some things I'd like to point out, because while this movie has a really good message and important themes...I've noticed a really dangerous tendency in the way most people interpret it all. 1) Logic isn't the problem, here. "Auto" isn't doing what he's doing because he's logical or without emotion. He DOES have emotion, and that's actually part of the issue. In fact, every single "evil" thing that has ever existed in known history, is the result of emotions, and never logic. Fear, anger, hate, avarice...all of them are emotions. It only appears as if logic is cold and evil because false logic is often employed as an excuse to rationalize emotional motives. People follow a fallacious line of reasoning to a resolution they desire, not the one that is concordant with reality. As I said, Auto isn't emotionless. He's afraid. He's afraid to disobey his directive. He's afraid that humanity might cease to exist if he fails. He genuinely cares about humankind, and will do anything to protect them. Note, he could've prevented the entire problem just by getting rid of the captain. But he doesn't. And he never goes straight to the obvious "solution". He goes out of his way to not harm the captain's ability to say and do as he pleases, with the exception of returning to Earth. Though he ultimately does incarcerate the captain to protect his directive, Auto is misguided, but not malicious, and not "cold". It's important to remember that any organism or machine that can reason as we do, and experience existence in their own way as we do, is still a "person". The methodology or mechanisms involved are not at all important. What matters is the result. And if we treat entities that are clearly people, as if they are not...well, we've seen those results before. I'd expect that everyone would be able to recognize the pitfalls of it. 2) Earth is fine. Earth is a rock. The biosphere on its surface doesn't matter, because it's not the planet. The planet is a rock, and the trash is irrelevant. Now, that said, life kinda has a thing it does, and Earth is nominally one of the few places it can do that well. And since life caused the problems of pollution, it is ostensibly life's responsibility to clean it up. But it's still not explicitly required. It's the "right" thing to do because the point of life is to spread and "improve" life. So optimally, we should go out of our way to make as many places as broadly habitable as possible for as long as possible. And restoring and maintaining Earth is one of the first steps in that. 3) Planets are not actually good homes. It's hard to get at their resources, and doing so often causes issues to the biosphere. No amount of technology will ever make their climates wholly comfortable and consistent. Natural ecosystems are sloppy, unstable, and inefficient, and actually lack real diversity. Their gravity poses an obstacle to the frequency of space travel. Planets are fine cradles to birth and raise life and a civilization, but they're really rotten places to live. The only problem with their lives on the Axiom wasn't being on the Axiom (or any of the other cruisers) themselves, but rather the style of life they lived there. And living on Earth clearly doesn't make a difference to which lifestyle they choose to adopt. We already live on Earth, and we're already headed down that path, just like they did originally. Where we live, is irrelevant. How we choose to live those lives, is what matters. And the reason they ended up that way, and why we are going that direction, is because of Capitalism. Exploitation, economic and sociopolitical disparity. Instead of balance and flow, we live by "give and take". But the entire point is to make a majority give everything possible and take almost nothing, so that a few can take all of it and give nothing. Master/slave, Lord/peasant, Employer/employee, Haves/have-nots. It's all the same thing. A handful of unintelligent and harmful individuals, using and hurting everyone else for their personal gain. Nothing more, nothing less. Take that out of the equation, and no all our problems as a civilization don't disappear. But, many problems do just go away, the rest become a lot smaller, and all of it becomes much easier to deal with. One good start would be to do away with "ownership", and replace it with public stewardship. The best way to do that would be to define all the world's natural resources and measure them universally as "shares" as if they were stocks. But nobody can buy or sell any of them. Everyone is entitled to an equal number of shares, and it only redistributes equally when someone passes away or is born, or new resources are discovered or used up. Likewise, all means of production must be treated in an identical fashion. In such a societal model, advertisement and manipulative marketing cease to be valid or effective. And that's the main mechanism that drives the sort of behaviors that lead where we're headed, and to the kind of twisted version of post-scarcity that we see in this movie. Clearly, Nobody on the Axiom wants for anything. Their lifespans are almost two centuries, even though they're all fat and lazy. They have machines that can do almost anything, freeing them up to learn new sciences or make new art, or anything else they want to do. Nothing explicitly bars them from doing anything else except a handful of rules regarding not damaging the ship and not endangering themselves. What stops them, is the marketing...the advertising, the corporate propaganda that keeps them consuming in a situation where consumption is no longer relevant. Their capitalism ate itself to death, but instead of abandoning all the useless actions that were meant to keep it devouring everything, they just kept it up out of habit. They have limitless clean energy, and unlimited food. They don't have recycling, but with their technology, that would probably be a relatively easy fix. It seems as though the ship flies around space probably chewing up asteroids for materials for products. Which is why we see them just dumping trash into space even after 700 years. Their capitalism already died, but they keep it going out of pure habit. We can end it now with some effort. Even without all those technologies. What we have is still more than sufficient to achieve the same goal. The math holds up. We can do it. We just CHOOSE not to. And whether we do that on Earth, or on some space colony, is completely irrelevant.
