AM I INSANE???
I have no idea why it's taken me OVER TWO YEARS to get down to watching this crazy little film, Wall-E. It's been a bit of a couch-potato New Year weekend for me and the family back in the UK from our France soujourn, watching Avatar Extended Edition (and the hours of extras - WOW) and then finally (and somewhat begrudgingly, I guess) Wall-E.
Man, I detest that name, Wall-E. Don't know why. Maybe that's one of the reasons I never wanted to watch the damn film in the first place. EvE is gorgeous; her Apple-design aesthetic, her emotional range, her nuclear forearm. The variety of human and robot characters and set design in Wall-E are superb. And I like the blatant anti-corporate Free Planet message, of course.
After sitting through the three hours of James Cameron's bum-number Avatar E.E. I really have to say this, "Cameron, you gotta show, not tell." hours and hours of what crudely amounts to expositional litres of verbal diarrhoea in the general direction of Unobtainium when this little mostly-dialogue-free film weaves a more heart-warming tale.
Cameron, I still love Avatar but "Show don't tell," oh and I don't care much that Chicone was a military double-agent and Norm had a much more important role in the original cut of Avatar but please consider putting the tribal dancing, the Official Challenge fight sequence and the drug-taking back into the 2011 extra-especially-long re-edit you're bound to make at some point.
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