Warp wrote:
>   I really can't remember if this movie has been discussed here before
> (I do have a faint memory that it might have been, but I can't remember
> for sure).
> 
>   Anyways, if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go to rent it. Like now.
> Don't even bother reading any further, just get up and go rent it.

	Overall story was good, but not great. However, the cuteness of Wall-E
made up for all of that.

	I don't think anyone mentioned this, but when I saw the trailer, I
couldn't help thinking of the first Wallace & Grommit short.

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On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:33:51 -0500, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:31:35 +1100, Paul Fuller wrote:
> 
>> Does anybody know whether the DVD release will include the short ?
> 
> I've never known Pixar to leave the short out - I can check when I get
> home and see if it's there.  I'd ask my wife to look, but the disc is
> for her. :-)

Confirmed, the disc includes a short called "Presto", sounds like the 
one. :-)

Jim

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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:43:16 +0000, St. wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:4946e95f@news.povray.org...
> 
>>  I'd ask my wife to look, but the disc is for her. :-)
> 
>   You have managed to do what I haven't Jim. And there are very few days
> left!
> 
>     'Doomed' is the word... :o/
> 
>       ~Steve~

Christmas was easy.  She was even in the store with me while I shopped - 
but she doesn't know what I bought.

Her birthday is also the same week (the 27th, same as my younger 
brother's, coincidentally - but a 9 years difference), and that's going 
to be trickier.  I've worked out what to get her, but it is mail order 
from a specialty shop and she knows the name.  That makes shipping a bit 
tricky.

Jim

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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> 	Overall story was good, but not great. 

Is it even possible to make a children's movie that isn't going to seem 
fairly trite to an adult?  I'll settle for novel, myself. :-)

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Warp wrote:
>   Anyways, if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go to rent it. Like now.

It says this comes with the disk.
http://www.snotr.com/video/1927

CAUTION! CONTAINS SPOILERS!

If you haven't seen the movie, you might want to defer watching this.


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   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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>  Anyways, if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go to rent it. Like now.
> Don't even bother reading any further, just get up and go rent it.

I bought it a couple of weeks back and watched it for the first time at the 
weekend.  I must admit that I found several earlier Pixar films more 
enjoyable to watch.  I don't know whether I will feel like watching Wall-E 
again, but have seen Cars, Ratatouille, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo 
several times each and wouldn't say no to watching those ones again.

I don't know what it was about the film that didn't do it for me, it just 
didn't seem as "clever" as earlier films, or maybe I just didn't get a lot 
of the content.  The overall concept of the story was good, I just think 
they could have done a bit more with it.  The first part was pretty boring 
before they got into space, I don't know maybe if they had given Wall-E and 
Eve more dialogue it could have been interesting?

From a purely CG viewpoint, excellent though.  There was one nit-pick I had 
during the film but I forgot it afterwards so it can't have been that bad 
:-)

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> I took my 6 year old son to see WALL-E at a smallish local cinema.  He 
> liked it but got more enjoyment from the short before it - 'The Magician' 
> ?
>
> When my wife went to see it at a 'big' cinema chain they didn't show the 
> short.
>
> Does anybody know whether the DVD release will include the short ?

The UK English bluray version I got had that short on it.  Pretty clever, 
wait until the next one that will involve a hat that is a time machine :-)

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Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   Anyways, if you haven't seen it, I suggest you go to rent it. Like now.
> 
> It says this comes with the disk.
> http://www.snotr.com/video/1927
> 
> CAUTION! CONTAINS SPOILERS!
> 
> If you haven't seen the movie, you might want to defer watching this.
> 
> 

Now I'll have to watch the main feature again carefully to see if you 
can spot the sub-story in the background where they cross tracks.

Very clever.

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Jim Henderson escreveu:
> Confirmed, the disc includes a short called "Presto", sounds like the 
> one. :-)

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4809

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Darren New escreveu:
> Is it even possible to make a children's movie that isn't going to seem 
> fairly trite to an adult?  I'll settle for novel, myself. :-)

Have you watched it?

Children are likely to be pretty bored and clueless the whole first 
(mute) half of the movie -- its crowning jewel really.  My daughter was. 
  After that, some concessions were made to please the little ones, but 
nothing that turn it into suckage.

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