I have to disagree with you that the point of capitalism "is to make a majority give everything possible and take almost nothing, so that a few can take all of it and give nothing." If capitalism can be said to have a "point," it is to allocate limited resources as effectively as possible to satisfy everyone's individual desires while reducing the work they must do to achieve that. However, as you suggest here or in another of your comments, once technology has become so effective as to create a post-scarcity society, capitalism's assumptions do break down.
You definitely should watch the movie that heavily inspired this movie Short Circuit. Just know that there is one problematic aspect that was a product of it's time.
While the laziness of earlier generations is largely to blame, it's not really fair to call the current generation lazy. Inactivity has been bred into them, it's practically enforced by the ship's AI systems, likely under the logic that an active population is more prone to injuries that might endanger them and strain resources.
I'm embarrassed to say that out of all the many many times I watched this movie, it never clicked in my head that WALL-E had been alone for hundreds of years. That breaks my heart.
That really was so heartbreaking
Same
It really is heartbreaking to think about how alone WALL-E really was. When that realization clicked for me, I felt so bad for him.
It is unknown how long he has been alone as there clearly were others when he started, but clearly he has been active for more then 705 years. Long enough at least to develop true AI as he clearly shows emotions and critical thinking that should not have been programmed in for a simple cleaner robot.
There's a reason this movie was so prescient about people going around with their faces buried in computer screens all the time. When it was being made, Steve Jobs was on the board of Pixar, and of course, he had an iPhone before anyone else did, and he loved to show it off. When director Andrew Stanton saw it, he knew it would one day lead to exactly that, and he decided to incorporate it into his vision of the future.
I have a First Gen Apple Phone (G2) for the History of it the phone that changed the world. Of course if it wasn't Apple it would have been one of the many others right behind. For the better or worse? Time will tell.
"They are always looking at their screens, so the miss everything going on around them."
Poignant subtext. No?
Also, that little "Ta-Da!" when he showed Eva his 'directive', was SO adorable!
It's very sad indeed. And that ta-da was my fav❤
By far the best Pixar movie. I deal with teenagers more than I'd like- I tell them "be like Wall-E". Do your job, one where you actually do something that makes the world better than it was yesterday. Be strong. Be resourceful. Be curious. Be brave. Be polite. Appreciate beauty. Have a pet and not only provide for it, be loyal to it. Believe in something bigger than just your own existence. Don't give up. And find your Eve. And ladies, most guys are looking for an Eve.
Last thing...I promise...
M-0 is such a bro at the end. Shooing everyone else away so EVE and WALL-E can have a moment alone.
WALL-E has the best love story ever 🥺
I strongly agree
If you watch the credits, it will tell you a bit of an epilogue about what happened next!
Fun fact: Ripley(Sigourney Weaver) from Alien and Aliens did the voice for the computer explaining what Earth is.
That's so cool
Sure one of the most heartwarming pixar movies ever. Definitely in my Top 5.
