Comments on: Wall-E as a 1970s Science Fiction Eco-Disaster Movie

By: Cyborgelf

Cyborgelf — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:18:19 +0000

I also thought WALL-E was modeled after No. 5. No. 5 even spoke with that same minimal vocabulary – “Number 5 Alive!”. I still thought the movie was great though.

By: Minireview: Wall-E « Professor Wagstaff

Minireview: Wall-E « Professor Wagstaff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:17:36 +0000

[...] 1970s eco-apocalypto genre that gave us Soylent Green, Silent Running or even Logan’s Run. Evidently, I am not alone in sensing this parallel. It’s worth a look and I liked it better than Cars or A Bug’s Life, I suppose, but I [...]

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:14:54 +0000

Wall-E totally looks like the robot from “Short Circuit”… minus the cheesy 80’s style of course

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:58:03 +0000

That’s pretty much it. It reminded me of the physicality of early silent films.

By: Joyous

Joyous — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:00:20 +0000

I was amazed at how much story and personality they could express with so little dialog. The entire first half of the movie has about 4 words in it. (Wall-E, Eva, directive, and classified–did I miss any?)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:55:55 +0000

Wall-E looks a lot like Number 5, and uses several of the same tricks to appear more human, most notably eyes/eyebrows that can raise or lower and thus show emotion. I remember liking VINCENT when I was little, but when I got older, I realized that they had cynically created him to ape R2-D2 while missing the very point of what made R2 so engaging.

By: Pop

Pop — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:53:54 +0000

The first robot I can remember emoting on screen in such a way as to make the anthropomorphic leap was Number 5 on *Short Circuit* (though I always enjoyed the MST3k guys, they were more dialogue- than emotion-driven). Sounds like *Wall-E* is in that same vein (creating a character rather than relying on a stereotype like Disney did, with, say, Maximillian and even VINCENT and Old BOB in *The Black Hole*).