June 24, 2008 in Movies by Brian Logee
The Plot / Story: According to John Lasseter:
WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and his programming was to help clean up. You see, it’s set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he’s left on Earth doing his duty all alone. He doesn’t know he can’t stop working. But it’s not a story about science fiction. It’s a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to recover the last plant left on Earth, which curious little Wall-E has picked up. He absolutely falls in love with her.
I gave the trailer a 1 out of 5. It had a few cute moments, very few. The trailer wore on me fast and I began to dread every instance it was shown, to the point that I sometimes get up and leave the room when it comes on. I watched other audience members facial responses and they wore the same confused, conflicted look that I had. Almost as if in their minds they wanted to like it but just could not find something to latch onto.
I doubt if this will even be a renter. At this point I would only watch this movie if I had a very young, 10 and under, family member who insisted on watching this film and I could not talk into watching The Incredibles, Meet the Robinsons or Ratatouille. The jokes were repetitive and lost their funny fast. From all of the promotional material this movie seems to be one catchphrase being repeated for one and a half hours. I’m disappointed and hope that I’m wrong on this because Pixar has done so many great films.
For more information about WALL·E or to watch the trailer see Theater or Renter: June post
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June 2, 2008 in Movies by Brian Logee
It’s time once again for our favorite game “Theater Or Renter?”
Rules of the Game: Watch the trailers. Rate the Trailer. Then Put in your comments below the trailer: does the trailer and buzz make you want to watch it in the theater, rent it, or not interested at all, and why?
For June we have eight movies: Mongol, Kung Fu Panda, The Incredible Hulk, The Happening, Get Smart, The Love Guru, WALL·E, Wanted
Mongol:
 Watch The Theatrical Trailer
Release Date: June 6th
Listed as: Drama, History
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Written by: Sergei Bodrov with Arif Aliyev
Produced by: Sergei Selyanov, Anton Melnik, and Bulat Galimgereyev
Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun
The Plot / Story: Mongol looks at the life and legend of Genghis Khan. It follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood through to his adulthood and the battle that sealed his destiny as Genghis Kahn. (The Official Site) |
Kung Fu Panda:
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 6th
Listed as: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Studio: DreamWorks Animation
Director: Mark Osborne John Stevenson
Written by: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Stars: Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie
The Plot / Story: Kung Fu Panda is about Po (Jack Black) who is a panda bear that is recruited by a team of Kung Fu masters to help protect the Valley of Peace from an evil snow leopard. (The Official Site) get your copy here |
The Incredible Hulk:
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 13th
Listed as: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Superhero Flix
Studio: Marvel Enterprises
Director: Universal Pictures
Produced by:
Written by: Zak Penn, Edward Norton
Stars: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
The Plot / Story: The Incredible Hulk, also known as Hulk 2, is a tale about Bruce Banner the Geneticist and his quest for a cure for a condition that turns him into a raging monster known as the Hulk that lives within him. The military wants to learn how to control the Hulk and use Bruce’s research to create super soldiers. In the end they only create an even more deadly monster known as The Abomination. Even though this is the second in the recent Hulk series they are not ignoring the original nor continuing events put forth in that film. (The Official Site) |
The Happening:
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Release Date: June 13th
Listed as: Drama, Sci-Fi
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Produced by:
Written by: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
The Plot / Story: Philadelphia high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and other people begin encountering breakdowns in human behavior in major American cities that lead to chilling deaths that seem to be willing suicides committed by the victims. Appearing to be a disease of some sort, the victims undergo a series of steps: loss of speech, followed by disorientation, and the third step is “fatal.” Moore flees from the crisis into Pennsylvania farmlands with his estranged wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel), math teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo), and his daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez) (via Wikipedai). (via Wikipedai) (The Official Site) |
Get Smart:
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Release Date: June 20th
Listed as: Action, Comedy
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peter Segal
Produced by: Alex Gartner, Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar
Written by: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember
Stars: Steve Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwane Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, James Caan
The Plot / Story: Control agent Maxwell Smart (Carrell) is sent on his first mission which is to stop KAOS in their latest plot for world domination. Agent 99 (Hathaway) is sent with him to keep Maxwell Smart out of trouble. (The Official Site) Get your copy of Get Smart here |
The Love Guru:
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 20th
Listed as: Comedy
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Marco Schnabel
Produced by: Mike Myers, Gary Barber
Written by: Graham Gordy, Mike Myers
Stars: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake
The Plot / Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus devotes his life to helping troubled couples. He returns to the States to get into the self-help business. He uses unorthodox methods to resolve his first challenge which is to settle the romantic troubles of a professional hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival lover (Timberlake) before the NHL Stanley Cup. (The Official Site) |
WALL·E:
Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 27th
Listed as: Action, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Pixar
Director: Andrew Stanton
Produced by: Jim Morris, John Lasseter, Lindsey Collins
Written by: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
The Plot / Story: According to John Lasseter:
WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and his programming was to help clean up. You see, it’s set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he’s left on Earth doing his duty all alone. He doesn’t know he can’t stop working. But it’s not a story about science fiction. It’s a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to recover the last plant left on Earth, which curious little Wall-E has picked up. He absolutely falls in love with her.
(The Official Site) |
 Watch The Trailer
Release Date: June 27th
Listed as: Action, Thriller
Studio: Picturehouse Entertainment
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Produced by: Marc Platt, Jason Netter, Jim Lemley
Written by: Derek Haas, Michael Brandt, Chris Morgan, Dean Georgaris
Stars: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Kretschmann, Angelina Jolie
The Plot / Story: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is offered the opportunity to seek revenge in the murder of his father, who was an assassin. Gibson is invited by his father’s partner, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), to follow in his father’s footsteps.[2] Sloan’s second-in-command (Angelina Jolie) mentors Gibson,[3] who follows the death orders issued by the Fates, weavers who read individuals’ destinies in fabrics produced by mystical looms (via wikipedia). (The Official Site) |
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February 5, 2008 in Movies by Eric
I really want to know what deal with the WALL•E advertising campaign? When I read the description of the movie, I am intrigued and excited to see the movie.
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award®-winning writer-director, Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo”), Disney•Pixar’s WALL•E is the story of one robot’s comic adventures as he chases his dream across the galaxy.
That sounds interesting, but then I watch the trailer (like this one from the superbowl) Am I the only one that is completely bored by the ads? I have enjoyed every Pixar flick I have seen, but this is bugging me.
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