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  • Presto

    I seriously think Wall-E is horribly overrated. I love Pixar movies, in general, but Wall-E left me cold. The message was so over the top without actually explaining anything and the robots were cute, but that was about it. I just never felt like there was a connection between the audience and the cool shit on the screen. I guess clinical is ...
    Posted to Oscars by jeneria on February 21, 2009

  • Wall-E bullet points, since you didn't watch it

    1. Humans have to leave the earth because the international mega-corporation used non-sustainable practices and created too much garbage. 2. Depictions by the mega-corportation in the video of how people will be whisked away for 5 years while cleanup occurs shows people as thin and happy 3. The pictures of succeeding captains on board the ship ...
    Posted to Green Room by bobzimuta on July 14, 2008

  • Cockroaches

    But . . . but . . . Wall-E's vision of the future had nothing to do with nuclear radiation; the earth had become uninhabitable due to toxicity from huge piles of garbage. This Explainer says nothing about cockroaches' ability to survive in this scenario. Plus, the Explainer ADMITS that cockroaches are extremely hardy - only beat out by a couple ...
    Posted to Explainer by lincwright on July 13, 2008

  • Re: so, do you think the author is thin or fat

    righto physician! I was looking at my high school yearbook (1976) a couple days ago - good lord how much fatter kids are these days! Some fundamental shift in genetics in the last 30 years? Hardly. The kids today are relentlessly - and successfully - marketed to by companies (Big N Large) exploiting an unfortunate genetic quirk of humans - with a ...
    Posted to Green Room by mandrews58 on July 11, 2008

  • Calm Down

    The passions this topic brings up blind everyone to reasonable arguments. It IS easy to get at children through movies, but I believe the clearest motive is to create respect for the environment. Maybe the methods of doing so are somewhat flawed (fear of obesity, etc), but since ''Wall-E'' is mainly from a robotic perspective, won't children ...
    Posted to Green Room by Sharkagator on July 11, 2008

  • Imaginary persecution in children's entertainment

    I get it....you're a ''fat-sympathizer''. You think WALL-E is picking on the obese, red-state, middle-Americans who are too poor to shop at any place other than big-box stores and our culture is unfairly casting responsibility for our environmental woes on these unfortunate souls. I don't accept your premise. Although some points you make in ...
    Posted to Green Room by abm7021 on July 11, 2008

  • Wall-E is spot-on

    I'm fat because I eat too much. Not genetic - all my family are slim. They all eat reasonably and move around a lot. I eat the American garbage diet and am too idle to get my big fat rear out of the armchair to exercise and prefer to watch TV. I don't feel sorry for myself, whine, whimper about how shallow people perceive me, pretend to be proud ...
    Posted to Green Room by Ericalan on July 11, 2008

  • Wall-E and Obesity

    I just read the article on Wall-E, and then read it to my wife. She said, ''Sounds like somebody's hypersensitive. But then fat people usually are.'' That's a joke, folks. My wife and I are both over the technical definition of obese. Our real question is, ''Did you SEE the movie?'' The point is not that the problem is CAUSED by obesity. ...
    Posted to Green Room by jn1356 on July 11, 2008

  • Define "wrong message"

    I appreciated this article, because as much as I loved Wall-E, it is refreshing to read something examining a point of view other than pure unadulterated awe. Additionally, I followed most of the links, and found the ''Junkfood Science'' article especially interesting. And I did walk out of the theater behind an overweight blonde man with a buzz ...
    Posted to Green Room by MissIngraham on July 11, 2008

  • Personal responsibility, people?

    This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
    Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008
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