Wall-E

[Ghoulish Delight]

I feel the need to reiterate that the nitpicky issues I had with the human side of the story are inconsequential to me, mentioned only if asked. And I'm sure I could find a fair share of equally nitpicky issues with the robot side of the story (car alarm, zippo, the fact that he was totally desperate to get inside his shelter when the first storm came around but seemed no worse for wear when he later got caught outside, etc. etc.).

My overall problem lies not in those details but in the strength of the storytelling as it related to the Axiom's journey. It grabbed me at first with the setup but never managed to make me care very much about it. We can talk precedent, references, message, etc. all we want, the fact remains that the humans and their blobbly plight engendered in me but a miniscule fraction of the emotion I felt for Wall-E and Eve. So it detracted from my experience and felt very removed from the movie as a whole.

So for me, my memory of the movie is of the brilliant love story. Talk of BNL and microgravity is of no interest to me one way or another anymore. I'm just going to kind of ignore it.