Nobody expected "Hello Dolly," was so important for our future. That little robot that was replacing the light bulb and got locked outside is named "Burn- E," there is a short feature with his story. I never thought a movie with so little dialog from the title character could be so good. I really couldn't believe a pet cockroach could be so adorable. "And that's why they used to call dating, sparking." Welcome to the Wall- e universe. Still waiting for those pizza plants.
This is my second-favorite animated movie from Disney or Pixar or the related companies. It's only slightly below "Megamind" for me. There's something impressive about the fact that they manage to give these robots so much personality and make them so relatable when the robots only really say a handful of different words in the whole movie. It's so cute and heartwarming an still manages to squeeze an important message in there as well.
The robots really made us fall in love with them without saying anything ❤️
Megamind was made by Dreamworks
Aria, if this awesome PIXAR film made you cry, you better break out a case of Kleenex for "Up." Wall-E's eye design was modeled after the robot in the movie "Short Circuit" named Johnny 5.
I've avoided that movie for so long because I know it'd make me cry. That and Bambi. I'm just too scared to watch them😂
@@ariachanson01 "Bambi" has its sad moments, but "Up" packs a punch right from the start. They call it one of the most genuinely emotional moments that PIXAR or many other filmmakers for that matter have done in such a short span of time. Once you get past it, the movie is just plain whimsical and heart warming, but it also has its dark moments too. PIXAR at its best, like "Toy Story 2." You would LOVE IT.
This movie is even more remarkable when you consider the Steve Jobs part. The Apple CEO had some major role in Pixar then. I'm not sure if he was a major stakeholder, or he bought them out. Either way, Steve Jobs is in a position of influence at Pixar. He was very protective of the Apple brand, in that it's a trendy, modern, future looking, custom design that you need to buy into, and be willing to be on that financial tech tredmill for life. The flip side of that is that old tech isn't worth anything. Don't try to repair it, don't use it for parts to repurpose it. Always buy the new thing.
Yet, look at where the heart of this movie is: It's in a little old robot who's made of a million spare parts over who knows how many years, with the years of experience to adapt to what's happening to him. The villain is the reliance on tech they don't understand; ie the ship's Autopilot.
This is my All time favorite Pixar movie
And it makes m me cry everytime i watch it, even through reaction videos like this
Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service.
One last thing I'd like to get a bit more specific about. If they've got a propulsion system that can go faster than light, then they'd need a commensurate power supply. It would be, bare minimum, fusion power...possibly antimatter fusion. If they're not using it for travel, it would generate easily enough power to run everything on that ship...for eons.
As for fuel and resources, it really only comes down to them flying around and collecting it from asteroids, moons, planetary rings, and the void of space itself. They really have no need at all to interact with planets in any way.
Water? Nearly everywhere. Comets, Asteroids, moons, even in a frozen vapor within nebulae. There's a pretty ridiculous amount of water in the universe, literally just floating around.
Minerals? Also pretty much everywhere in asteroids and moons, and probably planetary rings. Most elements are also considerably more pure OFF-planet, rather than down here with us. Out in space, they don't react with anything, so there's little refinement to be done. And they're quite abundant.
Organic compounds? That's pretty much all that's necessary to make food. Organic compounds, water, and an energy source that can keep them supplied with the energy needed to drive biological processes. Or, organic compounds and a power source that can run the 3D printers that turn those compounds into food. Either or. But organic compounds are also highly commonplace in the universe. They aren't life, per se, but you can make life or food out of them, with the technology aboard the Axiom. Again, comets and some moons are absolutely lousy with the stuff. And there are also gaseous organic compounds found in nebulae still.
There's literally nothing, at all, that we need here on Earth, that we can't reasonably get absolutely everywhere else in the cosmos. The only things especially unique about Earth is that it has gravity (which we can't readily duplicate yet), and that it's a completely self-managing system for the most part. It doesn't really manage itself well, but it does manage itself.
But they really didn't have to leave the Axiom. All they really needed to do, was stop being so consumerist and start using that technology to its full potential. They have a post-scarcity society. Money has lost all value, and they clearly don't actually use it at all. Everything about the corporate culture on board the ship is just an empty holdover from centuries passed. Nobody is actually in charge, nobody cares about any of that crap, and it "gains" nothing anymore. And nobody is really exploited for it, either (except maybe the robots).
