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Right-Wing Conservatives Slam Pixar's WALL-E

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. ? Much to Disney?s chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.

Well, to be perfectly fair, overconsumption and environmental destruction are bad things.
Big corporations are not inherently bad, but they tend to concentrate power, and we all know how perfectly responsible and benevolent people can get when they're given power.

And I'm sure Disney will sorely miss the $5 in sales they stood to make from Mr. Pollowitz.



Now the more technical question is, why weren't these WALL-E robot things built sooner?
It probably would've been a lot more cost-effective to have a crash program to clean up, rather than shuttle the population up into spaceships.🙂
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I suspect his shriveled up near dead Conscience ruined his experience.
 
I'm for movies with a message. Saving the planet should be a good message. I find it really funny to watch the phreaks get all bent out of shape about it! Esp, Prof John.... I really enjoy it!

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. ? Much to Disney?s chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade.

Well, to be perfectly fair, overconsumption and environmental destruction are bad things.
Big corporations are not inherently bad, but they tend to concentrate power, and we all know how perfectly responsible and benevolent people can get when they're given power.

And I'm sure Disney will sorely miss the $5 in sales they stood to make from Mr. Pollowitz.



Now the more technical question is, why weren't these WALL-E robot things built sooner?
It probably would've been a lot more cost-effective to have a crash program to clean up, rather than shuttle the population up into spaceships.🙂
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Um, humans evolved as nomadic 'shit and leave its'. We do the same with all our waste especially nuclear. Let the people or robots of tomorrow clean up. Disney covered this same theme in the 1934 cartoon about the nuclear engineer and the soccor Mom here.
 
I wish they took all that energy complaining and put into making their own version of Wall-E. Now that is something I would love to see.
 
Originally posted by: Double Trouble
How pathetic, these people seem to be so obsessed with seeing the liberal boogeyman in everything around them. What freaks.
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Fear is a powerful drug that sells very well. Most of America at this time, regardless of political affiliation, is heavily addicted to adrenaline and cortisol, and tunes in (at least) nightly for their daily dose.
 
Originally posted by: MagicConch
I wish they took all that energy complaining and put into making their own version of Wall-E. Now that is something I would love to see.
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That would require that they'd actually have to walk their talk about free markets.
 
Saw the movie tonight and see nothing wrong with it.

If there is a message it is aimed at adults, but they don't beat you over the head with it.

The people complaining about it need to get a clue. Might as well complain about every sci-fi movie since most of them have some type of message about humans.
 
Originally posted by: ScottMac
Well, I Liked it.

I just ignored the goofy attempt at eco-preaching.
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What was that one movie awhile back, Fern Gully or something that was a eco-preaching vehicle? It happens now and again and does get it annoying.

You can see it in Lord of the Rings, too -- rock and metal are bad (orcs, Sauron), wood and dirt are good (ents, elves, hobbits). I never quite understood the association of rock and metal with evil since both are naturally occurring.

That being said, we do produce too much trash in general. I wish recycling were easier in my neighborhood as no one seems to do it (rules are hard to find, pickup schedule is strange). Ironically, it was easiest in Ohio where you received a bin and just dumped all your recyclables together and placed it next to your trash on pickup day -- no sorting or special bagging.

I'm rambling because I'm hungry...
 
Originally posted by: AndrewR
Originally posted by: ScottMac
Well, I Liked it.

I just ignored the goofy attempt at eco-preaching.
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What was that one movie awhile back, Fern Gully or something that was a eco-preaching vehicle? It happens now and again and does get it annoying.

You can see it in Lord of the Rings, too -- rock and metal are bad (orcs, Sauron), wood and dirt are good (ents, elves, hobbits). I never quite understood the association of rock and metal with evil since both are naturally occurring.

That being said, we do produce too much trash in general. I wish recycling were easier in my neighborhood as no one seems to do it (rules are hard to find, pickup schedule is strange). Ironically, it was easiest in Ohio where you received a bin and just dumped all your recyclables together and placed it next to your trash on pickup day -- no sorting or special bagging.

I'm rambling because I'm hungry...
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Well Fern Gully was getting close to 20 years ago at this point. I think we can survive an eco movie once every couple of decades. As far as LOTR goes, a lot of that was from the book. I mean it's hard for the ents to get pissed off at Saruman if he's not cutting all the trees down. People are reading too much into things.
 
Conservatives see gay penguins and green robots everywhere they look...someone should check these people for white nose candy.
 
Meh...whatever. I'm going to go watch the movie and enjoy it. What confuses me is why these people do not realize how many children's movies, tv shows, books, and all other kinds of children's entertainment teaches them to be eco friendly. Not to mention that such teachings have existed within this sort of entertainment for decades now.
 
I wonder if these same conservatives hate Bambi because of the slash and burn, Bambi mom killing hunters!

I bet Disney was trying to take away their guns in that movie!


These conservative pinheads just boggle the mind.
 
I saw it on opening night and it didn't feel preachy to me at all.

I thought the movie was about loneliness more than anything. Wall-E was lonely and so were the humans in the movie, they had no real contact with each other. That's why fatty chick #1 got all excited when fatty man #1 actually physically touched her.

That was the overriding theme of the movie for me.

But for these blowhards who seem so bent out of shape.....keep in mind these are people who view everything in their world through the prism of their ideology and are constantly on the look out for perceived liberal "whatevers" that they can get upset about. These people make their living from fabricating and disseminating faux outrage.

While I don't think the movie was perfect,(the ending was terrible), I thought it was far superior to the Incredibles or Cars, both of which I guess I just don't get.
 
Originally posted by: GTKeeper
I wonder if these same conservatives hate Bambi because of the slash and burn, Bambi mom killing hunters!

I bet Disney was trying to take away their guns in that movie!


These conservative pinheads just boggle the mind.
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Incidentally, I did sometimes have to wonder about exactly what type of hunters Disney was implicating. I mean, the guys must've been drunk or starving to be shooting at chipmunks.
 
You know, if I took the comments of a few random left-wing website commentators I'm sure I could find equally absurd rantings.

Did you even bother to read the actual NRO movie review? The review that praised WALL-E as, "the kind of movie that grownups will want to watch more than once."? The review that says the movie, "offer a resolution to that question that is not just ingenious but satisfying, as well as moving."?

Seems like someone with an agenda cherry-picked the response comments of a few idiots.

Both sides of the political aisle have more than their fair share of nutjobs.

ZV
 
The author at ThinkProgress cut off Goldberg's full quote

I agree with the charges of hypocrisy. I agree that the Malthusian fear mongering was annoying. But I saw WALL-E on Saturday as well. And I thought it was a fascinating and at-times brilliant movie.
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I have never understood why conservatives hate environmentalism so much. What could possibly be so bad about making the place we live cleaner? Are these people insane?
 
Originally posted by: ScottMac
Well, I Liked it.

I just ignored the goofy attempt at eco-preaching.
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Hard to do that when the left preaches the religion of MMGW at schools using propaganda. Though harmless by itself, each piece is part of a greater argument used to serve their cause by imprinting an image onto the minds of the vulnerable. Beginning with your children.

The collective message is one that is very easily imprinted and thus also opposed and fought with anger against.
 
Originally posted by: ScottyB
I have never understood why conservatives hate environmentalism so much. What could possibly be so bad about making the place we live cleaner? Are these people insane?
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People are unclean and thus must die in order to make the place we live cleaner. We can select the ones who live and kill all the others.

See? You just witnessed what "insane" people can oppose. It's not the original concept, it's the lies and implementation. There is power behind a truth of cleaning up our world, it is the abuse of that power to harm others that is opposed.
 
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