WALL-E on TV
I tend to use the Christmas/New Year TV schedules to catch up on animated movies I haven't seen. Today's treat is Pixar's Oscar-winning WALL-E, the tale of a waste collecting robot on a rubbish-strewn Earth devoid of human life. Not only did it win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but also the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form. Plus it ranks first in TIME's "Best Movies of the Decade". Can't be bad! WALL-E trundles into action on BBC One at 3pm today. It's a must for anyone interested in truly modern art.
If you missed it, CLICK for BBC iPlayer (1 week only).
posted by Unknown @ 1.1.11
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Available on BBC iPlayer until 4:29pm Saturday 8th January 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x941j/WallE/
Thank you. I'll add that link to the post.
It was something I wouldn't have thought to watch otherwise - but enjoyable. Doubt if I spotted all the homages to sci-fi films and PC games. Missed a "D..a..a..i..i..s..s...yyyyyy" ending for the Autopilot though.
Glad you enjoyed it. It gave me a good few chuckles, and I tend to watch most comedy shows with a puzzled expression on my face, wondering what the heck the studio audience are laughing at. In fact I've given up watching TV "comedy" shows.
Conservation is a dirty word in America, so getting a conservation message across to Yankee audiences in an entertaining way was a stroke of genius. And the way the robots conveyed human thoughts and emotions was cleverly done and very amusing.
The most scary aspect of the film was all those fat humans lying on automated couches. That's already happening in this country, with vastly overweight people trundling up and down our high streets in buggies for the disabled. Their only disablement is that they are too fat and lazy to walk! I shall think WALL-EEEEEE every time I see one of those buggies from now on.
BBC3 had a Burn-E 5 minute film. The mis-adventures of a robot welder on the Axiom ship that complements the Wall-E scenes. Funny in a Wily Coyote way.
On BBC iPlayer for seven days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9cdk
Thanks for the link. I'll take a look.
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