All they had to do was ditch all the corporate propaganda, and start really living aboard the ship. Do some of the jobs of the robots, just to help out and have something to do. Take up real hobbies like painting, writing, gardening (because there was plenty of space to put in real gardens). Put actual crews on those recon ships they send out, so people can go explore. Set up labs so that people can start doing real science again.
Everything was possible aboard the ship. They just...didn't know it, and chose not to try.
That's not to say they shouldn't have gone back to clean up Earth, they should've. But...by that point, Earth isn't humanity's home anymore. It's supposed to give rise to a new civilization. We left the nest, and it was time to fly. But we left the nest a mess, and it's our responsibility to clean it up for those who come next.
The design of Auto was obviously based on HAL from 2001. They even included a few notes from the theme to 2001 when the Captain deactivates it: 29:42
Great reaction, Aria. Your reaction to the ending was just beautiful.
There's a short story as a bonus to this about the robot called Burn-E who is fixing the light on the Axiom when Eve and Wall-E leave him trapped outside the ship. You get to see much more of his 'story'.
"That's all I've ever done! That's all anyone on this blasted ship has ever done. Nothing!"
"On the Axiom, you will survive."
"I don't want to survive. I want to live."
Gun Fact: First instance of a Pixar feature-length film using live-action.
Silent Hero Fact: To explore the possibilities of pure visual storytelling, Andrew Stanton and the Pixar team watched every single Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton movie, both short films and features, every day during lunch for about 18 months.
A113 Reference Fact: The secret directive, A113, is an ongoing in-joke in animation. Room A113 was a classroom at Cal Arts where many Disney and Pixar animators learned their craft. The number A113 appears in all of Pixar's animated films, and in many Disney animated films as well. This is the first Pixar film in which A113 is relevant to the plot.
Sound Effects Fact: Most of the robots are voiced by legendary sound effects guru Ben Burtt through mechanical sounds of his creation. He recorded 2500 different sounds for the film, twice the average of a Star Wars movie, and also the most that Burtt had ever recorded for one feature film. His involvement with the film lasted for two years. When Andrew Stanton met with Burtt to pitch the idea of him working on the film, he told him: "I need you to be 80% of my cast!"
Great reaction, Aria. When Pixar & Disney teamed up they produced a lot of home run movies.
After experiencing a hiccup with "Cars", their next 4 feature films were "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", "Up" and "Toy Story 3". All of them phenomenal movies, not only with animation, but also with great story telling. Since then Pixar & Disney have gradually declined.
WALL-E is fantastic. With little dialogue this movie tells a great story filled with laughs, love and drama. I agree with you that there really is no villain in this movie. Rather a big blunder in decision making. Overall, WALL-E is a true delight and a top notch movie.
I know you do not want to cry at these movies, but I must say that you really need to see "Up".
Another incredible movie that will have you crying with sadness & laughter.
My favorite PIXAR film. If you look online you can find several of the robot toys...inlcuding full-scale remote control WALL Es..
Pixar can be incredible in their storytelling ability.
Here they have a robot who virtually doesn't speak and he steals the entire movie. Every character he interacts with is irrevocably changed.
For more Pixar magic, you have to watch 'Up!'. The storytelling is next level. It's another story about love and humanity. You'll love it, but wear the waterproof mascara.
I have always wondered what would happen if they turned Auto back on, AFTER the humans were well and truly reestablished back at home- once it was much too late to hope to prevent a return to earth, and it had been proven beyond all doubt that they could not only survive there, but thrive.
Wonderful, Aria! I really enjoyed rewatching this with you. Such a sweet story. 😊
I think the villain in this movie is whoever programmed Auto to refuse orders from the captain. No matter who was on earth or what they thought, Auto should've deferred to the captain because that's what captain means.
This is such a great reaction. You made me cry. This movie is great.
It was 3500 years.. not 700. Thanks for sharing.
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Great reaction!
