Wall-E
 

I know it's not good to build anticipation for a movie. But I'm perhaps more excited for Wall-E than I was for Ind-y.

It doesn't hurt that I have a ginormous artist-crush on Andrew Stanton (and, OK, man-crush - and OK, yes, I do apparently have a type because, yes, I am aware he looks a bit like Tom. And Joss Whedon. What can I say? I really like geeky creative types.)

Anyway. Terrific interview with Stanton on comingsoon, and terrific Wall-E article in Time.

Anybody else excited? Anybody else want to see it with us, maybe the Saturday it comes out, maybe the El Cap?

It looks like it is going to be a cute movie. But every time I see the previews I can't help but say "Number 5 is aalliiivvveeeee".

When does it come out?

Friday June 27th.

We bought tickets for the 27th at 9:45 at El Cap.

I'm the least excited about Wall-E than I have been about any Pixar movie. Not only does the design of the character SCREAM Short Circuit, which turns me off like a mechanical switch ... but I feel betrayed by the trailer which, to my surprise and disgust, gave away the entire movie.

Pixar trailers have been known to be deceptively sub-par. But they have never before, to my witnessing, given away every setpiece and plot point the way modern liveactioner trailers often do. So now I feel as if I've seen Wall-E and the element of surprise will be sorely lacking when I do see it.


And I do intend to. I do not expect it to be bad. It's Pixar. I expect it to be entertaining and enjoyable. But I'm sad it will be significantly less surprising to me than all the prior Pixar films.



B.A.H.

I want to see it, absolutely. I'm excited, yes. I want to steal a couple of the bus shelter posters in SF. I won't, but I love them.

Number Five is alive!!! (Yes, iSm - Ken and I both had the same reaction when we saw the first teaser.)

But, we're pretty excited about it. I love the Pixar stuff.

We have tickets for the 10:30am Saturday matinee at AMC at DtD. (Only $6 for being before noon!)

Anything'll be better than Cars...

Here's your proof that a) it will be good, and b) iSm will like it. ;)


I'm totally up for this but I think we'll stick to our tried and true Pixar moviegoing plan.

Friday night.
"Hey, what are we doing tonight?"
"Well, the new Pixar film just came out."
"Oh, cool. Let's see it at the closest theater with digital projection."
"Cool."

The funny thing, the trailer made it look better than the teaser. But, grrrr, I didn't need that. I was already going to see it. Um, duh, it's PIXAR.

I would have been pleasantly suprised at the turn of events. Now it will be pleasant enough, but I hope it's far more than that (and yeah, way better than Cars).