All Up On Pixar's Incorporated Nuts...

Time Magazine recently released it's Top 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far) and I casually went through the slide show with no problem until I got to numero uno (umm, mild spoiler alert if you truly want to be surprised by the slide show)...

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You good now? Cool. Ahem...

It was Wall*E. Bet that picture  above probably spoiled it already, huh? Alas.

I'm not one of those cinematic purists that have a fundamental problem with animated movies being lauded and winning awards. Pixar has been truly revolutionary and constantly puts out great pictures. It's borderline mystifying I sold my soul to the devil type shit. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't tear up one or five times while watching Up. I did not, however, care for Wall*E. It didn't help that the first time I watched it was after coming home from an event called "Hoboken St. Patties Day," held a week or two before actual St. Patrick's Day, that people of a certain, age, location and social proclivities are known to hang out at. When I got back that evening I had Wall*E waiting for me. At that point, I could not have been less equipped to watch that particular movie and found it unbelievably boring.

As people kept raving, however, I felt like I had no choice but to give it another, more clear minded, chance.  It went a bit better, but not THAT much better. I thought it was an interesting bit of social commentary on where our society is going, i.e., fat, stupid, and pollute-y, but, unlike others, I found the "emotional core" of the movie in the relation between Wall*E and EVE, unlike almost every relationship in Up, to be weird and creepy and discombobulating. I just really didn't get why this was supposed to be so sweet.

Anyway, I never got on board the Wall*E train and I find it insane that Time ranked it the #1 movie of the millennium thus far. But, then again, maybe I don't have a heart.


Image from: WALT DISNEY / EVERETT