Btw - i love your voice, it is so soft and soothing, you should consider doing ASMR videos.
Thankyou ❤️
This movie has multiple important messages.
Found your channel not too long ago, so I've been catching up on some videos. You have some nice content on the channel, so I think I will stick around. Thanks for the reactions, I will look forward to more in the future.
the credit sequence is worth it!
15:31 It's dystopian space shuttle life
Beautiful movie. It's EPIC, epic scale
Aria, when i saw the trailer in the movie theater, it only showed a spaceship landing and maybe walle also, but that was it, and the spaceship looked different in the trailer, it looked like a regular spaceship where a human would walk out. and i thought it was a trailer for a live action star wars movie, because we haven't had one in a while, and i thought this would be a live action star wars movie centered around a droid, and a human jedi? that they knew.
Thanks ...
You're so right about who "the bad guy" iis n this movie
"...so I thought I'd throw in something serious..." 🤦♂ Oops!
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Aria, at 26 min, have you ever seen a movie called the Matrix? or Soylent Green ? those two movies will explain where they get the battery power and food and water from.
your hair looks nice.
Thankyou:)
🤖👍 The musical that Wall-E is obsessed with is "Hello Dolly," the 1969 big screen adaptation of the 1964 Broadway production. If you're into musicals, it's a really good movie in it's own right. Weird trivia: When this film was made, Disney did not own the rights to "Hello Dolly," but they do now. A couple of years ago, Disney purchased 20th Century Fox, and now owns their entire back catalog. After people watch "Wall-E," I always recommend that they also check out the 2009 animated film, "9" which has a similar theme. It's also set on a post-apocalyptic earth in which the only villains are pre-programmed mechanical entities. It also has a lot of intense action, with a surprisingly uplifting ending. Lots of celebrity vocal talent as well. 😉
Thankyou, I'd look them up:))
Some things I'd like to point out, because while this movie has a really good message and important themes...I've noticed a really dangerous tendency in the way most people interpret it all.
1) Logic isn't the problem, here. "Auto" isn't doing what he's doing because he's logical or without emotion. He DOES have emotion, and that's actually part of the issue. In fact, every single "evil" thing that has ever existed in known history, is the result of emotions, and never logic. Fear, anger, hate, avarice...all of them are emotions. It only appears as if logic is cold and evil because false logic is often employed as an excuse to rationalize emotional motives.
People follow a fallacious line of reasoning to a resolution they desire, not the one that is concordant with reality. As I said, Auto isn't emotionless. He's afraid. He's afraid to disobey his directive. He's afraid that humanity might cease to exist if he fails. He genuinely cares about humankind, and will do anything to protect them.
Note, he could've prevented the entire problem just by getting rid of the captain. But he doesn't. And he never goes straight to the obvious "solution". He goes out of his way to not harm the captain's ability to say and do as he pleases, with the exception of returning to Earth. Though he ultimately does incarcerate the captain to protect his directive, Auto is misguided, but not malicious, and not "cold".
It's important to remember that any organism or machine that can reason as we do, and experience existence in their own way as we do, is still a "person". The methodology or mechanisms involved are not at all important. What matters is the result. And if we treat entities that are clearly people, as if they are not...well, we've seen those results before. I'd expect that everyone would be able to recognize the pitfalls of it.
2) Earth is fine. Earth is a rock. The biosphere on its surface doesn't matter, because it's not the planet. The planet is a rock, and the trash is irrelevant.
Now, that said, life kinda has a thing it does, and Earth is nominally one of the few places it can do that well. And since life caused the problems of pollution, it is ostensibly life's responsibility to clean it up. But it's still not explicitly required.
It's the "right" thing to do because the point of life is to spread and "improve" life. So optimally, we should go out of our way to make as many places as broadly habitable as possible for as long as possible. And restoring and maintaining Earth is one of the first steps in that.
3) Planets are not actually good homes. It's hard to get at their resources, and doing so often causes issues to the biosphere. No amount of technology will ever make their climates wholly comfortable and consistent. Natural ecosystems are sloppy, unstable, and inefficient, and actually lack real diversity. Their gravity poses an obstacle to the frequency of space travel.
