Random Thoughts on how movies like Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda relate to our current society
Warning: plot spoilers!
- Wall-E heightens our current problems with obesity and big-box-store consumerism
- Two of the last three Pixar movies, Wall-E and Cars, really question our relentless desire to be more efficient and travel faster without regard to environmental effects
- Kung Fu Panda introduces us to a protagonist who is obese and a collector of action figures. I wonder if, given this stereotypical starting point, we will inevitably end up like the humans depicted in Wall-E.
- in Wall-E, people are so caught up in internet-like functions like video chat that they are completely unaware of their surroundings. One woman was unaware that a pool was on the ship even though she’ d been there for years. This reminds me of when I’m a passenger in a car (I usually drive) and see sights that I’ve missed when driving. I wonder how much we all miss … and of those things we miss, what would be beneficial to us as individuals and a society.
- When intelligent robots and computers develop personalities, they will probably act like the machines shown in Wall-E — very concerned with their tasks and unable to think past the commands they’ve been given (Garbage in, garbage out).
- The turtle in Kung Fu Panda is the coolest movie sage/master since Yoda in Empire Strikes Back. Movies like this have the power to nudge society towards the noble eight-fold path.
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man what happens when tony vahl sees August Garden Party is he gonna say it was the best movie ever
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A strange hybrid of a movie; a film that never congeals and is the first misstep that I can recall Smith making since he refused to kiss Eric Thal on screen in Six Degrees of Separation 15 years ago.
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Garden Party: Half the characters are perpetually stoned (the others are somewhat more discreet) and you wonder if the writer was as well.
More proof that people don’t READ.
Tony needs a break. He’s become boring and predictable. As DAMIAN pointed out on another blog — “barry allen=mark waid=always take the other side.”
Tony, just let Damian have the main blog, man. Take a chill pill. Take it easy. You’re busy with your job — people will understand (assuming they care).
Seriously — it’s for your own good, man.
You don’t need the money that bad — just eat Raman noodles. You might lose some much-needed weight, fatso.
Just kidding. About the fatso part.
Actually Angel, “Barry allen=mark waid=always take the other side” was a cryptic message to Tony that an E-Gram Type 4 that rhymes with “Barry Allen” always takes the opposite side of my post’s message.