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Old 06-30-2008, 05:08 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by Alex View Post
(or why tilting a spaceship with artificial gravity would even have any effect on the humans inside).
Or why residents of a spaceship with artificial gravity would be subject to the deterioration associated with microgravity. Or why WALL E breaking someone's display screen causes sudden onset of awareness whereas the emergency robots chasing rogue robots can knock people off their chairs with reckless abandon. Or why Fred Willard would have bothered with giving the autopilot special orders to stay away from earth since if the reason was that life was unsustainable then there would have been no plant life to start the return process anyway, or........

I've thus far avoided going into the many many weaknesses I found in that plot. It's full of gaping holes. But I don't want to dwell on them because it's just going to make me like the movie less and I'd really prefer to keep liking it. So I'm trying to just kinda ignore it and focus on the far superior element of the movie.

As for WALL E's character arc, perhaps he himself doesn't have an arc, but he is intimately involved in one (EVE's/the relationships's) and one that is done in a thoroughly artistic manner. He may not grow much, but he is a fully fleshed out character that the audience can actually connect to, not a prop piece.
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