Planets are fine cradles to birth and raise life and a civilization, but they're really rotten places to live. The only problem with their lives on the Axiom wasn't being on the Axiom (or any of the other cruisers) themselves, but rather the style of life they lived there. And living on Earth clearly doesn't make a difference to which lifestyle they choose to adopt. We already live on Earth, and we're already headed down that path, just like they did originally. Where we live, is irrelevant. How we choose to live those lives, is what matters.
And the reason they ended up that way, and why we are going that direction, is because of Capitalism. Exploitation, economic and sociopolitical disparity. Instead of balance and flow, we live by "give and take". But the entire point is to make a majority give everything possible and take almost nothing, so that a few can take all of it and give nothing. Master/slave, Lord/peasant, Employer/employee, Haves/have-nots. It's all the same thing. A handful of unintelligent and harmful individuals, using and hurting everyone else for their personal gain. Nothing more, nothing less.
Take that out of the equation, and no all our problems as a civilization don't disappear. But, many problems do just go away, the rest become a lot smaller, and all of it becomes much easier to deal with. One good start would be to do away with "ownership", and replace it with public stewardship. The best way to do that would be to define all the world's natural resources and measure them universally as "shares" as if they were stocks. But nobody can buy or sell any of them. Everyone is entitled to an equal number of shares, and it only redistributes equally when someone passes away or is born, or new resources are discovered or used up. Likewise, all means of production must be treated in an identical fashion.
In such a societal model, advertisement and manipulative marketing cease to be valid or effective.
And that's the main mechanism that drives the sort of behaviors that lead where we're headed, and to the kind of twisted version of post-scarcity that we see in this movie. Clearly, Nobody on the Axiom wants for anything. Their lifespans are almost two centuries, even though they're all fat and lazy. They have machines that can do almost anything, freeing them up to learn new sciences or make new art, or anything else they want to do. Nothing explicitly bars them from doing anything else except a handful of rules regarding not damaging the ship and not endangering themselves. What stops them, is the marketing...the advertising, the corporate propaganda that keeps them consuming in a situation where consumption is no longer relevant. Their capitalism ate itself to death, but instead of abandoning all the useless actions that were meant to keep it devouring everything, they just kept it up out of habit.
They have limitless clean energy, and unlimited food. They don't have recycling, but with their technology, that would probably be a relatively easy fix. It seems as though the ship flies around space probably chewing up asteroids for materials for products. Which is why we see them just dumping trash into space even after 700 years.
Their capitalism already died, but they keep it going out of pure habit. We can end it now with some effort. Even without all those technologies. What we have is still more than sufficient to achieve the same goal. The math holds up. We can do it. We just CHOOSE not to.
And whether we do that on Earth, or on some space colony, is completely irrelevant.
I have to disagree with you that the point of capitalism "is to make a majority give everything possible and take almost nothing, so that a few can take all of it and give nothing." If capitalism can be said to have a "point," it is to allocate limited resources as effectively as possible to satisfy everyone's individual desires while reducing the work they must do to achieve that. However, as you suggest here or in another of your comments, once technology has become so effective as to create a post-scarcity society, capitalism's assumptions do break down.
You definitely should watch the movie that heavily inspired this movie Short Circuit. Just know that there is one problematic aspect that was a product of it's time.
Aria, i guess half the message is recycle and make sure companies use recycled materials, the other half is do it for yourself, and also, find love
Aria, i'm a nerd like Walle and i've been alone for a long time
While the laziness of earlier generations is largely to blame, it's not really fair to call the current generation lazy. Inactivity has been bred into them, it's practically enforced by the ship's AI systems, likely under the logic that an active population is more prone to injuries that might endanger them and strain resources.
Aria, people today are playing with A .i. and they don't know what they are dealing with, they could destroy the world
Aria, what is on your collar, is that an ipod of some sort?
That's my mic:)
Like # 71. obligatory comment for the algorithm.
Did you see the spark?
Hello Aria
Hello:)