Just when I thought I couldn't hate society more...

[Boris Godunov]

I saw WALL-E with my parents when the came to visit, no kids with us at all. I thought it was a charming movie, if a little predictable towards the end.

[Bosh]

As far as the humans not having at lot of weapondry that would be useful, I'm assuming that:

A. There must be some technical reason for the total lack of fixed wing aircraft. They didn't give us any which is annoying, but not something that annoys me too much, since fixed wing aircraft as so useful that there must be some reason why they don't have any (too many obstacles at low altitude and now enough air pressure or too high winds or somesuch at high altitude or something, dunno).

B. Their military forces have had restrictions placed on them by Earth governments since they're a private military force. I assume that private military contractors can't just go and buy F-22s if they want in the real world. Perhaps there was some loophole about restrictions on buying helicopters being much less tight than fixed wing aircraft and they jumped through it with both feet or there was a bit military surplus sale of helicopters on Earth since some sort of awesome anti-helicopter weapon had just been developed.

Sure its annoying that their selection of weapondry isn't explained at all, but really not something that annoys me too much.

I reacted similarly to WALL-E, which IIRC Asher thought was awesome.

You didn't like Wall-E? Then there really is no hope for you. A bit of an appeal to authority, but Wall-E gets about 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, basically if you think that Wall-E is a bad movie then your standards for judging movies is pretty damn different than the standards just about everyone else uses.

I mean, when/if you saw "300," did you feel twinges of irritation all 300 times they invoked blind, stupid jingoism and xenophobia?

300 was a very fun movie that I enjoyed a lot. Campy as all hell, but in a fun way although there was plenty of groan-worthy dialogue (I can't believe they actually said that freedom wasn't free) that was about as bad as the Avatar stuff although fun cheesy lines like "tonight we dine in hell" and "This. Is. Sparta." are fine by me. My biggest gripe were some inconsistencies such as the speech to the hunchback guy about how important it is that Spartans can fight in a formation and then them never fighting in a formation after that. In Avatar the plot is simplistic, the dialogue is boring as all hell and a lot of things aren't explained but I can't recall any really contradictory stuff.

With 300 the whole basic premise of the movie is based on rampant jingoism and with Avatar the basic premise of the movie is based on hippie ****. Its silly to criticize a movie for just following through on the basic premise, its like complaining that the physics of Godzilla don't make any sense while watching Japanese monster movies.

[Elok]

Oh, I loved Wall-E himself, and I wished him and his robot friend the best. The actual movie was kind of boring. Oh noes, our degenerate fat descendants might not return to a garbage-strewn earth and (it's implied, eww) reproduce! That was the most depressing meant-to-be-uplifting ending I've encountered since I listened to my dad and read Childhood's End.

Boris...I suggest you watch The Road Warrior again, or take my word for it if you can't bear the thought. Everybody's in S&M gear; I think one of the villains actually spends the entire movie in assless chaps. Gaaaay.

[Asher]

Oh, I loved Wall-E himself, and I wished him and his robot friend the best. The actual movie was kind of boring.

Grown-ups loved Wall-E, kids were bored to tears by it.

And there we have it.

[Elok]

****. The Emperor had no clothes and, worse yet, a crummy plot.