higginbottom.com » movies http://higginbottom.com The ramblings of Paul Higginbottom, a.k.a., bitkahuna Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:21:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 WALL-E is amazing http://higginbottom.com/wall-e/ http://higginbottom.com/wall-e/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:02:13 +0000 Paul http://higginbottom.com/?p=33 I just saw the new Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E and I was blown away.  I think critics of this movie may have been expecting a comedy, perhaps a Toy Story with robots, but it’s nothing of the kind.  It certainly has humor, but it’s in a dark, tense, but ultimately uplifting (hey it’s Disney) backdrop.

To me it contains parts of many science fiction books and movies, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, all of Isaac Asimov’s amazing robot books, even Rendezvous With Rama, my favorite book by Arthur C. Clarke.

The movie’s web site is also amazing.  Here’s a free embed they provide:

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