(just wanna warn you before you read this that i get pretty hardcore in here, i may offend some people, but hey, let’s argue a bit if you don’t like what i say!!)

so i went to see wall-e the other day. OH MY GOD.

it’s the best movie ever. and i had just seen kung-fu panda the weekend before and declared that my new favourite movie. but wall-e takes things to a whole new level. i don’t wanna say too much because i really want you all to see it and i don’t wanna give away too much. but let’s just say that it is about everything i hold to be true. man, i want to discuss it in a LOT more detail, but maybe later. i’ll give it a week or two. then i’ll write something with the disclaimer ’spoilers’ so you know not to read it if you haven’t seen the movie.

anyway, i so loved the movie that i was totally flabbergasted when my movie-buff boyfriend sent me a link to this article by the AV Club. apparently there is a massive backlash of hatred directed towards poor old wall-e. i couldn’t believe it… how could any sane person HATE this film? then, as i read the article, i realised these were not the opinions of sane people. these are in fact the opinions of complete and utter morons. no wonder our planet is as f#$%ed up as it is, if people like these actually exist out there. it really saddens me that they do…

for those of you who have seen the movie, please read some of these extracts from the article and weep with me for the sad state of these peoples’ minds.

apparently wall-e promotes leftist facism!!! (note that the guy from AV Club who wrote the article was pretty much taking the same viewpoint that i am) and i quote:

Shannen Coffin, however, had harsher things to say:

From the first moment of the film, my kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind. It’s a shame, too, because the robot had promise. The story was just awful, however. Nice to see that Disney and Pixar can make mega-millions off of telling us just how greedy, lazy, and destructive we all are.

(Right, as opposed to making millions off of telling us how powerful, righteous, and handpicked for greatness by almighty God we are.)

Another wacko opinion says:

In his essay “WALL-E: Economic Ignorance And The War On Modernity,” Stolyarov cites the fact that fast-food restaurants are serving “health foods,” “landfills are remarkably effective at storing garbage,” and that traditional farming is, like, hard and stuff as flaws in the film’s logic:

WALL-E is an assault on modern civilization, borne of deep economic and historical ignorance. The film shamefully betrays the efforts of countless heroic individuals who have raised humanity out of the muck of barbarism. Its anti-technological, anti-capitalist message needs to be exposed and countered by all thinking individuals.

Yes, us “thinking individuals” need to remember that capitalism is the shining light – lifting millions out of poverty everyday and promoting the protection of the environment above all else. i’m no socialist myself but COME ON people… i hardly have any words, this kind of dumbness makes me so angry.

next on the hate list is that wall-e is prejudiced against fat people! oh geez. oh geez. are fat people stupid too? the movie is NOT about them. the fatness is symbolic. i don’t even think i should have to be explaining this. i can’t believe people have such chips on their shoulders. i didn’t complain that the movie made HUMANS look bad, did i? and if i’m truly honest, maybe a certain category of ‘fat’ person should take some flak here… if you are a junk food guzzling person who has no conception of the damage your conumerist lifestyle has on the planet, then YES, YOU are causing the destruction of our planet. there – i said it. shoot me down.

but before you do… just read this:

WALL-E has also managed to piss off America’s “fat pride” community. “Food, fat, feminism” blog The F Word accuses Pixar of “using animation skills for evil” in its perpetration of discriminatory attitudes toward the overweight, saying:

WALL-E specifically singles out and targets obese people as the primary cause of mankind’s demise, further perpetuating the stereotype of the gluttonous, slothful fat person. Furthermore, the film suggests that, in their exaggerated laziness, obese people disregard not only personal health, but also that of the planets, and are held up as the cause for the destruction of the environmental landscape. This is, despite mountains of evidence that show, as a group, fat people do not eat more than thin people, nor are they less active, and that the so-called “obesity epidemic” has been greatly exaggerated by self-serving corporate interests.

 

golly lady, the movie wasn’t ever supposed to be about FAT people. they got fat AFTER the world fell apart.

the final part of the backlash against wall-e is true. but it’s such a hysterical example of how psychotic corporations are that it’s not even funny anymore… but i don’t blame the creative team at Pixar. i think that, to make a film so incredibly moving, they had to believe in those things themselves. it’s not their fault the company they work for (Pixar) was bought by the Evil Disney Corporation. read this, to see how sad our world really is:

WALL-E is hypocritical… is the fact that the film, like every Disney product, inevitably comes packaged with the usual tide of tie-in crap, plastic trinkets that roll off the conveyor belt predestined for the landfill. Take Devin Faraci’s report on the film’s press junket for CHUD:

The room was stuffed with what seemed like a hundred or more tie-in products ranging fromWALL-E branded plastic Crocs (with tire tread patterns on the soles) to plastic WALL-E action figures to WALL-E branded clothing and bed sets and drapes. When asked which of the items were made with post-consumer recycled material or were made of biodegradable material, the PRbot giving the pitch seemed flustered. She said that they tried to use such materials whenever possible, and pointed out a post-consumer WALL-E branded Kleenex box. Every environmental group will beg you to avoid Kleenex, since they’re wiping out Canada’s Boreal Forest to give you a place to blow your nose, so the Kleenex connection is fucking pathetic in itself for a movie that trumpets taking care of the environment.

Or better yet:

Oddly enough, this also forms the basis for condemnation by The National Review’s Greg Pollowitz, who gets so apoplectic in his effort to paint the movie as leftist propaganda that he accidentally reinforces the movie’s message:

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 buyWALL-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.

GO AND SEE THIS FILM. IT’S BEAUTIFUL. SHOW IT TO YOUR KIDS. IF THEY DON’T WANT TO BECOME GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS AFTERWARDS, TAKE THEM TO A DOCTOR – THEY MAY BE BRAIN-DEAD.